FROM early childhood until the writer gained some understanding of Christian Science, gleaned from its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, it was always a puzzle to him how the patriarchs and prophets were to be saved, since they had not seen the Christ. The wonderful illumination which Science and Health brings to the Scriptures, truly proves it to be a "Key," unlocking and opening many things hitherto hidden from us, and in this new light we are better able to appreciate the grandeur of many Bible characters.
In the Bible, Moses is rightly accorded his proper place in history as the emancipator of the children of Israel. In many respects his life is an early type of that of Jesus the Christ. This can be truly said of many Bible characters, thus clearly proving that the Christ, or spiritual ideal, has been and will ever continue to be the model in all ages; and in the proportion that the prophets discerned the Christ, were their lives like unto that of Christ Jesus. In many respects there is a great similarity between the earthly life of Moses and that of Christ Jesus. We read that as a babe Moses was hid in an ark secreted in the flags by the bank of the river; while with the glad song of angels the birth of Jesus was announced, though he was found in an humble manger. Pharaoh issued an edict that all the male children of the Hebrews should be slain; but God cared for Moses, and the king's daughter adopted him as her own child. So, too, when Herod learned that a new king was to be born in Bethlehem, he ordered all the children two years old and under to be slain; but divine Wisdom led Joseph and Mary to flee into Egypt with the child Jesus, and there remain until Herod's death.
When Moses grew to manhood his highest ideal was to see Israel freed from the terrible Egyptian bondage and in possession of the promised land. Likewise Jesus had scarcely attained the age of the priesthood, when he not only longed but labored for the freedom of all mankind from sin, sickness, disease, sorrow, and death.
