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| THE BRIDE OF MOSES.
HOWZIPPGRAH DECIDED HER MATRIMONIAL
DESTINY.
A Glorious Example and inspiration For
W >naen of All Times ? God Has Work
Fct* Young aud Old ? How We Are Called
to Special I.abor.
{Copyright, l'tfS. by American rr<ss Association.]
Washington, May 8.?From a rustic
Bible scene Dr. Talmage in this sermon
draws practical and inspiring lessons
for all classes of people. The text
is Exodus iii, 1, "Now Moses kept the
flock of .Tethro his father-in-law, tho
priest of Midian."
In the southeastern part of Arabia a
man is sitting by a well. It is %n arid
country, and water is scarce, so that a
well is cf great value, and flocks and
herds are driven vast distances to havo
their thirst slaked. Jethro, a Midianite
sheik and priest, was so fortunate as to
have seven daughters, and they ar*
practical girls, and yonder they como
driving the sheep and cattle ami camels
of their father to the watering. They
lower the buckets and then pull them
up, the water plashing 011 the stones
and chilling their feet, aud the troughs
are filled. Who is that man out there
sitting unconcerned and looking on?
Why does he not come and help the
women in this bard work of drawing
water? But no sooner have the dry lips
aud panting nostrils of the flocks begun
to cool a little in the brimming trough
cf the well than seme rough Bedouin
shepherds break in upen the scene and
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WJIU CUIUS <11111 rxuuu uinv u?va <??v
animals that were drinking and a!frighfc
these girls until tbev fly in retreat, and
the flocks of these ill mannered shepherds
are driven to the troughs, taking
the places of the other flocks. Now that
man sitting by the well begins to color
up. and his eye flashes with indignation,
and all tho gallantry of his nature is
aroused. It is Closes, who naturally had
a quick temper anyhow, as he demonstrated
on one occasion when he saw an
Egyptian oppressing u:i Israelite and
gave the Egyptian a suddeu clip and
buried him in the sand and as be showed
afterward wheu he broke all the Ten
Commandments at once by shattering
the two granite slabs on which the law
was written. But the injustice of this
treatment of the seven girls sets him 011
fire with wrath, and he takes this shepherd
by tbo threat and poshes back another
till he falls over tho trough and
aims a stnuning blow between the eyes
of another as he cries, '* Begone, you
villains!" and he hoots and roars at tho
sheep and cattle and camels of these invaders
and drives them back, c.nd having
cleared the placoof the desperadoes
lie told the seven girls of tbisMidiauito
sheik to gather their flocks together and
bring them again to the watering.
Oh, you ought to see a light between
the shepherds at a well in the orient as
I saw it in December, 1SG0. There were
here a group of rough men who had
driven the cattle many miles, and here
another group who had driven their
cattle as many miles. Who sbonld have
precedence? Such clashing of buckets!
Such booking of herns! Such kicking
of hoofs! Such vehemence in a language
t *?a^nlrl not mulprsfflnd'
JL I'jriUUiULJ > V^uuu? MW
Now the sheep with a peculiar mark
across their woolly backs were at the
I trough and now the sheep of another
mark. It was one of the most exciting
| scenes I ever witnessed. An old book
describes ono of these contentions at an
eastern well when it says: "One day
the poor men, the widows and the orphans
met together and were driving
their camels and their flecks to drink
and were all standing by the water side.
l)aji cauie up and stopped them all and
took possession of the water for hi.master's
cattle. Just then an eld woman
belonging to tho tribe of Abs came up
and accosted him in a suppliant manner
saying; 'Be so good, blaster Daji, as to
let my cattle drink. They are all the
property I possess and I live by their
milk. Pity my flock, have compassion
on me. Grant my request and let them
drink.' Then came another old woman
and addressed him: 4<Jh, Master Daji, 1
am a poor, weak old woman as you see.
Time has dealt hardly with me. It haaimed
its arrows at me and its daily
and nightly calamities have destroyer
all my men. I have lost my children
and my husband, and since then I haw
been in great distress. These sheep aw
all that I possess. Let thorn drink, foi
I live on tho miik that they produce
Pity my forlorn state. I have no one t<
tend them. Therefore grant my suppli
cation and of thy kindness let then
drink.' But in this case the Lrata
slave, so far from granting this humbh
request, smcto the woman to tin
ground."
The Bride of ?>Io.sc?.
