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:? CUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON III god encourages a leader Exodus 3: 13--6: 1. Printed Text ■-- Exodus 3i 13-16; 4: 10-16; 5: 1. GOLDEN TEXT--The Lord will give strength unto his people.---Psalm 29 11. 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 Tunis. Time.--B.C. 1499. "And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, Israel, 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 names of God express express God's character, God's purposes; purposes; 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 revelation revelation 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 sont 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-existent self-existent 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 hundreds hundreds of times in the Old Testament Testament and is not found here for the first time. 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 Israelites Israelites are to trust, is not some new deity like one of the many gods of pagan Egypt, but the eternal God of their fathers, who truly led them 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 generations." generations." "This statement contains a very important truth, a truth which many professing Christians seem to f81 get, namely, that God's relationship relationship 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 juht as positively positively dealing with them now as then, only in a different way." "Go, and gather the elders of Israel Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, saying, 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 throughout throughout this declaration by God of his purpose for Israel that everything is to be clone logically and in order. "Moses is not to appeal to the mob, 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 Jehovah, Jehovah, Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant; for I am slow of speech, arid of a slow tongije. 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-comings--that short-comings--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 proved an efficient minister." 11. And Jehovah said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah? Jehovah? 12. Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak. God never sends any servant of his ion any errand unless, at the same time, he fully equips him for the accomplishment accomplishment of the task which he has given into his hands for doing. If it were words that Moses needed, when the hour came for him to stand before before Pharaoh, those words God would certainly give him. What a wonderful wonderful comfort to Sunday-school teachers, teachers, 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 adequately adequately and assuredly equip ! 13. 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 power (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 bo glad in his heart. "As Moses, equally with (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 training training 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 Ï will be with thy mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. 16. And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people ; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt lie 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' reluctance reluctance 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 him eloquent, though he was not so by nature ; and had the faith of Moses been sufficiently sufficiently strong to overcome his selfdistrust, selfdistrust, he' would have added eloquence eloquence and persuas've speech to his other splendid endowments." Ex. 5:1--6 :1. 5:1. And after- . wards Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Jehovah, the God of Israel, Let my people people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. "After forty years of obscurity and silence, Moses re-enters the magnificent halls 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 his side. Men who : cognize him shake their heads and ,: ty or despise the fanatic who had thrown away the most dazzling prospects prospects for a dream, hut he has long since made his choibe, and whatever misgivings now beset him have regard regard 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 obsequious obsequious 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 children children of Israel to go, asking impertinently impertinently 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 mandate mandate from one of greater authority than himself. This stuhg 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 state!" Instead of granting permission to be excused from labor for three days that they might offer sacrifices to their God in the wilderness, the Hebrew Hebrew people were more bitterly and unmercifully burdened 1 wth exhausting exhausting toil and demands impossible to meet, by the Egyptian task-masters, B--3 I \ vie By VIRGINIA DALE Perhaps the happiest, but certainly certainly the most bewildered family in the country just now consists of Michael Kelly, his wife, and five children children who live in that part of New York City known as the Bronx. Their twelve-year-old Tommy has been selected to play Tom Sawyer in the Selzniek-International film of the Mark Twain classic. Such an opportunity for a youngster youngster would be a dramatic thunderbolt thunderbolt in any family, but for the Kellys it was the first good break in years. Papa Kelly has been 6n the relief rolls for two years, his jobs as janitor janitor 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 Micnael gets a day's extra work every now and then while his son is being groomed for stardom. When you see Claudette Colbert in "I Met Him In Paris," you will find it Claudette Colbert hap!