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tian custom, they cast away their outer garments. Further on we are told 
that Jeroboam came from Egypt, and in order to prevent the ten tabes tom 
going up to Jerusalem to worship, he set up two calves, -one m Dan “the 
north, and one in Bethel in the south-east of the 
another simple fact quite in accordance with the facts of the Scriptu • 
inthe book of Amos'we have the passage quoted by Stephen ;aeyto^ 
up the tabernacle of Moloch, the “ star of 
images which they made to worship. In Amos we a 
aT fe of these images, and according to the monumental records we 
have these gods worshipped in Egypt -the very worship that 
• wilderness by Israel. They bad idols something like the Koman 
Lares and Penates, or like the shrines made by Demetrius and the craftsmen 
with him, for Diana; and these are matters that strictly ^ rob "“t ^ 
statements of Sacred Scripture. There is another fact noticed by Hero 
dotus that Eoypt had a standing army, and that I believe is corroborated by 
the Greek historians generally. Herodotus enters into detaib, and tells us 
ftat every soldier had twelve acres of land, and that 2,000 of them formed 
the guard of Pharaoh. Now compare that with the Biblical narra ive, 
soon as Pharaoh finds that the Israelites do not cross l^dTea he at 
directlv to Canaan, but go down the western shore of the Bed Sea, he at 
once musters a large force of infantry and cavalry, and 600 chosen chariots 
and pursues them. There we have a fact that strongly corroborates the 
statements of the Divine penman, and I believe w, i shall a Bo find ^m fto 
Greek historians this fact, that no nation except Egypt had a si tandinga , j 
But in truth, we are constantly coming across important facts winch add 
continually to the accumulation of evidence which substantiates and coir - 
borates strongly and decisively the great statements of the Inspired record. 
(C ThTcHAi R MAN.-Perhaps Mr. Heath, who has long studied Egyptology, 
may have some interesting matter to lay before us. 
The Bev. Dunbar I. Heath.-I have only come to hear the paper and 
the discussion. It is fifteen years since I brought out a ™lume on th s 
branch of learning, Exodus Papyri, but I am bound to confess that tha„ 
volume ha not y t set the world on fire, and as for myself, my memory 
^suffered so much that three-fourths of what I did know has now entmey 
oone from me. I am, however, glad to say that, m my opinion, Mr. Tit- 
comb’s chronology is substantially correct, and I will just add one more 
Palestine he fights no battle with the great nations we had before hea^ci 
of the Suzims the Anakims, and the Elims,-the great Giants of our trans- 
of the “ mentioned before, the Amontes, who 
