It is a great blessing to know your mission in life.  I know why Christians are waiting with folded hands, not being able to see their mission.  They are not willing to pay the great price for their commission.  The rich young man could have been a follower of Jesus, the greatest honor in earth or heaven, and could have had eternal treasure in heaven for the transient gain of earth.  He would not pay the price.  You must give all, to get all.  The effect of smashing has always been to cause the people to arouse themselves.  The Levite that severed his dead concubine and sent parts of her body to the different tribes of Israel was to cause the people to “consider, take advice and speak.”  Then they acted and four hundred thousand men presented themselves to redress this wrong.

The smashing in Kansas was to arouse the people.  If some ordinary means had been used, people would have heard and forgotten, but the “strange act” demanded an explanation and the people wanted that, and they never will stop talking about this until the question is settled.  Let us consider the character of Moses.  It is said this man disobeyed God but once, and he was the “meekest of all men”.  We are first attracted to him peculiarly because he “refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, rather suffering afflictions with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.”  Rather be counted with the poor despised, afflicted slaves under the taskmaster’s lash than be a king or an absolute monarch.  This brought out his characteristic prohibition of sin,—­the renouncing of every worldly ambition, He here made the choice, at the time when the temptations were greatest, for all that the world could offer was his.  He gave all and paid the price it requires to get all.  On the banks of the Nile he sees one man oppressing another.  That spirit of prohibition of this great wrong caused him to strike (smash) the oppressor.

Here is a lovable trait of this great man.  Moses, could not look on and see the helpless suffer at the hands of another, even though it brought death to himself.  Forgetful of his own safety, defying the absolute power and authority of this despot, so far as it lay in his power, against all these odds he redressed the wrong of a fellow creature.  God saw in Moses a man whom He could use.  From the golden throne he sought a retreat, and for forty years was an humble shepherd, learning the lesson of caring for the flocks of Jethro, before he should be called to take the oversight of the flock of God.  “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in that which is much.”  God called this man out of the wilderness to go to the greatest court on earth as His ambassador.  Not one compromise would he make, still true to his prohibition principles.  God never used or blessed any man or woman that was not a prohibitionist.  Eli was one of those conservatives and said only, “Nay verily my sons.”  And he got his neck broke and both of his sons killed