OREGON CITY COURIHR.THURSDAV. JULY 3 1913
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REMEDIES
at
of
That "abortive" recall "attempt"
has grown into a full-sized protest.
They say the "fellows" thought bet
ter of trying to hold up the recall el
ection with an injunction. It was a
wise second thought.
If we had settled all the prelimin
aries of the elevator matter before
the proposition went to the people,
how much trouble, delay and expense
might have been saved.
The action of the ladies' organizat
ion of Oak Grove on the County Court
recall is significant notice that the
In his address at the barbecue
Aurora Friday last, W. S. U'Ren
this city tok up the matter of state
and county governments, and out'
lined the proposed remedies that
would be submitted through the init
iative next year.
Mr. U'Ren opened his address by
asking if there was a man or woman
present who was satisfied with the
results oi our present government ana
if so to raise their hands. Not a hand
went up,
He made the statement that only
fortv cents worth of results were ob
tained from each dollar expended of
taxation money and the sixty cents
was lost and wasted. This he declared
was not so much the fault of the pub
lic officials as the fault of the sys
tern a cumbersome, indirect, ineffic
ient method of transacting public bus-
iness.
The remedies he proposed, and
which will be submitted to the peo
pie in 1914 by the People's Power
League, were, in brief outline, the
abolishment of the state senate, a
smaller legislature, proportional rep
reservation, the taking from the leg
lslature the power to introduce appro
priations, and the short ballot.
He pointed out the great power of
a combination of counties wanting ap
propriations, and drove the point
home by showing how at the last leg-
is DiKnu-iaiii. nubile bliab IIIQ . i ii i .1
women of this county are taking not- ""Mure there were euough counties
Sen and am roinr to tak nart in th anQ. memoers wanin g appropriations
coming election.
to be in the majority, and how by
trading each locality got its bale of
fodder and the taxpayers furnished
When one out of four voters in this tne Dales'
big county signs a county court re-j He would have only the governor
call, and when you consider that the introduce appropriation bills and for
the circulation of the petitions has bid. the legislature to increase the
all been volunteer work, well, it cer- amounts he recommended. This would
tainly shows a vigorous protest and centralize tne responsmnty, ana every
looks like the danger sign was out. voter would know definitely who was
responsime ior taxation, and over the
governor would be the referendum
and the recall. This would stop the
trading of support in the legislature-
over appropriation bills, stop the dod.
ging of individual responsibility and
iorce tne memDers to stand alone on
their own work,
He would provide a t-hort ballot,
This year we would elect state offic
iels the second year legislative offic
ials and the third year county offic.
mis having annual elections and
every year officials elected for at
least four years subject to the recall;
r.nar. fnilnr.v p orv . Qhomfr oeoaoati.
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uuoiiiic jn biua iuuui.iv wn uui uc I nisr.rirr. Bf.Timpv. wnnlar ethnnl onr.
a square deal between rich and poor ervisor and such officials' be appoint-
u;n w! ih.ii umii is bciik ""iea Dy tne governor and subject to re
minor violations oi tne law line me mnvnl hv h m fnr niQ,.f jt
poor man, who is unable to buy off This would again force direct respons
the jail sentence by paying a fine. ibility and every official would have
ymuu ucuuiiu, to TTIRkfi O-nnfl tn hn hia nfTinn
I OIL i . .
And different sentences for the I j, " county wouia do conducted by
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same violations will always - breed i 11 ,'. " ,
mnfomnt tnr- Inotipo nnj fla Ueu Juyie U Uiev WOU1U. Select 8 DUS1-
distinctions. The man who cannot pay Pesl? manKer. Mr. U'Ren explained
..... r . I in natal I haw f hm nmnid ... 1- .. i.
a line goes to jail to serve several . "vu,u V1"
weeks and months in confinement, T.?e man,a&er would be chosen for his
while the other man pavs his fine fltne.s? b.ecause f hs P.st records
and does not even have the punish
ment or inconvenience. And all you
can make out of such discrimination
is class distinction and that's dang
erous.
