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UZZH O. THQMAc)
“Sing hey, sing hey! the summer days
are dying!
Across the hills the first red leaves are
flying!
Oh, heart, dear heart, in leaf and fruit
v.e 6ee
Rich stores of love from God above,
Dropped down from every tree!
Sing hey! sing hey! let joyful songs
arise!
Heaven smiles today through glad Sep
tember’s eyes.”
Half of September has gone. The
harvest months are here. The loaded
boughs of summer fruits have been
gathered and the first autumnal winds
have almost bared the trees of their
foliage. The grapes are beginning to
be scarce and the acorns have begun to
drop. The nuts • will soon be a prize
for squirrels and children. The golden-
rod is waving its flags from hill and
dale, and purple and gold just now
seems to be Nature's livery. The leaves
have put on their first faint flush. Rus
set and gold creeps among the grasses
and the sumac has a heavy blush where
just a short time ago green was pre
dominant.
Yesterday morning before the sun
rose the* sky was an opal sea changing
its waves to crimson and dull gray.
There was a twang in the early morn
ing air that suggested the frost king’s
coming and a warning to all who like
the sluggard craved yet a little more
sleep, or a little more play.
All nature seemed ready to greet the
change of seasons. There seemed an air
of expectancy and one seemed to realize
more than ever that “the earth is the
Lord’s” and its benefits to mankind a
gracious gift from His hands. There
also seemed something that took the
mind back to the tender green of spring
time, the promise of fruit and the ful
fillment of anticipation. Later came
summer with its heat and languor, the
coojing breeze an'd the ripening sun
shine. Starlit nights and dew drops
vying with moonshine and dewless
hours, all necessary and “all given to
work * out the beneficent end that the
farmer and professional alike looked for
ward to. k.
As the years pass one comes
to the place T where retrospect
means something. The true value of
time is not often appreciated in the
first, second or t even third decade.
Chesterfield says, “Know the true
value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy
every moment of it. No idleness, no
laziness, no procrastination; never put
off till tomorow what you can do to
day,” and to truly enjoy the present one
must feel sure that there have been no
wilfully neglected duties, no pleasures
taken at the expense of the future.
In Atlanta alone there were 25,000
•children started to school this month.
Think what an army of school children
Georgia has and ask yourself if yours
are going-, and if they are receiving
from their hofne the inspiration and co
operation they deserve. These boys and
girls will so soon be the women and
men of Georgia. Even as this year has
slipped away, before you know it, the
little fellow that today struggles with
his pen or book will be out in the world
in a fierce struggle with problems that
affect the nation’s welfare.
There in the country school house, on
the farm or playing with his compan
ions on the village ball ground may be
the lawmakers of the future. Are you
sure that only the boys of that army
that started to school this month will
be the lawmakers? I am not. It seems
only a little while to some sinc£ Susan
B. Anthony, Dr. Anna Shaw and even
our own Mrs. Felton begun to stir the
minds of their associates and readers.
You see what has already been the re
sult. The springtime of their year was
well spent. They sowed in hope and
as their summer passed they see some
fruits ripen, some laws made in their
favor and some are living in states
that look far enough ahead to compel
the child to go to school and prepare
for a useful life. Tedious and tasteless
have been some of f the hours that illiter
ate men and women have thrust upon
their offspring. Bitter have been the
tears that many a woman has shed as
she saw her own or another’s helpless
ness to avert evil or to right a wrong,
just because the lawgivers still class
women with the insane, -the convict or
the foreigner who has not been in our
country five years.
The bee and the butterfly are often
used to typify the woman in business
and her “sheltered” (?) sister. But is
the simile always true? We see, also
too x often, the butterfly with broken
wings lying by the wayside. We see
them the playthings of heedless chil
dren and the victim of predatory crea
tures. Isn’t it better to have a way
to make a living and the knowledge
and power of self-defense?
Had there been compulsory education
and child labor laws even for three
years would the crimes that this year
have brought Georgia in the limelight In
no congratulatory way have been enact
ed? Little girls who have gone to ruin,
yea, to death, boys’to the gallows, would
now probably be honored members of
society and helpers in homes of purity.
Ignorance and vice go hand in hand. Do
•you not know boys that are bringing
sorrow to many hearts that might be
come honored citizens if the law would
throttle greed in sordid homes and com
pel some parents to send their children
to school?
