Show MOSES AND THE BURNING BUSI BUSH the tha turning point in the life of israels great leader roller roll oming ienir are extracts from the sermon bearmon by rev clarence T brown at tak first congregational church yesterday morning upon the message sage at the burning hush bush and moses said bald I 1 will now turn aside and see tills this great sight sli why the bush Is not burnt burn t axx 3 tills this scene ocene marks tile the turning point in a great career s P thorn bush buh in the desert with mith no beauty except the significance ance which an all au awakened likened soul sees coca in its ita name flame but ot of tile the deepest int interest brest because it marks in a dia diamatis matic WAY the moment wheat the education of 0 moses MOs reached the point where lie clealle recognized recognised the presence of 0 god in common life avid and the call of 0 god to a heroic task it was mas riot not his flroa lesson and corn compared with the splendid schools in which he i once had bee been a pupil it might wm bee fica at T the lie man who he turned aside to learn the lesson of the bush buah by the roadside hail bail enjoyed exceptional advantages advant ases providence had opened tile the way for ills his schooling in the Avis wisdom doril of 0 hanpt pt that college col leec of tile the an clent world thanks to the researches of recent scholars we have it a clearer knowledge knon ledge today of 0 that than llian at any time little since egypt the ancient call queen cart ot of tho the orlist Orl tnt lapsed into a silence 19 profound as that of 0 her own I 1 1 clonos was of 0 tile best blood in the ica old id ivo id ka had ad a goodly b rather father and mother 0 they and tor for an older ulster a girl bat wit and genius have r riven ort her name me A a high place in the world of history and 0 of poetry it 11 was her skill n in a perilous hour guided the tiny liny cratt craft or of Ms his infant life under the protection of 0 tit ahn throne of egypt and at it the iho name game time kept as aa pilot lit his I 1 hebrew lc mother and so prepared the way for or ills twofold two fold education in the of oc egypt agypt and the religion of 0 israel As the adopted son a princess royal lie he moved in a world of culture state cr cratt a ft and lent looming whole art leat lenchek ched 1 a I development whose very ruins rill nil us IV with fill wonder where scholars echol tra anil and phil drew pupils from all the OW where engineers and architects ed employed inked millions in the construction 0 t l ast a structures where religion was I 1 a L a strange t range mingling of good and evol evil some q om p lofty ideas 0 of god anil and the pious practice of 0 almost shameless Eha nease it was well for or tile the matild that a a youth in III such surroundings should still be in III touch with tile the puro pure of 0 a godly home how natural it might have been for the son of 0 an en cn people living at the iho cobit chui coui t of their royal loyal oppressor to have become a mere couitt r but moses was wag made of nobler stuff and when one day he be rinds finds an egyptian slave driver abusing one on 0 of its his hebrew brethren tile the patriot in him flashes foith and lie smites the oppressor to the earth and he be Is a fugitive he H poises po swiftly from the college and court of egypt to the craggy peninsula Ins laila of sinai there his training tor for a great task must bo be continued lonely larron barre n must supplement the thin things 98 learned in the affluence of egypt no ko man Is lifted fitted for leadership until he has wrestled hand to hand with mith the common conditions condition of life for many years god sent him to school in the desert even tile the genius of could not come to its most finest expression without the training of 0 adversity no one before christ had spoken with such commanding authority no one trial so largely molded the hebrew nation the man mail who could do this ahlff was not tile the hotheaded hot headed youth who mho struck one angry blow and then fled lie he who Is to lead a great national lat lonal movement tor for freedom must have more than even a lust just resentment against the oppressor at last taft 10 call comes gods hour has r truck the course of 0 training ling has been completed tile the genius schooled in the wisdom and stat statecraft ecra ft of bryn egyptian college and court the fiery tempered in the seclusion of 0 the character trained and matured by learning and meditation needs but the C completing chat pitting touch of the living god a commission ii written ritten so clearly by the divine hand that lie hi who mho carries it into the thick of the battle can never for a moment doubt that lip lie la Is led and be supported by the almighty god and it cattle came at the burning bush for to moes this great sight was a vision of god cod in the desert and fis As always happens in the vision of god he found the vision of himself and lit in that hour he was transformed there lie he found a principle so c comprehensive om pre hen sive a purpose so por persistent tit and unfaltering that henceforth it could ou id be said of him that he to endured as seeing him who Is invisible what ahat a vald illustration this burning bush offers of the way lit in which which we find and tile truth the imperial andl indifference affer of 0 god to seme of our standards of beauty and greatness the revelation m which aich lie he Is always ready to make in tile the commonplaces of life it if said eald L awell avell thou hast wanderings in the wilderness and finiest not sinai tig thy soul Is poor the search tor for religious truth pt Is a P eanls t ent of man see how moses found it not in egyptian course college thoro there he found but in ill the common shrub of tho the dusty do desert 9 ert sir Ia sought in vain tn in palestine for or the holy grall grail and found it lost in his old age in tho the wooden bowl boul which he shared with the beggar at his door Is it not always so tile the brightest lights are those which shine in the simplest duties the hours w m herein we feel most sure of god cod are those in willett which we have found the subtle sanction which he sets in silent beauty upon some task done in ills his name no man 13 armed with impenetrable courage until he feels the infinity which abides within the smallest right at the burning bush a man learns to be both humble and brave the secret of power lies with the man who has an eye to see every duty aglow with mith the light of god and he will be content 00 oo 00 ill with ith the light as it Is let him beware of trying to analyze a spiritual ray with a prism of glass filiss it carries its own warrant sirs mrs drowning said god keeps ills his holy mysteries just on the outside of mans dream things nameless nama lass which in passing no BO do stroke us with a subtle grace ernce man Is a learner set act to prove ill all things he Is no less a worshiper and rot not set to prove god goa does docs not come within mathin the category of things before god moses was meek men and gohei elvei ailments are great by tile the length and of the holy ground in t their he ir lives mans highest privilege Is to recognize the divine in the dusty commonplace I place lace and find in every thorny duty daily the light and warmth ot of emmanuel |