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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30239 ***
+
+           [Illustration: The baby Moses in the bulrushes.]
+
+
+                             THE BABE IN
+
+                            THE BULRUSHES
+
+
+
+                           By AMY STEEDMAN
+
+
+                            [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+                         THOMAS NELSON & SONS
+
+                               NEW YORK
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE FINDING OF MOSES
+
+
+Many long years had passed since the days when Joseph's brothers and
+their families had settled in the land of Egypt. They were a great
+nation in numbers now, but the Egyptians still ruled over them, and
+used them as servants. The Pharaoh who had been so kind to the
+shepherds from Canaan was dead long ago, and the new kings, or
+Pharaohs as they were called, hated foreigners, and began to treat the
+Israelites very harshly. There were too many of them, they said; it
+was dangerous to have so many strong, powerful slaves. They must be
+kept down, and made to work from morning till night, and be beaten if
+they did not work fast enough.
+
+That was very hard for the poor people; but worse was to come. An
+order was issued one day which spread sorrow through all the land of
+Goshen, where the Israelites lived. Every baby boy that was born was
+to be thrown into the river. Girl babies might be allowed to live, for
+they would be useful as slaves, but boys might grow up to fight for
+their country, and so they must be destroyed.
+
+In one little house, not far from the great river Nile, a woman sat
+holding her tiny baby in her arms, while the tears ran down her
+cheeks. He was such a beautiful baby, so strong and fair and healthy;
+but the king's order was that he was to be thrown into the river,
+where the cruel, hungry crocodiles were waiting to snap up everything
+they could find for a meal. Jochebed, the poor mother, held her baby
+closer in her arms. No, she could not obey the king's order. She would
+try and hide the baby for a little while, at any rate.
+
+It was easy to hide a baby while he was still tiny and slept most of
+the day; but when he grew bigger it was much more difficult. His
+sister Miriam did her best to help her mother; but any day, now that
+the baby was three months old, he might be discovered, and something
+must be done at once.
+
+So Jochebed thought of a plan, and prayed to God that He would help
+her to carry it out. At the edge of the river there grew tall
+bulrushes, which, when cut down and dried, could be made into many
+useful things. Taking some of these bulrushes, she wove them into a
+little cradle with a cover to it, just like a little ark, and this she
+covered with a kind of pitch, so that not a drop of water could come
+through. Inside the cradle she made a soft bed, and laid the baby
+there while he was fast asleep, and set the ark afloat in the water
+where the bulrushes were growing. She knew that presently the great
+princess, Pharaoh's daughter, would come down to bathe in the river,
+and would notice the queer little ark floating there.
+
+[Illustration: She laid the baby there while he was fast asleep.]
+
+Very soon the royal procession came winding down from the palace
+towards the river, as the princess in her gorgeous robes made her way
+to bathe in the pool of the lotus flowers. But at the edge of the
+river she stopped. What was that among the bulrushes? It was no lotus
+flower, but a strange-looking covered basket, and she ordered her
+maidens to bring it to her.
+
+The little ark was lifted out of the water and carried to the
+princess. There was surely something alive inside, and the princess
+was full of curiosity as she leaned down and lifted the cover to look
+in. Then she started back in amazement. The dearest little baby she
+had ever seen lay there, all rosy and fresh after his sleep, gazing up
+at her with wide-open eyes. The maidens crowded round, and the sight
+of all those strange faces was more than the baby could bear. He
+puckered up his face and began to cry.
+
+The princess loved babies, and she had none of her own. That little
+wailing cry went to her heart. She guessed at once that this was one
+of the Hebrew babies which had been ordered to be destroyed, and she
+made up her mind that this beautiful boy should at least be saved.
+
+All this time Miriam had been watching from her hiding-place close by,
+and with anxious, beating heart she came forward now. Could she help
+the princess? she asked. Should she run and find some Hebrew woman who
+might look after the baby?
+
+Perhaps the princess guessed that the baby's mother would not be far
+off, and she must have smiled a little when a nurse was so quickly
+found. But she took no notice of that.
+
+"Take this child away," she said, when Jochebed stood humbly before
+her, "and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages."
+
+It was merely as a nurse that the mother was hired. The great princess
+meant to adopt the baby as her own. But he was safe, and Jochebed's
+heart was full of gratitude to God as she took her little son into her
+arms again.
+
+As long as he needed a nurse the baby was left to be looked after by
+his mother in the little house by the river-side. The princess called
+him Moses, which means "drawn out," because he had been drawn out of
+the water, and she had made up her mind that as soon as he was old
+enough he should come to live with her at the palace, and be brought
+up as a prince. He would be treated just as if he was really her son.
+
+[Illustration: She taught him about God.]
+
+But his poor mother had him for those first precious years while he
+was still a little boy, and she did not waste one minute of that time
+in her training of him. She taught him about God, and told him all the
+wonderful stories about his own country, so that he should never
+forget that he belonged to God's people, even when he should become a
+prince in the Egyptian palace. Just as a gardener sows seeds in a
+garden which afterwards grow up into beautiful flowers, so she sowed
+the seeds of truth in the heart of her little son, which long
+afterwards were to blossom out and bear such wonderful fruit.
+
+[Illustration: Beating him unmercifully with a long whip.]
+
+Then when Moses was old enough to do without a nurse, she took him to
+the palace, and "brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became
+her son."
+
+But deep down in his heart he never forgot his own people.
+
+It happened one day that he saw one of the Egyptian taskmasters
+treating one of the poor Israelite slaves with great cruelty, beating
+him most unmercifully with a long whip. This made Moses so angry that
+he rushed in to defend the slave, and dealt the taskmaster such a blow
+that it killed him.
+
+But instead of being grateful the Israelites would not trust him, and
+began to whisper the tale of how he had killed the Egyptian, so that
+Moses was obliged to flee for his life, leaving behind all the riches
+and honours he had enjoyed so long.
+
+A very different kind of life began now for Moses. He journeyed far
+into the desert and joined company there with an Arab tribe, and
+wandered from place to place feeding their flocks and living the life
+of a shepherd.
+
+But God had more difficult work for him to do than feeding sheep, and
+one day when he was in the desert he saw a strange sight. A bush was
+growing there, and in the middle of the bush a fire was burning, and
+the strange thing was that although the fire kept on burning fiercely
+the bush was not burnt at all. It was the Angel of the Lord that was
+in the midst of the fire, and as Moses drew near God called him by his
+name, and told him that he was to go back and set his people free
+from the tyranny of Pharaoh and lead them into the Promised Land.
+
+[Illustration: In the middle of the bush a fire was burning.]
+
+At first Moses said it was impossible for him to do this. His own
+people would not trust him, and he was no great speaker; he would
+certainly fail. But God bade him do his best, and Aaron his brother
+would speak for him; and above all God would be his helper.
+
+[Illustration: "Arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this
+people." Joshua i. 2.]
+
+So Moses returned to the land of Egypt and boldly asked Pharaoh to
+allow the people to go and worship God. Time after time Pharaoh
+refused, although God sent dreadful plagues to warn him. At last,
+however, when the angel of death killed all the eldest sons of the
+Egyptians, Pharaoh was terrified and said the people might go at once
+and take all their belongings with them.
+
+[Illustration: The Land of Canaan lay stretched out before him.]
+
+It was a great company of people that set out, and Moses the great
+leader guided them on their way. They had many adventures, and braved
+many dangers and difficulties, but God was always their shield and
+defence. He delivered them by parting the waters of the Red Sea and
+allowing them to walk over dry-shod when Pharaoh and his army were
+pursuing them. And when the pursuers tried to follow them, the waters
+rolled back, and the whole great army were swept away by the returning
+tide.
+
+Yet in spite of God's care and goodness towards them, these Israelites
+were often ungrateful, and complained bitterly when they suffered any
+want. And it was always Moses whom they blamed.
+
+Moses was very patient with them; but once he was so angry that he was
+tempted to disobey God's direction, and as a punishment God told him
+that though he should see the Promised Land from afar he would never
+enter it himself.
+
+There on the mountain top he stood, gazing into the far distance,
+where the Land of Canaan, that fair land flowing with milk and honey,
+lay stretched out before him. Then he bowed his head to God's will.
+The murmuring people never saw their great leader again. He "was not,
+for God took him."
+
+
+
+
+RUTH, THE GLEANER
+
+
+Along the hot, dusty road that led from the country of Moab to the
+fair land of Judah three women were walking with bowed heads and
+weary, halting steps. Their sorrowful, heavy eyes took no pleasure in
+the summer beauty of the harvest fields, the shimmering silver of the
+olive trees, and the rich promise of the vineyards which bordered
+their way. The whole world looked sad to them, seen through a mist of
+tears.
+
+There behind them, in the land of Moab, each of these women had left
+green graves, which held all they loved best. Naomi, the eldest, was
+perhaps the most desolate. Her thoughts went back to the time when she
+was as young and fair as the two daughters-in-law who walked at her
+side--when with her husband and her two boys she had trod that very
+road, seeking a home in a strange country to escape the famine which
+threatened them in her own land. Now she was returning to her native
+town of Bethlehem, a childless, lonely widow.
+
+The younger women, who were the wives of those two dead sons, were
+very sorrowful too, but for them there might yet be happiness in the
+world. They still had near and dear relatives and many friends in
+Moab, which was their native land. They had come far enough now, and
+it was time for them to return.
+
+"Turn again, my daughters," said Naomi, "and go your way."
+
+Their homes lay behind, and she must journey on alone to the little
+hill town which she had not seen for so many long years. They had
+kindly come so far to see her on her way, but they must come no
+farther.
+
+So the little party halted, and one of the young women, weeping
+bitterly, kissed her mother-in-law and turned to go back. But the
+other one, whose name was Ruth, clung to Naomi, and would not leave
+her.
+
+In vain the elder woman urged her to return, and pointed out that
+Orpah had gone, that home and friends and happiness awaited her there,
+while in front was only poverty and loneliness. Ruth only clung the
+closer as she sobbed out her tender, loving words.
+
+"Entreat me not to leave thee," she said, "or to return from following
+after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest,
+I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. The
+Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me."
+
+The tender words brought comfort to the heart of Naomi, as soft rain
+brings refreshment to the hard, dry earth. After all, she was not
+quite alone; she still had some one to love and care for. So together
+they journeyed on again, and at last came to the winding road which
+led up to the town of Bethlehem, nestling like a white bird upon the
+long ridge of hills.
+
+Naomi knew every step of the way. It seemed almost like a dream to
+tread on more that winding road, to pass through the city gates and
+find her way to the little house she knew so well. Although she had
+been gone so many years there were still people who remembered her,
+and these came running out to greet her.
+
+"Is this Naomi?" they asked wonderingly.
