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On clothing made by us j K always 'ivor
bl* M< n who have been for years adkted
to th** “ready made" habit sinelimb to th*
fascination of a perfect {i'tin.r up when
they barn that it costs t.o more than the
other kind
itur dnj '»> of xuli'affft and troinerlngz
for summer wear is worth looking at.
Come In ampßee the prevailing styles. We
won't ask you to order.
We spare our customers much trouble In
fitting, etc., but we don’t spare ourselves.
The utmost care I* taken to make gar
ments that are satisfactory to our cus
tomers.
Geo. P. Burdick a Go.,
568 Mulberry Street.
GEORGIA. Bibb Count. To the Superioi
Court of Said County:
The petition of the Jones Furnitur*
* Company respectfully -hows: That on th
11th <);iy ol Novi infe r. I8!>7, It ,\.i- dill'.
Incorporated by an ordoi of the •'•>
Court of ilil county, a Itody corporate an
jxjlitic under tin corporate name of I
Joni ■ Furniture Company. for the purpo
of carrying on a- ,u< r.il wholesale -nd r
tail furniture and lio-i :e -fin nisitin,- bust
neji.H, and that It has been duly organize*
under said charter, and Im carrying on th
bir-iiK c authorized by M ini charter.
Your petitioner <]< - ir«-s to amend it
aforesaid charier by changing the eorpe
rate riani- from the Join ■• Furniture Com
pany to th.ri of the Georgia l-’tiinitui
Company and that ‘-,ili| corporation sha)
have all the rights anrl privileges tin-l
tin new name of the Georgia Furuiiiu
rtompiny, that it had under its origin.')
name of the Jones Fuinllurc Company
and that said charter as amended, with al.
powers, privileges, right.-, and imrniinlti- •
by its said charter conferred, be continue
under its aforesaid charter as amended, fo
a term of twenty years, with the right o
renewel at the end of that time.
Wherefore your petitioner prays th
granting of an order amending its sal
nharler by changing Its name to that o
the Georgia Furniture Company, with al
the righto and privileges under its tier
name that it held under its original nam-
Ami your petitioner will fort-ver pray.
It. K. HINES, Petitioners’ A
R. K. HINES, Petitioner’s Attorney.
I, Robert A. Nisbet, clerk of Bibb Stipe
rior Court, do certify that the above is a
true copy of the original petition as th<
same appears on file in said clerk’s office
This 'April I ifih. 180 S.
ROBERT A. NISBET. Clerk.
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E. Friedman.
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Hardeman Grocery Company.
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Davidson Jewelry Company'.
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AN ORIENTAL WELL.
DR. TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON FROM
A RUSTIC SCENE.
Work la Honorable, and There Should Be
No Idlers, Says the Great Preacher.
How >iuw,s* Found Hl* Hri-le I *e-
fulness From the Sheik's Ihsughter.
V'• >pyt ight. 1898. bv American Press Asso
ciation.]
Washixgt.' X, May ts. From n rustic
Till ie scene* Dr. Talmage in this sermon
drew-* pFwcticrvi an*l inspiring lessons for
■ill clasxi •< *.i people. The text is Exodus
li, 1, "?<*■»'.• Mose* kept the flock of
J*-tbro, his father in-law, the priest of
Midian.”