The teacher of such children has my
sympathy. Teaching is a tremendous re
sponsibility, even when the home is in
accord with the teacher’s ideals, but
when the childreri are either sent to
school to get rid of them, or allowed
to go or stay as suits them, it is terri
ble.
Beside the army of children we must
not forget the army of new teachers.
Is there one in your midst? Take her
by the hand and make her feel at home,
help her to see the right way to man
age the bo$* or girl that has been a
problem or a stumbling block, and help
her to lay the -foundation for a great
work, not this year in your school, but
in all the years to come.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
HOW ABOUT THIS?
Dear Miss Thomas: Tonight I stand upon the
threshold of a new year; I shall have my six
tieth birthday tomorrow. These birthdays come
as regular as taxes, and some of us pay the
penalty about as cheerfully as we do our taxes.
Up to my fortieth I was a very complacent
chap, the world was all mine, but then things
began to change—the jaunty air had little haze
and the youngish step just the faintest snap
In It. Still I browsed in pastures green and
tried to fool myself into thinking myself a
happy, fortunate man. Fifty came, and with
it the realization that in having no “hostage to
fortune,” I had no permanent interest. The
bachelor uncle is made much of, nephews and
nieces love him, but they love parents more.
Absence is painful, but they are consoled by
their parents and the bachelor uncle’s affairs
do not have the vital meaning that the home
ha&.
At sixty the nephews and nieces have be
come absorbed in their own affairs, some have
given his name to the third generation, and
there seems little to hold him.
Is any one halting at the door of matri
mony? That old, old door that one cannot
enter alone. Is there one who hesitates be
cause the responsibility appals him? Go forth,
meet the future bravely and as the years pass
you will be glad that you have something more
tangible than fame, wealth or idleness to show
for the passing years. A home you may have
far less imposing than the one you might
possess if you had given your years to a selfish
heaping up of money, but the treasures in that
home the knowledge of the love and faith in
the hearts of its inmates counts for more than
riches or fame.
Sixty years young I then might write, but as
it is—alas, alas! I suppose I am the only one
brave enough to acknowledge my folly and re
gret. GEORGE RUSH.
THE SCHOOL GIRL’S MODESTY IN DRESS.
Dear Miss Thomas: As the school days return
I would like to mention a few facts of the school
dress, which means very much to the “charming
misses,” who are very much like the blooming
roses in their beautiful colors.
I am with you when you speak of the modest
dress. It is to be feared that many young
girls fail to recognize the beauty which often
acompanies “plainness.”
It may be said according to their dress, girls
express their nature.
A girl should not wish to appear in unnecessa
ry extravagance for a modest dress becomes a
true girl best, and modesty should be the school
girl’s pride, her taste may be perfected along
that line as well as in mental qualifications.
Every girl should be refined and wear the
styles that express a desire to be inconspicuous.
It is indeed true that we would npt like to find
ourselves dressed in a way except such as to
suit the occasion and above all else, let us be
neat in our dress.
Modesty is by no means bashfulness, for bash
fulness can never be desired and suitable appar
el helps us as we enter into society to find
one never dressed in the modest dress that pro
claims us accustomed to our sta'tion. Let us as
girls be true and dress to be admired only by
the better class of people.
The young men who are refined seldom
really admire the loud, immodest girl. She may
for a season be the center of a boisterous
throng, but as the days glide by the modest,
unassuming sister marries and she is still “hail
fellow well met” with these left. There is no
disparagement in remaining unmarried, if it is
a mater of ehoice, but the loud girl is generally
counting on matrimony before the end of her
first season. Some of the readers of this page
may wonder wliat all this has'to do with the
beginning of ray letter. But it has this much:
Just as we dress and act at school we will go
through life. Habits in school days are silken
threads, and every year they get doubled and
twisted until they, become ropes in old age.
Sincerely, I LELA RIVERS.
Riverdale, Ga.
' AFTER TWO YEARS’ ABSENCE
Dear Householders: Will you please let me
in for a short chat this afternoon? I have
mussed the dear Household so much this sum
mer, as I have been away. I spent several
weeks in the mountains of north Georgia and
enjoyed my trip immensely. I hope all of you
enjoyed Mr. Walter E. Warren’s letter as
much m I did, it certainly was fine. I have
met Mr. Warren’s sisters and enjoyed being
with them so much. Also, I have met Euclea.