+
+They could scarcely believe that this sad, broken-down woman could be
+the pleasant-faced, happy girl who had gone away with her husband and
+boys in the year of the great famine. But as they listened to her
+story they did not wonder that she seemed so old and talked so
+bitterly. It made them look very kindly upon the beautiful girl who
+kept so close to her mother-in-law, who had given up everything rather
+than leave her alone.
+
+[Illustration: He spoke very kindly.]
+
+Naomi had been quite right when she had told Ruth that poverty lay
+before them. She had come back quite empty-handed, and it was
+necessary to find some work at once which would at least provide them
+with daily bread. Ruth, looking out over the fields where already the
+barley was being cut, made up her mind to go and work there. The poor
+were always allowed to follow the reapers and glean the stray ears of
+corn that fell unnoticed. She might at least gather enough to feed her
+mother-in-law and herself.
+
+Very happily, then, Ruth set out, and found her way into the harvest
+field, which belonged to a rich man called Boaz. The reapers treated
+her kindly when she timidly asked for permission to glean there, and
+when the master arrived to see how the harvest went, he too noticed
+her at once, for she was very beautiful.
+
+"Whose damsel is this?" he asked.
+
+There were many people ready to tell him her name, and also to tell
+him how she had left her land and her people to come with Naomi, her
+mother-in-law. The story had been repeated all through the town.
+
+Boaz listened with interest. Naomi was his kins-woman, and it was only
+right that he should help her. He would begin by helping the
+sweet-faced daughter-in-law who had chanced to come gleaning upon his
+land. So he went and spoke very kindly to the beautiful Ruth, and told
+her to come every day to his harvest field and share the reapers'
+food, and he would see that no one troubled her. He even told the
+reapers to let some handfuls of corn fall in her way, on purpose, so
+that there might be plenty for her to glean.
+
+[Illustration: The two loving hearts rejoiced in their happiness.]
+
+So each day Ruth went back and worked in the harvest fields, and each
+day as Boaz watched her he grew to love the gentle, loving-hearted
+woman more and more. And when at last the harvest days were over, he
+went to Naomi and asked that Ruth might become his wife.
+
+There was no more poverty or hard work now for Ruth or Naomi, no
+anxious days of wondering how long their flour and oil would last.
+Boaz was very rich, and nothing was too good for his fair young wife,
+whom he had first seen humbly gleaning in his harvest field.
+
+Happiness, too, began to steal back into the life of Naomi. Winter and
+spring passed, and when harvest time came round once more, all the
+sorrow and bitterness faded from her heart, for God sent a little
+child to comfort her. A baby son was born to Ruth, and the whole world
+seemed full of sunshine and happiness as she laid him in his
+grandmother's arms, and the two loving hearts rejoiced in their
+happiness, just as they had clung together in their sorrow.
+
+Of course, they dreamed many happy dreams over the little downy head,
+and planned a splendid future for the baby, as all mothers and
+grandmothers will do. But even their dreams never touched the golden
+reality, for they did not know that he was to be the grandfather of
+King David, that in this same little town of Bethlehem there was to be
+born of his line a greater King yet, the King of Heaven.
+
+
+
+
+SAMUEL, THE LITTLE SERVER
+
+
+It was some years after Ruth's son had been born in Bethlehem that
+another mother was made glad by the precious gift of a little son.
+This mother's name was Hannah, and her baby was a special joy to her
+because she had so longed to have a son and had prayed so earnestly to
+God for this great gift.
+
+There was no doubt about the baby's name. He was called "Samuel,"
+which means "God has heard."
+
+[Illustration: "Samuel answered, Speak; for Thy servant heareth."
+1 Sam. iii. 10.]
+
+For had not God listened to his mother's prayers and given her her
+heart's desire?
+
+[Illustration: The time came that she should take him to Eli.]
+
+Hannah held her baby close in her arms. He was her very own, and yet
+he belonged also to God. She had promised, if her prayer was heard,
+that she would lend him to God, to serve Him in His Holy Temple.
+
+Only for a little while could she keep the baby all to herself. The
+months passed and then the years, and Samuel grew old enough to run
+about and take care of himself, needing no longer to be carried in his
+mother's arms. Then the time came that she should take him to Eli, the
+priest of God, and leave him to be brought up in the Temple and taught
+to be a servant of God.
+
+Perhaps at first Samuel cried for his mother, for he was only a very
+little boy, and must have felt strange and lonely without her; but he
+very soon grew happy again, and learnt to love the old priest and the
+new life. It was his mother who suffered most. She missed him so
+sorely, and mothers do not forget as quickly as children do. But
+although she had lent him to God, he was still hers too; and every
+year she went back to see him, and through the long months in between,
+her fingers were busy making him a little coat of a beautiful blue
+stuff, sewed with a border of exquisite embroidery, blue and purple
+and scarlet, that was like a wreath of pomegranates. Just as certain
+as his birthday came round his mother came and brought with her his
+little coat, and as he grew bigger every year the coat was bigger too.
+
+Now, as soon as Samuel was old enough he went with Eli, the old
+priest, into God's house to learn how to help in God's service. Just
+as we sometimes see now a very little boy helping the priest at God's
+altar, so Samuel was like a little server as he helped Eli, and he too
+wore a linen surplice, or ephod as it was called.
+
+Although he was such a little boy, Samuel already showed that he was
+straightforward, brave, and obedient, a boy who could be trusted. He
+did his work faithfully, and when Eli began to grow feeble and his
+sight became dim, the little server was ready with his clear sight and
+eager footsteps to be both eyes and feet to the old priest.
+
+But besides growing old and feeble, Eli was also growing more and more
+unhappy day by day. His two sons were wicked and disobedient, and,
+what was worse, they were teaching God's people to be wicked too. Eli
+would not punish them as they deserved, so at last the time came when
+God took the punishment into His own hands. Only He would warn Eli
+before-hand, for the old priest was His servant.
+
+So one night God's message came, spoken by God's own voice--spoken not
+to the great priest, but to the humble little server.
+
+It was evening time. All the work of the day was over, and Eli had
+gone to rest. The lamp in the temple was burning dimly, sometimes
+flickering as if it would go out altogether, and leave the holy place
+in darkness. Samuel, tired with his day's service, was fast asleep,
+when suddenly he woke up, startled and attentive. Some one had called
+his name: "Samuel, Samuel."
+
+"Here am I," answered the boy at once. Perhaps the old priest was ill,
+and wanted him. Hastily Samuel slipped out of bed, and ran to Eli. But
+the old man was lying there quite calmly, and when Samuel asked why he
+had called, he answered quietly, "I called not; lie down again."
+
+It was very strange; but perhaps he had been dreaming, so Samuel went
+back and crept into bed, and very soon was once more fast asleep. Then
+again the voice came: "Samuel." This time Samuel was sure it was no
+dream, and he ran to Eli and cried to him, "Here am I, for thou didst
+call me."
+
+"I called not, my son," said Eli. "Lie down again."
+
+But when it happened a third time, and the little white figure stood
+by the priest's bed, declaring positively, "Thou didst call me," Eli
+suddenly realized that perhaps it was God whose voice the boy had
+heard.
+
+"Go, lie down," he said gently to the bewildered child, "and it shall
+be if He call thee that thou shalt say, 'Speak, Lord, for Thy servant
+heareth.'"
+
+One great lesson Samuel had learnt, and that was to do exactly what he
+was told, never questioning. So now he went back to bed without
+another word.
+
+Did Eli mean that it was the Lord who had called him? The great God
+who was so wonderful, whose Ark was in the Holy Place behind the veil
+of blue and purple and scarlet, guarded by cherubim? He had only
+seemed like a far-off name to Samuel. Could it really be God's own
+voice that had called Samuel? If that was so, then the great unknown
+God must all the time have known the little servant in His house.
+
+Then again the voice sounded: "Samuel, Samuel."
+
+This time Samuel was listening with all his might, and obediently his
+answer rang out fearlessly and clearly--
+
+"Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth."
+
+[Illustration: "I called not, my son."]
+
+God knew that His little servant was fit to be trusted with a message,
+although it was a terrible one; and He told Samuel that a dreadful
+punishment was to fall upon the old priest Eli and his wicked sons,
+and so awful would it be that even the ears of the people who heard
+about it should tingle.
+
+There was no more sleep for Samuel that night. God's voice rang in his
+ears; his heart was filled with the thought that Eli would ask him
+what God had said, and he would have to tell him that dreadful
+message.
+
+At last the morning light began to steal in, and it was time to open
+the doors of God's house. The little server in his linen ephod was at
+his post as usual, but to-day his shining morning face was clouded and
+troubled, and there must have been a look of awe in his clear eyes.
+
+The call he dreaded came all too soon, and for the first time the
+sound of Eli's voice was unwelcome in his ears.
+
+"Samuel, my son," called the old man.
+
+Immediately Samuel went and stood at his side, "Here am I," he said.
+
+"What is it that the Lord hath said unto thee?" asked Eli. His eyes
+were very dim, but he felt sure that the boy had a troubled and
+fearful look. "I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and
+more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that He
+said unto thee."
+
+The very worst must be told, and Samuel knew he must hide nothing now.
+He repeated God's message word for word, and Eli bowed his head as he
+listened. The poor old priest had been a weak father, but he was a
+faithful servant, and knew that God was just.
+
+"It is the Lord," he said: "let Him do what seemeth Him good."
