Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-06-06
THE sUNoAF scnoo,
international Lesson for Jun. 10. ,soI
-Passage of the Red Ae.Exoa,,,

lSPr~tea.J from PclOuOist.s Notas 4
Golden TExE-Dy faith they NJ s.c, ,h.o,.'A
the Red sea- 1"sS'u through
TIME According TO tho cou,u.,r oA-o-o,.-
H. q. 1891. according to Brugstt :, =, 80
They started on the morning of H.. ts,h 81 ARR
(somc time In ApriL) The crosstn, -, ~. D.
sea was several days later
PLACE.-Thc northern end of The Pei 40.
500 49, S 'iA'o zen inc present Gulf OF
ther north. and the crossing hayt. So, -.
somewhere near the present Bi,,o, 49, -
bclow) N' iAeS 'Soe
THE PHARAoH OF THE ExoDuA ,ooo-,,,,.
to the majority OF Egyptologlstsl n.nenhtah
the son OF Rameses IL Menephtih u,,oa -.
after this; but at was the armH ., phorsa,
which was overwhelmed: and neithe, here nor
in the song OF Moses. IL any mension mac y,
the kings death. an event OF suf!acie,, cr,.o
quence TO have been noticed Ipa doa,h =,
Pharaoh cannot be even argued r., 49,. =
preston IN Ps. 1873: IS: He overth-f,x pbaraoh
and his host in the Red sea- since I'm. taa,h -,
monarch Is not the necessary cobseouence ~,
his defeat and overthrow.
LESSON NOTES.
/. The Israelites Urged Ito Go-Tn
our last lesson the lsraelltels were bust
ly preparing for their departure. Tho
time had been set. tThe bour
had come. While thew were stiII
engaged IN celebrating thgir first Pass
over ieast' at midnight thd Lord smote
all the frstborn of Egybt. from the
nrSIoorh OF fharaoh, that sat upon the
throne, TO the firstborn Of the cantive
that was in the dungeon lex. 19.oo)
The last and greatest strot @ had fallen
The whole land of Egypt WAS now i'm
intense excitement. There was n
great cry, for there was not a bouse
where there was not one dead. There
was no longer a refusal of Moses. 70
quest On the contrary. Pl ,.raob could
not wait till morning befo. xhe sent tn
Moses, and babe him be gonl, with all
the people.
The Rendezvous The first iournev
of the lsraelites was from Rameses to
Succoth az: 30. These are dot towns
but districts. Rameses was t.the land
of Rameses," which is spoken Of as
identical with Goshen. or at ltast with
the western portion of it. ItYav along
the Wady Tumilat. the line of the
present Sweetwater canal, lind WINS
shaped like n cornucopia, with It's
broader end toward the Nile. From
all portions of the land this petople as
semblcd to Succoth as their ItIoce az
rendezvous. Succoth ia place of
tents or booths) was n district mot a
town lying at the eastern end of the
Wady Tumilat, along the line of the
lakes. Pithom, lately DISCOVERED bv
Nj. Naville, twelve miles west of Ismni-
liza, was probably the chief store citv
lying on its western border
Their Numbers.-There we re- Goo ooo
men, besides children, and n mixcd
multitude Q2:3O. This Would natu-
rally imply about 9, 1000, 900 in all Hut
Prof. Willis j. Beecher, of Auburn Tho
illogical seminary, in a lecture not long
ago, suggested that the enumeration
may have been technical, IN! # as we
count an army. A regiment consists
of 1000 men, while often, In various
ways, not more than 400 Or 5Oo ,re
present, and yet we call it regiment
Six hundred thousand may bt. eouivo-
lent to 600 regiments, 1.-The thousands
containing but few hundreds. so that
there may not have been more than
100000 men, or a million in TALL. The
same reckoning is used in M umbcrino
the houses in Philadelphia and Other
cities.
The Pursuit by Pharaoh Several
days have now passed since ithe Israel
ties, in an hour of great e;xcitemcnt
were given their freedom. But soon
the laborcrs were missed from their
places, the houses were empty. the
fields had no floclxs. the public work.
were stopped for want of bricks and
men to lay them. When, therefore
Pharaoh saw that the Israelites had
turned back, as if afraid, and were
again in Egypt, he thought they were
confused and bewildered $50 the word
''entangled" 1851 means), and they
were in his power, because he held the
defenses of the great wall, which
reached to the impossible Rcd sea. He
therefore takes his six hundred chosen
chariots, and sets out TO overtake the
fugitives, ordering other chafiots i'm diff
fercnt parts of Egypt tof which Diodor-
us Siculus says that RameSes III. had
twenty-seven thousand) to follow.
The Place of Crossing the Red Sea-
There have been many theories as TO
the place where the Israelites crossed
the Red sea. But it is now almost GER
tain that either one or the other of two
theories must be in the main correct.
Q) DIR. Trumlnll has advanced some
most able arguments in favor OF the
Gulf of Sucz, the place advocated bv
many scholars. The Israelites crossed
AAN"A bli' lpNil VI NutEs on extensive
shoals which run toward the southeast.
in the direction of Ayun Musa (the
Wells of Moses) The distance is about
three mites at high tide This is the
most probable theory. Near here Ma
poleon, deceived by the tidal wave
attempted 20 cross in 1899. and nearly
met the fate of Pharaoh" NicbubI
crossed at this point in 1869. on
dromedary, some Arabs, who were I'M
20 their knees in water, accomDanvipos
him ON foot
~ The other theory is that Of Prin.
cipal Dawson, one Of the LEADING, peolo.
gists Of the world, in his Egypt and
Syria, and in his stu later G9s9J Mod.
crn Science in Bible Lands lie as q
gcologist believes that at this time tho
Red sea extended much father north
than now and that the Bitter lakes ,ycro
then the northern extremity Of tho
Red sea. and that the crossing was AT
the southern part OF the Bitter lakes
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