The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-22

snail serve, VIII Judge dIlG afterwards
shall thy come out with great substance.
And thou shall go to thy father in peace;
thou shall be buried in good old age
But the fourth generation, thy shall come
hither again, for the iniquity of the Am
orites are not yet full. And it came to
pass that when the sun went down, and it
was dark. behold smoking furnace and
burning lamp that passed between those
pieces.
SIN the same day the Lord made a
covenant with Abraham, saying, unto
thy seed have ! given this land, from
the river of Egypt unto the great river.
the river Euphrates.
And so it was in after days Jacob, his
children, his grand children, and his great
grand children went down unto Egypt at
the invitation of Pharaoh to live with
Joseph, who had been sold by
his wicked brethren into SER
vitude twenty four years before. All
the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt
which came out of his loins, besides ia
cob's sons wives all the souls were three
score and six (6o). And the two
sons of Joseph which were born in Egypt,
were two souls, all the souls of the house of
Jacob which came into Egypt, were three
score and ten (7o). For time the child
rem of Israel prospered and lived in peace
and tranquility. But Jacob died and was
carried by his children and a great eompa-
ny of Egyptians and laid away with his
father in the care of Machpealab, near
Hebron. After that, Joseph died leaving
a request that his bones be carried up and
laid with the bones of his father, for God
| had made him to understand that after
number of years of servitude, the children
of Israel would move out of Egypt. Pha-
roah also died, and another Pharaoh
rose up to take his place. Pharoah was
the common title of the native kings of
Egypt in the Bible CORRESPONDENCE to Pra
or Phra ''the sum-" of the heiroglyphics.
The Pharaoh of Joseph is thought to be
Sesser-T essen |. the head of the XII dynas-
ty, on account of mention in a heiro-
glyphic inscription of famine in that
kings reign. Others think him a shep-
pard king and not an Egyptian at all
The Pharaoh of the Oppressive" is
thought to be an Egyptian and of the
eighteenth or nineteenth dynasty All of
Jacobs children likelydied near the same
time, there being but seven years differ
enee in age between the eldest and the
youngest of them except Benjamine.
The new king,which knew not Joseph
began to Cypress the children of Israel.
giving orders to the midWives to destroy
all male Children for fear the rapid increase
might endanger the throne and govern.
ment of Egypt.
However, God, in order to carry out
his divine purpose put it into the heart of
a Hebrew mother, Joch-Ebed, by name
of the tribe of Levi to hide her babe in an
ark of bulrushes which she made and
daubed with skin, and put in the flags by
river edge, and perhaps in the water; Pha-
roah's daughter came down to the river to
battle and saw the ark. She had it brought
to her and opened and found beauti-
full Hebrew babe in it; the babe Wept and
captured the heart of Pharoah's daughter
and here there proved to be more in those
innocent dew drops on the infant cheek
of Moses than in the armies of Egypt, for
God make him the mighty leader of his
people, Notwithstanding the Kings daugh-
ter took him into the palace and reared
him in all the learnings of the Egyptians,
and might have been Pharoah's success
or in the kingdom, but God had touched
his heart and nothing could turn him
from his duty. The servitude became
more and more unbearkable, for Pharaoh
was a tyrant; his dead and embaImed
body which was found a few years ago,
shows him to be almost imam eater. :"
After Moses grew to full manhood he
began to defend his Hebrew brother,
slew an Egyptian and fled to Median,
there he married the daughter of Reuel, or
Hobab. In forty or fifty years, God call
ed Moses to lead his people out of the land
of bondage to the LAND of PROMISE" or
Canaan. Moses put in excuses and did
not feel worthy to do such great thing,
but realizing that the hand of God was
upon him, he and Aaron went before the
king and after number of heavy Judge
|ments from Gods hand, he let them go,
but followed them to the Red Sea and
was drowned in its mighty waters. And
the children of Israel journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred
thousand on foot that were men besides
children" The Lord was with them to
lead them and went before them by day
in pillar of cloud and by night by a pillar
of fire. In the book Exodus (meaning
out Of we read the journeying of Israel
from Egypt to Canaan, the land of the
fathers.
The Exodus ended the patriarchial dis
| dispensation, and dates lsrael's national
career, and occurred I4oI years before
Christ. The traditional site of this pas
sage of the Red Sea is few miles south
of where the Ship canal enters the Gulf of
Suez. Some who try to weaken the Bible
account contend that they crossed the
head of the sea near Suez, but the best
authority saw they crossed ten miles north
of that, where the sea is eight miles wide
and from ten to forty feet deep. The
children of Israel started from Rameses
which is about seventyflve miles northeast,
of Carlo or TeleIyahoode, tine mounds of
Jews" twenty miles north Of Cairo.
They went from point to point till they
came to Sinai; you start from Ayun Musa
or Wells of Noses for the peninsula of
Sinai, and from six to eight days you are
at the old convent of St. Catherine, over
FIVE thousand feet above the sea. 4Sinai
afforded then a grand view of that's .Dime
display Of Jehovan's majesty and power
when He came down in sight of all
the people" Exodus OIL; and from the
flaming crest of this mountain-that still
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