+
+From that day all things were different to Samuel, and year by year as
+he grew older he learned more and more to love and serve the God who
+had spoken to him and trusted him. So also as the years went by the
+people who worshipped at the Temple began to know that the little
+child who had been such a faithful server was chosen for a post of
+great honour--that he had been called, indeed, to be a prophet of the
+Lord.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
+
+
+JOSEPH THE DREAMER
+
+THE BABE IN THE BULRUSHES
+
+DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY
+
+THE CHILD JESUS
+
+THE GOOD PHYSICIAN
+
+THE GOOD SHEPHERD
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's The Babe in the Bulrushes, by Amy Steedman
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+<h1>
+THE BABE IN<br />
+THE BULRUSHES</h1>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h2>By AMY STEEDMAN</h2>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/image_001.jpg" width="350" height="329" alt=""  />
+</div>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>THOMAS NELSON &amp; SONS</h3>
+<h4>NEW YORK</h4>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>THE FINDING OF MOSES</h2>
+
+
+<p>Many long years had passed since the days when Joseph's brothers and
+their families had settled in the land of Egypt. They were a great
+nation in numbers now, but the Egyptians still ruled over them, and
+used them as servants. The Pharaoh who had been so kind to the
+shepherds from Canaan was dead long ago, and the new kings, or
+Pharaohs as they were called, hated foreigners, and began to treat the
+Israelites very harshly. There were too many of them, they said; it
+was dangerous to have so many strong, powerful slaves. They must be
+kept down, and made to work from morning till night, and be beaten if
+they did not work fast enough.</p>
+
+<p>That was very hard for the poor people; but worse was to come. An
+order was issued one day which spread sorrow through all the land of
+Goshen, where the Israelites lived. Every baby boy that was born was
+to be thrown into the river. Girl babies might be allowed to live, for
+they would be useful as slaves, but boys might grow up to fight for
+their country, and so they must be destroyed.</p>
+
+<p>In one little house, not far from the great river Nile, a woman sat
+holding her tiny baby in her arms, while the tears ran down her
+cheeks. He was such a beautiful baby, so strong and fair and healthy;
+but the king's order was that he was to be thrown into the river,
+where the cruel, hungry crocodiles were waiting to snap up everything
+they could find for a meal. Jochebed, the poor mother, held her baby
+closer in her arms. No, she could not obey the king's order. She would
+try and hide the baby for a little while, at any rate.</p>
+
+<p>It was easy to hide a baby while he was still tiny and slept most of
+the day; but when he grew bigger it was much more difficult. His
+sister Miriam did her best to help her mother; but any day, now that
+the baby was three months old, he might be discovered, and something
+must be done at once.</p>
+
+<p>So Jochebed thought of a plan, and prayed to God that He would help
+her to carry it out. At the edge of the river there grew tall
+bulrushes, which, when cut down and dried, could be made into many
+useful things. Taking some of these bulrushes, she wove them into a
+little cradle with a cover to it, just like a little ark, and this she
+covered with a kind of pitch, so that not a drop of water could come
+through. Inside the cradle she made a soft bed, and laid the baby
+there while he was fast asleep, and set the ark afloat in the water
+where the bulrushes were growing. She knew that presently the great
+princess, Pharaoh's daughter, would come down to bathe in the river,
+and would notice the queer little ark floating there.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_002.jpg" width="600" height="476" alt="She laid the baby there while he was fast asleep."  />
+<span class="caption">She laid the baby there while he was fast asleep.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Very soon the royal procession came winding down from the palace
+towards the river, as the princess in her gorgeous robes made her way
+to bathe in the pool of the lotus flowers. But at the edge of the
+river she stopped. What was that among the bulrushes? It was no lotus
+flower, but a strange-looking covered basket, and she ordered her
+maidens to bring it to her.</p>
+
+<p>The little ark was lifted out of the water and carried to the
+princess. There was surely something alive inside, and the princess
+was full of curiosity as she leaned down and lifted the cover to look
+in. Then she started back in amazement. The dearest little baby she
+had ever seen lay there, all rosy and fresh after his sleep, gazing up
+at her with wide-open eyes. The maidens crowded round, and the sight
+of all those strange faces was more than the baby could bear. He
+puckered up his face and began to cry.</p>
+
+<p>The princess loved babies, and she had none of her own. That little
+wailing cry went to her heart. She guessed at once that this was one
+of the Hebrew babies which had been ordered to be destroyed, and she
+made up her mind that this beautiful boy should at least be saved.</p>
+
+<p>All this time Miriam had been watching from her hiding-place close by,
+and with anxious, beating heart she came forward now. Could she help
+the princess? she asked. Should she run and find some Hebrew woman who
+might look after the baby?</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps the princess guessed that the baby's mother would not be far
+off, and she must have smiled a little when a nurse was so quickly
+found. But she took no notice of that.</p>
+
+<p>"Take this child away," she said, when Jochebed stood humbly before
+her, "and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages."</p>
+
+<p>It was merely as a nurse that the mother was hired. The great princess
+meant to adopt the baby as her own. But he was safe, and Jochebed's
+heart was full of gratitude to God as she took her little son into her
+arms again.</p>
+
+<p>As long as he needed a nurse the baby was left to be looked after by
+his mother in the little house by the river-side. The princess called
+him Moses, which means "drawn out," because he had been drawn out of
+the water, and she had made up her mind that as soon as he was old
+enough he should come to live with her at the palace, and be brought
+up as a prince. He would be treated just as if he was really her son.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_003.jpg" width="600" height="494" alt="She taught him about God."  />
+<span class="caption">She taught him about God.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But his poor mother had him for those first precious years while he
+was still a little boy, and she did not waste one minute of that time
+in her training of him. She taught him about God, and told him all the
+wonderful stories about his own country, so that he should never
+forget that he belonged to God's people, even when he should become a
+prince in the Egyptian palace. Just as a gardener sows seeds in a
+garden which afterwards grow up into beautiful flowers, so she sowed
+the seeds of truth in the heart of her little son, which long
+afterwards were to blossom out and bear such wonderful fruit.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_004.jpg" width="600" height="564" alt="Beating him unmercifully with a long whip."  />
+<span class="caption">Beating him unmercifully with a long whip.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then when Moses was old enough to do without a nurse, she took him to
+the palace, and "brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became
+her son."</p>
+
+<p>But deep down in his heart he never forgot his own people.</p>
+
+<p>It happened one day that he saw one of the Egyptian taskmasters
+treating one of the poor Israelite slaves with great cruelty, beating
+him most unmercifully with a long whip. This made Moses so angry that
+he rushed in to defend the slave, and dealt the taskmaster such a blow
+that it killed him.</p>
+
+<p>But instead of being grateful the Israelites would not trust him, and
+began to whisper the tale of how he had killed the Egyptian, so that
+Moses was obliged to flee for his life, leaving behind all the riches
+and honours he had enjoyed so long.</p>
+
+<p>A very different kind of life began now for Moses. He journeyed far
+into the desert and joined company there with an Arab tribe, and
+wandered from place to place feeding their flocks and living the life
+of a shepherd.</p>
+
+<p>But God had more difficult work for him to do than feeding sheep, and
+one day when he was in the desert he saw a strange sight. A bush was
+growing there, and in the middle of the bush a fire was burning, and
+the strange thing was that although the fire kept on burning fiercely
+the bush was not burnt at all. It was the Angel of the Lord that was
+in the midst of the fire, and as Moses drew near God called him by his
+name, and told him that he was to go back and set his people free
+from the tyranny of Pharaoh and lead them into the Promised Land.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_005.jpg" width="600" height="510" alt="In the middle of the bush a fire was burning."  />
+<span class="caption">In the middle of the bush a fire was burning.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>At first Moses said it was impossible for him to do this. His own
+people would not trust him, and he was no great speaker; he would
+certainly fail. But God bade him do his best, and Aaron his brother
+would speak for him; and above all God would be his helper.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/image_006.jpg" width="500" height="717" alt="&quot;Arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this
+people.&quot;
+
+Joshua i. 2."  />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this
+people.&quot;<br />
+Joshua i. 2.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>So Moses returned to the land of Egypt and boldly asked Pharaoh to
+allow the people to go and worship God. Time after time Pharaoh
+refused, although God sent dreadful plagues to warn him. At last,
+however, when the angel of death killed all the eldest sons of the
+Egyptians, Pharaoh was terrified and said the people might go at once
+and take all their belongings with them.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_007.jpg" width="600" height="552" alt="The Land of Canaan lay stretched out before him."  />
+<span class="caption">The Land of Canaan lay stretched out before him.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>It was a great company of people that set out, and Moses the great
+leader guided them on their way. They had many adventures, and braved
+many dangers and difficulties, but God was always their shield and
+defence. He delivered them by parting the waters of the Red Sea and
+allowing them to walk over dry-shod when Pharaoh and his army were
+pursuing them. And when the pursuers tried to follow them, the waters
+rolled back, and the whole great army were swept away by the returning
+tide.</p>
+
+<p>Yet in spite of God's care and goodness towards them, these Israelites
+were often ungrateful, and complained bitterly when they suffered any
+want. And it was always Moses whom they blamed.</p>
+
+<p>Moses was very patient with them; but once he was so angry that he was
+tempted to disobey God's direction, and as a punishment God told him
+that though he should see the Promised Land from afar he would never
+enter it himself.</p>
+
+<p>There on the mountain top he stood, gazing into the far distance,
+where the Land of Canaan, that fair land flowing with milk and honey,
+lay stretched out before him. Then he bowed his head to God's will.
+The murmuring people never saw their great leader again. He "was not,
+for God took him."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>RUTH, THE GLEANER</h2>
+
+
+<p>Along the hot, dusty road that led from the country of Moab to the
+fair land of Judah three women were walking with bowed heads and
+weary, halting steps. Their sorrowful, heavy eyes took no pleasure in
+the summer beauty of the harvest fields, the shimmering silver of the
+olive trees, and the rich promise of the vineyards which bordered
+their way. The whole world looked sad to them, seen through a mist of
+tears.</p>
+
+<p>There behind them, in the land of Moab, each of these women had left
+green graves, which held all they loved best. Naomi, the eldest, was
+perhaps the most desolate. Her thoughts went back to the time when she
+was as young and fair as the two daughters-in-law who walked at her
+side&mdash;when with her husband and her two boys she had trod that very
+road, seeking a home in a strange country to escape the famine which
+threatened them in her own land. Now she was returning to her native
+town of Bethlehem, a childless, lonely widow.</p>
+
+<p>The younger women, who were the wives of those two dead sons, were
+very sorrowful too, but for them there might yet be happiness in the
+world. They still had near and dear relatives and many friends in
+Moab, which was their native land. They had come far enough now, and
+it was time for them to return.</p>
+
+<p>"Turn again, my daughters," said Naomi, "and go your way."</p>
+
+<p>Their homes lay behind, and she must journey on alone to the little
+hill town which she had not seen for so many long years. They had
+kindly come so far to see her on her way, but they must come no
+farther.</p>
+
+<p>So the little party halted, and one of the young women, weeping
+bitterly, kissed her mother-in-law and turned to go back. But the
+other one, whose name was Ruth, clung to Naomi, and would not leave
+her.</p>
+
+<p>In vain the elder woman urged her to return, and pointed out that
+Orpah had gone, that home and friends and happiness awaited her there,
+while in front was only poverty and loneliness. Ruth only clung the
+closer as she sobbed out her tender, loving words.</p>
+
+<p>"Entreat me not to leave thee," she said, "or to return from following
+after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest,
+I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. The
+Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me."</p>
+
+<p>The tender words brought comfort to the heart of Naomi, as soft rain
+brings refreshment to the hard, dry earth. After all, she was not
+quite alone; she still had some one to love and care for. So together
+they journeyed on again, and at last came to the winding road which
+led up to the town of Bethlehem, nestling like a white bird upon the
+long ridge of hills.</p>
+
+<p>Naomi knew every step of the way. It seemed almost like a dream to
+tread on more that winding road, to pass through the city gates and
+find her way to the little house she knew so well. Although she had
+been gone so many years there were still people who remembered her,
+and these came running out to greet her.</p>
+
+<p>"Is this Naomi?" they asked wonderingly.</p>
+
+<p>They could scarcely believe that this sad, broken-down woman could be
+the pleasant-faced, happy girl who had gone away with her husband and
+boys in the year of the great famine. But as they listened to her
+story they did not wonder that she seemed so old and talked so
+bitterly. It made them look very kindly upon the beautiful girl who
+kept so close to her mother-in-law, who had given up everything rather
+than leave her alone.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_008.jpg" width="600" height="561" alt="He spoke very kindly."  />
+<span class="caption">He spoke very kindly.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Naomi had been quite right when she had told Ruth that poverty lay
+before them. She had come back quite empty-handed, and it was
+necessary to find some work at once which would at least provide them
+with daily bread. Ruth, looking out over the fields where already the
+barley was being cut, made up her mind to go and work there. The poor
+were always allowed to follow the reapers and glean the stray ears of
+corn that fell unnoticed. She might at least gather enough to feed her
+mother-in-law and herself.</p>
+
+<p>Very happily, then, Ruth set out, and found her way into the harvest
+field, which belonged to a rich man called Boaz. The reapers treated
+her kindly when she timidly asked for permission to glean there, and
+when the master arrived to see how the harvest went, he too noticed
+her at once, for she was very beautiful.</p>
+
+<p>"Whose damsel is this?" he asked.</p>
+
+<p>There were many people ready to tell him her name, and also to tell
+him how she had left her land and her people to come with Naomi, her
+mother-in-law. The story had been repeated all through the town.</p>
+
+<p>Boaz listened with interest. Naomi was his kins-woman, and it was only
+right that he should help her. He would begin by helping the
+sweet-faced daughter-in-law who had chanced to come gleaning upon his
+land. So he went and spoke very kindly to the beautiful Ruth, and told
+her to come every day to his harvest field and share the reapers'
+food, and he would see that no one troubled her. He even told the
+reapers to let some handfuls of corn fall in her way, on purpose, so
+that there might be plenty for her to glean.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_009.jpg" width="600" height="507" alt="The two loving hearts rejoiced in their happiness."  />
+<span class="caption">The two loving hearts rejoiced in their happiness.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>So each day Ruth went back and worked in the harvest fields, and each
+day as Boaz watched her he grew to love the gentle, loving-hearted
+woman more and more. And when at last the harvest days were over, he
+went to Naomi and asked that Ruth might become his wife.</p>
+
+<p>There was no more poverty or hard work now for Ruth or Naomi, no
+anxious days of wondering how long their flour and oil would last.
