Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. IjHE little congregation which Arthur and Lina found assembled in the parlour of Holdich consisted of the steward himself and his gentle wife, a farmer of the neighbourhood and his little maid-servant, and several of the labourers who worked under Holdich, with their wives and some of their children. The people were quiet, and appeared to be devout, a little flock gathering around a faithful shepherd. Mr. Eardley was already at his post when the Maddens entered the cottage. LECTURE I.?THE INFANT MOSES. In the slight sketch which, with God's permission, I hope to give you of the life of Moses, and the deliverance of the children of Israel from slavery iu Egypt, I shall endeavour to keep three views of the subject before you?the historical, the typical, and the practical view. To explain my meaning more simply: I wish us first to consider the life of Moses as the history of a great and good man, a patriot and lawgiver, who was raised up to save his nationfrom a most cruel yoke, and to lead them to the land which God had promised to their fathers. This is the historical view. But there is deeper interest to ourselves in the story of the rescue of Israel from Egypt, than can attach to any mere account of past deeds, however grand and heroic. Moses was a type of the blessed One who hath redeemed His servants from bondage more cruel than that of Pharaoh?a type of Him of whom it is written, Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the people, a Leader and Commander to the people; and in the history of God's chosen nation we see a picture of the Christian Church, redeemed and guided through this world's wilderness to the heavenly Canaan above. This is the typical view. But there are also many lessons to be drawn from the character of Moses, and that of the peop...