MOSES' VISION.
Far out across the sandy wild,
Where, like a solitary child
He thoughtless roamed and free,
One towering thorn was wrapped in flame—
Bright without blaze it went and came,
Who would not turn and see?
—Keble.
One day, as Moses tended the sheep on Mt. Horeb, there appeared beside him a bright light. And in another instant a bush near by leaped with red flames.
The branches crackled; the tongues of flame streamed up against the sky; but still the bush was not consumed, nor did it wither.
"This is strange," Moses thought; and he went up to the bush.
"Moses! Moses!" called a voice from out the flames.
MOSES COMING DOWN FROM MOUNT SINAI.
Then Moses knew it was the voice of the Lord; and he fell upon his knees before the bush. He was afraid.