+Boaz was very rich, and nothing was too good for his fair young wife,
+whom he had first seen humbly gleaning in his harvest field.</p>
+
+<p>Happiness, too, began to steal back into the life of Naomi. Winter and
+spring passed, and when harvest time came round once more, all the
+sorrow and bitterness faded from her heart, for God sent a little
+child to comfort her. A baby son was born to Ruth, and the whole world
+seemed full of sunshine and happiness as she laid him in his
+grandmother's arms, and the two loving hearts rejoiced in their
+happiness, just as they had clung together in their sorrow.</p>
+
+<p>Of course, they dreamed many happy dreams over the little downy head,
+and planned a splendid future for the baby, as all mothers and
+grandmothers will do. But even their dreams never touched the golden
+reality, for they did not know that he was to be the grandfather of
+King David, that in this same little town of Bethlehem there was to be
+born of his line a greater King yet, the King of Heaven.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>SAMUEL, THE LITTLE SERVER</h2>
+
+
+<p>It was some years after Ruth's son had been born in Bethlehem that
+another mother was made glad by the precious gift of a little son.
+This mother's name was Hannah, and her baby was a special joy to her
+because she had so longed to have a son and had prayed so earnestly to
+God for this great gift.</p>
+
+<p>There was no doubt about the baby's name. He was called "Samuel,"
+which means "God has heard."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/image_010.jpg" width="500" height="701" alt="&quot;Samuel answered, Speak; for Thy servant heareth.&quot;
+
+1 Sam. iii. 10."  />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Samuel answered, Speak; for Thy servant heareth.&quot;
+<br />
+1 Sam. iii. 10.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>For had not God listened to his mother's prayers and given her her
+heart's desire?</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_011.jpg" width="600" height="569" alt="The time came that she should take him to Eli."  />
+<span class="caption">The time came that she should take him to Eli.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Hannah held her baby close in her arms. He was her very own, and yet
+he belonged also to God. She had promised, if her prayer was heard,
+that she would lend him to God, to serve Him in His Holy Temple.</p>
+
+<p>Only for a little while could she keep the baby all to herself. The
+months passed and then the years, and Samuel grew old enough to run
+about and take care of himself, needing no longer to be carried in his
+mother's arms. Then the time came that she should take him to Eli, the
+priest of God, and leave him to be brought up in the Temple and taught
+to be a servant of God.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps at first Samuel cried for his mother, for he was only a very
+little boy, and must have felt strange and lonely without her; but he
+very soon grew happy again, and learnt to love the old priest and the
+new life. It was his mother who suffered most. She missed him so
+sorely, and mothers do not forget as quickly as children do. But
+although she had lent him to God, he was still hers too; and every
+year she went back to see him, and through the long months in between,
+her fingers were busy making him a little coat of a beautiful blue
+stuff, sewed with a border of exquisite embroidery, blue and purple
+and scarlet, that was like a wreath of pomegranates. Just as certain
+as his birthday came round his mother came and brought with her his
+little coat, and as he grew bigger every year the coat was bigger too.</p>
+
+<p>Now, as soon as Samuel was old enough he went with Eli, the old
+priest, into God's house to learn how to help in God's service. Just
+as we sometimes see now a very little boy helping the priest at God's
+altar, so Samuel was like a little server as he helped Eli, and he too
+wore a linen surplice, or ephod as it was called.</p>
+
+<p>Although he was such a little boy, Samuel already showed that he was
+straightforward, brave, and obedient, a boy who could be trusted. He
+did his work faithfully, and when Eli began to grow feeble and his
+sight became dim, the little server was ready with his clear sight and
+eager footsteps to be both eyes and feet to the old priest.</p>
+
+<p>But besides growing old and feeble, Eli was also growing more and more
+unhappy day by day. His two sons were wicked and disobedient, and,
+what was worse, they were teaching God's people to be wicked too. Eli
+would not punish them as they deserved, so at last the time came when
+God took the punishment into His own hands. Only He would warn Eli
+before-hand, for the old priest was His servant.</p>
+
+<p>So one night God's message came, spoken by God's own voice&mdash;spoken not
+to the great priest, but to the humble little server.</p>
+
+<p>It was evening time. All the work of the day was over, and Eli had
+gone to rest. The lamp in the temple was burning dimly, sometimes
+flickering as if it would go out altogether, and leave the holy place
+in darkness. Samuel, tired with his day's service, was fast asleep,
+when suddenly he woke up, startled and attentive. Some one had called
+his name: "Samuel, Samuel."</p>
+
+<p>"Here am I," answered the boy at once. Perhaps the old priest was ill,
+and wanted him. Hastily Samuel slipped out of bed, and ran to Eli. But
+the old man was lying there quite calmly, and when Samuel asked why he
+had called, he answered quietly, "I called not; lie down again."</p>
+
+<p>It was very strange; but perhaps he had been dreaming, so Samuel went
+back and crept into bed, and very soon was once more fast asleep. Then
+again the voice came: "Samuel." This time Samuel was sure it was no
+dream, and he ran to Eli and cried to him, "Here am I, for thou didst
+call me."</p>
+
+<p>"I called not, my son," said Eli. "Lie down again."</p>
+
+<p>But when it happened a third time, and the little white figure stood
+by the priest's bed, declaring positively, "Thou didst call me," Eli
+suddenly realized that perhaps it was God whose voice the boy had
+heard.</p>
+
+<p>"Go, lie down," he said gently to the bewildered child, "and it shall
+be if He call thee that thou shalt say, 'Speak, Lord, for Thy servant
+heareth.'"</p>
+
+<p>One great lesson Samuel had learnt, and that was to do exactly what he
+was told, never questioning. So now he went back to bed without
+another word.</p>
+
+<p>Did Eli mean that it was the Lord who had called him? The great God
+who was so wonderful, whose Ark was in the Holy Place behind the veil
+of blue and purple and scarlet, guarded by cherubim? He had only
+seemed like a far-off name to Samuel. Could it really be God's own
+voice that had called Samuel? If that was so, then the great unknown
+God must all the time have known the little servant in His house.</p>
+
+<p>Then again the voice sounded: "Samuel, Samuel."</p>
+
+<p>This time Samuel was listening with all his might, and obediently his
+answer rang out fearlessly and clearly&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_012.jpg" width="600" height="488" alt="&quot;I called not, my son.&quot;"  />
+<span class="caption">&quot;I called not, my son.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>God knew that His little servant was fit to be trusted with a message,
+although it was a terrible one; and He told Samuel that a dreadful
+punishment was to fall upon the old priest Eli and his wicked sons,
+and so awful would it be that even the ears of the people who heard
+about it should tingle.</p>
+
+<p>There was no more sleep for Samuel that night. God's voice rang in his
+ears; his heart was filled with the thought that Eli would ask him
+what God had said, and he would have to tell him that dreadful
+message.</p>
+
+<p>At last the morning light began to steal in, and it was time to open
+the doors of God's house. The little server in his linen ephod was at
+his post as usual, but to-day his shining morning face was clouded and
+troubled, and there must have been a look of awe in his clear eyes.</p>
+
+<p>The call he dreaded came all too soon, and for the first time the
+sound of Eli's voice was unwelcome in his ears.</p>
+
+<p>"Samuel, my son," called the old man.</p>
+
+<p>Immediately Samuel went and stood at his side, "Here am I," he said.</p>
+
+<p>"What is it that the Lord hath said unto thee?" asked Eli. His eyes
+were very dim, but he felt sure that the boy had a troubled and
+fearful look. "I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and
+more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that He
+said unto thee."</p>
+
+<p>The very worst must be told, and Samuel knew he must hide nothing now.
