And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which
came from the battle.

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

Behold, these called the children of Israel, through the counsel
of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of
Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

But all the women children that have not known a man by lying
with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Moses is a patriarch of the Jews, and the meekest man. But suppose
any pagan or Mohammedan general were to behave to a Christian city
as Moses behaved to the people of Midian, what should we say of him?
But God was _pleased_ with him.

Further, in the sixteenth chapter of Numbers you will find how Moses
the Meek treated Korah, Dathan, and Abiram for rebelling against
himself and Aaron; how the earth opened and swallowed these men
and their families and friends, at a hint from Moses; and how the
Lord slew with fire from heaven two hundred and fifty men who were
offering incense, and how afterwards there came a pestilence by
which some fourteen thousand persons died.

Moses was a politician; his brother was a priest. I shall express