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v. 1. Moses. Is a type of Christ, th e Deliverer. F irst: divinely chosen ( 3 : 7 - 1 0 ; Acts 7 :2 5 ). Second: Rejected by Israel, tu rn s to Gentiles (2:11 -15 ; Acts 7 :2 5 ; 18: COMMENT FROM 5-6). Th ird : In MANY SOURCES rejection gains K eith L. B rooks Gentile bride (2: 16-21; Eph. 5: 30-2). F o u rth : A fterw ard appears as Isra el’s deliverer, and is accepted (4: 29-31; Rom. .11: 24-26). — Scofield. Moses was born to be Israel s deliverer, yet no t a word is said -to him of it un til he is 80 years of age.—Henry. Backside of th e desert. God tests His weapons before He uses them . Great men are generally prepared for great ■deeds by g rea t trials.— Sel. Solitude is the mother country of th e strong.— Maclaren. The w ilderness w ith its savage crags is a b etter place to meet God th a n th e heavy air of a palace,-—• Sel. One m ust b reathe the atmosphere of th e backside of th e desert to be of any account to God in public service.' (Isa. 5 0 :4 ),— McIntosh. Those who will learn of God m ust be alone w ith God.— Sel. Christ spent ten tim es as much tim e in hallowed retirem en t as in public service, th en often retrea te d to th e desert.— C. ^1. M. Even those who are qualified for g reat employ m ent must not th in k it strang e if they be confined for a tim e to obscurity. Henry. He had had all th e advantages of education, b u t perhaps he was a slow scholar in God’s school, so God had to keep him in the desert 40 years. __Moody. No gall, no glory. No cross, no crown.— Penn. Men do no t like to be pu t upon th e grindstone, h u t they are dull tools for th e purposes which God designs to work out w ith them , and therefo re He grinds them .— Beecher. v. 2. F lam e of fire. F ire is a fre quent emblem of God on account of its illum inating, purifying and destructive properties, and appears as the*- accom panim ent and indication of H is presence
In the g reat struggle in Holland between P ro testan tism and Roman Catholicism , W illiam, the P rince of Orange, was the champion of th e rig h t eous cause. In the h eat of b attle W il liam received a note from one of his generals asking him if he had effected a tre a ty w ith any foreign power such as would secure aid. The prince re plied, “ I have made a close alliance w ith the King of Kings, and I doubt not He will give us the victory.” And so it was. A Header S tarts a M ighty Movement for E ith e r R ig h t o r Wrong. The present leaders of th e German people and the p resen t leaders, of the Allied nations are splendid illu stration s of th is thought. W hat a m ighty move m ent for .wrong the K aiser has set in motion, and w hat forces for good P resi dent Wilson has inaugurated. L ike the traveler who visited these shores years ago and took back to P aris th ree chest nu ts in his pocket. He planted one and ■ the following year a young chestnut tree appeared which grew and flour ished, and became the parent, no t only of all the chestnu t trees in F rance, hu t of all th e magnificent trees of th is kind under which th e people of F rance, Ger many and Italy assemble on th e ir days of festival. W hat a blessing a little chestnut in a trav e ler’s pocket became. W hat a m u ltitude of blessings have flowed from th is one leader, Moses. A Leader Must Be Real. A B rahm in is said to have w ritten to a m issio n ary :. “We are finding you out. You are not as good as your Book. If you people were only as good as your Book, you would conquer Ind ia for Christ in five years.” •' A celebrated preacher asked Garrick, the actor, “How is it people weep under your words of fiction, when they are indifferent under mine, which are tru e ? ” His reply was, “ I preach fiction as if it were a fact, and you preach fact as if it were fiction.” P au l said, So w.e preach, so ye believed.
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