+He repeated God's message word for word, and Eli bowed his head as he
+listened. The poor old priest had been a weak father, but he was a
+faithful servant, and knew that God was just.</p>
+
+<p>"It is the Lord," he said: "let Him do what seemeth Him good."</p>
+
+<p>From that day all things were different to Samuel, and year by year as
+he grew older he learned more and more to love and serve the God who
+had spoken to him and trusted him. So also as the years went by the
+people who worshipped at the Temple began to know that the little
+child who had been such a faithful server was chosen for a post of
+great honour&mdash;that he had been called, indeed, to be a prophet of the
+Lord.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h3>BOOKS IN THIS SERIES</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>JOSEPH THE DREAMER</li>
+
+<li>THE BABE IN THE BULRUSHES</li>
+
+<li>DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY</li>
+
+<li>THE CHILD JESUS</li>
+
+<li>THE GOOD PHYSICIAN</li>
+
+<li>THE GOOD SHEPHERD</li>
+</ul>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="500" height="740" alt=""  />
+</div>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/frontis.jpg" width="500" height="697" alt="The baby Moses in the bulrushes."  />
+<span class="caption">The baby Moses in the bulrushes.</span>
+</div>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h1>
+THE BABE IN<br />
+THE BULRUSHES</h1>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h2>By AMY STEEDMAN</h2>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/image_001.jpg" width="350" height="329" alt=""  />
+</div>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>THOMAS NELSON &amp; SONS</h3>
+<h4>NEW YORK</h4>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>THE FINDING OF MOSES</h2>
+
+
+<p>Many long years had passed since the days when Joseph's brothers and
+their families had settled in the land of Egypt. They were a great
+nation in numbers now, but the Egyptians still ruled over them, and
+used them as servants. The Pharaoh who had been so kind to the
+shepherds from Canaan was dead long ago, and the new kings, or
+Pharaohs as they were called, hated foreigners, and began to treat the
+Israelites very harshly. There were too many of them, they said; it
+was dangerous to have so many strong, powerful slaves. They must be
+kept down, and made to work from morning till night, and be beaten if
+they did not work fast enough.</p>
+
+<p>That was very hard for the poor people; but worse was to come. An
+order was issued one day which spread sorrow through all the land of
+Goshen, where the Israelites lived. Every baby boy that was born was
+to be thrown into the river. Girl babies might be allowed to live, for
+they would be useful as slaves, but boys might grow up to fight for
+their country, and so they must be destroyed.</p>
+
+<p>In one little house, not far from the great river Nile, a woman sat
+holding her tiny baby in her arms, while the tears ran down her
+cheeks. He was such a beautiful baby, so strong and fair and healthy;
+but the king's order was that he was to be thrown into the river,
+where the cruel, hungry crocodiles were waiting to snap up everything
+they could find for a meal. Jochebed, the poor mother, held her baby
+closer in her arms. No, she could not obey the king's order. She would
+try and hide the baby for a little while, at any rate.</p>
+
+<p>It was easy to hide a baby while he was still tiny and slept most of
+the day; but when he grew bigger it was much more difficult. His
+sister Miriam did her best to help her mother; but any day, now that
+the baby was three months old, he might be discovered, and something
+must be done at once.</p>
+
+<p>So Jochebed thought of a plan, and prayed to God that He would help
+her to carry it out. At the edge of the river there grew tall
+bulrushes, which, when cut down and dried, could be made into many
+useful things. Taking some of these bulrushes, she wove them into a
+little cradle with a cover to it, just like a little ark, and this she
+covered with a kind of pitch, so that not a drop of water could come
+through. Inside the cradle she made a soft bed, and laid the baby
+there while he was fast asleep, and set the ark afloat in the water
+where the bulrushes were growing. She knew that presently the great
+princess, Pharaoh's daughter, would come down to bathe in the river,
+and would notice the queer little ark floating there.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_002.jpg" width="600" height="476" alt="She laid the baby there while he was fast asleep."  />
+<span class="caption">She laid the baby there while he was fast asleep.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Very soon the royal procession came winding down from the palace
+towards the river, as the princess in her gorgeous robes made her way
+to bathe in the pool of the lotus flowers. But at the edge of the
+river she stopped. What was that among the bulrushes? It was no lotus
+flower, but a strange-looking covered basket, and she ordered her
+maidens to bring it to her.</p>
+
+<p>The little ark was lifted out of the water and carried to the
+princess. There was surely something alive inside, and the princess
+was full of curiosity as she leaned down and lifted the cover to look
+in. Then she started back in amazement. The dearest little baby she
+had ever seen lay there, all rosy and fresh after his sleep, gazing up
+at her with wide-open eyes. The maidens crowded round, and the sight
+of all those strange faces was more than the baby could bear. He
+puckered up his face and began to cry.</p>
+
+<p>The princess loved babies, and she had none of her own. That little
+wailing cry went to her heart. She guessed at once that this was one
+of the Hebrew babies which had been ordered to be destroyed, and she
+made up her mind that this beautiful boy should at least be saved.</p>
+
+<p>All this time Miriam had been watching from her hiding-place close by,
+and with anxious, beating heart she came forward now. Could she help
+the princess? she asked. Should she run and find some Hebrew woman who
+might look after the baby?</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps the princess guessed that the baby's mother would not be far
+off, and she must have smiled a little when a nurse was so quickly
+found. But she took no notice of that.</p>
+
+<p>"Take this child away," she said, when Jochebed stood humbly before
+her, "and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages."</p>
+
+<p>It was merely as a nurse that the mother was hired. The great princess
+meant to adopt the baby as her own. But he was safe, and Jochebed's
+heart was full of gratitude to God as she took her little son into her
+arms again.</p>
+
+<p>As long as he needed a nurse the baby was left to be looked after by
+his mother in the little house by the river-side. The princess called
+him Moses, which means "drawn out," because he had been drawn out of
+the water, and she had made up her mind that as soon as he was old
+enough he should come to live with her at the palace, and be brought
+up as a prince. He would be treated just as if he was really her son.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_003.jpg" width="600" height="494" alt="She taught him about God."  />
+<span class="caption">She taught him about God.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But his poor mother had him for those first precious years while he
+was still a little boy, and she did not waste one minute of that time
+in her training of him. She taught him about God, and told him all the
+wonderful stories about his own country, so that he should never
+forget that he belonged to God's people, even when he should become a
+prince in the Egyptian palace. Just as a gardener sows seeds in a
+garden which afterwards grow up into beautiful flowers, so she sowed
+the seeds of truth in the heart of her little son, which long
+afterwards were to blossom out and bear such wonderful fruit.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_004.jpg" width="600" height="564" alt="Beating him unmercifully with a long whip."  />
+<span class="caption">Beating him unmercifully with a long whip.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then when Moses was old enough to do without a nurse, she took him to
+the palace, and "brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became
+her son."</p>
+
+<p>But deep down in his heart he never forgot his own people.</p>
+
+<p>It happened one day that he saw one of the Egyptian taskmasters
+treating one of the poor Israelite slaves with great cruelty, beating
+him most unmercifully with a long whip. This made Moses so angry that
+he rushed in to defend the slave, and dealt the taskmaster such a blow
+that it killed him.</p>
+
+<p>But instead of being grateful the Israelites would not trust him, and
+began to whisper the tale of how he had killed the Egyptian, so that
+Moses was obliged to flee for his life, leaving behind all the riches
+and honours he had enjoyed so long.</p>
+
+<p>A very different kind of life began now for Moses. He journeyed far
+into the desert and joined company there with an Arab tribe, and
+wandered from place to place feeding their flocks and living the life
+of a shepherd.</p>
+
+<p>But God had more difficult work for him to do than feeding sheep, and
+one day when he was in the desert he saw a strange sight. A bush was
+growing there, and in the middle of the bush a fire was burning, and
+the strange thing was that although the fire kept on burning fiercely
+the bush was not burnt at all. It was the Angel of the Lord that was
+in the midst of the fire, and as Moses drew near God called him by his
+name, and told him that he was to go back and set his people free
+from the tyranny of Pharaoh and lead them into the Promised Land.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_005.jpg" width="600" height="510" alt="In the middle of the bush a fire was burning."  />
+<span class="caption">In the middle of the bush a fire was burning.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>At first Moses said it was impossible for him to do this. His own
+people would not trust him, and he was no great speaker; he would
+certainly fail. But God bade him do his best, and Aaron his brother
+would speak for him; and above all God would be his helper.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/image_006.jpg" width="500" height="717" alt="&quot;Arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this
+people.&quot;
+
+Joshua i. 2."  />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this
+people.&quot;<br />
+Joshua i. 2.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>So Moses returned to the land of Egypt and boldly asked Pharaoh to
+allow the people to go and worship God. Time after time Pharaoh
+refused, although God sent dreadful plagues to warn him. At last,
+however, when the angel of death killed all the eldest sons of the
+Egyptians, Pharaoh was terrified and said the people might go at once
+and take all their belongings with them.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_007.jpg" width="600" height="552" alt="The Land of Canaan lay stretched out before him."  />
+<span class="caption">The Land of Canaan lay stretched out before him.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>It was a great company of people that set out, and Moses the great
+leader guided them on their way. They had many adventures, and braved
+many dangers and difficulties, but God was always their shield and
+defence. He delivered them by parting the waters of the Red Sea and
+allowing them to walk over dry-shod when Pharaoh and his army were
+pursuing them. And when the pursuers tried to follow them, the waters
+rolled back, and the whole great army were swept away by the returning
+tide.</p>
+
+<p>Yet in spite of God's care and goodness towards them, these Israelites
+were often ungrateful, and complained bitterly when they suffered any
+want. And it was always Moses whom they blamed.</p>
+
+<p>Moses was very patient with them; but once he was so angry that he was
+tempted to disobey God's direction, and as a punishment God told him
+that though he should see the Promised Land from afar he would never
+enter it himself.</p>
+
+<p>There on the mountain top he stood, gazing into the far distance,
+where the Land of Canaan, that fair land flowing with milk and honey,
+lay stretched out before him. Then he bowed his head to God's will.