A like scrimmage has iuktn pace a
tbe well in the triangle of Arabia be
tweeu the Bedouinsbepberdsaud -Most:
championing the causa of tbe sevet
daughters who bad driven their father'
flocks to tbe watering. One of tbcs<
girls, Zinporaii, her name nieauim
i'littla bird," was captured by this he
roic behavior cf Moses; fur boweve
timid woman herself may by she i;l
ways admires courage in a man. Zip
porah became tba bride of Moses, on
of the mightiest men of all tbe ecu
turies. Zipporah littie thought tin;
that morning as she help* d drive ho
father's flocks to tiie well she wa
splendidly deciding htr own destiny
Had she staid in tbe tent or bouse wliil
tbe other sis daughters of the sbei
j tended to their herds her life woul
' probably have been a tame and uneven!
j ful life in the solitudes, but her iudu:
| try, her fidelity to her father's iutere>!
I her spirit cf helpfulness brought herii
ro league with one of the grandest chai
acters of all history. They met at tin
famous well, and while she admired tb
courage cf Moses lie admired the lili.
behavior of Zinporaii.
The fact that it took the seven daugl
i ters to drive the flocks to the well in
plies that they were immense flocks an
that her father was a man of wealtl
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What was the use of Zipporah'8 be- !
meaning herself with work when she
might have reclined on the hillside near i
lier father's teut and plucked buttercups ;
aud (beamed out romances and sighed j
idly to the winds and wept over imug- j
inarv songs to the brooks? No, she knew
that work was honorable and that every
girl ought to have something to do.
aud so sho starts with the bleating aud
lowing and bellowing and neighing
uroves to the well for the watering.
Around every homo there are docks
and drcves of cares and anxieties, and
every daughter of the family, though
there be seven, ought to be doing her
part to take care of the flocks. In many
households net only is Zipporah. hot all
her sisters, without practical and useful
employments. Many of them are
waiting for fortunate and prosperous
matrimonial alliance, but sonic lounger
like themselves will como along and
after counting the large number of father
Jethro's sheep and camels will
make proposal that will be accepted,
and neither of them having doue anything
more practical than to chew chocolate
caramels the two uothiugs will
start on the road of life together, every
cfon mnrp and mrire a failure. That
daughter of the Alidianitisb sheik will
never find her Moses. Girls of America,
imitate Zippnrah. Do something practical.
Do something helpful. Do something
well. .Many have fathers with
great flocks of absorbing duties, and
such a father needs help in home or
ofike or field. Go out and help him
with the flocks. The reason that so
, many men now condemn themselves to
| unafiiauced and solitary life is because
they cannot support the modern young
woman, who rises at half past 10 in
the morning and retires after midnight,
one of th9 trashiest of novels in her
' hands most of t he time between the late
i rising and the late retiring?a thousand
of Ihcm not worth cue Zipporab.
There are questions that every father
j and mother ought .to ask the daughter
! at breakfast or tea table and that all
j the daughters cf the wealthy sheik
ought to ask each other: "What would
you do if the family fortune should fail, i
if sickness should prostrate the bread- j
winner, if the flocks of Jetbro should I
bo destroyed by a sudden excursion of ;
wolves and bears and hyenas from the 1
mountain? What would you do for a
living? Could you support yourself?
Can you take care of an invalid mother
or brother or sister as well as yourself?"
Tea. bring it down to what any day
might come to a prosperous family.
"Can you cook a dinner if the servants
: should make a strike for higher wages
and leave that morning:" Every miuuto {
of every hour of every day cf every year j
there arc families flung from prosperity ;
into hardship, ami, alas, if in such exi- |
geucy the seven daughters of .lethro can j
do nothing but sit around and cry and ;
wait for s una one to come and hunt j
them up a situation for which they j
i have no qualification! Get at something .
-- 1 ir otvor Fht tw.f.
