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HE Gospel is preached in the Pentateuch. This is a truth with which I am deeply impressed, and I have attempted to convey the same impression to my readers in the very imperfect sketch of the Life of Moses contained in the following pages. So sacred do I feel the subject to be, that I have a repugnance to mixing anything like fiction in my work,-though carefully isolating the sacred history from the mere tale, by giving the former in the shape of lectures. Were the lectures published by themselves, I fear that the volume would be unopened by many of those young readers who prefer a story to a sermon. Precious things, for the convenience of transit, are often placed in vehicles which are in themselves of but little value. I would only ask of my readers not to pass over those portions of the volume which alone are of

permanent interest. If any of the lessons contained in the history of Moses be conveyed to the memory and the heart, it matters little how soon the mere vehicle is thrown aside and forgotten.

RESCUED FROM EGYPT.

CHAPTER I.

NEW INMATES OF THE OLD CASTLE.

IRESOME skein-full of knots-hard to unravel, and impossible to find the end. of!" exclaimed Lina Madden, giving an impatient shake to the scarlet silk which she was attempting to wind.

"It's like our law-suit," observed Cora, her elder sister, who was near her, seated in the deep recess of a mullioned window; "our law-suit which has gone on for months, and may go on for years, since the lawyers make knots on purpose to have to unloose them, and have a very particular objection to ever finding the end."

One would not think that they could be very long in winding up this case," said Lina, "since the whole rests on whether our second cousin once or twice removed was sane or insane when he left