accurate yet published ; but if displayed, as I have seen them, 
with the intention of unsettling the minds of commonplace 
people, who are not Egyptologists, it becomes the duty of those 
who are occupying the seat of the unlearned to withhold assent 
till further proof is given. 
I shall not pursue the theme of the history of Egypt, 
although the times of the XVIIIth Dynasty invite research. 
It is almost beyond question that more light will be thrown 
from monumental evidence on the period of the sojourn of 
Israel in Egypt, on the era of the Exodus, and the Pharaoh 
whose deeds are recorded. For the present it is best to wait. 
Brugsch has already given us a work on the Exodus and the 
Egyptian Monuments, and announces in his Bibel und Den/c- 
m 'dler the following : — 
1 . Egypt in geographical-political relationship at the time of 
the abode of the children of Israel. 
2. The Hebrews in Egypt, and Moses. 
3. The Exodus of the Israelites, and the Monuments. 
4. The people in the East of the Delta according to the 
monuments. 
5. The cities and fortresses of Palestine at the time of the 
entrance of the Jews into Canaan. 
6. Egyptian travellers in the land of Canaan. 
7. The Mosaic Volkertafel and the Monuments. 
8. Joseph and the year of famine. 
Religion of the Ancient Egyptians. 
I must now take up again more definitely the consideration 
of the religion of the first Egyptians ; premising this, that I shall 
be quite unable to follow the various changes which occurred in 
after-times, when the mutual rivalry and hatred of the followers 
of the differing dogmas tore Egypt in pieces, and inflicted 
calamities innumerable. The worshippers of Amon, the con- 
cealed or hidden god, and of Ra (or Re), the visible sun as his 
manifestation, and the “ disk-worshippers/’ and those who 
specially devoted themselves to the Arabian god Bes, the god 
of pleasure — the Bacchus of Egypt — will find small place in my 
pages. 
I wish to examine the question, — since we have seen that 
early Egypt presents us with man as a worshipper, — What was 
the object of his worship? Was he a Theist or a Polytheist? 
Do we discover any reliable trace of such primitive revelation 
of the will of God to mankind as we may fairly expect from 
the record of Scripture ? 