I USt'iUl, pt I ill. IV llplll Ultuj. uuv I
i say, "If I were thrown upon my own
resources, I would become a music :
i teacher." There are now more music j
i teachers than could be supported if '
they were all Alo/arts and \Yaguer.s and
t Hande's. Do uot say, "I will go to em- j
i broidering slippers." There are more
i slippers now than there are feet. Our
[ hearts are every day wrung Ly t':e story
of elegant women who were once afflti- i
j ent, but through catastrophe have fall- j
en helpless, with no ability to take care I
1 of themselves.
i Our friend and Wusbiugtonian towns- i
man, W. W. Corcoran, did a magnifi)
cent thing when lie built and endowed
: the Louise home for the support of the
unfortunate aristocracy of the south?
j the people who once had everything, tut
- have come to nothing. We want anotbi
er W. W. Corcoran to build a Louise
1 home for the unfortunate aristocracy of
3 the north. But institutious like that in
i every city of the laud could not take
care of one-half the unfortunatearistoc- i
racy of the north and south whose large
fc fortunes have failed and who, through
lack of acquaintance with any style of \
s work, cannot now earn their own bread. |
i There needs to be peaceful yet rad- j
s ical revolution among most of the pros- j
o perous homes of America by which the
* elegant do nothings may be transformed I
. into practical do somethings. I.et use- j
r less women go to work and gather the
flocks. Come. Zipporah. let me intro- j
- duce you to Closes. Lut you do not I
e mean that this man afiianced to this !
- country girl was the great Moses of his- j
t tory, do you' You do net mean that he {
r was the man who afterward wrought J
,s euch wonders there? Surely yon do not :
mean he whose staff dropped, wrigcled |
e into a serpent and then, clutched, stiff- j
k eutd again into a staff"? Yon do not 1
d mean the challeuger of Egyptian thrones '
and palaces? You do not mean he who i
struck the rock so bard it went in a
stream for thirsty hosts? Surely you do j
i- not mean the man who stood alone J
- with God on the quaking Sinaitio i
it ranges, not him of that most famous
e funeral of all time, God coming down
,1 out of the heavt ms to bury him? Yes, j
the same Moses defending tho seven j
i- daughters of the Midiauitish sheik, who
i- ufterward rescued all nations.
Preparation For Special Work.
j ' Wiiv ilo you not know that ibis is
Your Valued Patroi
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for special work; The wilderness of
Arabia was the law school, the theological
seminary, the university of rock
and sand, front which he graduated for
a mission that will balk seas and drown
armies and follow the cloud of lire by
night ami start the workmen with
Meediug hacks among Egyptian brick
kilns toward the pasture lauds that flow
with milk and the trees of Canaan dripping
with honey. Gracious Clod, teach
ali the people this lesson. You must go
into humiliation and retreat and hidden
closets of prayer if you are to be fitted
for special usefulness. How did John
the Baptist get prepared to become a
forerunner of Christ? .Show me his
wardrobe. It will bo hung with silken
sucks and embroidered robes and attire
of .Syrian purple. Show me his dining
table. On it the tankards ablush with
the richest wines of the vineyards of
Engedi and rarest birds that were ever
caught in net and sweetest venison that
ever dropped antlers before the hunter.
No; we are directly told "the samo
John had his raiment of camel's hair'
?not the fine hair of the camel which
we call camlet, hut the long, coarse hair
such as beggars in the fast wear?and
his only meat was of insects. the green
locust, about two inches long, roasted,
a disgusting food. These insects were
taught and the wings and legs torn olf,
Bud they were stuck ou wooden spits
aud turned before the fire. The Bedouins
pack them in salt and carry them iu
sacks. What a menu for John the Bup5
tist! Through what deprivation be came
to what exultation!
And von will have to go down before
you go up. From the pit into which his
brothers threw hi:u aud the prison in
which hi.s enegiies incarcerated bim
Joseph rose to be Egvptiau prime minister.
Elijah, who was to be the greatest
of all the ancient prophets; Elijah,
who made King Abab's knees knock together
with the prophecy that the dogs
would be his only undertakers; Elijah,
whose one prayer brought more than
three years of drought and whose other
prayer brought drenching showers; the
man who wrapped up his cape of sheepskin
into a roil and with it cut a path
through raging Jordan for just two men
to pass over; the mau who with wheel
of fire rodo over death and escaped into
the skies without mortuary disintegration;
the man who, thousands or years
after, was called out of the eternities to
stand beside Jesus Christ en Mount Tabor
when it was ablaze with the splendors
of transfiguration?this man could
look hack to the time when voracious
aud filthy ravens were his only caterers.
Yon see John Knox preaching the
coronation sermcn of James VI and arraigning
Queen Mary and Lord Darnlcy
in a public discourse at Edinburgh and
telling the French em has:-ad or to go
home and call his king a murderer,
Jofrn Knox making all Christendom feel
his moral power and at his burial the
Karl of Morton saying, "Here lieth a
man who in his lifo never feared the
face of man." Where did John Knox
get much of his schooling for such resounding
and everlasting achievement?