+The murmuring people never saw their great leader again. He "was not,
+for God took him."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>RUTH, THE GLEANER</h2>
+
+
+<p>Along the hot, dusty road that led from the country of Moab to the
+fair land of Judah three women were walking with bowed heads and
+weary, halting steps. Their sorrowful, heavy eyes took no pleasure in
+the summer beauty of the harvest fields, the shimmering silver of the
+olive trees, and the rich promise of the vineyards which bordered
+their way. The whole world looked sad to them, seen through a mist of
+tears.</p>
+
+<p>There behind them, in the land of Moab, each of these women had left
+green graves, which held all they loved best. Naomi, the eldest, was
+perhaps the most desolate. Her thoughts went back to the time when she
+was as young and fair as the two daughters-in-law who walked at her
+side&mdash;when with her husband and her two boys she had trod that very
+road, seeking a home in a strange country to escape the famine which
+threatened them in her own land. Now she was returning to her native
+town of Bethlehem, a childless, lonely widow.</p>
+
+<p>The younger women, who were the wives of those two dead sons, were
+very sorrowful too, but for them there might yet be happiness in the
+world. They still had near and dear relatives and many friends in
+Moab, which was their native land. They had come far enough now, and
+it was time for them to return.</p>
+
+<p>"Turn again, my daughters," said Naomi, "and go your way."</p>
+
+<p>Their homes lay behind, and she must journey on alone to the little
+hill town which she had not seen for so many long years. They had
+kindly come so far to see her on her way, but they must come no
+farther.</p>
+
+<p>So the little party halted, and one of the young women, weeping
+bitterly, kissed her mother-in-law and turned to go back. But the
+other one, whose name was Ruth, clung to Naomi, and would not leave
+her.</p>
+
+<p>In vain the elder woman urged her to return, and pointed out that
+Orpah had gone, that home and friends and happiness awaited her there,
+while in front was only poverty and loneliness. Ruth only clung the
+closer as she sobbed out her tender, loving words.</p>
+
+<p>"Entreat me not to leave thee," she said, "or to return from following
+after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest,
+I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. The
+Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me."</p>
+
+<p>The tender words brought comfort to the heart of Naomi, as soft rain
+brings refreshment to the hard, dry earth. After all, she was not
+quite alone; she still had some one to love and care for. So together
+they journeyed on again, and at last came to the winding road which
+led up to the town of Bethlehem, nestling like a white bird upon the
+long ridge of hills.</p>
+
+<p>Naomi knew every step of the way. It seemed almost like a dream to
+tread on more that winding road, to pass through the city gates and
+find her way to the little house she knew so well. Although she had
+been gone so many years there were still people who remembered her,
+and these came running out to greet her.</p>
+
+<p>"Is this Naomi?" they asked wonderingly.</p>
+
+<p>They could scarcely believe that this sad, broken-down woman could be
+the pleasant-faced, happy girl who had gone away with her husband and
+boys in the year of the great famine. But as they listened to her
+story they did not wonder that she seemed so old and talked so
+bitterly. It made them look very kindly upon the beautiful girl who
+kept so close to her mother-in-law, who had given up everything rather
+than leave her alone.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_008.jpg" width="600" height="561" alt="He spoke very kindly."  />
+<span class="caption">He spoke very kindly.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Naomi had been quite right when she had told Ruth that poverty lay
+before them. She had come back quite empty-handed, and it was
+necessary to find some work at once which would at least provide them
+with daily bread. Ruth, looking out over the fields where already the
+barley was being cut, made up her mind to go and work there. The poor
+were always allowed to follow the reapers and glean the stray ears of
+corn that fell unnoticed. She might at least gather enough to feed her
+mother-in-law and herself.</p>
+
+<p>Very happily, then, Ruth set out, and found her way into the harvest
+field, which belonged to a rich man called Boaz. The reapers treated
+her kindly when she timidly asked for permission to glean there, and
+when the master arrived to see how the harvest went, he too noticed
+her at once, for she was very beautiful.</p>
+
+<p>"Whose damsel is this?" he asked.</p>
+
+<p>There were many people ready to tell him her name, and also to tell
+him how she had left her land and her people to come with Naomi, her
+mother-in-law. The story had been repeated all through the town.</p>
+
+<p>Boaz listened with interest. Naomi was his kins-woman, and it was only
+right that he should help her. He would begin by helping the
+sweet-faced daughter-in-law who had chanced to come gleaning upon his
+land. So he went and spoke very kindly to the beautiful Ruth, and told
+her to come every day to his harvest field and share the reapers'
+food, and he would see that no one troubled her. He even told the
+reapers to let some handfuls of corn fall in her way, on purpose, so
+that there might be plenty for her to glean.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_009.jpg" width="600" height="507" alt="The two loving hearts rejoiced in their happiness."  />
+<span class="caption">The two loving hearts rejoiced in their happiness.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>So each day Ruth went back and worked in the harvest fields, and each
+day as Boaz watched her he grew to love the gentle, loving-hearted
+woman more and more. And when at last the harvest days were over, he
+went to Naomi and asked that Ruth might become his wife.</p>
+
+<p>There was no more poverty or hard work now for Ruth or Naomi, no
+anxious days of wondering how long their flour and oil would last.
+Boaz was very rich, and nothing was too good for his fair young wife,
+whom he had first seen humbly gleaning in his harvest field.</p>
+
+<p>Happiness, too, began to steal back into the life of Naomi. Winter and
+spring passed, and when harvest time came round once more, all the
+sorrow and bitterness faded from her heart, for God sent a little
+child to comfort her. A baby son was born to Ruth, and the whole world
+seemed full of sunshine and happiness as she laid him in his
+grandmother's arms, and the two loving hearts rejoiced in their
+happiness, just as they had clung together in their sorrow.</p>
+
+<p>Of course, they dreamed many happy dreams over the little downy head,
+and planned a splendid future for the baby, as all mothers and
+grandmothers will do. But even their dreams never touched the golden
+reality, for they did not know that he was to be the grandfather of
+King David, that in this same little town of Bethlehem there was to be
+born of his line a greater King yet, the King of Heaven.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>SAMUEL, THE LITTLE SERVER</h2>
+
+
+<p>It was some years after Ruth's son had been born in Bethlehem that
+another mother was made glad by the precious gift of a little son.
+This mother's name was Hannah, and her baby was a special joy to her
+because she had so longed to have a son and had prayed so earnestly to
+God for this great gift.</p>
+
+<p>There was no doubt about the baby's name. He was called "Samuel,"
+which means "God has heard."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/image_010.jpg" width="500" height="701" alt="&quot;Samuel answered, Speak; for Thy servant heareth.&quot;
+
+1 Sam. iii. 10."  />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Samuel answered, Speak; for Thy servant heareth.&quot;
+<br />
+1 Sam. iii. 10.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>For had not God listened to his mother's prayers and given her her
+heart's desire?</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_011.jpg" width="600" height="569" alt="The time came that she should take him to Eli."  />
+<span class="caption">The time came that she should take him to Eli.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Hannah held her baby close in her arms. He was her very own, and yet
+he belonged also to God. She had promised, if her prayer was heard,
+that she would lend him to God, to serve Him in His Holy Temple.</p>
+
+<p>Only for a little while could she keep the baby all to herself. The
+months passed and then the years, and Samuel grew old enough to run
+about and take care of himself, needing no longer to be carried in his
+mother's arms. Then the time came that she should take him to Eli, the
+priest of God, and leave him to be brought up in the Temple and taught
+to be a servant of God.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps at first Samuel cried for his mother, for he was only a very
+little boy, and must have felt strange and lonely without her; but he
+very soon grew happy again, and learnt to love the old priest and the
+new life. It was his mother who suffered most. She missed him so
+sorely, and mothers do not forget as quickly as children do. But
+although she had lent him to God, he was still hers too; and every
+year she went back to see him, and through the long months in between,
+her fingers were busy making him a little coat of a beautiful blue
+stuff, sewed with a border of exquisite embroidery, blue and purple
+and scarlet, that was like a wreath of pomegranates. Just as certain
+as his birthday came round his mother came and brought with her his
+little coat, and as he grew bigger every year the coat was bigger too.</p>
+
+<p>Now, as soon as Samuel was old enough he went with Eli, the old
+priest, into God's house to learn how to help in God's service. Just
+as we sometimes see now a very little boy helping the priest at God's
+altar, so Samuel was like a little server as he helped Eli, and he too
+wore a linen surplice, or ephod as it was called.</p>
+
+<p>Although he was such a little boy, Samuel already showed that he was
+straightforward, brave, and obedient, a boy who could be trusted. He
+did his work faithfully, and when Eli began to grow feeble and his
+sight became dim, the little server was ready with his clear sight and
+eager footsteps to be both eyes and feet to the old priest.</p>
+
+<p>But besides growing old and feeble, Eli was also growing more and more
+unhappy day by day. His two sons were wicked and disobedient, and,
+what was worse, they were teaching God's people to be wicked too. Eli
+would not punish them as they deserved, so at last the time came when
+God took the punishment into His own hands. Only He would warn Eli
+before-hand, for the old priest was His servant.</p>
+
+<p>So one night God's message came, spoken by God's own voice&mdash;spoken not
+to the great priest, but to the humble little server.</p>
+
+<p>It was evening time. All the work of the day was over, and Eli had
+gone to rest. The lamp in the temple was burning dimly, sometimes
+flickering as if it would go out altogether, and leave the holy place
+in darkness. Samuel, tired with his day's service, was fast asleep,
+when suddenly he woke up, startled and attentive. Some one had called
+his name: "Samuel, Samuel."</p>
+
+<p>"Here am I," answered the boy at once. Perhaps the old priest was ill,
+and wanted him. Hastily Samuel slipped out of bed, and ran to Eli. But
+the old man was lying there quite calmly, and when Samuel asked why he
+had called, he answered quietly, "I called not; lie down again."</p>
+
+<p>It was very strange; but perhaps he had been dreaming, so Samuel went
+back and crept into bed, and very soon was once more fast asleep. Then
+again the voice came: "Samuel." This time Samuel was sure it was no
+dream, and he ran to Eli and cried to him, "Here am I, for thou didst
+call me."</p>
+
+<p>"I called not, my son," said Eli. "Lie down again."</p>
+
+<p>But when it happened a third time, and the little white figure stood
+by the priest's bed, declaring positively, "Thou didst call me," Eli
+suddenly realized that perhaps it was God whose voice the boy had
+heard.</p>
+
+<p>"Go, lie down," he said gently to the bewildered child, "and it shall
+be if He call thee that thou shalt say, 'Speak, Lord, for Thy servant
+heareth.'"</p>
+
+<p>One great lesson Samuel had learnt, and that was to do exactly what he
+was told, never questioning. So now he went back to bed without
+another word.</p>
+
+<p>Did Eli mean that it was the Lord who had called him? The great God
+who was so wonderful, whose Ark was in the Holy Place behind the veil
+of blue and purple and scarlet, guarded by cherubim? He had only
+seemed like a far-off name to Samuel. Could it really be God's own
+voice that had called Samuel? If that was so, then the great unknown
+God must all the time have known the little servant in His house.</p>
+
+<p>Then again the voice sounded: "Samuel, Samuel."</p>
+
+<p>This time Samuel was listening with all his might, and obediently his
+answer rang out fearlessly and clearly&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/image_012.jpg" width="600" height="488" alt="&quot;I called not, my son.&quot;"  />
+<span class="caption">&quot;I called not, my son.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>God knew that His little servant was fit to be trusted with a message,
+although it was a terrible one; and He told Samuel that a dreadful
+punishment was to fall upon the old priest Eli and his wicked sons,
+and so awful would it be that even the ears of the people who heard
+about it should tingle.</p>
+
+<p>There was no more sleep for Samuel that night. God's voice rang in his
+ears; his heart was filled with the thought that Eli would ask him
+what God had said, and he would have to tell him that dreadful
+message.</p>
+
+<p>At last the morning light began to steal in, and it was time to open
+the doors of God's house. The little server in his linen ephod was at
+his post as usual, but to-day his shining morning face was clouded and
+troubled, and there must have been a look of awe in his clear eyes.</p>
+
+<p>The call he dreaded came all too soon, and for the first time the
+sound of Eli's voice was unwelcome in his ears.</p>
+
+<p>"Samuel, my son," called the old man.</p>
+
+<p>Immediately Samuel went and stood at his side, "Here am I," he said.</p>
+
+<p>"What is it that the Lord hath said unto thee?" asked Eli. His eyes
+were very dim, but he felt sure that the boy had a troubled and
+fearful look. "I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and
+more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that He
+said unto thee."</p>
+
+<p>The very worst must be told, and Samuel knew he must hide nothing now.