"What will the women do?" is the
questions politicians and others are
are asking now that women have the
vote. Some say they won't do any
thing that they will stay at home,
rock the cradle and wash the dishes.
Others say they will vote as their
husbands vote. The Courier's guess
that about half of them will vote and
that they will vote their honest con.
victions; that party and the husband
strings will be ignored very largely.
Wonder where that county court
lawyer is who a few weeks ago said
the recall petitions wouldn't get
enough signatures "to call the Judge
to dinner.
Over 3,200 names of voters of this
countv are siened to thi recall petit
ions of Judge Beatie and Blair. These
names are every one sworn to and in
the hands of the recall executive com
mittee. And yet George C. Brownell
says he despises the men behind the
recall, and the Enterprise says the
Courier would be allright but for the
company it keeps. How do you far
mers like that?
There are few spots on this old
dump of a world left to conquer. The
two poles leave little to hope for as
an outlet for a crowding population
and then what? Well, in the day 3 of
your great, great grandchildren our
air ships will -be doing a regular
trunk line business carrying our un
easy Americans up to the different
stars, and scattering a crowding pop
ulation around the sky. "It can t be
done?" Back up to the time you 50-
year-olds were boys and review ev
ents. There have so many improbable
and impossible things been done that
the can t man is a lonesome cuss in
this age. "But the atmosphere runs
out," he will tell you. So does food
on a north pole trip, so tney take it
with them. In the year about 2015 I
would like to come out of it for a few
hours and read the first page of the
Courier. "Aerial excursion to Mars,
Great Opportunities for Prospectors
and Investors." What Wait and see.
Alaska, that frozen end of land that
we paid Russia about seven and a
half million dollars for, has gold in
about every square fooe of it, and
some of these days when the rail
roads develop it, it will pour a greater
golden stream into this country. The
western states continue the output of
the golden stuff, Africa is opening up
rich deposits, and in almost every cor
ner of the world men are finding the
precious metal. And it makes a man
wonder what our money will be like
or be worth if we keep on finding the
yellow stuff. The value of gold is its
scarcity. Suppose a literal mountain
of it should be found and it became as
common as copper? You would have
to take a hand bag full of it to buy
a pound of crackers. And do you know
that our money today is far cheap
er than it was 25 years ago? In
those days a man worth ten thousand
dollars was rich and fixed for life.
while today it is considered but a drop
in the bucket as a start to riches. And
25 years ago money came harder and
bought more, loday a man earns
double. It's an interesting subject to
think on. When gold, the basis of our
money, becomes so common that we
will have to send a roll as big as
wall paper with a grocery order, then
I suppose some of our wise financiers
will try to turn the country over to a
radium basis. John Stark will not
agree with me that supply makes
cheap or dear money, but events of
the past 25 years look as if suppIv
naa a lot to oo witn it.
THE FUTURE OF AMERICA.
There Is no reason why we should
not have on these shores the noblest
civilization the world has ever known.
There is no reason why we should
not lead the world in political Idealism
and reform, as we did of old.
There Is no reason why we should
not take as advanced a place In art
and literature, in philosophy and re
ligion and In all the higher realms of
the Intellectual and spiritual as we
have lu the political, commercial and
Industrial
There Is no reason why we should
not become more than ever before a
beacon set upon a hill to the peoples
of all lands and races.
In a measure we have been and are
all this, but not In the degree that It
Is our opportunity and duty to be.
Everything Is in our favor our re
sources, our Institutions, our history
and our youth.
Our danger is of losing sight of our
high Ideals and manifest destiny in the
pursuit of temporary, partial and per
sonal things, of submerging spiritual in
material things, of thinking more of
luxury than of leadership.
eec apart rrom the old world as we
are, we could become the evangel of
peace, of universal education, of hu
manitarian enterprises, of a social or
ganization that would do Justice to the
workers, eliminate waste and bring
producer and consumer together; of ag
ricultural and Industrial efficiency, of
practical philanthropy and helpfulness
one to another, of freedom from cor
ruption, of popular government at its
cleanest and best
These are not Impossible Ideals.