He got it while in chains pulling at the
boat's oar in French captivity. So the
privations and hardships of your life
may on a smaller scale bo the preface
and introduction to usefulness aud victory.
See also in this call of Moses that
God has a great memory. Four hundred
years before he had promised the deliverance
of the oppressed Isr.. lifes of
Egypt. The clock of time has struck
the hour, and now Moses is called to
the work of rescue. Fonrlmudrcd yearsis
a very long time, hut you see God
can remember a promise 4U0 years as
well as you can remember 400 minutes.
Four hundred years include ail your
ancestry that you know anything about
and all the promises made to them, and
we may expect fulfillment in our heart
and life blessings itfat were predicted
to our Christian ancestry centrums ago.
You have a dim remembrance, if any
remembrance at all, of your great-grandfather,
but God sees those who were on
their knees in 1598 as well as those on
tbeir knees in 1808, aud the blessings
he promised the former and tbeir descendants
have arrived or will arrive.
While piety is not hereditary it ia a
grand thing to have had a pious ancestry.
fcfo God in this chapter culls up
the pedigree of the people whom Moses
was to deliver, and Moses is ordered to
sav to them, "The Lord Godot your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac and the God of Jacob, hath sent
me unto you." If that thought be divinely
accurate, let me ask, What are
we doing by prayer and by a holy life
for the redemption of the next -100 years/
Our work is not only with the people of
the latter part of the nineteenth century,
but with those in the closing of the
twentieth century and the closing of
the twenty-first century and the cle ;ing
of the twenty-second century aud
the closing of the twenty-third century.
For 4U0 years, if the world continues to
swing until that time, or if it drops,
then notwithstanding the influence will
go on in other latitudes and longitudes
of God's universe.
No one realizes bow great be is for
good or for evil. There are branchings
out and rebounds and reverberations
and elaborations of influence that cannot
be estimated. The 30 or 100 years
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A Man Who Is Tired
All the time, owing to impoverished
blood, should take Hood's Sarsaparilla
to purify and enrich his
blood and give him vitality t.ni
vigor.
This condition of weakness and luck
of energy is a Daturul consfquence
of the comiDg of warmer weather,
which finds the system debilitated
and the blood impure.
A good spiing iu< di ine is a nropssitv*
with almost ever; one. Heed's
Strsaparilla is vliat the m Hi iub
take in the spiing. Its great power
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of onr earthly stay is only a small part
of onr sphere. The flap of the wing of .
tUuf Lnml'O thfX
I 1 ilU UCSUU> 1U^ IUUU cu;u>u v? .
| Egyptian oppressors, the wash of the :
Ked sea over the heads of the drowned j
j Egyptians, were all fulfillments of prom- j
, ises four centuries old. And things ;
J occur in ycur life and in mine that we j
J cannot account for. They may be the !
j echoes of what waa promised in the sis- j
! teenth or seventeenth century. Oh, the ;
prolongation gf the divine memory!
Work For the Aged.
Notice also that Moses was 80 years j
of age when he got this call to become !
i the Israelitish deliverer, forty years he
, had lived in palaces as a prince; another
40 years he bad lived in the wilderness
i of Arabia. I should not wonder if ho
| had said: "Take a younger man for
. this work. Eighty winters have exposed
my health; 80 summers have poured
i their heats upon my head. There aro
40 years that I spent among the enervating
luxuries of a palace, and then
follow the 40 years of wilderness hard- .
ship. I am too old. Let mo off. Better
call a man in the forties or fifties and
not one who has entered upon the
eighties." Nevertheless, be undertook
; the work, and if we want to know
whether he succeeded, ask the abandoned
brick kilns of Egyptian taskmasters,
and the splintered chariot wheels strewn
on the beach of the Ked sea, and the
timbrels which Miriam clapped for the
Israelites passed over and the Egyptians
gone under.
{ Do not retire too early. Like Moses,
> you may have your chief work to do
after 80. It may not he in the high
places of the field; it may not be where
i u strong arm and an athletic foot and a
! clear vision are required, but there ia
; something for you yet to do. Perhaps it
j may be to round off the work you have .
