THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS OP TEL EL-AMARNA. 17 



There is not much to be discovered on that surface which has 

 survived the wreck of centuries ; it is only within the kindly 

 bosom of the earth that we shall find, hidden and preserved, 

 the precious relics of the past. The tablets of Tel el-Amarna 

 are an earnest that they will yet be found, if they are properly 

 searched for ; and that our children, if not ourselves, will yet 

 know how the people of Canaan lived in the days of the 

 Patriarchs, and how their Hebrew conquerors established 

 themselves among them in the days when, as yet, " there was 

 no king in Israel." 



