years old and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

How beautiful is the forgiving spirit shewn by Joseph to his brothers, who had sinned so deeply against him. He returned good for evil. And the power which God had put into his hands he used only to bless and not punish with. So should brothers and sisters love one another for good.

Tell what you can of the meeting between Joseph and all his brethren?

Did he reproach them for the past, or punish them? Which was his favourite brother, and why?

Did Joseph see his father again?

How old were Jacob and Joseph when they died?

Moses is called to Save his Brethren.

OW, good King Pharaoh being dead, And Joseph's brethren, too, Another Pharaoh reigns instead, Who Joseph never knew.

And seeing that the Israelites,
Or Hebrews, blessed by God,
Grew strong in numbers, he delights
To rule with iron rod.

He made them work with cruel might;
Make bricks with straw and clay;
And palaces of wond'rous height,
They toiled at day by day.

And all their infant sons he bade
Be in the river drowned;
But Moses, in the rushes laid,
Was by the Princess found.

She brought him up, and God, who saw
And heard his people's grief,
Made Moses prophet of His Law,

And came to their relief.

Moses, the prophet, at His word

(His brother Aaron, too),

To Pharaoh went, and said, the Lord
Saith, Let my people go.

CHAPTER IX.

The Birth of Moses. The Cruelty of Pharaoh. Moses called by God to be a Prophet.

OW, Joseph being dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation, there

arose up a new king over Egypt who knew not Joseph. And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Let us deal wisely with them, lest if there fall out any war, they join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us.

So the Egyptians set taskmasters over the children of Israel, who afflicted them with burdens, and made them build for Pharaoh treasure cities-Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them the more they multiplied and grew. And the Egyptians were very hard upon the children of Israel, and made their lives bitter with hard bondage,

and made them labour with mortar and bricks and hard service in the fields. And, in order that the children of Israel should not be so many in number, Pharaoh charged that all their sons should be cast into the river as soon as they were born.

Now, a son was born to a man of the house of Israel's son Levi, and he was a goodly child. And his mother hid him for three months. And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein. And she hid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to see what would become of it. Now, the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river's side, and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child, and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for

thee? And she said, Go. And the maid went, and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, her own child, and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Now, when Moses was grown, he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens. And the children of Israel sighed by reason of their bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God. And God remembered his covenant with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and God looked upon the children of Israel, and had respect unto them.

Now, Moses left Egypt and went to dwell in Midian, and there he kept the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian; and as he led the flock in the desert, he came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and behold the bush burned with