: already done; to demonstrate the pa- !
i tieuco you have been recommending all
| your lifetime; perhaps to stand a ligbti
house at the mouth of the bay to light
j others into harbor; perhaps to show :
j how glorious a sunset may come after a j
I stormy day.
i if aged men do not feel strong enough
i for anything else, let them sit around
i in our churches aud pray, and perhaps
j in that way tbfy may accomplish more
| good than they ev? r did in the meridian
j of their life. It makes us feel strong to
j see aged men and women all up and
i down the pews, their faces showing
i they have been on mountains of transfiguration.
We want in all our churches
more men like Moses, men who have
been through the deeps and climbed tin
' the shelled beach on the other side. We
. want aged Jacobs, who have seen ladj
ders which Jet down heaven into then""!
! dreams. Wc want age.] Pettrs, who have
been at Pentecosts, and aged Pauls, who
I have made Felix tremble. The.ro aro
j here aud there those who feel like tho
; woman of J<0 years who said to Fonteuelle,
who was ^o years of age, "Death
! appears to have forgotten us.'' "Hush."
; said Foment He, the wit. putting his
; linger to hi- Jip. Su, my friend, von
i have not been forgotten. You will b?
called at the right time. Meantime, be
holilv occupied,
i Let the aged remember that by inert
a.sed longevity of the race bjcu arc
not as old at HO as they used to be at
50, net as old at 70 as they used to be
at 00, not as old at &0 as they used to
be at 70. Sanitary precaution belter understood
; medical science further advanced;
laws of health mere thoroughly
adopted; dentistry continuing for longer
time successful mastication ; homes
and churches and courtrooms and places
of business better ventilated?all these
have prolonged life, and men and women
in the close of this century ought not
to retire until at least 15 years later
than in the opening of the century. Do
not put the harness off until you bavo
fought a few more battles. Think of
Moses startiug out for his chief work an
octogenarian; 40 years of wilderness life
after 40 years of palace life, yet just beginning.
There lies dying at Hawarden, Lugland,
one of the most wonderful men
that ever lived siuco the ages of time
j began their roll. He is the chief citizen
! of the whole world. Three times has ho
i hpf.n kins of (4reat Britain.
j Again and again coming from the house
of com in oil s, which he had thrilled aud
i overawed Ly his eloquence, on baturi
day, on Sunday morning reading prayj
ers for the people with illumined couuj
teuauce and brimming eyes and reI
sounding voice, saying: "I believe in
j God the Father Almighty, Maker of
i heaven and (arth, and in Jesus C'brLt,
his only Sou, our Lord.
The world has no other such man to
{ lose as Gladstone; the church has no
! other such champion to mor.ru over. I
: shall never cease to than!: Ccd that on
! Mr. Glad-tone's invitation I visited
him at Hawarden and heard from his
own lips his belief in the authenticity
of the Holy Scriptures, the divinity of
Jesus Christ and the grandeurs cf the
j world to come. At his table aud in the
^GrESl,
(
>olito Attention.
walk tl?roii?li 'u\* ^I'our.us I was imjjrosserl
as I \va>: nrvt r L;i-f< ro, unci ]>rob*
ably wiil never be again, with thy majesty
of ? nature all c<nsecr.itcd to God
ami the world s betterment. In the
pr? senoq of sucl a man what have tiioso
to say who prof ess to think that our religion
i* a pusillanimous and weak and
cowardly and unreasonable atlair?
Matchless William 11. Glaristoue!
Still further, w:;teh this sr. chicle of
Pennine courage. No wonder whm
Moses scatter-d. lbe rod" shepherds he
won Zipporah's In ait. What mattered
i: to Moses win tlur the cattle or the
seven daughtt is of -lethro were driven
freni thetioughs bv the rude herdsmen?
A sense of justice bred his courage, and
the world wants more < f the spirit that
will dare almost anything to see others
lighted. All the time at wells of comfort,
at well-; of joy, at well- of religion
and at wells of literature there are outrages
practiced tiie wrong herds getting
the first wafer. Those who have
the previous right come in last if they ,
come in at all. Thank God we have
here and -there a strong man to set
things right! I am so glad that when
(foci lias an especial work to do ho lias ;
some one ready to accomplish it. Is j
there a Lille to translate, there is a j
Wyclif to translate it: if there is a [
literature to be energized, there is a
Shakespeare to energize it; if there is ;
an error to smite, there is a Luther to ,
it; if tbero is to be nidation freed, I
there is a Moses to free it. I3nt coinage !
is needed in religion, in literature, in j
statesmanship, :n all spheres; heroics '
to defend .letbro's seven daughters aud !
their flocks and put to flight the insolent j
invaders. And those who do the bravo
work will win somewhere high reward. 1
The loudest cheer of heaven is to Le
given "to him that ovcrcometh."
