Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1909 — “MOSES, PRINCE OF EGYPT.” [ARTICLE]

“MOSES, PRINCE OF EGYPT.”

One of the most distinctive labors of Moses, during the forty years in the wilderness with the Jews, after he had freed them from bondage, and by which he linked his name with all succeeding ages and became the greatest benefactor of mind the world has seen since Christ, is his system of jurisprudence. The moral code of Moses rests on the fundamental principles of theology and morals. It appeals at once to the consciousness of all minds in every age and nation, producing conviction that no sophistry can weaken, binding the conscience with irresistible and terrific bonds—those immortal ten commandments engraven on the tables of stone and preserved in the holy and innermost sanctuary of the Jews, yet reappearing in all their literature, accepted and reaffirmed by Christ, entering into the religious system of every nation that has received them, and forming the cardinal principles of all theogolical belief. The ten commandments seem to be the foundation of the subsequent and more minute code which Moses gave to the Jews, and it is interesting to see how their great principles have entered more or less into the laws of Christian nations from the decline of the Roman empire, into the Theodosian code, the laws of Charlemagne, of Ina and Alfred, and especially into the institutions of the Puritans, and all the sects and parties wherever the bible is studied and revered. Moses has been called the great law-giver, and his system of jurisprudence is still in vogue in every civilized country on the globe. “Moses, Prince of Egypt” is the title of a new biblical romance which deals with the life and character of this forceful character. The play touches on his early life in Egypt, when he was being educated, and with that more remote period when he was shepherd in the land of Mldian. The drama is by Henry Thorn Hum and it will be offered at the Ellis Theater, Saturday, September 11th.