HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-07-15, Page 6LESSON III
GOD ENCOURAGES A LEADER
Exodus 3: 13---6: 1.
Printed Text -- Exodus 3: 1346;
4; 10-16; 5: 1.
GOLDEN TEXT—The Lord will give
strength unto his people.—Psalm 29
11.
the hour came for hitn to stand be-
fore Pharaoh, those words God would
certainly give him. What a wonder -
fill comfort to Sunday -school teach-
ers, leaders of missions, workers in
the hospital, all who feel that God
has placed a certain task upon their
hearts, to know that the God who
sends is also the God who will ade-
quately and assuredly equip!
18. And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I
pray thee, by the hand of him whom
thou wilt send. "Moses assents, but
unwillingly and ambiguously."
14. And the anger of Jehovah was
kindled against Moses. Only once
again in the long life of Moses do we
have recorded the fact that God was
angry with his prophet, at the waters
of Meribah, when Moses arrogantly
manifested an undue assumption of
pcwer (Num, 20: 19-13; Dent, 1:37).
And he said, Is there not Aaron thy
brother the Levite? I know that he
can speak well. And also, behold, he
cometh forth to meet thee: and when
he seeth thee, he will be glad in his
heart. "As Moses, equally with
Aaron, belonged to the tribe of Levi
(Ex. 2:1), the term, as applied to
Aaron, must denote not ancestry, but
profession. It was the official title
of one who had received the train-
ing of a priest, whose duty it was to
give oral direction to the people;
hence some power of language might
be presupposed in him"
15. And thou shalt speak unto
him, and put the words in his mouth:
and I will be with thy mouth, and will
teach you what ye shall do. 16. And
he shall be thy spokesman unto the
people; :,.nd it shall come to pass,
that he shall be to thee a mouth, and
thou shalt be to him as God. While
it is not wise to say what would have •
happened if such had not taken place,
yet it would appear that Moses' re-
luctance to assume full leadership
at this time had in it consequences
more or less harmful to Israel in the
days that followed. "Moses lost the
possession of high gifts which God
was ready to confer upon him. God
would have made hire eloquent,
though he was not so by nature; and
had the faith of Moses been suffici-
ently strong to overcome his self -
distrust, he would have added elo-
quence and persuasive speech to his
other splendid endowments."
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING
Place. --The call to Moses occurred
near Mount Sinai (or Mount Hor-
eb) on the peninsula of Sinai; when
Moses went back to Egypt, he went
back to the court which he had fled
from forty years before, which was
probably at the city of Tanis.
Time.—B.C. 1499.
"And Moses said unto God, Behold,
when I come unto the children of Is-
rael, and shall say unto them, The
God of your fathers hath sent me
unto you; and they shall say to me,
what is his name? what shall I say
unto them?" The navies of God ex-
press God's character, God's pur-
poses; to know the full meaning of
the names of God is to know the
character of God. What Moses now
wanted most of all was such a revela-
tion of God, vouchsafed to him in
one of God's great names, that the
Hebrew people would know for cer-
tainty that Moses was God's true
messenger in this momentous crisis.
"And God said unto Moses, I am
that I am: and he said, Thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel,
I am hath sent me unto you." This
name, of course, reveals God as an
individual, a person; this person is
self -existent, i.e., has life, his life
does not depend upon someone else;
he is independent of all external
forces and of all other beings in the
world.
"And God said moreover unto
Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, Jehovah." The
name Jehovah means the self -exist-
ent one, literally, "he that is who
he is," and thus we have in this name
the full revelation of what God had
just told Moses, that he was the I
am. The word "Jehovah" occurs hun-
dreds of times in the Old Testa-
ment and is not found here for the
first three. The first reference is in
Gen. 2: 4. "The God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Is -
sac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent
me unto you." Here the God about
to deliver Israel, the God Moses is
to follow, the God whom the Israe:-
ites are to trust, is not some new
deity like one of the many gods of
pagan Egypt, but the. eternal God
of their -fathers ...wlaowtruly.led Ahem,
,
in ages gone by, who revealed his
power, his wisdom, and his love to
them, who' had made promises to
them which were now to be fulfilled.
"This is my name for ever, and'
this is my memorial unto all gener-
etions." "This statement contains a
very important truth, a truth which
many professing Christians seem to
forget, namely, that God's relation-
ship with Israel is an eternal one. He
is just as much Israel's God now as
when he visited them in the land of
Egypt. Moreover, he is just as posi-
tively dealing with them now as then,
cnly in a different way."
Radio
I;s VYRCINIA PALK
4,40.04 Menjou •and the Mrs, known
- to ifs as Verree Teasdale will be tw
r ether in Sam Goldwyn's "Marco
-. Polo}' and the one extra clause they
insisted on in their contract was that
the dividing wall between two dress -
lig roo= should be taken down so
that they could be together.
