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Sunday, My uncle read to us this 

 morning the chapters which relate the humbling 

 of Pharaoh, and the going forth of the Israelites ; 

 he afterwards said, " In the wonderful judgments 

 inflicted on the Egyptians, and in the miraculous 

 institution of the Passover, when the destroying 

 angel passed over the house of every Israelite, 

 we see, my dear children, the operation of that 

 Being whose will controuls the elements of 

 nature, and directs the passions of mankind. 



" No human force is exercised no Israelite 

 lifts the sword ; yet the Egyptian monarch is 

 humbled, his people are terrified, and both 

 urge the departure of the Israelites ; who even 

 demand and obtain from their late oppressors 

 silver and gold, as payment for their past labours. 

 * Rise up and get you forth,,' said Pharaoh, 

 and they immediately commenced their march 

 before his hardened mind again repented of yield- 

 ing to the decrees of the Almighty." 



Wentvvorth asked his father how the Israelites 

 could carry their kneading troughs on their 

 shoulders. 



61 It appears/ 1 said my uncle, " from the ac- 

 counts of various travellers, that to this day the 

 Arabs, who dwell in the countries through which 

 the Israelites passed, are in the habit of eating 

 unleavened cakes ; and that the vessels still 

 used there for kneading them, are small wooden 

 bowls ; these you see could be very conveniently 