They are both practical and necessary,
With these things more nearly real
ized we could become a nation such as
was contemplated by our founders,
Is it not time, in Lincoln's phrase,
that we had a "new birth of freedom
and that America should in the highest
and best sense take her rightful place
as the leader of the world?
erty and republicanism the world
around, and In this age we should not
atone our prophets.
SATURM
mm
Lrgdklyn
WHY NOT?
Big Business tried the same old
often-successful bluff that if the tar
iff was reduced wages of workingmen
would be reduced accordingly.
Spprfltnrv rtf PmnmorMi DAtinA
worked a new bluff. Ho gave it out sPots- 14 is a proposition to save
and his ability to manage in the same
way a telegraph operator would reach
promotion to the hieh offices of the
company, a mill worker climb up to
superintendent, or a district school
teacher rise to the head of education
al departments by ability to manage
and perform, the work. If the man
made good in a little citv he could
work up to the county and to the
large offices and cities.
This is but a brief outline of the
proposed reforms for Oregon s weak
60
that if any manufacturer reduced ccnts r th0 dolIar now wasted and
wages because of tariff reduction. K've the Btate. counties and cities 100
government officials would go thrucent8 wortn of efficiency and results.
his business and see whether the cut
was justified or not.
iwumy years airo li a povernmnnt. Thorn m n ii;,. , .. t
official made such a threat he would what thinking men realize, that the
have been called an anarchist on the tariff question is a local issue and that
ground that a manufacturer's busi- politicians cannot settle it to the sat-
ness was his own and no one hail n IsfuMinn f thio .t. ..
, , , , i v. woo vuuiivtv any jllurc
right to pry into it. han the Methodists can make that
miners are chancinc Sent mnnt. a church the national reliirnn. Rw In.
changing. Thoughts are changing. ''ty wants a higher duty around his
It is but a little way ahead when stamping ground and lower rates
every manufacturer of necessities evorywhere else, and the product un
will have the irnvnrnmont toil mm der such conditions is bound to he a
what selling prices to put on the out- crazy-qullt, with localities and inter
put; when every coal mine will be al- ?,st3 favrea I where these interests had
lowed a certain per cent of profit- , pui' ond maiie tMe most noise,
when every telephone, telegraph, and 0 , y we wi" handle this matter
ittiiruuu win ue overlooked hv thA v"'uBn oviiid buid ui court or com
VESTED RIGHTS.
. Have buck ward looking und
Inward looking men ever stopped
to fouslder wlint inij;lit happen
to tlieiu hole in the great state
of New Yolk If Hume who buve
not should take It Into lliclr
' heads to make common cause
ugalust those who hnve? They
talk about vested rights and In
their talk assume they have both
un Inherent and a constitutional
right to puss their property down
from generation to generation
until some reckless descendant
shall have dissipated It. Suppose
a governor und n general assem
bly In the state of New York
should repeal the statute of de
scents for real and personal prop
erty and the statute with refer
ence to the making of wills on
their death. How much vested In
terest would any relative have In
the property which fell from
their nerveless hands at the
hour of dissolution? The right
to Inherit and the right to devise
are neither Inherent nor consti
tutional; but, upon the contrary,
they ure simply privileges glv
eu by the state to Its citizens.
Vice President Thomas II. Marshall.
government and rates fixed.
And it may not be a very distant
luitnor stop when the government
win own common necessities, trans
portation and wire corporations.
And wouldn't this country be thou
sands of tinio better off if they were
so owned?
Wouldn't a thousand bo benefitted
by lower prices where but one is
benefitted by corporation prices?
mission, composed of big, honest able
men, and tariff duties will hn lcvioH
scientiffically, will be placed where
they will produce revenue with the
least possible burden, and place the
duties necessary for revenue on those
who can best afford to pay them.