Perhaps the happiest, but certain
ly trio ASA bewtliterbd family in
the country julst 1197 consists of
Michael Belly, his sy e, and five chis-
dren life in that part of New
York City known as the Bronx.
Their twelve -Year-old Tomtny has
been selected to play Tom Sawyer
in the Selznick-International film of
the Mark Twain classic.
Such an opportunity for a young-
ster would be a dramatic thunder-
bolt in any family, but for the Kellys
it was the first good break in years.
Papa Kelly has been on the relief
"Go, and gather the elders of Is-
rael together, and say unto them, Je-
hovah, the God of your fathers, the
tlod of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, bath appeared unto me, say-
ing, I have surely visited you, and
seen that which is done to you in
Egypt" The elders of Israel were
the older and leading men of the
different families among the Hebrew
people. We should notice through-
out this declaration by God of his
purpose for Israel that everything is
to be done logically and in order.
''Moses is .not to appeal to the niob,
nor yet to confront Pharaoh without
authority to speak for them, nor is
he to make the great demand for
emancipation abruptly and at once.
The mistake of forty years ago must
not be repeated now."
4:10. And Moses said unto Jeho-
vah, Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent,
neither heretofore, nor since thou
hast spoken unto thy servant; for .1
am slow of speech, and of a slow
tongue. It may be that Moses had a
natural hesitancy of speech; it may
be that he had lost a fluency of
speech which once he had, by long
years of semi -solitude tending sheep
in Midian; it may also be that Moses
was exaggerating his own short-com-
ings—that he thought an eloquence
was needed for the task greater than
the task really called for. "Without
God, no amount of human eloquence
would have availed; with God, the
merest stammerer would nave prove"d
an efficient minister."
11. And Jehovah said unto him,
Who hath made man's mouth? or
who inaketh a man dumb, or deaf, or
seeing, or blind? is it not I, Jeho-
vah? 12. Now therefore go, and X
will be with thy mouth, and • teach
thee what thou shalt speak. God
never sends any servant of his on
any errand unless, at the same time,
lie fully equips hint for the accom-
plishment of the task which he has
given into his hands for doing. If it
were words that Moses needed, when
rolls for two years, his jobs as •lani-
for in a school and life -guard at a
beach having dwindled to nothing.
Mamma Kelly has been to the movies
only three times in her 23 years of
marriage.
Tommy and his father are in
Hollywood now, and Michael gets a
day's extra work every now and
then while his son is being groomed
for stardom.
Ex. 5:1-6 :1. 5 :1. And after-
wards Moses and Aaron carne, and
said unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jeho-
vah, the God of Israel, Let my peo-
ple go, that they may hold a feast
unto me in the, wilderness. "After
$f$3t3r ;,years-of,„obscurity and silence,
•Moses re-enters the "magnificent Balls
where he had formerly turned his
back upon so great a place.` The rod
of a shepherd is in his hand and . a
loyal Hebrew by bis side. Men who
recognize him shake their heads and
pity or despise the fanatic who had
thrown away the most dazzling pros-
pects for a dream, but he has long
since made his choice, and whatever
misgivings now beset him have re-
gard to his success with Pharaoh or
with his brethren, not to the wisdom
of his decision, nor is be known to
repent of it. . The pomp of an obse-
quious court was a poor thing in the
eyes of an ambassador. of God."
Of course, as God had told Moses,
Pharaoh refused to allow the child-
ren of Israel to go, asking impert-
inently who this person might be, the
Lord God, of whom Moses spoke, for
this God was not included in the vast
pantheon of deities in Egypt with
which he was acquainted. He did not
know this God, and he frankly asked
why he should obey the command of
such a strange deity. "The point of
the reply lies in that word obey. He
say that these men did not present
him with a request, but with a man-
date from one of greater authority
than himself. This stung him to the
quick. He also was a god. How dare
they, a parcel of slaves, speak of
their paltry deity in his presence and
in the midst of priests, courtiers, and
high officers of statel"
Instead of granting permission to
be excused from labor for three days
that they might offer sacrifices to
their God in the wilderness, the He-
brew people were more bitterly and
unmercifully burdened with exhaus-
ting toil and demands impossible to
meet, by the Egyptian task -masters,
as though Pharaoh would say, "If
these people do not have enough to
keep their minds occupied and to
keep them from this mood of rebel-
liousness, we will se that their very
spirits are broken, so that this haugh-
ty pride of theirs will be utterly
crushed." Those who remained to
make the bricks most attempt to
make enough bricks day by day to
make up for the amount which those
out looking for the straw were ex-
pected to make themselves. The
task, of eourse, proved too great, .and
the Hebrew scribes, whose business
it was to record the amount of bricks
made and the hours every man work-
ed were beaten for their failure to
fully meet these increased demands.
