The palm tree . sraelites shall dwell in booths: that your generationsmay know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I broughtthem out of the land of Egypt.—Lev. xxiii. 40, 42, 43. [he first night of the Israelites escape from Egyp-tian bondage—the birth-niglit of their freedom—a night to be much observed unto theLord. A strange and solemn scene; one of inex-pressible interest. The grave and earnest gladness of a peoplereleased from slavery—a gladness too deep foroutward show—as yet perhaps too deep for actual reahza-tion to themselves. Amongst that mixed multitude there
The palm tree . sraelites shall dwell in booths: that your generationsmay know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I broughtthem out of the land of Egypt.—Lev. xxiii. 40, 42, 43. [he first night of the Israelites escape from Egyp-tian bondage—the birth-niglit of their freedom—a night to be much observed unto theLord. A strange and solemn scene; one of inex-pressible interest. The grave and earnest gladness of a peoplereleased from slavery—a gladness too deep foroutward show—as yet perhaps too deep for actual reahza-tion to themselves. Amongst that mixed multitude there are some who,trembUng and excited in their sudden joy, laugh and weepby turns. They are the mothers who strain their darlingsto their breasts—ahve, and safe, and free ! A flock of sheep huddling together, just rescued from apack of ravening wolves. Some few exalted spirits, beholding, through faith, theirheavenly Shepherd, are calm and brave in their resolute * Stanleys Sinai and Palestine, p. f» 33G SUCCOTH. trust ill him. Tliey gather roniul their eartlily leader,Moses, assured that he holds his commission from , learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, mightyin Avords and deeds, and yet the meekest of men; Moses,for forty years the favourite in Pharaohs sumptuous court;Moses, for forty years the prayerful, contemplative recluseof the desert;—now, doubly disciplined by a lifetime ofaction and a lifetime of thought, he stands the heaven-appointed leader of that mixed multitude, undisciplinedindeed, but as yet obedient to his word. The awe is yet upon them of that night of terror, whenthe Angel of Death passed through the land, and the greatcry of their oppressors, smitten with a sudden and horriblechastisement, rings yet upon their ears; the Egyptians everso frantic in their grief—desolate mothers running wildlythrough the streets, with dishevelled hair, beating upon theiruncovered bosoms, their piteous shrieks mingling with thefierce cries of
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