Wonder if the Enterprise yet thinks
the recall an "abortive attempt."
IF
INDEPENDENCE
Nationol independence was declared ono hun
dred thirty seven years ago. But personal independ
ence in most cases has to be secured by each man
for himself. One of the most important requiere
ments for any man's independence is u comfortable
sum of money laid by. The business of the bank is
to provide a place where any man can keep his
money in safety, both while it is being saved and
after a goodly sum has been accumulated. A bank
account, therefore, has como to b ethe surest path
to fortune and independence. We urge everyone who
has no deposit in the bank to begin keeping an ac
count at on co.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
SUMMONS
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for the County of Clacka
mas.
T. L. Sagar, Plaintiff,
vs.
Everard Sugar and Susr.n Sugar Stal
ey. Defendants:
To Everard Sager and Susan Saga
btaley the above named defendants,
in the name of the State of Oregon
you are nereoy required to appear
and answer the complaint filed again
st you in the above entitled action on
or before the 4th day cf July. 1913
which is six weeks after the date of
the first publication of this summons,
If you fail to so appear and answer.
the plaintiff for want thereof, will ap
ply to the Court for the relief de
manded in said complaint, to-wit:
For a judgement and decree annull
ing a certain deed executed by the
North American Trust Co. and re
cordod at page 258 in book 72 of re
cords for deeds for Clackamas Coun
ty, whereby the said Company pre
tended to convey the West Half (V)
of the Southwest Quarter (W) of
Section Twelve (12) Township Four
(4) South of Range Two (2) East of
the Willamette Meridian m the Coun
ty of Clackamas and State of Oregon
containing 80 acres, more or less, to
Stephen Isacrar in truss for himself
and for you and his brothers and sis
ters.
Plaintiff will further apply to the
Court for a judgement and decree de
claring that said deed is a cloud up
on i'lamtilt s title to said nronertv
and removing the same nd that you,
me saia defendants, nave not, nor
have either of you, any right or title
in or to the said land? or anvo art
mereoi Dy reason of the aforesaid
deed.
This summons is published Pur
suant to an order made in the above
entitled cause by the Honorable J. U.
Lampboll, Judcre of the Circuit Court
of the SUte of Oregon for Clackamas
County on the 12th day of May 1913.
ine date of tne first publication of
this summons is May 23, 1913, and
the date of the last publication is
July 4, 1913.
U'Ren & Schuebel
Attorneys for Plaintiff
A RAINY DAY.
As I write this it Is raining. The
water Just outside my window is
plunking down from a leak in the
eaves.
Rainy days have their uses, but for
myself I prefer to invest In sunshine,
On a rainy day I can almost believe
In infant damnation, whereas when
the sun is shining it Is utterly repug
nant
However, I did not start out to talk
of the weather nor again of theology.
xnose tilings are only thrown in as
background.
So we will literally turn our backs on
both, throw a fresh log on the hearth,
pull up the most comfortable chair,
light our pipes and talk things over.
You want to get on in the world.
Well, that Is just what I want you to
do. You can't get on any too fast or
too far to suit me so long as you play
the game square.
Are you playing It square? Think It
over. You need not tell me, but you
had better not try to deceive yourself,
We will assume that you are. I do
not believe a man like you could long
be content to play it any other way,
Now, since you play fair, why don't
you get ahead faster? Maybe you
don t work bard enough.
You can't get anywhere unless you
"stir your stumps," as the saying goes
The only way to arrive Is to move.
Assuming, however, thnt you work
hard, what Is the trouble? Possibly
you do not use enough Intelligence.
Outwardly all men look pretty much
alike. They have the same kind of
hands and legs, faces and bodies.
They are not widely different In phys
leal characteristics.
What Is It, theu, that differentiates
them, that makes one a world celeb
rlty and the other a clodhopper? Why
It Is a mere matter of brains. The
winner Is bound to find out the truth
about things, while the other takes
hearsay or prejudice or some other
half baked or inadequate process.
