SATURDAY, September 21.  Meeting in the schoolhouse near Brother Thomas’s.  Deuteronomy, eighteenth chapter is read.  I spoke on the latter portion of the chapter read, from the fifteenth verse to the end.  I spoke particularly on the following words:  “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.”  This was spoken to the children of Israel.  What follows was spoken directly to Moses:  “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.  And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”  I tried to show these people the great danger there is in a life of sin.  The great Prophet spoken of and promised in the words of my text is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.  In the fullness of time he appeared.  The prophecy just read was recorded by Moses very nearly fifteen hundred years before it was fulfilled by the appearing of our Savior.  This single consideration may serve to remind us of the faithfulness of God in fulfilling his Word.  And our blessed Lord while in the flesh more than once turned the eyes of his disciples to the prophecies that foretold his coming.  In one place he said to the people:  “Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets:  I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”  After his resurrection, on his way to Emmaus, in company with two of his sorrowing disciples who had not yet fully learned the truth of his having risen, he said in reference to his sufferings and death:  “These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.”

I am now prepared to tell you, and I trust you are prepared to hear some of the particulars in which Christ Jesus was like unto Moses.  You know the text says:  “A Prophet like unto me.”  This is the language of Moses.  The Lord God had just before told him this.  We will now turn to some of the points in the comparison of Moses with Christ.  Moses told the people to believe what he told them and obey the commands he gave them.  He taught them that if they would obey the commands and ordinances which God gave and established through him they would receive the favor of the Lord, and that as a reward for their obedience he would bless them exceedingly.  But if they would turn away from him, he would turn away from them, and multiply their troubles greatly.  Christ Jesus does the same.  Just at the close of the most wonderful sermon the world has ever heard preached, a sermon in which all the moral and spiritual relations of men to each other and to God, together with the duties growing out of these relations, are set forth the Lord says:  “Whosoever heareth these sayings