Christian Library Author:American Tract Society 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: How safe it is, to be in the hands of God. There we should submissively and calmly leave ourselves and all who are dear to us. When we have done our duty ;—when ... more »we have used all the means that God has placed within our reach, to extricate ourselves or friends from any impending evil, looking to him for his blessing, and yet no relief is found ; and the chill of hopelessness comes over us; still, like the Israelitish mother, we should not sink down in despondency. Faith hat its resources in this hour of extremity. We should trust the wisdom and justice, the goodness and mercy, of that Being who orders all things right, and peacefully Snd cheerfully give ourselves up, and all that affects or interests us, to his disposal; saying from the heart, let him do with me and mine as seemeth good in his tight. CHAPTER III. Moses is found by the daughter of Pharaoh, and afterward, as her adopted son, educated at the court of Pharaoh. Miriam, the young and tender-hearted sister, had watched, at a distance, the steps of her mother, as she was carrying the ark of bulrushes, and her beloved brother whom it contained, to the banks of the river. She marked the spot whereat was laid, and was now anxiously and steadily gazing upon it, to see what might happen to the child. What hopes and fears must have agitated her breast! What joy would burst upon her soul, should any way of deliverance and protection be opened ! There is reason to think, that the faith of the mother had led her to anticipate this. She might have chosen the very spot, from some previous knowledge of its being occasionally visited by those whose feelings of compassion, she hoped, would be moved by the sight of so lovely an infant in such affecting circumstances A group is approaching the banks of the Nile. They are wo...« less