You have got to get right down to
business and think things out.
But-
If you play fair and work and think,
and If you do all these bard enough
nobody can stop you.
THE APOSTLE OF LIBERTY.
It Is not popular to praise Thomas
Paine, perhaps the most misunder
stood man of modern times.
Yet I am convluced that It Is Just;
and, being so convinced, I will do It
Thomas Pnine was the apostle of
liberty In three lands In his native
England, his adopted America and in
France, that he loved.
Tie endangered his own freedom and
finally lost It that he might give free
dom to all mankind.
Au intensely religious man, he yet
believed In religious liberty and taught
tt to an intolerant age that mlsunder
h)8d his motives and his Ideals.
He believed not ouly in the Ameri
can mid French republics, but In a re
public of the world. Ue set the colo
nies on Are for Independence and
heartened their soldiers lu the dark
days of the Revolution. He helped
frame the bill of rights In France. He
taught the rlghU of man In England.
Uls "Age of Reason," which resulted
In heaping calumny on his name, was
written as much against French athe
ism as it was against what he regard
ed as superstition In America and England.
This man expressed his faith In God
In some of the most beautiful apostro
phes lu literature and showed a keen
appreciation and sympathy with the
spirit of the teachings of Jesus of
Nazareth, of whose character and
moral Ideals bo spoke In praise. .
I erhaps ho lacked education, for he
was ever a commoner, the son of a
staymaker and with only a grammar
school training.
Yet few men have ever written la
moro eloquent or trenchant English. I
It bus been said that those who 1
come to save mankind are either
worshiped as gods or chased as devils.
It was poor Palne's misfortune to suf
fer the last named fate. Yet the law
f compensation operates, and through
It he will some day be placed as high
as he was before made low, for that
Is necessary to balance the scales of
Justice.
Personally I believe him to hare
been the actual author of the Declara
tion of Independence, and there la
abundant proof to support this view.
At AQJ rata, Ut.WM UManhataf ui.
RevSapiuelW.Purvis.D.D.
THE BRANDED SLAVE.
Text, "I bear branded on my body the
marks of the Lord Jeaus."-(R. V.) Ual.
vl, 17.
They've been treating Paul shame
fully. He's one of the most modest
self sacrificing sort of men. but tney've
been nagging him. stinging lilin with
petty criticisms, disputing his nut hurl
tv and makim: liu'lit of his work
Finally he turns, not with reproach
but as a father might to an ungrate
fill child, and with drawn face anil
pained voice dismisses all their In
gratitude and pettiness and liisimia
tlons with the words. "From hence
forth let no man trouble me. for 1 bear
branded on my body the marks of .the
Lord Jesus." Twenty centuries hnve
been speculating his meaning. Was
It the right of circumcision? Did be
refer to the marks which were branded
on slaves by their owners? Was It
the scars upon his own body, the
scourging at PhilippI, the stoning at
Lystra, the wild beasts at Ephesus.
the hunger, the shipwreck, the wear!
ness which had put their Imprint on
his bowed frame or lines on his face?
Or were the marks spiritual, not only
scars and welts and ridges left by
Insh, rock and lion's claw, but the
brandings on the body of tremendous
mental and spiritual struggles marks
the magistrates, centurions, llctOrs
procurators, kings and emperors were
not powerful enough to stamp there.
but which as a slave of Jesus Christ
he bore as the brand of ownership?
Honorable Scars,
A scar, a cicatrix, may be honorable
or dishonorable. Paul's were those of
honor. They were diplomas from the
school of Christ, credentials with the
authority of heaven. He was not
ashamed of them. Attorney General
Brewster bad the most blackened,
deeply scarred face ever seen iu public
life, but he got It saving his little sis
ter's life from a fire. Scars of honor.
