278 BERTHA'S VISIT TO HER 



males, of going to solemnize with songs, and 

 dance, and bathing, the first visible rise of the 

 Nile. 



" Observe here, my dear children," continued 

 my aunt, " the chain of small circumstances by 

 which God leads mankind to the accomplish- 

 ment of his high decrees. When the daughter 

 of Pharaoh goes to celebrate a heathen ceremony 

 when she finds the babe, and calls the He- 

 brew woman to be his nurse, and when that 

 nurse turns out to be his own mother what 

 a singular concurrence of events, simple and ob- 

 vious in themselves, but wonderful in their com- 

 binations ! 



" Joseph us, the Jewish historian, states that 

 Pharaoh's daughter was married Ht had no 

 children, and therefore adopted Moses, and gave 

 him a princely education ; that he became a man 

 of eminence amongst the Egyptians, was made a 

 general and leader of their armies, and fought 

 some battles with success. While he was in- 

 structed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, he 

 was taught at home a knowledge of God ; his 

 father Amram imparted to him the promised re- 

 demption of Israel, and his mother fixed the 

 true faith in his heart ; so that it became the 

 guide and the principle of all his actions. 



" The land of Midian, to which Moses fled 

 when he killed the Egyptian in defence of the 

 ill-treated Israelite, was a part of Arabia Petrsea, 