Ho-,.- Clod talis. ,
Still further, ;-ee in this call of Moses
that if (Jod has any especial work for i
yon to do ha v/ii 1 find you. There was :
Egypt and Arabia and Palestine with
their crowded population, hut the man |
the Lord wanted was atr the southern j
point of the triangle of Arabia, and ha
picks him light out, the shepherd who
kept the flock of .It thro, his father-inlaw,
the priest end sheik. So (Jed will j
not find it bard to take you out from 1
the 1,(500,000,000 of the human race if i
lie wants you for anything especial. ;
There was only just one man qualified. I
Other men had courage like Moses; oth- '
er men had some of the talents of j
Moses; other nun had romance in their !
history, as had Moses; other men were |
impetuous like Moses, but no other man j
had these different qualities in the exact j
proportion as had Mcsos. and (Jod, who j
makes no mistake, found the right man !
for tho right place. Do not fear you
will be overlooked or that when you ;
are wanted (.Joel cannot find you. He I
knows your name, your features, your
temperament and your characteristics,
aud ill what laud, cr city, or waia, or
neighborhood, or house you live. lie
will not have to scud out .scoots or explorers
to find your residence or placo
of stopping:, aa-.l when lie wants you he
will make it as plain that he means yea
as he made it plain that he needed
Moses. IIo called his name twice, as
afterward"when ho called tiie great
apostle of the gentiles lie called twice,
saying. "Saul, Saul,'' and when ho
called the troubled housekeeper ho called
her twice, savins, "Martha, -Martha."
and when lie called the prophet
to his mission ho called him twice, raying.
"Samuel. Samuel," aud now when
he wants a deliverer ho call* twice, saying,
"Moses Moses.1' Yes if (led lias
anything for us ti do ho will call us
twice by name. -At the lir.-t announcement
of our name wo may think it possible
that we misunderstood the sound,
but after he calls us twice 1 v name we
know he means us as ceit.iiuiy as when
he twice spoke the names or ikml ov
Martha or rrantael or Moses.
You sec, religion i- a tremendous
personality. Wo ;-!i have t ic general
call of salvation. Wo lmar is in songs,
in sermons. i:i prayers; we. hear it year
after year, "in after aw hile, through
our own sudden and alarming illness
or the death cf a playmate or a schoolnyfe
or a college mare or the decease
of a business partner or the demise of a
next door neighbor, we get the especial
call to repentance and a new life ami 4
eternal happiue.-s. and \;u know that
(hod moans us. You have noticed the
way in which 'hod mi's us twice? Two
failures of investments; two sicknesses;
two persecutions; two bereavements;
two disappointment.-; two disasters.
jJlcses, .uo.-e.s:
Still further. notice that tho cal! of
Moses was written in letters of lire. tin
the Simitic peninsula there is a thorn
bush called the acacia, dry and brittle,
and it easily goes down at the touch of
the flame. Ir crackles and turns to ashes
very quickly. Mom s, seeing cue of these
bushes on lire, frees to look at it. At
first, no dou! t, it seemed to be a botanical
curiosity, burning, yet crumpling
no leaf, parting no stem, scattering no
ashes. It was a supernatural lire tbat
did no damage to the vegetation. That
burning bush was the call.
Your call will probably come in letters
of lire. Ministers get their call to
preach in letters on pap: r or parchment
or typewritten, but it docs not amount
to much until thev get tin ir next call
in letters of lire. You will not amount
to much in usefulness until somewhere
near yon find a burning bush. It may
be found burning in the hectic flush Gf
your child's cheek; it may be found
burning in business misfortune; it may
be found burning in the lire of the
world's scorn or hate < r misrepresentation.
