Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1950-07-07

ridges and peaks
that hide the distant view. Only
far on, on the plain can We see the
great peak towering into the blue.
Not Much Chance
MOSES was such man. Al many
.AsA times In his life, Il you had
been there. you would have thought
he had very little chance to 1--we,
much less to succeed. Suppose YOU
had seen him IN the first three
months OF his life7 He was born
under o death sentence; his par
en.s were breaking the law Of the
land by keeping him alive at al.
Then later u You had seen
him In his sea-going bassinet
among the reeds In the river,
you might have thought: Will
the eontraption float Even II
. princess finds the baby. won't
she know what he Is and send
him straight off TO be killed.
Or years later. when Moses was
a sort q pampered s,epson OF the
palace. wha. promise was In him.
Pharaoh's court was full always
Of proud young fellows spelling for
q fight. Moses might have looked
70 you Jus, like another useless
aris,oerat. And then when Moses
was out In the wilds. tending an
other mans sheep. married TO an
ignorant bsek-country lass who
never understood him IN the least:
would you have put much faith
IN that discouraged old ranch-hand7
Gods Man
nUT don't Judge a man by
- what his contemporaries say.
We know now. we have known for
centuries. that Moses was one Of
Gods greatest and best
Consider what the world owes 10
that one man. OF all his services,
let us note three IN particular For
one thing. we trace the Ten Com
mandments back TO him. Not that
he was the frs, 10 call stealing or
sdul,ry or greediness wicked, men
have known as much since early
times. But we do associate the Ten
Commandments with Moses name.
He preached and laugh, tina, relg-
Ion Is ethical; tina, Is. RICH, living
Il tied In with and tied up 10 right
religion.
Faith and life flow into and
support each other. Some relig-
Ions declare that n man
pleAses God that IL all that
matters: he can ride his neigh
bess ~ hc pieascs. Other rciig-
Ions Tor substitutes for reliaionl
say that n a man treats other
men right he can let God 60. Not
20 Moses; not 10 the Jews nor
the Christians,
Moses was also the man through
whom God revealed some OF tho
mos, important truths we know
abou, God Moses laugh, his people,
and through them teaches US. Of a
spiritual God. not Ike anything I'm
heaven above or the earth beneath
or In the waters under the earth "
God has no manner Of form God
Il pure spirit without a body like
men or like anything
To this day men find that hard
10 take In. but u Is an lnportan,
truth for any one who wants "a
think truly about God and 10 find
him.
Moses and Christ
RBOvE ell. there would have
"a been no Christianity II Moses
had never lived. or II he had failed
n the children Of Israel had done
VIVA, they wanted 10 do. slinh
back 10 Egyp, and slavery, IN,
whole great history Of the Old Test
sment would have been unwri,ten
Poets and prophets would have died
unborn.
hut he would have had 10
make q start somewhere else
besides with the Hebrew people.
and the whole history Of rclig-
Ion would have been different.
There would have beer no New
Testament without the Old Test
ament.
Even Jesus Of Nazareth either
would no, have been at all. or
would have been entirely different
~ n had no. been for the whole
background Of The Hebrew story.
in which Moses played such a lead
inr part n the world owes debt