She is a dear little woman and keeps house
for her father and several brothers. Euclea’s
mother is dead and I wanted to cry when she
showed me her dear mother’s hicture, for I,
too, lost mine three years ago. and I know
what it is to give one up. My dear father
died less than three months after my mother,
and the death angel visited us again on the
third day of May of this year and carried our
oldest brother away. He was just blooming
into manhood. We miss him so, but we know
that everything is for the best. Still we can’t
help but grieve for dear ones gone before.
I keep house for three brothers, as my oldest
sister teaches school. Well, I hope some of
the good writers will continue to come, as I
enjoy their letters on our page so much, and
I don’t feel so sad and lonely when I read a
good letter on our page. I must also not forget
to tell you how much I enjoyed the past week.
I spent it with one of our Household mem
bers, Miss Myrtice Harris. She is such a
sweet girl and I always enjoy my visits to
her and she has such a dear, sweet mother.
I guess I would better close for this time
as I have been absent over two years. Hoping
all the good writers will come often, I am,
Sincerely,
ELOISE.
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The Hired
(Copyright, 1913. by W. Werner.)
Car
Hester was very happy over her cous
in Grace’s coming:. She had not hoped
when she wrote asking the favor of a
visit that Grace would confer it, but
she had, immediately and quite gra
ciously. To Hester Grace was a supe
rior being. Her father, who was Hes
ter’s uncle, was rich. Once when she
was quite a small girl Hester had
visited her uncle’s home, and she had
not had a very good time. She was glad
to get away from the buzzing city to
the freedom and brightness of foolish,
airy old Westmore. Ever after West-
“I guess I’d better take your passengers
with me.”
more had seemed a pretty good place.
When she wrote that she would give
her cousin a good time she meant every
word of it.
Of course, there was much to do
before Grace’s arrival. Since her moth
er’s death Hester had been her fath
er’s housekeeper. She would give
Grace a famous welcome.
When at last the day came Hester
put on her best hat and went to the
station. At last Grace appeared. She
carried an enormous suit case, an um
brella and an aligator bag.
“It’s the first time I ever rode on
a train where there wasn’t a porter,'
she panted after she had kisgfed Hes
ter. She looked about the station for
a cab, but no cab was visible. She
dropped the big suit case, and Hester
picked it up. She carried it all the way
home. Grace talked with unconcern.
Obviously, she did not care who carried
her baggage, so long as she did not have
to carry it.
Hester lugged the suit case up to the
big front room, which she had prepared
for the guest, and Grace followed. She
looked about her coolly and sat down
upon the immaculate bed.
‘I was never so tired i n my life”
Grace said. “That old train stopped
at every station and the book I had
wasn’t interesting. It was a terribly
dull journey. Do you suppose you can
open that suit case, Hester, dear? I
don’t believe I ever can in this world.”
Hester opened the suit case. She also
helped unpack it. Her color came back
at the sight of Grace’s pretty things.
She enthused over the silver toilet arti
cles which Grace took from the alliga
tor bag and arranged upon the dresser.
It came to her that they looked a little
out of place associated with rag rugs
and scrim curtains. T .She prepared a
bath for Grace and then she went down
stairs to get supper. She saw, how
ever, that it would take more than fried
chicken and whipped cream cake to sur
prise Grace.
After supper Hester’s father took
Grace out to look at his garden while
Hester did the work. Later they all
sat on the porch and talked. It was a
lovely night, all moonlight.
“How still it is!” Grace said, and she
yawned. “I should think you’d sleep all
the time. Why, I have’t even seen a
motor car go by.”
"There goes one now,” exclaimed Hes
ter eagerly, pointing to a vanishing tail
light.
Grace laughed a little bored laugh
and yawned again.
There was a picnic party planned for
the next afternoon. Grace went. She
ate sandwiches and deviled eggs with
the other girls and yawned repeatedly.
“Once, when I was abroad,” she said,
“we stopped for r a day in a convent
town. Westmore* reminds me of it.
Plenty of girls, you know, but not a
man in sight.”
The girls gasped. They did not feel
the need of a man’s presence to stimu
late their* interest.