But barken to the crackle of the
burning bush 1
Oh, what a faseinatiug and inspiring
character this Most <! ilow tame all ether
stories compared with the biography
of Moses! From lite lattice uf her bathing
house on the Nile Thorn oris, daughter
of Pharaoh, rees him in the floating
cradle of papyrus haves made water
tight by bitumen; Lis iafaiitili cry : >
heard among tec n.uibdo pal..rc.; i lJ
princesses hush Lim \\i:b ibeir lullabies:
workmen by the roadside drop
their work to look on him when us a
boy he passed, so beautiful was he; two j
bowls put before his infant eyes for
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October 13?tf.
choice "to demonstrate Lid wisdom, the
one Lowl containing rubies and the other
containing coals of fire. Sufficiently
wise was he to take the gems, lmt divinely
directed he took the coals and
put them to his month, and his tongue
was burned, and he was loft a stammerer
all his days, so that he declared in
Exodus iv, JO, "I am slow of speech and
of slow tongue;M on and on until bo set
iirm foot anions the crumbling basalt,
and his tar was not deafened by the
thunderous "Thou shalt not" of Mount
Sinai, the man who went to the relief
of the Israelites who were scourged because
without chopped straw they were
required to make linn bricks, the story
cf their oppression found chiseled on
the tomb of Koschere at Thebes, and
when his armies were impeded by
venomous serpents, sent crates of ibises,
the snake destroying birds, to clear the
way so that bis host could march
straight ahead, thus surprising the enemy,
who thought they must take auotber
ronto to avoid the reptiles; tho
whole sky an aqnariuui to drop quails
for him and the hosts following; the
only man in all ages whom Christ likens
to himself; the man of whom it is written,
"Jehovah spoke unto Moses face to
face as a man speaketh to his friend;"
the man who had tho most wondrous
funeral of all time, the Lord coming
down out of heaven to bury him. No
human lips to read the service. No
choir to cbaut a psalm. No organ to
roll a requiem. No angel alighting upon
the scene, but Cod laying him out for
the last sleep; Cod upturning the earth
to receive the saint; Cod smoothing or
baukiug the dust above the sacred form;
Cod, with farewell and benediction,
closing the sublime obsequies of law
giver, poet and warrior, "And no man
knoweth of bis sepulcher unto this
day." Get your eye ou him, instead of
trying to imitate some smaller example.
A great snowstorm came on a prairie
in Minnesota, and a farmer in a sleigh
was lost, bat after awhile struck tho
track of another sleigh and felt cheered
to go on, since ho had found the track
of another traveler. He beard sleighbells
preceding him and hastened on and
caught up with his predecessor, who
said, "Where are you going:" "lam
following you," was the answer that
came back. The fact is that they were
hoth lost and had cone round and round
iu a circle. Then they talked the matter
over, and, looking up, saw the north
star, and toward the north was their
home, aud they started straight for it.
Oh, instead of imitating men like ourselves
aud circling round and round, let
us look up and take some starry guide
liko .Moses and follow on until we
join him amid the "delectable mountains."
Von say you cannot reach his
character. Oh, no. Neither can you
reach the north star, but you can be
guided by its heavenly pointing.
Chronic Rheumatism.
Frniu the I idustrial News, J.tckson, M cb.
Tbo subject of this sketch is fiftysix
years of age, and actively engaged
in farming. When seveDteeu years
eld he hurt bis shoulder and a few
years after, commenced tobaverbeu
matic pains in it. On taking a slight
Cold or the least j-train. sometimes
without any apparent cause what
ever, the trouble would start r.Dd he
would suffer the most excruciating
par us.
He suffered for over thirty years,
and the Ja-t decade has suffered so
muc h tiiat he was unable to do any
wo-k. To this the frequent o cur
re nces of dizzy spells were a.jd? J,
making hiui almost a helpless invalid
in ?i.l soars or weather
He tiied tbe best physicians but
without being benefited and has
us?d several specific rheumatic cures,
but was not helped. About one year
and six months ago he read iu this
paper of a case somewhat similar to
his which wis cured bv Dr. Will aras'
Pink Puis and concluded to try mis
remedy.
After taking tbe first box I e felt
somewhat Later, and after using
three boxes, the pains entiiely disappeared.
the dizziness left him, and
be has low for over a year been ent
r-!y free from all his former trouble
and enjoys better health than he
bus bad since bis Duynoou.
He is loud in bis praises of Dr.
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Thousands of sufferc-is from grippe
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giippe, asthma, and all throat
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Will Porto Bico to Ours?
A D?sireable Possession of Spain
that May Fall into the Hands of
the United States.
The war between theUnited States
, and Spain over Cuba makes worth
while to consider what would happen
to Spain's West India possessions.
That Oubia will eventually be wholly
, lost to Spain is not a question outside
of Spain. But will Porto Rico
be allowed to remain under the
Spanish flag, if we make Cuba free?