- , ":-' - -- tastic dream. mst, most utterly delightful delightful film in many months- Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young romp through the picture as if they were having having 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 there everything it might have in a fan- A giddy novelist and a cynical playwright fall in love with her. For the first time since their marriage, marriage, Joel McCrea and Frances Dee will play opposite each other in the Paramount picture, "Wells Fargo." Adolph MenjoU and the Mrs. known to us as Verree Teasdale will be together together in Sam GoldWy.n's "Marco Polo" and the one extra clause they insisted on in their contract was that the dividing wall between two dressing dressing rooms should be taken down so that they could be together. Everybody is wondering just what is to become of Simone Simon. After a few days' work in "Danger--Love at Work" she was taken out of .the cast and Ann Sothern substituted. The heroine was supposed to be an American girl educated in France, and Simone's heavy accent was just 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 rebelliousness, rebelliousness, we will se that their very spirits are broken, so that this haughty haughty pride of theirs will be utterly crushed." Those who remained to make the bricks must attempt to make enough bricks day by day to make up for the amount which those out looking for the straw were expected expected to make themselves. The task, of course, proved too great, and the Hebrew scribes, whose business it was to record the amount of bricks made and the hours every man worked worked 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 whe.m he has come to deliver turn upon him and blame him for the increased increased severity of the oppression which the Hebrews were suffering. This is always one of the inevitable experiences of leadership, a price that has been paid by every great leader of every age, namely, that when anything goes wrong, the leader leader will be blamed. Most men cannot 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 bo immediately blamed upon the loader who has come to lay down his life for such deliverance. The bitter bitter 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. too much to be convincing. Twentieth-Century-Fox Twentieth-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 dollars' dollars' worth of talent. Irving Berlin sang "Remember," the Ritz Brothers Brothers made the rafters ring with hilarious hilarious 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 treasures treasures that she and Douglas Fairbanks collected in their travels around the world. When she marries Buddy Rogers, Rogers, she will live in a simple beach house and an old- fashioned r a n c h 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. MaryPickford By an old law which has never, been repealed, about 200 persons in England are outlaws and liable to be "shot at sight." They are descendants descendants of the Clan MacDonald that figured in the Stuart rcbellionsT.af 1715 and 1745. Ticket Shows Citizenship till® WmmmS00 mmm egg «S® ■ ' V"*J WwWit 1 MWMlWini'W : 1 e : :: -y .y .y q cy v fiT Y Yoq til!® fit® -i" S ; Here is the newest citizen of Aberdeen, Scotland, and just to prove it, he wears his burgess ticket in Ms hat, according to tradition, Rt. Hon. V/. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of,-Canada, is the new citizen, citizen, and with him is seen Lord Provost Watt, just after the ceremony of conferring the freedom of the city on Mr. King. Farm Problems Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY C. BELL with the co-operation of the various departments of Ontario Agricultural College Bot Flies Cem Be Controlled The active horse annoying hot 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 tlie stomach or intestines of the liorse, developing developing to full larva maturity. Leaving Leaving the liorse the larva goes through a pupation or development stage, to emerge in about 30 days as a fly capable capable of reproducing its kind. If 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 October October each year is the "weakest link" period in the life of bot-flies. An opportunity opportunity to destroy tills horse pest is therefore given to horse owners to destroy the eggs, which if showed to remain alive on the horse produce the bot-flies of the succeeding year. A - fine - teel ooffib will rgiQgve the eggs. A two per cent. Carbolic solution solution 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 this summer to prevent trouble next winter and summer, summer, from hot annoyance. Animal Pests * The animal pests that we speak of as worms, come from eggs that have been deposited in food waste, either, before or after such waste left the body of an animal. Hence the danger from the presence of fec^l matter that is permitted to accumulate in yards, pens and small pasture areas. The fecal matter containing worm 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 animals animals is the dangerous source of worm eggs and disease promoting egrros it would be better for the industry generally. generally. It would be better for the live stock, if manure were disposed of in such a way as to remove all responsibility responsibility 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 infested infested early in life carry a handicap, usually h heavy one. The worm handicap handicap may interfere with general thrift and growth, it may result in Violent Violent colic and death. Colts are verjk. susceptable to worm infestation during during 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- â ted, the colt will unknowingly remove remove in the act of sucking worm eggs, which it swallows with the milk. Later, Later, infective worm eggs may be picked picked up while feeding or drinking, when enclosed in contaminated premises, Bot flies pester, colts when attempting to deposit their eggs, which, they usually usually succeed in doing. The bot larva invade the tissues and stomach of the colt to cause some distress., The two peats bot larvae and round worms cause im thrift and frequent pain. Colts should be protected against these ,pests by these responsible to" their care. The simple matter of < destruction will protect the colt, from the invasion of pests.