Our profession puts Its mark on
The scholar becomes nearsighted or
blind, like Albert Barnes; the student's
face shows study lines; the laborer's
hands arc cnllouued; the machinist has
broken nails and oil stained skin; the
merchant's face is worried. I remem
ber a New England town where I saw
so many one armed and one legged
men. "Powder works," explained the
bus driver. But they were not
ashamed. At the last G. A. R. conven
tion I listened to the old Boldlors tell of
their marks saber cut at Chancellors-
vllle, bullet wound at Antietam, leg
lost at Gettysburg, but none were
ashamed. I recently heard Anthony
Comstock. New York vice crusader and
United States postal Inspector, tell of
his work. Ho laughed over his In
juries, broken ribs, bullet wound.
scar across his right cheek from the
knife of an assassin. Infernal machine
sent by express, small box by mall;
Ingersoll spit In his face and broke his
cane over his Dead, but be was not
ashamed.
Who Owns You?
I've seen the cattlemen out on the
great prairies take their blazing hot'
branding iron aud stamp their mark of
ownership on horses nnd cattle. For
ever afterward, east or west, city or
country, no matter where I meet them
they still bear on their body the mark
of their owner. As a lad of sixteen on
board a man-of-war In Philadelphia
harbor the writer had a great Amerl
can coat of arms tattooed over the mus
cle of his right arm. Until his dying
day, on land or sen, under any flag, he
must bear, willingly or unwillingly,
the seal of the great republic. Christ
asked two signs of discipleshlp self
surrender and self sacrifice. Matthew
surrenders his tax booth, Simon his
fishing boat. Paul Is a brilliant Roman;
of the Jews he's a Pharisee; be has. a
tremendous hatred of Christ. . Then
comes a change: At midday on the
road to Damascus be becomes the
slave of Jesus Christ. What was It
sunstroke, epilepsy, hallucination? He,
the peerless intellectual giant, says It
was the Lord Jesus. From that day
he calls himself the "servus" the slave
of Jesus Christ. "I am no longer my
own! I am branded with the mark!"
Whose servant are you?" I asked a
purse proud fellow one night "My
own!' "ion look It! No man can
hnve two owners be cannot serve God
and Mammon.
The Mark on the Forehead.
All true human life and love are a Bur-
render and sacrifice. And the mark Is
speedily stamped on us. A maid loves
a man. She gives up her home, ber fa
ther's honorable name, her liberty of
maidenhood. From that June day she
no longer lives her own life. The ad
Justment to another's will, the cares of
household management, the babe put
iu her arms, the responsibility, place
lines of care on ber face. These are
the brands of love, borne gladly for
love's sake. She's not ashamed of the
marks. The Roman slave had bis own
er's mark branded ou his forehead. It
was an outrage, cruel, damnable. I
can conceive the horror, the piteous
sense of indignity, the effort to conceal
the shameful murk put there by unfeel
ing hand. Today we each put on our
own mark. If all bis life a man bad
beeu trying to engrave "the mark of
the beast" on his forehead, what reason
has be to expect that when he pass
es out of this life the foul marks
shall disappear in a moment and that
he will bear on his "brow the "marks
of the Lord Jesus Christ" Iu its stead?
No. We shall be recognized when we get
home by the "marks of the Lord Jesus."
"Taskmaster to A
flivt Them."
,5K(jUnLYJN
ERNACLgy
B I git 6TUDY6N
MOSfS, THE GOODLY CHILD.
Exodus 1:22 2:10. July 6.
Whoso recciveth one sueh little rhild In ilt
name, reeeicetk Ue." Matthew 18.J.
OSEPH was the Grand Vizier of
Egypt for eighty years-dying
at the age of one hundred and
ten vears. Surely the Israelites
Buffered no oiioressiou during that time.
Shortly thereafter, however, another
Pharaoh came Into power who "knew
not Joseph"-who ignored bis services
to Egypt aud the tentative covenant
with the Israelites. This Pharaoh Is
supposed to have been Ranieses IL, n
hard-bearted. selfish despot
This Pharaoh perceived that the Is
raelites were multiplying much more
rapidly than were the Egyptians.