“You’ll see lots of men at Kate’s
party tomorrow night,” said Hester
gayly.
Such a party as Kate Steele’s was a
great event to feminine young West-
more. Hester had “done up” her best
white dress for the occasion, but Grace
came out in satin with a filet of gold
across her fair hair. Hester was very
proud of Grace and took her jubilantly
to t.he party. Kate Steele was flat
tered, by the city girl’s appearance.
There was no jealousy or meanness in
the Westmore girls. They rallied
around Grace like court ladies around
their queen, but they could not make
her have a good time. She yawned at
everything or else laughed. To her it
was incomparably dull. •
“I might just as well be home Sleep
ing,” she whispered to Hester. “Let’s
go.”
“Oh, Grace!” Hester was shocked.
“Mr. Dent has just come. Don’t you
want to meet him? He was called out
of town this afternoon and just got
back in time to hurry over here for
the last of the party. Kate’s so anx
ious you should se him.”
“Oh, bother!” Grace shrugged her
shoulders. “I daresay he’s like all the
other men I’ve met tonight and I’ve
had enough of them.”
So Hester followed her home, to
Kate’s despair, without so much as a
glimpse of Mr. Dent.
The next day Grace lolled in the
hammock with a novel. “I’ve yawned
till it has become a habit,” she laughed.
“Oh, Hester, how do you ever endure
it here year in and year out? Is it any
livelier in the winter?”
“It’s not so lively,” Hester replied,
soberly. “All the same, I wouldn’t
take a Westmore winter for any other
kind of winter in the world.”
Grace looked far in the distance and
said nothing, but the following morn
ing she began to ask about trains and
Hester caught her consllting a time ta
ble. Hefcter was woefully tired, for
Grace was a guest who must be waited
on. It never occurred to her to per
form any service for herself. She took
everything as her rightful due. She
ate Haster’s chicken and cake and
pie as if they were the commonest fare.
Nothing interested or surprised her.
“I’ve done everything I could think
of,” Hester thought, “and she hasn’t had
a good time. There’s just one thing
more.” She counted the contents of her
purse.
“At 4 o’clock we’re going automobil-
ing,” she announced.
“You mean motoring?” Grace smiled.
“Oh, very well.”
At 4 o’clock Hester in a fever of im
patience, waited for the red lettered
gray car of Westmore’s limited taxi
service to appear. She was fluttering
with excitement, for she knew she was
doing daring and expensive thing. The
car arrived with a sad faced young man
at the wheel. It waited ten minutes
for Grace to don her veil. She came
languidly, climbed in, dusted the worn
cushions with her handkerchief and sat
down.
“Take us as far as you can for $2,”
Hester said, boldly.
The car started. It whirled round a
corner, ae up wto or three srteets, scared
a half dozen horses, astonished a few
piazza keeping ladeis, and tok to the
open country. Hester clapped her hands,
“isn’t it splendid!” she cried.
“If the old ark doesn’t break down
with us I shall be joyful,” Grace gasp
ed.
And right then and there it happened.
The car stopped as if it had died. The
chauffeur muttered things. He got out.
He opened the tool box and went under
the car. Moments went by.
Another car was whirring and tooting
round the turn—a very spick and span
buff car, with ,a brown, good looking
young man alone in it. He swung up
alongside the derelict. “Hello, what’s
the trouble here?” he called. ‘ ! What
you doing downy there, George?”
“The blamed things balked,” mum
bled the chauffeur with his mouth full of
dust.
The young man got out and took a
look himself. “It has balked all right,
if we had a rope I’d t<ftr it in for you,
George,” he said. “I guess I’d better
take your passengers with me. You can
get another car and the rope and come
back after this one. It’s out of the
main track, so teams pass it. And no
body will steal it.” He came back to
the girls. * “My name is Dent,” he said.
“Will you allow me to transfer you from
your car to mfine?”
They got irito his car. The chauffeur
got in also. And he took them back to
town.
“We’re* everlastingly obliged to you,”
Grace sfcJd, as they alighted at their
own door. She had grown suddenly ani
mated. “When that old car stopped I
was in desi'air. I knew all the time it
was going stop. Hired cars always
One day 3he found herself on the hack
seat alone.
do. You came very opportunely.”