In the ?<mfhi'nste-n part of Arabia a
man is sitting by a well. It is an arid
onntry anti water is scarce, so that a
.vidl Ih of great value, and flocksand herds
<rn driven vast distances &> have their
.hirst slaked. .Jethro, a Midianite sheik
tnd priest, was so fortunate as to have
..-u-n daughters, nnd they are practical
girls, nnd yonder they oome driving the
sheep nnd cattle and camels of their father
o the watering. They lower the buckets
and then pull them up, the water plash
ing on the stones and chilling their feet,
vnd the troughs are filled. Who is that
■nan out there sitting unconcerned and
looking on? Why does he not come and
help the women in this hard work of
irawing water? But no sooner have the
!rv lip- and panting nostrils of the flocks
begun to cool a little in the brimming
trough of the well than soino rough Bed
ouin shepherds break in upon the scene,
md with clubs and shouts drive back the
ininmls that wi re drinking nnd affright
hise girls until they fly in retnat, and
lie flocks of th- se ill mannered shc|dierds
;ro driven to the troughs, taking the
laces < f the other flocks. Now that man
.ilting !>y the well I cgh t<; color up, and
-i: eye I’m-las with hi<ii*'i!nli*-n. nti<l all
-■if e.'iilrn try '■( l.i- m.t uro i•- <i It
Moms, who naturally had a quick mn>-
ii) anyhow, as h»- demonstrated <-n one
eemdon whe; ho vaw an Egyptian op
r< -in;’ at- I rnelite and gave the Egyp
iiiisa smliion i-Jip at-fl buried bitn in the
iiitl, am! In- show, il afterward when
ie broke all the Ten ConHiu.ndmoi-ts at
-nee hy shattering the two granite slabs
n which th” law vas written. But the
n.iUHI i< ■-(,f this tt>.. tii-ent of the seven
Jrls nt.; him on f.ro with wrath, and lie
■il- it i: shepherd by the. throat and
:tis|>es L.ick ; actho till he falls over the
rough and aims stunning blow between
ho eyes of another as he cries, “Begone,
nil villains!'' and lie hoots and routs at
he sin c-.p and cattle and camels of these
nvaders ivmldrives them back, and, hav
ng cleared the place of the desperadoes,
<■ told the seven girls <>f this Alidianito
hoik to gather their flocks together and
bring them again to the watering.
An Oriental Well.
Oh, you ought to seo a fight between
the shepherds nt a well in the orient ns I
aw it in December, 185)0. There were
-.< re a group of rough men who had driv
n the cattle many miles and here anoth
r group who had driven their cattle as
many miles. Who should have precedence?
Such clashing of buckets! Such hooking
of horns! Such kicking of hoofs! Such
vehemence in a language I fortunately
could not understand! Now the sheep
with a peculiar mark across their woolly
hacks were at the trough and now the
sheep of another mark. It was one of the
:nostf writing scenes I ever witnessed. An
>ld book describes one of t hese contentions
■it an eastern well when it says: “Ono day
lie poor men, the widows nnd the orphans
met together nnd wore driving their cam
-Is and their flocks to drink and were all
tanding by the waterside. Daji camo up
and stopped them all and took possession
>f the water for his master’s cattle. Just
■ hen an old woman belonging to the tribo
if Abs camo up and accosted him in a sup
pliant ninnner, saying: ‘Be sn good, Mas
ter Daji, as to let my cattle drink. They
ire all the property I possess, and I live
by their milk. Pity my flock; have com
passion on me. Grant my request and lot
them drink.’ Then camo another old
woman and addressed him: ‘Oh, Master
Daji, 1 am a poor, weak old woman, as
you see. Time has dealt hardly with mu.
It has aimed its arrows at me, and its
daily and nightly calamities have de
stroyed till my men. 1 have lost my chil
dren and my husband, and since then I
have been in great distress. These sheep
ire all that 1 possess. Let them drink,
for I live on the milk that they produce.
Pity my forlorn state. 1 have no one to
tend them. Therefore grant my supplica
tion and of thy kindness let them drink.'
But in this ease the brutal slave, so far
from grant ing this humble reiiuest, smote
the woman to the ground.”
A like scrimmage has taken place at the
'veil in the triangleof Arabia between the
Bedouin shepherds and Moses champion
ing the cause of the seven daughters who
had driven their father’s flocks to the wa
n-ring. Ono of these girls, Zipporah, her
name moaning “little bird,” was captured
by this heroic behavior of Moses, tor, how
-vor timid woman herself may be, she al
ways admires courage in a man. Zipporah
became the bride of Moses, one of the
mightiest monos all the centuries. Zip
porah little thought that that morning as
he helped drive her fathe r’s flocks to the
well she was splendidly deciding her own
destiny. Had she staid in the tent or
house while the other six daughters of
ihe sheik tended to their herds her life
would probably have been a tamo and un
ventfulJife in the solitudes. But. her in
dustry, lie)- fidelity to her father’s inter
est, her spirit of helpfulness, brought her
into league with one of the grandest char
acters of all history. They met at that,
famous well, and while sl.e admired tha
cour.-igo of Moses he admired the filial be
havior of Zipporah.
