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M and confidently committed him to His care. This faith of the mother lies back of the unique plan God gave unto her by which the child came back to her own bosom to ¡be nourished and trained for God’s great service. It was God who caused the child to cry at the psychological moment and God who through that cry touched the heart of the king’s daughter. It is well to recognize this as we begin the study of the life of Moses. There is evidence of the miracu lous in the lives of all of God’s children. Never will we know until the books are open. How graciously the hand of God has directed our steps. How He has over shadowed with His great wings. How He has used the lives of others to influence our own and by what strange forces He has guided us into the place of privilege and paths of usefulness. Life is full of mys tery, but those whose faith is fixed in the unchanging wisdom and purpose of God rest in confidence concerning the ultimate outcome of their lives. The title to this lesson is a misnomer. Moses was not prepared for his work. He had the early years of moral training in the home with the mother. He had years of mental training in the celebrated schools of Egypt, yet at forty years of age he was not disciplined for the great work God had for him to do. There must be yet forty years more for the soul culture. Moses’ heart was right, but his head was wrong. To everything there is a time. Moses was anticipating God’s plan. He erred in as suming a leadership to which God had not yet called him and a service for which he was not yet qualified. He was right in his purpose to cast his lot with his enslaved brethren. By faith he separated himself from the court of Pharaoh and by faith he allied himself with the suffering Israel ites, but by the flesh he committed murder. We praise the spirit of Moses which prompted him to take up the battle for the emancipation o f his brethren, but we must Concluded on Page 309 L esson II— J uly 12, 1913. Golden Text,—Matt. 5:5.
twentieth century, “Woe to you self-lovers, covetous,,boasters, proud blasphemers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. Woe to you traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.” God warns us that evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. What shall we say to these things and what shall we do? May the Lord help us to look truth in the face, heed the words of ex hortation and order our lives as becometh those who wait for the morning. The first lesson of the year was concern ing the creation of a world. The first les son of this quarter concerns the creation of a life destined to play no mean part in God’s economy. A child was to be born whose name was to be forever associated with that of the Lord in the song of Moses, and the Lamb. Truly his parents could say, “Unto us a child is born and unto us a son given,” and if his name was not called wonderful, yet there were to be many won derful things wrought through and by his life. Moses was well born for he was born into the home of godly parents. They were poor and obscure, but through them was to come an imperishaible name. Moses chose good parents. It is a sorrowful fact that so many children are so poorly born. Should we not pity the children born into homes -of unbelieving parents and into the homes of professed Christians where there is so little evidence of the Christ-life. By faith, the mother of Moses sought protec tion for ,her boy. Heb. 11:23. Faith moves in a mysterious way, its wonders to per form. By faith Noah built an ark for the saving of his family and faith the mother of Moses also built an ark for the saving of her son who was to become the faithful leader of a great nation. She laid the ark upon the bosom of the Nile, amidst the flags, but not until she had laid the lad upon the bosom of the great hearted God in whom she had abiding confidence. She recognized her child as a gift from God L esson I— J uly 6, 1913. Golden Text,—Matt. 18:5.
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