MOSES IN EGYPT AND THE WILDERNESS.--EX. 1:1; 7:5.

_Parallel Readings_.

Goodnow, F. J., _Comparative Administrative Law_.

_Hist. Bible_ I, 151-69.

And he went out on the following day and saw two men of the Hebrews

striving together; and he said to the one who was doing the wrong,

Why do you smite your fellow-workman? But he replied, Who made you

a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you

killed the Egyptian? Then Moses was afraid and said, Surely the

thing is known. When, therefore, Pharaoh heard this thing, he

sought to him Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh

and took up his abode in the land of Midian.

And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people

that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry of anguish, because of

their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows; and I am come down to

deliver them out of the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them

up out of that land to a land, beautiful and broad, to a land

flowing with milk and honey; Go and gather the elders of Israel

together and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God

of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying, I have

surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt,

and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt

to a land flowing with milk and honey. And they shall hearken to

thy voice; and thou shalt come, together with the elders of Israel,

to the king of Egypt, and ye shall say to him, "Jehovah, the God of

the Hebrews, hath appeared to us; and now let us go, we pray thee,

three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to

Jehovah our God."--_Hist. Bible_.

Hold on; hold fast: hold out--patience is genius.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us

dare to do our duty as we understand it.--_Lincoln_.

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