Abuse of Moses | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 8, 1883

Abuse of Moses.

I HEAR of a man traveling around the country exploding this book (the Bible), and showing up "the mistakes of Moses," at about two hundred dollars a night. Moses being dead, cannot defend himself. It would be worth something, after hearing the infidel on the mistakes of Moses, to hear Moses on the mistakes of the infidel. When Moses could talk back, he was rather a difficult man to deal with; Pharaoh tried it, and sank like lead beneath the wave. Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, and, it is said, were buried in the earth. Korah, Dathan, and Abiram tried it, and went down so deep that they have not yet got back. But Moses is dead, and it is easy to abuse him. It does not take a very brave beast to kick a dead lion. It would be interesting to hear a military leader and legislator like Moses, the man of God (who, after he was eighty years old, commanded for forty years an army of 600,000 men), give his candid opinion concerning the mistakes of the Colonel, whose military career is said to have consisted in one single engagement, in which he was chased into a hog yard, and surrendered to a boy of sixteen. After which, as soon as exchanged, he heroically resigned his commission in the face of the enemy, and subsequently gave his attention to managing a whisky ring, discussing theology, blaspheming God, and criticising the dead man who cannot answer back.—Sel.