p. 5 | His Face Shone by Max Hill

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 8, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 19.

"His Face Shone."

By Max Hill

COMING down from his interview with Jehovah in the mount, bearing in his hands the tables of stone on which the law had been inscribed by the finger of God, Moses knew not that his face shone with the glory which surrounded him. Filled with the solemnity of his errand and anxiety for his people, he hastened to bring to them what he had received. Being filled with glory, he little realized that those he approached would not and could not understand the great change.

Seeing the light in Moses' face, Aaron and all the children of Israel were filled with awe, and tho they came near to him when he gave them the commandments from God, he was compelled to veil his face that they might not be blinded. But if needs be he would veil his face that his people might understand, that he might deliver his God-given message.

God's people have a message to-day. They should bear in their hands the tables of the law, and they should be so intimate with their heavenly Father that their faces shine. It may be that the world will not understand; it may be that the Christian's own brother and "the children of Israel" will hold back; but the message must be delivered. Jehovah's law has been entrusted to human instruments, responsible for its deliverance, tho the bearer's face be veiled.

The message is well-defined and within the reach of every man who is ready to take up the cry. The glory comes by long vigils with Jehovah in the mount, the place of secret prayer. Max Hill.