+He repeated God's message word for word, and Eli bowed his head as he
+listened. The poor old priest had been a weak father, but he was a
+faithful servant, and knew that God was just.</p>
+
+<p>"It is the Lord," he said: "let Him do what seemeth Him good."</p>
+
+<p>From that day all things were different to Samuel, and year by year as
+he grew older he learned more and more to love and serve the God who
+had spoken to him and trusted him. So also as the years went by the
+people who worshipped at the Temple began to know that the little
+child who had been such a faithful server was chosen for a post of
+great honour&mdash;that he had been called, indeed, to be a prophet of the
+Lord.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h3>BOOKS IN THIS SERIES</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>JOSEPH THE DREAMER</li>
+
+<li>THE BABE IN THE BULRUSHES</li>
+
+<li>DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY</li>
+
+<li>THE CHILD JESUS</li>
+
+<li>THE GOOD PHYSICIAN</li>
+
+<li>THE GOOD SHEPHERD</li>
+</ul>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Babe in the Bulrushes, by Amy Steedman
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+Title: The Babe in the Bulrushes
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+Author: Amy Steedman
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+           [Illustration: The baby Moses in the bulrushes.]
+
+
+                             THE BABE IN
+
+                            THE BULRUSHES
+
+
+
+                           By AMY STEEDMAN
+
+
+                            [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+                         THOMAS NELSON & SONS
+
+                               NEW YORK
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE FINDING OF MOSES
+
+
+Many long years had passed since the days when Joseph's brothers and
+their families had settled in the land of Egypt. They were a great
+nation in numbers now, but the Egyptians still ruled over them, and
+used them as servants. The Pharaoh who had been so kind to the
+shepherds from Canaan was dead long ago, and the new kings, or
+Pharaohs as they were called, hated foreigners, and began to treat the
+Israelites very harshly. There were too many of them, they said; it
+was dangerous to have so many strong, powerful slaves. They must be
+kept down, and made to work from morning till night, and be beaten if
+they did not work fast enough.
+
+That was very hard for the poor people; but worse was to come. An
+order was issued one day which spread sorrow through all the land of
+Goshen, where the Israelites lived. Every baby boy that was born was
+to be thrown into the river. Girl babies might be allowed to live, for
+they would be useful as slaves, but boys might grow up to fight for
+their country, and so they must be destroyed.
+
+In one little house, not far from the great river Nile, a woman sat
+holding her tiny baby in her arms, while the tears ran down her
+cheeks. He was such a beautiful baby, so strong and fair and healthy;
+but the king's order was that he was to be thrown into the river,
+where the cruel, hungry crocodiles were waiting to snap up everything
+they could find for a meal. Jochebed, the poor mother, held her baby
+closer in her arms. No, she could not obey the king's order. She would
+try and hide the baby for a little while, at any rate.
+
+It was easy to hide a baby while he was still tiny and slept most of
+the day; but when he grew bigger it was much more difficult. His
+sister Miriam did her best to help her mother; but any day, now that
+the baby was three months old, he might be discovered, and something
+must be done at once.
+
+So Jochebed thought of a plan, and prayed to God that He would help
+her to carry it out. At the edge of the river there grew tall
+bulrushes, which, when cut down and dried, could be made into many
+useful things. Taking some of these bulrushes, she wove them into a
+little cradle with a cover to it, just like a little ark, and this she
+covered with a kind of pitch, so that not a drop of water could come
+through. Inside the cradle she made a soft bed, and laid the baby
+there while he was fast asleep, and set the ark afloat in the water
+where the bulrushes were growing. She knew that presently the great
+princess, Pharaoh's daughter, would come down to bathe in the river,
+and would notice the queer little ark floating there.
+
+[Illustration: She laid the baby there while he was fast asleep.]
+
+Very soon the royal procession came winding down from the palace
+towards the river, as the princess in her gorgeous robes made her way
+to bathe in the pool of the lotus flowers. But at the edge of the
+river she stopped. What was that among the bulrushes? It was no lotus
+flower, but a strange-looking covered basket, and she ordered her
+maidens to bring it to her.
+
+The little ark was lifted out of the water and carried to the
+princess. There was surely something alive inside, and the princess
+was full of curiosity as she leaned down and lifted the cover to look
+in. Then she started back in amazement. The dearest little baby she
+had ever seen lay there, all rosy and fresh after his sleep, gazing up
+at her with wide-open eyes. The maidens crowded round, and the sight
+of all those strange faces was more than the baby could bear. He
+puckered up his face and began to cry.
+
+The princess loved babies, and she had none of her own. That little
+wailing cry went to her heart. She guessed at once that this was one
+of the Hebrew babies which had been ordered to be destroyed, and she
+made up her mind that this beautiful boy should at least be saved.
+
+All this time Miriam had been watching from her hiding-place close by,
+and with anxious, beating heart she came forward now. Could she help
+the princess? she asked. Should she run and find some Hebrew woman who
+might look after the baby?
+
+Perhaps the princess guessed that the baby's mother would not be far
+off, and she must have smiled a little when a nurse was so quickly
+found. But she took no notice of that.
+
+"Take this child away," she said, when Jochebed stood humbly before
+her, "and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages."
+
+It was merely as a nurse that the mother was hired. The great princess
+meant to adopt the baby as her own. But he was safe, and Jochebed's
+heart was full of gratitude to God as she took her little son into her
+arms again.
+
+As long as he needed a nurse the baby was left to be looked after by
+his mother in the little house by the river-side. The princess called
+him Moses, which means "drawn out," because he had been drawn out of
+the water, and she had made up her mind that as soon as he was old
+enough he should come to live with her at the palace, and be brought
+up as a prince. He would be treated just as if he was really her son.
+
+[Illustration: She taught him about God.]
+
+But his poor mother had him for those first precious years while he
+was still a little boy, and she did not waste one minute of that time
+in her training of him. She taught him about God, and told him all the
+wonderful stories about his own country, so that he should never
+forget that he belonged to God's people, even when he should become a
+prince in the Egyptian palace. Just as a gardener sows seeds in a
+garden which afterwards grow up into beautiful flowers, so she sowed
+the seeds of truth in the heart of her little son, which long
+afterwards were to blossom out and bear such wonderful fruit.
+
+[Illustration: Beating him unmercifully with a long whip.]
+
+Then when Moses was old enough to do without a nurse, she took him to
+the palace, and "brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became
+her son."
+
+But deep down in his heart he never forgot his own people.
+
+It happened one day that he saw one of the Egyptian taskmasters
+treating one of the poor Israelite slaves with great cruelty, beating
+him most unmercifully with a long whip. This made Moses so angry that
+he rushed in to defend the slave, and dealt the taskmaster such a blow
+that it killed him.
+
+But instead of being grateful the Israelites would not trust him, and
+began to whisper the tale of how he had killed the Egyptian, so that
+Moses was obliged to flee for his life, leaving behind all the riches
+and honours he had enjoyed so long.
+
+A very different kind of life began now for Moses. He journeyed far
+into the desert and joined company there with an Arab tribe, and
+wandered from place to place feeding their flocks and living the life
+of a shepherd.
+
+But God had more difficult work for him to do than feeding sheep, and
+one day when he was in the desert he saw a strange sight. A bush was
+growing there, and in the middle of the bush a fire was burning, and
+the strange thing was that although the fire kept on burning fiercely
+the bush was not burnt at all. It was the Angel of the Lord that was
+in the midst of the fire, and as Moses drew near God called him by his
+name, and told him that he was to go back and set his people free
+from the tyranny of Pharaoh and lead them into the Promised Land.
+
+[Illustration: In the middle of the bush a fire was burning.]
+
+At first Moses said it was impossible for him to do this. His own
+people would not trust him, and he was no great speaker; he would
+certainly fail. But God bade him do his best, and Aaron his brother
+would speak for him; and above all God would be his helper.
+
+[Illustration: "Arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this
+people." Joshua i. 2.]
+
+So Moses returned to the land of Egypt and boldly asked Pharaoh to
+allow the people to go and worship God. Time after time Pharaoh
+refused, although God sent dreadful plagues to warn him. At last,
+however, when the angel of death killed all the eldest sons of the
+Egyptians, Pharaoh was terrified and said the people might go at once
+and take all their belongings with them.
+
+[Illustration: The Land of Canaan lay stretched out before him.]
+
+It was a great company of people that set out, and Moses the great
+leader guided them on their way. They had many adventures, and braved
+many dangers and difficulties, but God was always their shield and
+defence. He delivered them by parting the waters of the Red Sea and
+allowing them to walk over dry-shod when Pharaoh and his army were
+pursuing them. And when the pursuers tried to follow them, the waters
+rolled back, and the whole great army were swept away by the returning
+tide.
+
+Yet in spite of God's care and goodness towards them, these Israelites
+were often ungrateful, and complained bitterly when they suffered any
+want. And it was always Moses whom they blamed.
+
+Moses was very patient with them; but once he was so angry that he was
+tempted to disobey God's direction, and as a punishment God told him
+that though he should see the Promised Land from afar he would never
+enter it himself.
+
+There on the mountain top he stood, gazing into the far distance,
+where the Land of Canaan, that fair land flowing with milk and honey,
+lay stretched out before him. Then he bowed his head to God's will.
+The murmuring people never saw their great leader again. He "was not,
+for God took him."
+
+
+
+
+RUTH, THE GLEANER
+
+
+Along the hot, dusty road that led from the country of Moab to the
+fair land of Judah three women were walking with bowed heads and
+weary, halting steps. Their sorrowful, heavy eyes took no pleasure in
+the summer beauty of the harvest fields, the shimmering silver of the
+olive trees, and the rich promise of the vineyards which bordered
+their way. The whole world looked sad to them, seen through a mist of
+tears.
+
+There behind them, in the land of Moab, each of these women had left
+green graves, which held all they loved best. Naomi, the eldest, was
+perhaps the most desolate. Her thoughts went back to the time when she
+was as young and fair as the two daughters-in-law who walked at her
+side--when with her husband and her two boys she had trod that very
+road, seeking a home in a strange country to escape the famine which
+threatened them in her own land. Now she was returning to her native
+town of Bethlehem, a childless, lonely widow.
+
+The younger women, who were the wives of those two dead sons, were
+very sorrowful too, but for them there might yet be happiness in the
+world. They still had near and dear relatives and many friends in
+Moab, which was their native land. They had come far enough now, and
+it was time for them to return.
+
+"Turn again, my daughters," said Naomi, "and go your way."
+
+Their homes lay behind, and she must journey on alone to the little
+hill town which she had not seen for so many long years. They had
+kindly come so far to see her on her way, but they must come no
+farther.
+
+So the little party halted, and one of the young women, weeping
+bitterly, kissed her mother-in-law and turned to go back. But the
+other one, whose name was Ruth, clung to Naomi, and would not leave
+her.
