Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-19

Emerson says that God once in a
hundred years or so creates j great
man, and then breaks that mold for
ever. Moses was one of Gods great
men. He ranks high in the annals OF
men, for no one would make list OF
the worlds greatest men without in
Guiding the name of Moses. In the
Congressional Library his statue is
found i'll the gallery of the public read
ing room with the representative great
men of history. He belongs in that
group, because to large extent he has
nodded history.
When God starts to create a great
man He usually commences with his
ancestry. Moses was born a slave, but
he was a descendant OF Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob. From his courageous
mother, who had through her initiative
made the unique cradle that fioated
upon the Nile and attracted the atten-
ton Of Fharaoh's daughter, who hired
her to nurse the beautiful child of the
Jewish people, whom she found when
She went TO battle in the Nile. 1t was
that mothers teaching about Jehovah
that filled the heart and mind of Moses
TIC pe loyal to the God of his fathers
and his fellow countrymen, who were
then slaves in Egypt. She planted the
fundamental religious principles in the
mind of Moses during his early days.
They were destined to mold his whole
career for after he had made record
as a soldier, according TO tradition, and
had been educated in the universities
of Egypt, there came a day when
Moses exhibited the courage born of
religious conviction He left the court
to become one with his own people
He took the part of Hebrew slave who
was not getting a square deal. His
fellow countrymen did not understand
his program to liberate them at that
hour when he "by faith refused to be
called the son of Pharaohs daughter"
The stand he took that day resulted
in the death of an Egyptian and his
exile. Moses Showed his love of JUS
tice when he took the part of Jethro's
daughters. Providence brought him
into the family circle of a priest who
evidently was worshiper of Jehovah.
During the next 40 years Moses became
shepherd During the days and
nights, when he was caring Tor his
1ocks, Moses was learning the roads of
the wilderness its resources and CHI
mate. and the mode of life of its
people. The 40 years as a shepherd
were used by the Lord to complete the
needed preparation of Moses to be the
lberator, leader and laWgiver OF MS
countrymen. One Summer day, when
Moses mad taken his flock up into the
mountain section of Horeb, where there
would pc found the best pasture at
that season of the year, he was sur
priSed by a vision of bush that
burned and was not consumed. Fire
was a frequent form of divine mani
festation. Russian pilgrims try to
carry the holy fire from the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem back
to Russia. We have an Indian tribe
who boast that their sacred fire has
never gone out during the centuries
that they have wandered or been
driven by our Army from place to place.
Moses Teverently took off his shoes and
approached the sacred fire. The same
custom is followed in the East today
when Mohammedans enter their mos
ques.
Moses Commissioned.
During 400 years God had been hear
ing the cries of His suffering people
and the hour had arrived when He pur-
posed to reveal Himself unto them as a
covenant-keeping God. He proposed to
Moses that he leave his f1ocks and be-
come, under Gods direction, the liber-
ator, leader and laWgiver of his fellow