No doubt the action of Zipporah as
Moses was about to leave Midian was
a great disappointment to him. Now
he is about to experience another and
far greater one. The very people
whom he has come to deliver turn
When you see Claudette Colbert
in "I Met Him In Paris," you will
find it t t'^--yest, most utterly de-
rightful film in
many months.
Claudette Colbert;
Melvyn Douglas and
Robert Young romp
through the picture
as if they were hav-
ing; the time of their,
lives. It is the story
of a girl who has
saved for five years
for a trip to Paris,
and when she 'gets
t h e r e everything
it might have in a fan-
tastic dream. A giddy novelist and
a cynical playwright fall in love with
her.
For the first time since their mar-
riage, Joel McCrea and Frances Dee
will play opposite each other. in the
Paramount picture, "Wells Fargo."
Claudette
Colbert
Everybody is wondering just what -
is .to beeor'e of Sitnone Simon. After
a, few days' work in "Danger :.Love
at Work" she was taken out of the
oast and Ann Sothern substituted.
The heroine was supposed to be an
American girl educated in France,
and Simone's heavy accent was just
too Much to be convincing. Twenti-
eth -Century -Fox officials . still have
faith in her, and say that when they\
find just the right story for her they
will put her to work again.
The dinner party that marked the
end of the recent Twentieth -Cen-
tury -Fox convention put on a show
that included about a million dol-
lars' worth of talent. Irving Berlin
sang "Remember," the Ritz Broth-
ers made the rafters ring with hil-
arious shout by their impromptu
foolishness, but Eddie Cantor walked
off with the honors of the evening
when he arrived in blond curls and
baby dress and did an imitation of
Shirley Temple. Prettiest girls of
the party were Loretta Young, who
came with Merle Oberon's former
fiance, David Niven, and Alice Faye,
who came with her constant beau,
Tony Martin. Incidentally, Tony will
be back on the radio regularly again
soon.
Mary Pickford is asking $700,000
for Pickfair,because when she sells;
the house she will
include all the treas-
ures that she and
Douglas Fairbanks
collected in their
travels around the
world. W h en she
marries Buddy Rog
ers, she will live in
a simple beach.
house and an old-
fashioned r an eh
house, and wants no
reminders of her
former life around to haunt her.
Whoever is purchaser will possess an
estate at which notables of the world
were entertained in the days when
Mary and Doug were filmdom's most
celebrated couple.
ODDS AND ENDS_Martha Rage
.;gets furious when anyone refers to•
her as a rubber -faced comedienne,
'but Joan Crawford always refers to
herself as Elephant Annie, because
use
she t ever forgets anything •• .
the 4 girls on the RICO lot are grate-
°fulrto the costume designer,Eddie
Stevenson, for making them look
so
elegant. By way of showing their
gratitude Ann Sothern, Harriet Hill-
iard, Gertrude Michael and Ann.
Shirley got together and knitted,
sewed, and bought him a knockout
summer' wardrobe ... Mary Carlisle.
has added a pretty penny to her
earnings by having Bing Crosby ad-
vise her on horse -race bets.
creased severity of the oppression
which the Hebrews were suffering.
This is always one of the inevitable
experiences of leadership, a price
that has been pa'.d by every..great
leader of every age, namely, that
when anything goes wrong, the lead-
er will he blamed,. Most -hien cann.;gt
see farther than the day in which
they live. They are not willing to
suffer a little for ultimate freedom,
and any hardships endured by the;
multitude who groan for deliverance
will be immediately blamed upon the
leader who has come to lay clown his
life for such deliverance. The bit-
ter accusations against Moses were
experienced in an even greater and'
deeper way by another who come.;
from heaven to free men, to deliver
them from their bondage, and died in
executing such a mighty work, the
Lord Jesus Christ.
MaryPickford
Power -douser, Dwarfed by Da
,Mighty Face
1,00WIWR
Seen from downstream, the ia.o of :.:o:-n:e= �• `•-"
roue.. sea shell as it dwarfs the power houses in the Nevada wing
(left), where four mammoth generators supply about 100,000,000
kilowatt &ours of electricity to Los Angeles each month. Water for
irrigation is released from outlet at Tower Ieft.
Draperies used in the theatres of
London, Eng., must be fireproofed. �
Thick materials' are treated with a
mixture of phosphate of ammonia,.
sal ammoniac, and water, while thin-
ner fabrics are soaked in a solution
of borax, bora•cic acid, and water.