+
+In vain the elder woman urged her to return, and pointed out that
+Orpah had gone, that home and friends and happiness awaited her there,
+while in front was only poverty and loneliness. Ruth only clung the
+closer as she sobbed out her tender, loving words.
+
+"Entreat me not to leave thee," she said, "or to return from following
+after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest,
+I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. The
+Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me."
+
+The tender words brought comfort to the heart of Naomi, as soft rain
+brings refreshment to the hard, dry earth. After all, she was not
+quite alone; she still had some one to love and care for. So together
+they journeyed on again, and at last came to the winding road which
+led up to the town of Bethlehem, nestling like a white bird upon the
+long ridge of hills.
+
+Naomi knew every step of the way. It seemed almost like a dream to
+tread on more that winding road, to pass through the city gates and
+find her way to the little house she knew so well. Although she had
+been gone so many years there were still people who remembered her,
+and these came running out to greet her.
+
+"Is this Naomi?" they asked wonderingly.
+
+They could scarcely believe that this sad, broken-down woman could be
+the pleasant-faced, happy girl who had gone away with her husband and
+boys in the year of the great famine. But as they listened to her
+story they did not wonder that she seemed so old and talked so
+bitterly. It made them look very kindly upon the beautiful girl who
+kept so close to her mother-in-law, who had given up everything rather
+than leave her alone.
+
+[Illustration: He spoke very kindly.]
+
+Naomi had been quite right when she had told Ruth that poverty lay
+before them. She had come back quite empty-handed, and it was
+necessary to find some work at once which would at least provide them
+with daily bread. Ruth, looking out over the fields where already the
+barley was being cut, made up her mind to go and work there. The poor
+were always allowed to follow the reapers and glean the stray ears of
+corn that fell unnoticed. She might at least gather enough to feed her
+mother-in-law and herself.
+
+Very happily, then, Ruth set out, and found her way into the harvest
+field, which belonged to a rich man called Boaz. The reapers treated
+her kindly when she timidly asked for permission to glean there, and
+when the master arrived to see how the harvest went, he too noticed
+her at once, for she was very beautiful.
+
+"Whose damsel is this?" he asked.
+
+There were many people ready to tell him her name, and also to tell
+him how she had left her land and her people to come with Naomi, her
+mother-in-law. The story had been repeated all through the town.
+
+Boaz listened with interest. Naomi was his kins-woman, and it was only
+right that he should help her. He would begin by helping the
+sweet-faced daughter-in-law who had chanced to come gleaning upon his
+land. So he went and spoke very kindly to the beautiful Ruth, and told
+her to come every day to his harvest field and share the reapers'
+food, and he would see that no one troubled her. He even told the
+reapers to let some handfuls of corn fall in her way, on purpose, so
+that there might be plenty for her to glean.
+
+[Illustration: The two loving hearts rejoiced in their happiness.]
+
+So each day Ruth went back and worked in the harvest fields, and each
+day as Boaz watched her he grew to love the gentle, loving-hearted
+woman more and more. And when at last the harvest days were over, he
+went to Naomi and asked that Ruth might become his wife.
+
+There was no more poverty or hard work now for Ruth or Naomi, no
+anxious days of wondering how long their flour and oil would last.
+Boaz was very rich, and nothing was too good for his fair young wife,
+whom he had first seen humbly gleaning in his harvest field.
+
+Happiness, too, began to steal back into the life of Naomi. Winter and
+spring passed, and when harvest time came round once more, all the
+sorrow and bitterness faded from her heart, for God sent a little
+child to comfort her. A baby son was born to Ruth, and the whole world
+seemed full of sunshine and happiness as she laid him in his
+grandmother's arms, and the two loving hearts rejoiced in their
+happiness, just as they had clung together in their sorrow.
+
+Of course, they dreamed many happy dreams over the little downy head,
+and planned a splendid future for the baby, as all mothers and
+grandmothers will do. But even their dreams never touched the golden
+reality, for they did not know that he was to be the grandfather of
+King David, that in this same little town of Bethlehem there was to be
+born of his line a greater King yet, the King of Heaven.
+
+
+
+
+SAMUEL, THE LITTLE SERVER
+
+
+It was some years after Ruth's son had been born in Bethlehem that
+another mother was made glad by the precious gift of a little son.
+This mother's name was Hannah, and her baby was a special joy to her
+because she had so longed to have a son and had prayed so earnestly to
+God for this great gift.
+
+There was no doubt about the baby's name. He was called "Samuel,"
+which means "God has heard."
+
+[Illustration: "Samuel answered, Speak; for Thy servant heareth."
+1 Sam. iii. 10.]
+
+For had not God listened to his mother's prayers and given her her
+heart's desire?
+
+[Illustration: The time came that she should take him to Eli.]
+
+Hannah held her baby close in her arms. He was her very own, and yet
+he belonged also to God. She had promised, if her prayer was heard,
+that she would lend him to God, to serve Him in His Holy Temple.
+
+Only for a little while could she keep the baby all to herself. The
+months passed and then the years, and Samuel grew old enough to run
+about and take care of himself, needing no longer to be carried in his
+mother's arms. Then the time came that she should take him to Eli, the
+priest of God, and leave him to be brought up in the Temple and taught
+to be a servant of God.
+
+Perhaps at first Samuel cried for his mother, for he was only a very
+little boy, and must have felt strange and lonely without her; but he
+very soon grew happy again, and learnt to love the old priest and the
+new life. It was his mother who suffered most. She missed him so
+sorely, and mothers do not forget as quickly as children do. But
+although she had lent him to God, he was still hers too; and every
+year she went back to see him, and through the long months in between,
+her fingers were busy making him a little coat of a beautiful blue
+stuff, sewed with a border of exquisite embroidery, blue and purple
+and scarlet, that was like a wreath of pomegranates. Just as certain
+as his birthday came round his mother came and brought with her his
+little coat, and as he grew bigger every year the coat was bigger too.
+
+Now, as soon as Samuel was old enough he went with Eli, the old
+priest, into God's house to learn how to help in God's service. Just
+as we sometimes see now a very little boy helping the priest at God's
+altar, so Samuel was like a little server as he helped Eli, and he too
+wore a linen surplice, or ephod as it was called.
+
+Although he was such a little boy, Samuel already showed that he was
+straightforward, brave, and obedient, a boy who could be trusted. He
+did his work faithfully, and when Eli began to grow feeble and his
+sight became dim, the little server was ready with his clear sight and
+eager footsteps to be both eyes and feet to the old priest.
+
+But besides growing old and feeble, Eli was also growing more and more
+unhappy day by day. His two sons were wicked and disobedient, and,
+what was worse, they were teaching God's people to be wicked too. Eli
+would not punish them as they deserved, so at last the time came when
+God took the punishment into His own hands. Only He would warn Eli
+before-hand, for the old priest was His servant.
+
+So one night God's message came, spoken by God's own voice--spoken not
+to the great priest, but to the humble little server.
+
+It was evening time. All the work of the day was over, and Eli had
+gone to rest. The lamp in the temple was burning dimly, sometimes
+flickering as if it would go out altogether, and leave the holy place
+in darkness. Samuel, tired with his day's service, was fast asleep,
+when suddenly he woke up, startled and attentive. Some one had called
+his name: "Samuel, Samuel."
+
+"Here am I," answered the boy at once. Perhaps the old priest was ill,
+and wanted him. Hastily Samuel slipped out of bed, and ran to Eli. But
+the old man was lying there quite calmly, and when Samuel asked why he
+had called, he answered quietly, "I called not; lie down again."
+
+It was very strange; but perhaps he had been dreaming, so Samuel went
+back and crept into bed, and very soon was once more fast asleep. Then
+again the voice came: "Samuel." This time Samuel was sure it was no
+dream, and he ran to Eli and cried to him, "Here am I, for thou didst
+call me."
+
+"I called not, my son," said Eli. "Lie down again."
+
+But when it happened a third time, and the little white figure stood
+by the priest's bed, declaring positively, "Thou didst call me," Eli
+suddenly realized that perhaps it was God whose voice the boy had
+heard.
+
+"Go, lie down," he said gently to the bewildered child, "and it shall
+be if He call thee that thou shalt say, 'Speak, Lord, for Thy servant
+heareth.'"
+
+One great lesson Samuel had learnt, and that was to do exactly what he
+was told, never questioning. So now he went back to bed without
+another word.
+
+Did Eli mean that it was the Lord who had called him? The great God
+who was so wonderful, whose Ark was in the Holy Place behind the veil
+of blue and purple and scarlet, guarded by cherubim? He had only
+seemed like a far-off name to Samuel. Could it really be God's own
+voice that had called Samuel? If that was so, then the great unknown
+God must all the time have known the little servant in His house.
+
+Then again the voice sounded: "Samuel, Samuel."
+
+This time Samuel was listening with all his might, and obediently his
+answer rang out fearlessly and clearly--
+
+"Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth."
+
+[Illustration: "I called not, my son."]
+
+God knew that His little servant was fit to be trusted with a message,
+although it was a terrible one; and He told Samuel that a dreadful
+punishment was to fall upon the old priest Eli and his wicked sons,
+and so awful would it be that even the ears of the people who heard
+about it should tingle.
+
+There was no more sleep for Samuel that night. God's voice rang in his
+ears; his heart was filled with the thought that Eli would ask him
+what God had said, and he would have to tell him that dreadful
+message.
+
+At last the morning light began to steal in, and it was time to open
+the doors of God's house. The little server in his linen ephod was at
+his post as usual, but to-day his shining morning face was clouded and
+troubled, and there must have been a look of awe in his clear eyes.
+
+The call he dreaded came all too soon, and for the first time the
+sound of Eli's voice was unwelcome in his ears.
+
+"Samuel, my son," called the old man.
+
+Immediately Samuel went and stood at his side, "Here am I," he said.
+
+"What is it that the Lord hath said unto thee?" asked Eli. His eyes
+were very dim, but he felt sure that the boy had a troubled and
+fearful look. "I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and
+more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that He
+said unto thee."
+
+The very worst must be told, and Samuel knew he must hide nothing now.
+He repeated God's message word for word, and Eli bowed his head as he
+listened. The poor old priest had been a weak father, but he was a
+faithful servant, and knew that God was just.
+
+"It is the Lord," he said: "let Him do what seemeth Him good."
+
+From that day all things were different to Samuel, and year by year as
+he grew older he learned more and more to love and serve the God who
+had spoken to him and trusted him. So also as the years went by the
+people who worshipped at the Temple began to know that the little
+child who had been such a faithful server was chosen for a post of
+great honour--that he had been called, indeed, to be a prophet of the
+Lord.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
+
+
+JOSEPH THE DREAMER
+
+THE BABE IN THE BULRUSHES
+
+DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY
+
+THE CHILD JESUS
+
+THE GOOD PHYSICIAN
+
+THE GOOD SHEPHERD
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
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