Cares of Home,
The fact that it. took the seven daugh
ters to drive the flocks to the well implies
that they were immense flocks and that
her father was a man of wealth. What
was the use of Zipporah’s bemoaning her
self with work when she might have re
clined on the hillside near her Lather’s tent
and plucked buttercups and dreamed
out romances and sighed idly to the
winds and wept over imaginary songs to
the brooks? No, she knew that work was
honorable and that every girl ought to
have something to do, and so she starts
with the bleating and lowing and bellow
ing and neighing droves to the well for
the watering. «
Around every homo there are flocks and
droves of cares and anxieties, and every
daughter of the family, though there be
seven, ought to ho doing her part to take
earn of the flocks. In many households
not only is Zipporah. bat all' her sisters,
without practical and useful employ
ments Many of them are waiting for for
tunate and prosperous matrimonial alli
ance, but some lounger like themselves
will come along and after counting tbo
iarge number of father Jethro s sheep and
'smelswill make proposal that will be ao
■epted, and neither of thi pi having done
anything more praeii aj tlnm to chjJW
bcoolate caramels the two nothings will
'art on the mad of life together, every
rep more and moiN a failure. That daugh
ter of the Midiquirtsh sheik will never find
her Moms Giris of Amoriea. imitate
■ ipnornh! Do s<-i setting practical., D*?
omething helpful Do something well.
,Im:v have fathers with great flocks of
absorbing duties, and such a father needs
help in home or office or field. Co cut
and help'him with the tlc-cks. The reason
that so many men now condemn them
selves to unaffianccd and solitary life is
because they cannot support the modern
young woman, who rises at half past JO
in the morning and retires after midnight,
one of the trashiest of novels in her hands
most of the time between the late rising
and the late retiring, a thousand of them
not worth one Zipporah.
There are questions that every father
and mother ought to ask the daughter at
breakfast or tea table, and that ail tho
daughters of the wealthy sheik ought to
ask each other: “What would you do if
the family fortune should fail, if sickness
should prostrate the breadwinner, if tho
flocks of Jethro should be destroyed by a
sudden excursion of wolves and bears and
hyenas from the 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 your
self?” Yea, bring it down to what any
day might come to a prosperous family.
“£axi jou cook a Uiauex if tho gqryants
should’make a ■trikefor higher wages ami
leave that morning?” Every minute of
every hoar of every day of every year there
are familhs flung From prosperity into
hardship, and, alas, if in such exigency
the seven daughters of J* thro can do
nothing but sit around and cry and wait
for some one to come and bunt them up a
situation for which they have no qualifi
cation. Get nt something useful; get at
it right away! I?o net say. “If I were
thrown upon n>s own resources, i would
11come a n.usie teat her." There are now
mor, mus.. timc.-rs than could l»<: srp
pcrt*-d if th»-y were all Mozarts and Wag
ner. ai d I.ls i’o not say, “I will go
toemi.n.iCeriug Hiji-er-. There are more
slippers now than th. re are feet Our
hearts aic. every day wrung by the story
of elegant women who were once affluent-,
but through catastrophe have fallen help
ks-, with no ability to take care ol them
selves
Idlers Should Work.
Our friend and Washingtonian towns
man. W W Corcoran, did a magnificent
thing when he built and endowed the
Louise home for the support of the un
fortunate aristocracy of the south—the
people who once hud everything, but have
cone to nothing We want another W. W.
Corcoran to build a Louise home for
the unfortunate aristocracy of tho north.
But institutions like that in every city of
the land could not take care of one-half
the unfortunate aristocracy of the north
and south whose large fortunes have
failed and who, through lack of acqnaint
apce with any style of work, cannot now
; earn their own bread.
| Tii-re needs U? be peaceful yet radical
■ revolution among nmst of the prosperous
homes of America by which the elegant
i do nothings may fie transformed into
i practical do somethings. Let useless wom
s en go to work and gather the flocks.
i Come, ZJppora.h, k t me introduce you to
Moses. But you do net. mean that this
t man r.fllanerd to this country girl was tho
pra .t Mos* s of history ,do you? You do
| not mean that he was the man -who after
ward v. ronght ench wonders there! Surely
you do not nwui be whose tali', dropped,
I wriggled into a serpent and then, clutched,
; t tifi'em <1 again into a staff? You do not
mi (in the cludleup. r of Egyptian thrones
, and ; :>l;k( (-s You do not mean ho who
i struck the ro.k so hard it e. i tin a stream
i toi tl.ii: ly tu.: ! '- ly y. u do in.t mean
i the man who stood alone with God on the
quaking Sinai!ic ranges, not him of that
; most famous lunera! <>f all tin e, God com
: jng dew n out of tbo hc.iv. ns to bury him?