Mr. Dent looked,,beyond her to Hester,
who was eyeing his .handsome car wist
fully. His nice eyes became still nicer.
“I hope,” he saifl, “that you and your
cousin will give me the pleasure of
taking you again. It’s rather lonely
running about the country alone, and
my business makes me do a good deal
of it. Tomorrow afternoon I’ve got
to go to South Westmore, and if you’d
like to go ”
“Lovely!” cried Grace. She was awake
at last. "Hester,” she said, excitedly,
as they entered the house. “I know all
about him. Father’s well acquainted
with his uncle. His uncle 1 is a timber
baron; he owns tracts everywhere and
Walter manages a good deal of the busi
ness. I’ve always wanted to meet him,
but he’s no society man. To think that
it should happen here in this pokey old
town! Isn’t it romantic? Something will
come of it, I’m sure.”
Something did come of it, but not in
the way Grace expected. She stayed dn
and on; she went for innumerable rides
in he tbuff car until one day she found
herself on the back seat alone. Hester
was in front with Mr. Dent. Then Gace
went home.
But afterwards she recovered so far
as to return and act as Hester’s maid
of honor.
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DALTON, Ga., Sept. 18.—Money wait
ing for the county school teachers in
stead of the teachers waiting for their
money is the unique and unheard of
condition which prevails here. County
School Superintendent Sapp has the
month’s pay for the teachers before
the month’s work is completed.
Whitfield teachers have not been
forced to wait for their money this
year, as has been the case in a big ma
jority of Georgia counties; for the
ooard of education has been borrowing
money to pay them. This is the first
time on record, however, where the
money was available before the
month’s work was completed.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1913.
“Out of sight, out of mind” is an
old adage with too much of truth in
it. After God had spoken the law to
the people they feared and stood afar
off, but Moses drew nigh into the thick
darkness where God was. Then he spoke
to him the covenant, contained in the
20th, 21st, 22d and 23d chapters of Ex
odus. God then called Moses and Aaron,
and seventy of the elders to come up
to the Lord; but Moses alone was al
lowed to draw near.
Then Moses came down and recited
the law and the covenant to the people,
and they accepted it, answering, “All
the words which the Lord hath said will
we do.” Then Moses wrote them in a
was in the name of God; it was charac
terized by self-effacement; it claimed
God’s promises; it was for his glory.
It prevailed. Compare your prayer with
it as a standard. It may be fruitful.
When Moses had prevailed with God,
and not till then, he turned and went
down with the tables of the law in his
hand. Joshua could not understand the
noise that he heard below; it was not
the shout of victory nor yet the cry of
defeat. It was the dirge song of the
heathen orgy, with which Joshua was
not familiar.
As they descended from the mount and
apeared before the people, Moses’ anger
waxed hot (it was anger like God’s)
hfc threw down the tables and broke
them, to' show the people what they had
done; he took the calf, broke it in pieces,
ground it to powder, strewed it upon the
water, and made the people dring of
it. All of tnislkwas to snow his qsw-
tempt for the powerlessness of the
God they had made.
Only then did he have time to speak
to Aaron about his folly and sin. Aaron’s
answere was pusillanimous! So is any-
ones, who does honestly accept his full
responsibility for his act, but tries to
shift it or any part of it on any one
else.
Then Moses gave a call to arms! As
a result of it 3.U0U souls were slain that
day. The number is rather significant;
3,000 slain when the new order is in
stituted, 3,000 converted when the new
order of the spirits rule is instituted
in after years.
Moses dissapeared again; this time
to intercede for his people. What a
wonder prayer that was, when he asked,
that God blot him out if necessary to
save Israel.
Oh that we had more of that spirit of
that leader which was the spirit of
Christ! Then would we draw near to
the thick darkness where God is; then
would we spend more time with him
learning his plans; then would we be
angry and sin not when we behold the
perfidy of the people; then would wa
give ourselves more to intercession;
then would we pray and prevail.
book and next morning made an altar
and offered a sacrifice on it, sprinkling
part of the blood of the victim on the
altar and with the other half he sprin
kled the people, thus sealing the cove
nant with blood.
