The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-06-08
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International Lesson for Juno 10. is0A
Passage Of the Red sea-Exodus


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Especially Arranged from Peloubers Soiesl
GOLDEN TEx--By faith they passed through
the Red sea
TINE According 10 the common chronology.
u l. is9i. according 10 nruvsch. B q 1890
They started on the morning 81 the 18th OF Abb
tsome time in April The crossing OF the Rel
sea was several days later
PLAcE-The northern end OF the Red sea
The place may have been the present Gulf u
Suez. or the sea may have extended much far
Their north. aud the crossing have taken place
some vi here near the present Bitter lakes tseo
below
THE PHARAOH or THE EXODUS -According
20 the majority Of Egyp,ologists Mencphiah.
the son Of Rarncses H. Menephtah lived years
after this; but III was the army Of Pharaoh
which was overwhelmed, and neither here. nor
In the song OF Moses. II any mention made os
tine kings death, an event OF sufficient conse-
qucnce 10 have been noticed The death q
Pharaoh cannot be even argued from the ex-
preston in P- 1886 IS: He overthrow Pharaoh
and his host in the Red sea- since the death OF
q monarch is not the necessary consequence %
his defeat and overthrow
LESSON NOTES.
I. The Israeites Urged 10 Coin
our last lesson the Israelitcs were bust
~ preparing for their departure. The
had come. While they were still
engaged in celebrating their first Pass
over feast, at mid night the Lord smotc
all the frstborn Of Egypt, from the
frstborn of Pharaoh, that sat upon the
throne, TO the firstborn of the captive
that was in the dungeon (Ex. I2.29l.
The last and greatest stroke had fallen.
The whole land Of Egypt was now in
intense excitement. There was .
great cry. for there was not a house
where there was not one dead. There
was no longer a refusal of Moses re-
quest On the contrary. Pharaoh could
not wait till morning before he sent 10
Moses and babe him be gone with all
the people
The Rendezvous--The first journey
Of the Israeltes was from Ramcses 10
Succoth tl2: S7). These are not towns.
but districts. Rameses was 1.-The land
of Rameses." which is spoken of as
identical with Goshen or at least with
the western portion Of il. Itlay along
the Wady Tumilat the line of the
present Sweetwater canal, and was
shaped like cornucopia. with its
all portions of the land this people as
/, semblcd to Succcth as their place of
rendezvous. Succoth ia place of
tents or booths) was district mot a
town. lying at the eastern end of the
Wady Tumilat, along the line OF the
lakes Pithom. lately discovered by
NJ Naville, twelve miles west of Ismai-
liza. was probably the chief store city
lying on its western border
Their Numbers. There were 100000
men, besides children. and mixed
multitude ua:37). This would natu-
rally imply about 100000 in all. But
Prof. Willis ]. Bcecher. OF Auburn The
illogical seminary. In lecture not long
ago, suggested that the enumeration
may have been technical, just as we
count an army. A regiment consists
of | 900 men. while often, in various
ways, not more than 400 or 500 are
present, and yet we call it a regiment.
Six hundred thousand may be equiva-
lent to 600 regiments, 1.-The thousands"
containing but few hundreds, SO that
there may not have been more than
500, 900 men, or a million in all. The
same rccx oning is used in numbering
the houses in Philadelphia and other
cities
The Pursuit by Pharaoh.
DAYS have now passed since the Israel
ties, in an hour of great excitement,
were given their freedom. But soon
the laborers were missed from their
places, the houses were empty, the
fields had no flocks, the public works
were stopped for want Of bricks and
men to lay them. When, therefore,
Pharaoh saw that the Israelites had
turned back, as il afraid, and were
again in Egypt, he thought they were
Confused and bewildcred $50 the word
"entangled' [is:3l means), and they
were in his power, because he held the
defenses of the great wall, which
reached TO the impossible Red sea. He
therefore takes his six hundred chosen
chariots, and sets ont to overtake the
fugitives, ordering other chariots in diff
ferent parts of Egypt tof which Diodor
us Siculus says that Ramescs ii. had
twenty-sevcn thousand) to follow.
The Place Of Crossing the Red Sea-
There have been many theories as e
the place where the Israelitcs crossed
the Red sea. But it is now almost Ger
tain that either one or the other OF tw'
theories must be in the main correct.
On Dr. Trumbull has advanced SOM
most able arguments in favor OF thu
! Gulf Of Suez. the place advocated b.
(, many scholars. 1.-The Israelites crosses
near the town of Suez. on EXTENSIVE
!, shoals which run toward the southeast
(. in the direction Of Ayun Musa lth'
J Wells Of Nioses). The distance Is abou
4 three miles at high tide. This Is thu
! most probable theory. Near here Ma
= poleon. deceived by the tidal wave
! attempted TO cross in 1899, and ncarl.
!, met the fate of Pharaoh" Niebuh
!, crossed Mt this point in 1902, on
dromedary, some Arabs. who were u
TO their knees in water. accompanying
him on foot
= (a) The other theory is that OF Prin
- cipal Dawson. one OF the leading geolo
!" Cists OF the world in his Egypt an'
y SYRIA, and in his still later (lss9) Mod
crn Science in Bible Lands. lie as
rcologist believes that at this time tn