> Yes, the same Moses defending tho seven
daughters of the Midianitish sheik, who
I afterward rescued ail nations.
■ Why, do you not know that this is tbo
j way men and women get prepared for
special work. The wilderm ss of Arabia
, was the Jaw school, the theological semi
nary, the university of rock and sand
from whi'eb ho graduated for amission
that will- balk seas, and drown armies,
and follow the cloud of fire by night, and
start the workmen with bleeding* backs
among Egyptian brick kilns toward the
pas! uro lands that flow with milk and the
trees of Carman dripping with honey.
Gracious God, teach all tho people this
lesson. You must go into humiliation
and retreat and hidden closets of prayer if
you are to lie fitted for special usefulness.
How did John the Baptist get prepared to
Lieeome a forerunner of Cbrist? Show mo
his wardrobe. It will be hung with silken
socks and embroidered robes and attire of
j Syrian purple. Show me his dining table.
I On it the tankards ablush with the richest
wines of tho vineyards of Engedi, and
rarest birds that were ever caught in net,
and sweetest venison that ever dropped
antlers before the hunter. No, vve are di
rectly told “the same John had his raiment
of eajiiel’s hair,” not the fine hair of the
camel which we call camlet, but the long,
coarse hair such as beggars in the cast
wear, and his only meat was of insects,
the green locust, about two inches long,
roasted, a disgusting food. These insects
were caught and the wings and legs torn
off, and they wore stuck on wooden spits
and turned before the lire. Tho Bedouins
pack them in salt and carry thi in in sacks.
What a menu for John tho Baptist!
Through what deprivation he came to
what exultation!
Victory of Endeavors.
And you will have to go down before
you go up. From tho pit into which his
brothers threw him and the prison in
which his enemies incarcerated him Jo
seph rose to bo .Egyptian prime minister.
Elijah, who was to be tho greatest of all
tho ancient prophets; Elijah, who made
King Ahab’s knees knock together with
the prophecy that tho dogs would be his
only undertakers; Elijah, whose one pray
er brought more than three years of
drought, and whose other prayer brought
drenching showers, the man who w rapped
up his cape of sheepskin into a roll and
with it cut a patfi through raging Jordan
for just two men to pass over, the man
who with wheel of fire rode over death
and escaped into the skies without mortu
ary disintegration, the man who thou
sands of years after was called out of the
eternities to stand beside Jesus Christ on
Mount Tabor when it was ablaze with the
splendors of transfiguration—this man
could look back to the time w hen vora
cious and filthy ravens were his only ca
terers.
Yon seo John Knox preaching the cor
onation sermon of James VI and arraign
ing Queen Mary and Lord Darnley in a
public discourse at Edinburgh and telling
the French embassador io go home and
call his ting a murderer, John Knox
i making all Christendom feel his moral
■ power and at his burial tha Earl of Mor
! ton saying, “Here both a man who in’hia
life never foareil tho face of man.” Where
did John Knox get, much of his schooling
for such resounding and everlasting
achievement? Ho got it while in chains
pulling at the boat’s oar in French cap
tivity. So the privations and hardships
of your life may on a smaller scale be tho
preface and introduction to usefulness and
victory.
See also in this call es Moses that God
■ has a great memory. Four hundred years
before he had promised the deliverance of
I the oppressed Isriulitcs of Egypt. The
! clock of time has struck the hour, and
j now Moses is called to the work of rescue.
Four, hundred years is a very long time,
I but you see God can remember a promise
I 400 years as well as you can remember 400
minutes. Four hundred years includes all
I 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 that were predict
; ed to our Christian ago.
You have a dim ren>emb>*.ee, if any re
| membrance at all, of your great-grandfa
i ther, but God sees those who were on their
knees in 1508 as well us those on their
i knees in ISOS, and the blessings he prom
i ised the former and their descendants have
arrived or will arrive. While piety is not
hereditary it is a grand thing to have had
a pious ancestry. So God in this chapter
calls up the pedigree of tho people whom
Moses was to deliver, and Moses is or
dred to say to them, “The Lord God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac and the Gixl of Jaeph hath
sent nie flptq J’Ufl-” If ihar ihought'be
divinely accurate, let me ask, What are
we doing by prayer and by a holy life for
the redemption of the next 400 years' Our
work is pot nply with the people of the
latter part <<f the nineteenth century, but
with those in Ibe Closing of the twentieth
century, and the closing of tho twenty
first century, and the closing of the twen
ty second w&tury, and the closing of the
twenty-thira ce::tt.ry. For 4UO years, if
the world continues to swing until that
time, or if it ilrt'ps then notwithstanding
the influence will go on in other latitudes
and longitudes of God's universe.
