Notes of a Sermon preached by the Rev. C. E. Darwent in Union Church, Tientsin, on Sunday Evening March 9, being one of the Monthly Series of Biographical Sermons Text: Numbers XT 29.
"And Moses said to him (Joshua), Enviest thow for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were! prophets, and that the Lord would put hig spirit upon them!"
What a great man Moses was! Surely the greatest! He #s the Old Testament, and Jesus Christ, the world's "Redeemer, the 'New 'Testament, What more need be aid? Those are the only two books in the world in a class wholly by' themselves, and he is the hero and contre of one of them. And it is beautiful to reo how great he} in small things as. well as in great, It appears that there was a bit of a sensation in the camp. Mwo young men, with the forwardness of youth, bad actually ventured to prophesy. is upset another young man, who hurried off to toll Moses, how his functions wore being encroached on. And Toshua, too, who ought to have had more sense, said to Moses, "Forbid them." Ho evidently quite expeoled that the great man would Rfcdnd, the budding prophets, and promptly put a stop to Eldad and
teach them a lesson.
But Moses, was that rare kind of man, ineapable of jealousy. Ho know that a monster Bod upon ile, born on ited" 'He had not an atom of it in him. Ho tells Joshua, that he is more jealous for him than he, Moses, is for himself, "Enviest thou for my ake?" Let' them go on prophesying; never try to dry up the fountain of youth; let them prophegy; and then ho says one of the most tender and beautiful things ever said, "Would God that all the Lente people were propheta Po their gute wore widely shared by] gifted people always wish that
their fellow-mon? Not always. Thoro has always been jealousy, oven. among. writers, musicians, roadhors, When John Wesley lot inymen preach the Gospel, what a pother there was among the re-prophets! When Carey went missionary from the cob-bench the Rov. Sidney Smith moored at "consecrated cobblers."" Moses did not. Ho prayed that all sobblers and masons and labourers too. How! in orders, to have truth revealed from God; to you, and to utter it, for pro-1 is not foretelling future events only; it in telling forth the truth now.
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