When Moses died-with an eye undimmed and no natural force abated, at 120 years old (Deut. xxxiv.)—the Lord buried him in a sepulchre that "no man knoweth," and He recalled His servant after an interval of nearly 1,500 human years to the Mount of His own transfiguration, where His "raiment white as the light, and His face shining as the sun," once more reflected itself on His attendants from Paradise, Moses and Elias, "who appeared in glory," Luke ix. 31, each of whom had before known Him and talked with Him on Mount Horeb. (See 1 Kings xix.) Moses had been made the law-giver, and Elijah the reviver of the law to idolatrous Israel, for which each had his peculiar isolation and preparation, and now again they spake to the same "Angel of the covenant "* "in His majesty," (says Peter), even to "Jehovah of Hosts," the same whom they had adored in the Schechinah, in the pillar of cloud and fire on Horeb, and now beheld, in the form of the Lord Jesus, the Son of Man, transfigured; and spake to Him of what?" of His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem." The credentials of Moses are enshrined in both the Old and New Testaments.

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The "Jehovah " of the Old Testament bore witness continually to His servant Moses, "who is faithful in all mine house." With him will I speak," not merely by vision and dream, not even in dark speeches, but "mouth to mouth, and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold," and of Aaron and Miriam He asks a question which might well be repeated in the present day. "Wherefore, then, were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

To Joshua the Lord says, "As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee." To Jeremiah He says (ch. xv. 1), "Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be towards this people; cast them out and let them go forth." His Spirit bears witness to them in Psalm ciii. 7: "Thou hast made known Thy ways unto Moses, Thine acts unto the children of Israel." Ps. lxxvii. 20,

* Whenever the word LORD is printed in our English Bible in capitals, its Hebrew equivalent is Jehovah, a term which marks the idea of the Covenant God.

"Thou leddest Thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron." Moses was King, priest, and prophet. He was "king in Jeshurun" (Deut. xxxiii. 5). Aaron and Samuel are named with him as the Lord's priests, who called upon Him and He answered them (Ps. xcix. 6). He was also the Lord's prophet: "By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved" (Hosea xii. 13). And Moses was also the centre of a prophetic circle in Aaron, Miriam, and the Seventy Elders.

His written prophecies are given in Hebrew songs. 1st. The song after passing the Red Sea (Ex. xv.), and is not this the song alluded to in Rev. xv. as "the song of Moses and the Lamb" 2nd. His song in Deut. xxxii., setting forth the greatness and the failures of Israel. 3rd. The poetic form of his blessing to their tribes, in which he defines "the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob" (Deut. xxxiii. 4). These blessings concern their future numbers, conquests, and possessions, notwithstanding the previous song concerning their punishment and rejection from the hand of God because they were "a very froward generation-children in whom was no faith." Their possessions, in the case of Joseph and his sons, were to extend to the ends of the earth (Deut. xxxiii. 17), the tribe of Dan also being specified as the one which was "to leap from Bashan" in Eastern Palestine; and it is, of course, to be remarked that Moses thus verifies the more eminent blessings which Jacob had said were to fall on the head of Joseph-" of him that was separated from his brethren."

Thus as prophet, priest, and king, Moses comes forth as a foreshadowing likeness of Christ, and it has been remarked "that this is a point of view from which the Christian Church has too little surveyed him, whereas he is the only character in the Old Testament to whom Christ expressly likens Himself." "Moses wrote of ME," He says (John v. 46), by which it is supposed that He alludes to the remarkable prediction in Deut. xviii. 15: "The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, from thy brethren, like unto me; unto Him shall ye hearken," which passage Stephen quotes (Acts vii. 37). As Moses was to Israel Christ is to His

Church our Lawgiver, our "Mediator," our Prophet, Priest, and King, our Guide, our Ruler, and our Shepherd! What a walk must that have been with the two disciples to Emmaus (Luke xxiv. 27) when, beginning at Moses and all the prophets, THE LORD expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself!

After these Old and New Testament Mosaic credentials, God's own witness, what others do we need? And they are closed up by Paul's inspired charge to Timothy concerning false teachers (2 Tim. iii. 8): "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these resist the truth, reprobate concerning the faith; but they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest to all men, as theirs also was." With fitting reverence, therefore, and with the faith of little children, let us cease for a while to listen to all doubters and cavillers, "children in whom is no faith," and turn back reverently to Moses while he tells the story of the world before the flood. Even in the Mussulman legends his surname is Kelim Allah ("the spoken to by God").

(To be continued.)

CHINA'S MILLIONS.

We have been requested to notice a new periodical with the above title, price one penny monthly,* edited by Mr. Hudson Taylor, who has for nine years himself headed a Mission to Eastern China, now employing fifty native workers in five different Chinese provinces. He says:

"For many years the state of China's Millions' has absorbed our attention and claimed our life-work; and again and again we have asked ourselves, Why is not a deeper interest felt in China by the people of England? We think that one reason is, that China and its people are not present to them. They have never seen its glorious hills, its noble rivers, its fertile plains; nor its crowded cities, its populous towns, its countless villages; and therefore they do not realize their existence. To enable them to do this will be our aim; and we trust that this new periodical will prove a much needed link between English Christians and the toiling missionaries far away from home and friends, as well as largely tend to draw out sympathy for Chinese brothers and sisters."

The first number contains an article on access to Western China through Burmah, which especially interests us, as we remember that this was the last desire of Dr. Mason, the translator of the Bible for the Karens, who died March 7, 1874. He besought leave of the King of Burmah to go to Bhamo to teach the wild Ka Kyens, whose language is allied to that of the Karens of Burmah, already so widely evangelized, and the King promised to consider; but a mightier King has called for his dear servant, * London: Morgan and Scott, 12, Paternoster-buildings, E.C.

and his life-work on earth is at an end. Mr. Hudson Taylor now alludes to the departure of two missionaries from England, Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Soltau, for Bhamo, and gives tidings of their arrival at Rangoon. Bhamo would be the best base for missionary operations among the Chinese Karens who reside on the mountains that lie between China and Burmah. Dr. Mason seems to have known that there is a great spirit of inquiry abroad amongst this singular race of Israelitish extraction; and as the American Baptist Mission to the Karens is said to have 19,000 Karen converts in Burmah, from these enlightened Christians may doubtless be drawn the native Evangelists to their brethren in race. At present, the British Resident has been obliged to withdraw from Bhamo; but it is hoped that this Burmese difficulty will be soon adjusted. Bhamo is a city within 100 miles of China, and half its inhabitants are Chinese. British steamers reach it up the Irrawaddy, and caravans of Chinese traders continually resort to it, so that the Gospel might be preached there without delay. We recommend our readers to obtain this new and interesting “Link with China" also "without delay."

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