He took the book and read it. in
the hearing of the people, giving them
again full knowledge of the contract
into which they were entering, and
again they accepted it saying, “All that
the Lord hath said will we do, and be
obedient.” Then the covenant was seal
ed by the sprinkling of the blood. Then
the elders and the priests went up into
the mountain and saw the God qf Israel,
and there was under his feet as it were
a paved work of a sapphire stone, and
as it wore the body of heaven in its
clearness. And upon the nobles he laid
not His hand; also they saw God, and
did eat and drink.
MOSES DISAPPEARS.
Then God called Moses to come up
nearer that he might give him the law
that he might teach it. So Moses with
Joshua, his minister, went up into the
mount, instructing Aaron and Hur and
the elders to remain -where they were
until he returned. Then a cloud cov
ered the mount. For six days there was
a sight that was calculated to inspire
awe. The fnountain was covered with,
a cloud. It seemed to the eyes of the
children of Israel that the top of the
mountain was burning up, being devour
ed by fire.
On the seventh day God called again
to Moses out of the midst of the cloud,
and Moses went up into the midst of
the cloud and was in the mount forty
days and forty nights?
If you will read carefully the 25th, 31st
chapters of Exodus you will find there the
substance of what God told Moses during
those days. He gave him directions as to
how this people whom he had chosen and
delivered should worship Him, all of
which was the first step in his effort to
show them and through them the whole
world the plan that he had made before
the foundation of the world, by means of
which he would reconcile them unto Him
self and deliver them from a bondage
compared to which their Egyptian bond
age was the merest trifle, rfe gave him
the pattern of. the ark, the mercy seat
where he would meet them, the furniture
for the tabernacle itself, its material and
design, its size and construction. He gave
him directions for the garments of the
priests and how all was to be sanctified
for this holy use. He selected and en
dured with the spirit the men who were
to do the carpentry and engraving. He
emphasized again the necessity of the
Sabbath as a sign of the covenant be
tween them; and finally "wrote with His
own fingers on the tables of stone He pre
pared, the ten words of the law.
MOSES APPEARS.
A week passed,'two weeks, three weeks,
four weeks, but no sign of Moses was to
be had by the Israelites. It was not un
natural for them to suppose that he had
overstepped the bounds set by the maj
esty of God and that he had been con
sumed by the devouring fire which seem
ed to envelop the mount. Becoming res
tive, they appealed to Aaron. Of course,
he could give them no further informa
tion. Aaron seemed to be in a way a
victim of circumstances. He had been
raised in Egypt and had been there all
his life until now. He had not had the
benefit of the years of the desert and
with God. He was accustomed to the
idolatry of Egypt and did not appreciate
fully as yet the necessity for the spirit
ual worship of Jehovah. Accordingly
when the restive people ordered him to
make them gods to go before them, he
seems not to have resisted as he
should. He therefore took their jewelry,
which they brought, melted it and moulded
it into a calf, which was a common ob
ject of worship in Egypt to represent vis
ibly to the people the God who had so
wonderfully delivered them. That he
meant it to be merely a representation of
Jehovah is shown by his proclaiming a
feast to Jehovah when he had completed
his calf. He had them worship Jehovah
in the way he had seen the Egyptians
w.orship their sacred cows, and led them
into those heathen orgies associated with
their religious life, and which are un
mentionable. In so doing he and the peo
ple broke the first, second, third, fourth
seventh and ninth commandments.
This was too much for God. It had
been but forty days since he had given
them a manifestation of himself and
had spoken to them face to face. They
had accepted the terms of the covenant
and it had been sealed by sacrificial
blood; and yet so soon have they for
gotten it all; infinite patience had been
outraged.
Notice how God repudiates them. He
said to Moses, “Go. get you down, for
thy people which thou broughtest out
etc.” Notice the pronouns. But “Moses
besought the Lord his God, and said,
Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot
against thy people which thou brought-
ost out etc.” Note the pronouns here.
Moses does not repudiate them, but re
fuses to recognize that they are other
than God’s people still.
That was a Remarkable situation; Je
hovah the great God repudiating his
people, and proposing to take Moses
as the head of a new and chosen race;
Moses, even though silent as yet. so ob
structing him that God said to him,
“Now let me alone.”,Finally Moses inter
ceding for them so powerfully that God
stays his hand and forgives them!
Study that prayer of his carefully;
it is a model for intercession. I can
only suggest now its salient points. It
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