. For Good °t Evi].
No one realizes how great he is for good
or for evil. There are branchings out and
rebounds anti reverberations and elabora
tions of influence that cannot be estimat
ed. The 50 or 100 years of our earthly
stay is only a small part of our sphere.
The flap of the wing of the destroying
angel that smote the Egyptian oppressors,
the wash of the Red sea over the heads of
the drowned Egyptians, were all ful
fillments of promises four centuries old.
And things occur in your life and in mine
that we cannot account for. They may
1 be the echoes of w hat was promised in the
sixteenth or seventeenth century. Oh,
the prolongation of the divine memory I
Notice also that Moses was 80 years of
l age when he got this call to become the
Israelitish deliverer. Forty years he had
! lived in palaces as a prince. Another 40
years he had lived in the wilderness of
MACON NKWa MONDAY EVENING, MAY g 189 S.
Arabia. 1 should not wonder i? he Lai!
said: “Take a younger ibimi for this work.
Eighty winters have exposed my health.
Eighty summers have poured their heats
upon my b* ad. There are 40 years that 1
spent among the e:u rvating luxurus us a
palace, and then follow the 40 years of
wilderness hardship. I am too old. Let
me off. Better call a man in the forties
or fifties and not one who has entered
upon the eighties.” Nevertheless he un
dertook the work, and if we want to
know whether ho succeeded ask the aban
doned brick kilns of Egyptian taskmas
ters, and the splintered chariot wheels
strewn on the beach of the Red sea, and
tl timbrels which Miriam clapped for
the Israelites passed over and the Egyp
tians gone under.
Do not rat ire too early. Like .Moses, yon
may have p ur chief work to <:o alter mi
It may not l-e in tho high places of tbo
field. It may not bo where a strong arm
and an athletic foot and a clear vision are
raquir d, but there is something for you
yet t- :.-o. Perhaps it may be to round off
the work you have already done, todomon-
Ktrate the patieiice you have been lecoin
inending all your lifetime. Perhaps to
stand a lighthouse at- tbo mouth of tho
bay to light others into harbor. Perhaps
to show bow glorious a sunset may come
after a stormy day.
If aged n-.en do not feel strong enough
for anything else, let' them sit around in
our churches and pray, and perhaps in
that way they may accomplish more good
than they ever did In tho meridian of their
life. It makes us fee! strong to see aged
men and women in. up and down the
pews, their faces -showing they have been
on mountains of transfiguration. Wo
want in all our churches more men like
Moses, men who have been through tbo
deeps and climbed up the shelled beach on
the other side. We want aged Jacobs, who
havo seen ladders which let down heaven
into their drums. We want aged Peters,
who have been at Pentecosts, and aged
Pauls, who have made Felix tremble.
There are he ro and there those who fiu-l
’ike tl.e woiiuin of V 0 years who said to
Fontenelle, who was 85 years of ape,
“Death appears to have forgotten us."
“Hush, ' said Iteuhnelle, tho wit, put
ting liis finger to his lip. No, my triend,
you Lave not 1 <-( n forgotten. You will
he tailed at tho right time. Meantime be
holily occupied
Labor a Preservative.
Lot the rped remember that by increased
longevity ol the. race men are not, as old at
Go as they usi d to be at 50, not as old at
70 as they usid to bo at. GO, not. as old at
80 a.-, they used to be at. 70. Sanitary pre
caution hitter understood; medical sci
ence lul l her advanced; laws of health
more thoroughly adopted; dentistry con
tinuing h r longer tin e successful masti
cation; homes and churches and court
rooms and places of business better venti
lated— ail these have prolonged life, and
men and women in the close of this cen
tury ought not to retiro until at least 15
y ears later than in the (q.ening of tho cen
tury. Do not put the harness off until
you have fought a few more battles.
