Organ of ihe Norih Carolina Conference.
The soul of Moses had to be stirred to its very
depths by a vision of God in the burning bush be
fore he was capable of leaving his occupation as
shepherd to become the founder of Israel's national
religion and the prophet who saw God face to face.
Amos was a herdsman in one of the remote dis
tricts of Judea without the slightest veneer of cul
ture, but he, too, had a vision of God as he tended
his herd on the edges of the desert, and has left us
a terse but characteristic decription of his experi
euce which brings home the truth of our conscience :
The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord
Jehovah hath spoken : who can but prophecy ; Isaiah
was content to be a courtier at Jerusalem until one
day, when he was praying and brooding over the
disaster which had overtaken his country in the death
of an able and strong monarch, the veil was rent
from before his eyes and he had a glimpse of the
great King, Jehovah of Hosts, seated on his heaven
ly throne and surrounded by the adoring hosts of
seraphim. The tenor of his life was changed: he
no longer was satisfied with social functions and
the ceremony of the court. But his heart respond
ed to the glory which he had seen and he offered
himself with a hearty consecration, "Here am I,
send me. "Dr. Kelso.
SULTX-FOURTfi TEAR.
RALEIGH, N. C. AUGUST 15. 1918.
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The Vision of God.