It is not probable. The eastern
island will offer a most invitiDg field
for attack and conquests in case
Spain forces us to fight her. It is
therefore worth while to inform ourselves
in regard to "the most healthful
of all the Antilles" which may be
a pait of the United States even before
Cuba becomes our territorv.
Porto Rico, lying seventy miles to
the eastward of Havti. has less than '
a tenth of the area of Cuba, but has
much more lhau half as many people,
j Its 3,530 square ruiles sustained as
| long ago ns 1837 a population of
over 800,000 people, or 216 to the /
j square mile. Iu size it is about five- %
j sevenths the size of Connecticut.
; Practically the whole island is under
cultivation, it is said, yet at last accounts
there was only twelve miles
of railroad in the whole island. Ia
shape Porto Rico is an irregular
parallelogram, with an easternly and
westcrnly dimensions of 108 miles
and a northernly and southernly one
37 miles. There is a considerable
range of hills running from east to
west near the sourthern coast, so
that the streams fl >wing to the north
are much longer than those which
flow in the other direction. The
highest elevation in theislaud is El
Yuogue, near the northeast, corner,
which rises to a height of 3.600 feet.
The fertility of Porto rico is proved
bv the fact that it has no l^ss than
1.300 streams, of which no less than
47 are considerable rivers. The
higher hills are still covered with
forest, and the island is said to be
beautiful throughout. Some of the
forest trees show a vari-colored fol
iage, and there are flower hearing
trees which are most attractive to
:he eye, but of wild flowers the whole
inland iu t.n ^ tn bp nu rleutihitfi afi it
is of biids and wild animals.
Something rgore than 400 000 of
th* people are white, and th*re are
descendants of vaiious European
aces but ore, of cource, chhfly
Spaniard# apd the Spanish language
is spokeudMp all. The colored people
were emancipated in 1873 and seem ?
to be peaceful and steady in their
habits While Spain has been tormented
with rel ellions in the Phillipines
and in Cuba, she has had to
send nn soldiers to suppress insurrections
in this beautiful land, which is
mWl Kr n Snflnish rrovernor. like the
,""'M "" r d otber
colonies. In 1887, the last
vear for which we have the 'returns,
the exports from the island amounted
to 810,000,000, and the imporis were
of equal amount. Pcrto Rico raises
a great deal of excellent tobacco,
which has usually been sent to
Havana and made into cigars. In
1873 the value of the sugar and molasses
produced in the island was
mora than 85.000.0^0, but this has
been largely reduced by the fall in
the price of these articles. Neatly
85,000,000 of coffee was produced in
the same 3ear. The people subsist
largely on rice ar.d the tropical fiuits
and the coi-t of living is very low.
Many cattle are raised and theie is
j an expensive export of cattle to the
I other West India islands,
j Pro It co has no less than seven
I seaports of which the chief is St.
| Johns or S.:n Juan ou the north coast.
| This place lias a population of -*,<>' 0
i q vcfr fino harbor with a depth
| of water at low tide cf 10 feet or
j more. The island could be invaded
easily enough at almost any poiDt,
but like all Spanish fo sessions, it is
almost entirely destitute of roads,
and a military force would have hard
work to cross (he island or even to
pro far from ibo coast. There is evidently
a magnificent oppoitunity for
a system of electric railroads in the
island. With such a large population
and products, a railroad system penetrating
to all parts of the island and
also encircling it would be ceitain to
pay handsomely. The limit of either
population or of productivity has bv
no means been reached, and a good
dose of American energy and Ameri
I can capital would produce marvelj
ous results there. The healthfulness
of Porto Rico and the fact that
foreigners easily become acclimated
would make it a much more inviting
place for our people than Cuba. One
reason why we should have to send
ware-hips there is that the Spanish
telegraph cable connects there and
could be most easily cut at that point.
San Juan has some defenses, but
they would soon be demolished by
our rifl? d guns if resistance was
! made. The Spaniards may tbink
J hat they could e^o tremenous e'emayc
to our ships but tbev must ex
pect to part with Porto Rico earlv 11
the conflict, ai d wLile most Americans
will much prefer to see Cuba
indc-pend*-iit us v%,ii a* free, it by no
I means follows that we shall not want
J to keep the Ulil ed JStutes fl <g WhV- ?
x> ?
idj; ever neb una iei me ronu ja u
if once if h *?t r.il ?at there. It
would certainly be a much nure dtsirable
possession than San Domingo
which General Grant tried so haid
to induce ut- to obtain ?Ex.
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