When Moses was a little boy,
His parents would not him destroy,
Although they knew if he was found
By Egypt’s law he must be drowned.
Three months they hid him safe away,
And did not show him night or day,
But now if they would save their son
They saw that something must be done.
They made an ark and daubed it well,
But how ‘twould end they could not tell;
They sent it to the river’s brink,
Where savage beast oft came to drink.
‘Twas here the hand of God came in,
And brought the daughter of the king
To see the child and hear it weep,
And have it taken home to keep.
She had him brought up as her son,
Although a Hebrew he was born;
For God would bring the means about,
To lead His people Israel out.
In Egypt he began to see
His people’s grief and misery,
He thought they would have understood
That he was sent to them for good.
But this they did not understand,
And Moses had to quit the land,
He then in Midian found a place
With one who dealt with him in grace.
A shepherd’s life was now his lot,
Till wife and children he had got,
And thus he was content to stay
Till forty years had past away.
His people’s bondage still increase,
Till he came back to their release;
So will the present Jewish race
Till Jesus gathers them in grace.
Then will their bondage all be o’er,
And Jesus reign from shore to, shore,
When Jew and Gentile own Him King,
And all the nations bow to Him.
ML 12/13/1925