Therefore be considered them a men-
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ace. At nisi mey uuu ui-eu n...cu
protection, be
cause Goshen lay
eastward, and au
Invading army
would encounter
the Israel Ites
first Egypt's
only antagonist In
those days was
Assyria. When
the Israelites
would outnumber
the Egyptians, an
Invadine army
might bribe them, and thus the rule or
the Pharaohs be overthrown.
To meet this contingency, various ex
pedients were tried. First, an euiei
compelled the Israelites to perform ar
duous labors, which It was uopeo
would undermine their strength. On
the contrary, they seemed to nourish
Increasingly with every burden. The
next repressive measure was the edict
that every male child of the Israelites
should be strangled at birth. But this
command was disregarded, the mld-
wlves claiming that they arrived too
late. The final resort was the royal
edict that the Israelites must drown
every new-born male iiirant. ranure
to do this was made a punishable
crime.
It was under these conditions that
Moses was born. The account indi
cates that both his parents were pious,
and hence we are not surprised that
the babe "was n goodly chlld"-beau-
tiful. Comparatively few parents real
ize that where children are otherwise
than "goodly" grncefu! In feature and
character-a responsibility for the de
fects rests upon them. We do not
mean that any human pair could bring
forth absolutely perfect children.
Who can bring a cleun thing out of
an unclean?"-Job 14:4.
What we mean Is thnt as careful
breeding affects the form, features and
character of the lower animals, and
Improves both fruit aud flowers, so
also It Is potent In respect to human
ity. Parents have In their own con
trol the most wonderful power where
by to Influence the character and form
of their children before birth, and not
to be ignored after birth the power of
the mind. Were this law of nature
clearly recognized by intelligent, con
scientious people, what a change would
speedily be effected! '
Co-operating With God's Providence!.
Doubtless Moses' parents thought
how to advance the plan which proved
an eilpppQaflll In onrlnn- hlo Ufa Thiw f
knew that the Egyptian princess re
sorted to a certain secluded spot on
the Nile for her bath, presumed to
hnve been part of a religious cere
mony. A little basket was woven of
bulrushes, and made watertight with
Pitch. The babe was Placed thp.reln
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and at a proper time was left near tne
spot visited by the princess. Moses'
little sister Miriam stood near, ready
to suggest the bringing of a nurse. It
Is quite possible thut the princess per
ceived the ruse, and merely co-operated,
believing that the child might as
well have tho mother's care.
Aided and Protected.
How much there is of wonderful ro
mance In this story! Think of the
leadings of Divine providence In this
case! One day the child Moses Is a
danger in his par
ents' home. At
any moment his
presence might be
discovered, and he
would be killed.
Possibly his par
ents would also
be put to death
for disobeying the
royal edict The
next day, through
Divine prov-
The Princess finds 1o-idence, the child
Is bnck In the
luinie home, and his mother paid by
the prlucess for caring for him.
It Is assumed that the child was
weaned at the age of four years. Then
ho was claimed by tho princess as her
owu. lie was given the name Moses,
of which Professor Sayce says: "The
Greek form of the Hebrew Mosheh
lloyaca-is derived by Josephus from
the Coptic lancient Egyptian) ilo (wa
ter) mid Hies (saved out of it). In oth
er words, the princess made a pun of
the name, as though she had said:
'This is my son, because I brought
him forth-out of the water.' "
Truly, we never know when Divine
Wisdom is working human woof into
the Divine web, or plan. God's people
are ever to remember that He is
"working ull things ucco'rdlng to the
counsel of Ills own will." While using
humau Instrumentalities, God never
theless respects the human will, and
merely co-operates with It And who
ever "most zealously co-operates with
God receives proportionately the larger
share of the Divine blessing. This sim
ple lesson, received into good and hon
est hearts, gives us greater fallb In God.
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