Think of Moses starting out for his chief
work an octogenarian; 40 years of wilder
ness life after 40 years of palace life, yet
just beginning.
There lies dying at Hawarden, Eng
land, one of the most wonderful men that
ever lived since the ages of time began
their roll. He is the chief citizen of the
whole world. Three times has he prac
tically been king of Great Britain. Again
and again coming from the house of com
mons, w hieh he had thrilled and overawed
by his eloquence, on Saturday, on Sunday
morning reading prayers for tho people
with illumined countenance and brim
ming eyes and resounding voice, saying:
“I believe in God the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus
Christ, his only Son, our Lord.”
The world has no other such man to
lose as Gladstone. The church has no
other such champion to mourn over. I
shall never cease to thank God that on
Mr. Gladstone’s invitation I visited him
at Hawarden and heard from his own lips
his belief in the authenticity of tho Holy
Scriptures, the divinity of Jesus Christ
and the grandeurs of the world to come.
At his table and in the walk through his
grounds I was impressed as I was nover
before, and probably will never be again,
with the majesty of a nature all conse
crated to God and tho world’s betterment.
In the presence of such a man what have
those to say who profess to think that our
religion is a pusillanimous and weak and
cowardly and unreasonable affair? Match
less William E. Gladstone!
Still further watch this spectacle of gen
uine courage. No wonder when Moses
scattered the rude shepherds ho won Zip
porah’s heart. What mattered it to Mosos
whether the cattle or the seven daughters
of Jethro were driven from the troughs
by the rude herdsmen? A sense of justice
fired his courage, and the world wants
more of the spirit that will dare almost
anything to see others righted. All the
time at wells of comfort, at wells of joy,
at wells us religion and at wells of litera
ture there are outrages practiced, the
wrong herds getting the first water.
Those who have the previous right come
in last, if they come in at all. Thank
God wo have hero and there a strong man
to set things right! I am so lad that,
when God has an especial work to do he
has some one ready to accomplish it. I
there a Bible to translate, there is a Wyc
lif to translate it; if there is a literature
to bo energized, there is a Shakespeare to
energize it; if there is an error to smite,,
there is a Luther to smite it; if there is io
be a nation free, there is a Moses to fret
it. But courage is needed in religion, in
literature, in statesmanship, in al! spliert-s
heroics to defend Jethro’s seven (laugh
tors and their flocks and put to flight the
insolent invaders. And those who do the
brave work will win somew here high re
ward. The loudest cheer of heaven is to
be given “to him that overcometh.”
God Knows You.
Still further, see in this call of Mosos
that if God has any especial work for you
to do he will find you. There was Egypi
and Arabia and Palestine with theii
crowded population, but the man the Lord
wanted was at tho southern point of tie
triangle of Arabia, and he picks him right
out, tha shopherd who kept the flock of
Jethro, his father-in-law, tbo priest and
sheik. So God w ill not find it hard to
take you out from rhe 1.600,000,000 of th*
human race if he wants you for anything
especial. There was only just, one man
qualified. Other men had courage like
M- ■. s, other men had some of tho talents
of Moses, other men had romance in their
history, as had Moses; other men wen
impetuous like Moses, but no other man
bad these different qualities in the exact
proportion as had Moses, and God, who
makes no mistake, found the right man
for the right place. Do not fear you will
be overlooked or that when you are wanted
God cannot find you He know s your name,
your features, your temperament and your
characteristics, and in what land or city er
ward or neighborhood or houte you f’”.
He will net have to tend oub scouts or
explorers to (ipd j ouj reskk'neoer place of
stopping, uud when ho wants you he will
make it as plain that be means you as be
made it plain that he needed Moses. fi(
called his name twice, as afterward whci
fco called the great apostle of ihe gentiles
be called twice, saying “Saul, Saul.” anu
when he called the troubled I.eust krepei
he ep.ikd her twice, saying "Martha,
Murtha.” and when he called the prophet
to his mission he called him twice, saying
“Samuel, Samuel,” and now when be
wants a deliverer bo calls twice, saying
“Moses, Moses.” Yes, if God has any
thing for US to do he will call us twice by
name. At the first announcement of our
name we may think it possible that we
misunderstood the sound, but after he
calls us twice by name vve know he means
us as certainly as vv hen he twice spoke the
names of Saul or Martha or Samuel or
Moses.