Farm (queries
Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY G. BELL
With the Co -Operation of the Various Departments of the
Bot Flies Can Be Controlled
The active horse annoying bot fly
of today, •came from an egg that was
laid on the hair of a horse a year ago.
The bot -fly egg hatches after a period.
of ten or more days on the hair, to
become a larva or grub. The grub
spends ten or more months in the
stomach or intestines of the horse, de-
veloping to full larva maturity. Leav-
ing the horse the larva goes through
a pupation. or development stage, to
ome'rge in abut 30 days as a fly cap-
able of reproducing its kind. 14 those
caring for horses would make it a
regular practice to remove the hair
all bot -fly eggs or destroy them with
a wash or spray made of any light oil
or disinfecting solution capable of
soaking into the egg, there would not
be any bot:flies to annoy the horses.
The egg -laying period June to Ootd-
ber each year is the "weakest link"
period in the life of bot -flies. An op-
portunity to destroy this horse pest
is therefore given to horse owners to
destroy the eggs, which if allowed to
remain alive on the horse produce
the botflies of the succeeding year.
A fine 'tees comb will remove the
eggs, A two per cent, carbolic solu-
tion or one made from a good stock
dip or fly spray will prevent the eggs
from hatching. No hatch, no grub, no
fly. Go over the horses and colts,
once every ten days tiiis suti vier to
x•.
�`reveut trouble next winter and sunt•
liter, from bot annoyance.
Animal Pests •
The animal pests that 'we speak of
as worms, coma front eigi t fat haye
been deposited in food waste, either
before or after moh waste left the
body of an animal, Hence the danger
from the presence of fecal natter
that is permitted to accumulate in
yards, pens and small pasture arms.
upon him and blame him for the in-
.tunhabie' 6r Depends On Who's Looking
2z ,{s srt�
of Slender Loris from Ceylon find as 'much amusement in
watching antics of visitors to London's zoo as visitors find in watch-
ing them.
New Zealand is to spend four
years and 000,000- in adding 200
square miles to her agricultural land,
reclaiming the great Taupuri bog.
Aside from its economic importance
the project has great scientific pos-
sibilities. Savants at Wellington be-
lieve that the bog covers a world of
vanished life. While it now exter-
minates life it is a marvelous preser-
vative of forms that once existed.
Scientists are hoping that the re-
mains of ancient pian will be found
in addition to the dead forests and
fossil animals certain to be uncov
The fecal matter containing wo'm
eggs may contaminate food or water
and reach the stomach or intestines
of trough fed or pastured animals. If
those in charge of live stock would
keep in mind that the manure of ani-
mals is the dangerous source of worm
eggs and disease promoting egrms it
would be better for the industry gen-
erally. It would be better for the live
stock, if r hb ire were disposed of in
salt a way as to remove all respon-
sibility of it contaminating food or
water. What sanitation has done for
the human race it will do likewise for
our domestic animals,
Colts Need Protection
Colts that become worm and bot in-
fested early in life carry a handicap,
usually a heavy one. Tho worm hav
dicap may interfere with general
thrift and growth, it may result in vi-
olent •colic and death. Colts are very
susceptable to worm infestation dur-
ing the first two years and very much
so while still taking milk. The new
born colt instinctively searches for
udder and teat to obtain nourishment.
If the teat and udder are contamin-
ated, the - colt will unknowingly re-
move itl.the act of sucking worm eggs,
which it swallows with the milk. Lat-
er, infective worm eggs may be pick-
ed up while feeding or drinking, when
enclosed in contaminated 15Rn:dses.
Bot flies pester colts when attempting
to deposit their eggs, which they usu•
ally juoceed in doing. The bot larva
invade the tissues and stomach of the
colt to cause some •distress. The two
pests bot larvae and round worms
cause unthrift and frequent pain.
Colts should be protected against
these t pests by those responsible for
tt
their care. The simple matter of egg
dostr�uction will rroteet the colt, from
tl-o invasion of posts.
ered during the course of the work.
An explosion on the sun, loud,
enough to reach the earth, would not
be heard by us until about 15 years.
afterward.
Copper coins were struck in Eng-
land for use in the colonies during •
the reign of William and Mary.
Cold moist air feels colder to a
person than cold dry air.
Like human beings, gorillas are
normally right-handed.
Ticket Shows Citizenship
Stere is the newest citizen of Aberdeen, Scotland, and
tusttion t to prove ft
e wears his burgess til tet 'in his hat, according to .
l�
Hon. W. L. Macl:enzie•Iiing, Prime Minister of Canada, is tecnewon
citi-
zen, and with him is seen Lord Provost Watt, fust after they
of conferring the freedom of the city on Mr. King,