feelings would betray him. He hastily left the room, and wept in solitude. When old Jacob was brought before Pharaoh, we cannot restrain a feeling of pity for the wretched old man, who all his life long had experienced prosperity without happiness. The Emperor asked him, "How old art thou?" and he replied: The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. After giving a separate blessing to each of his twelve sons-in which the supremacy of Judah is distinctly foretold-and to the two sons of Joseph, Jacob died, and at his own request was buried in the family lot, in the cave of Machpelah, where reposed Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, and Leah. But when Joseph died his embalmed body was placed in a coffin in Egypt, the home of his triumph, glory and final happiness. Later his bones were carried out of Egypt and buried in the Promised Land. A Great Man-His Meekness-Life in Egypt-His Failure as a Public Speaker-The Ten Plagues-The Events in the Wilderness-Laws and Law-Courts— Jethro The Ten Commandments-The Calf of Gold -Death of Moses. III MOSES Just as in the American Revolution and again in the Civil War there appeared a Leader of genius, without whose wisdom, patience and unselfishness the result might in each case have been quite other than fortunate, so in the critical period of early Israelitish history-the residence in Egypt and the wanderings in the wilderness-there rose from the ranks a leader, law-giver and stateman-Moses. He must be called a great man. His public acts and private character are alike admirable. In addition to the books written about him by theologians and Bible students, he has been the subject of secular examination. Forty years ago I heard a lecture delivered by Henry George on "Moses, the Great Hebrew Statesman," and in 1920 a book was published by a scientific man, called "Moses the Physician," praising his learning, his foresight, and especially his belief in cleanliness and segregation of disease. A famous parenthesis in the twelfth chapter of Numbers tells something definite about his character: "Now the man Moses was very meek, above |