Nou see, religion is a tremendous per
sonality. We all have the general call of
salvation. V>e bear it in songs, in ser
mons, in prayers. We hear it year after
year. But after awhile, through our own
sudden and alarming illness, or the death
of a playmate, or a schoolmate, or a col ,
lege mate, or the decease of a business part
ner, or the demise of a next door neighbor,
we get the especial call to repentence and
a new life and eterhal happiness, and we
know that God means us. You have no
ticed the way in which God calls us twice?
Two failures of investments, two sick
nesses, two persecutions, two bereave
ments, two disappointments, two disas
ter & Moses! Moses!
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a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
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Character of Mosca.
Mill fi;r! hi i. notice (!■:?. thn call of
Voses was written in letters of lire. On
tbo Sinaitio peninsula there L a thorn
bush called the acacia, drj’ and brittle,
and it. easily goes down at tho touch of
the flame. It crackles and turns to ashes
very quickly. Moses, seeing one of these
bushes on lire, goes to look at it. At first
no doubt it seemed to be a botanical curiosi
ty, burning, yet crumpling no leaf, part
ing no stem, scattering no ashes. It was
a supernatural fire that did no damage to
the vegetation. That burning bush was
tho cull.
Your call will probably come in letters
of fire. Ministers get their call to preach
in letters on paper or parchment or type
written, but it docs not amount to much
until they get their next call in letters of
fire. You will not amount to much in
usefulness until somewhere near you find
a burning bush. It may be found burn
ing in the hectic flush of your child’s
cheek. It may be found burning in busi
ness misfortune. It may be found burn
ing in the fire of the world’s scorn or hate
or misrepresentation. But harken to tho
crackle of tho burning bush!
Oh, what a fascinating and inspiring
character this Moses! How tame all other
stories compared with the biography of
Moses! From the lattice of her bathing
house on the Nile, Thermutis, daughter of
Pharaoh, sees him in the floating cradle of
papyrus leaves made water tight by bitu
men; his infantile cry is beard among the
marble palaces, and princesses hush him
with their lullabies; workmen by the road
side drop their work to look on him when
as a boy he passed, so beautiful was he;
two bowls put before his infant eyes for
choice to demonstrate his wisdom, the one
bow l containing rubies and the other con
taining coals of lire, sufficiently wise was
he to take the gems; but, divinely direct
ed, ho took the coals and put them to his
mouth, and his tongue was burned, and
he was left a“* stammerer all his days, so
that he declared, in Exodus iv, 10, “I am
slow of speech and of slow tongue;” on
and on until he set firm foot among tho
crumbling basalt, and his ear was not
deafened by tho thunderous “Thou shalt
not” of Mount Sieai, the man who went
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to the relTef of the Israelites who were
scourged because without chopped straw
they were required to make firm bricks,
the story of their oppression found chisel
ed on the tomb o’ Roschere at Thebes, and
when his armies wore impeded by venom
ous serpent? sent orates of ibises, the snake
destroying birds, io clear the way so that
his host could m treh straight ahead, thus
surprising tho enemy, who thought they
must take another route to avoid the rep
tiles; the whole sky an aquarium to drop
quails for him and tho 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 speak; th to his friend;”
tho man who had the 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 chant
a psalm. No organ to roll a requiem. No
angel alighting upon the scene, but God
laying him out for the last sleep, God up
turning the earth to receive the saint, God
smoothing or banking tho dust above the
sacred form, God, with farewell and bene
diction, closing the sublime obsequies of
law giver, poet and warrior. “And no
man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this
day.” Get your eye on him instead of try
ing to imitate some smaller example.
A great snowstorm camo on a prairie
in Minnesota, and a farmer in a sleigh
was lost, but after awhile struck tho track
of another sleigh and felt cheered to go
on, since he had found the track of anoth
er traveler. He heard sleighbolls preced
ing him and hastened on and caught up
with his predecessor, who said, “Where
are you going?” “1 am following you,”
was the answer that came back. The fact
is that they were both lost and had gone
round and round in a circle. Then they
talked the matter over and, looking up,
saw the north star, and toward the north
was their home, and they started straight
for it. Oh, instead of imitating men like
ourselves and circling round and round,
let us look up and take some starry guide
like Moses and follow on until we join
him amid tho “delectable mountains. ”
You say you cannot reach his character:
Oh, no Neither can you reach tho north
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