. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . front doors. If that were done, the destroyingangel, who was to go through the land and do this fearful work, wouldpass over their houses and leave them unharmed. Oh! that was the Passover, wasnt it, Grandpa? exclaimedCharley. Our Sunday-school lesson was about it once. It seemsto me awful for so many people to die in one night, and all withoutany sickness or accident. Not more awful than their cruel abuse and murdering of the chil-dren of Israel, said Mary, her sense of justice making her tones verydecided as she spoke. That w
. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . front doors. If that were done, the destroyingangel, who was to go through the land and do this fearful work, wouldpass over their houses and leave them unharmed. Oh! that was the Passover, wasnt it, Grandpa? exclaimedCharley. Our Sunday-school lesson was about it once. It seemsto me awful for so many people to die in one night, and all withoutany sickness or accident. Not more awful than their cruel abuse and murdering of the chil-dren of Israel, said Mary, her sense of justice making her tones verydecided as she spoke. That was the Passover, as Charley says, resumed Grandpa— afeast which to this day Israelites keep with great fidelity, in remem-brance of the fact that God spared their forefathers in Egypt so many-years ago. 174 GRANDPA GOODWINS STORIES. How were they spared ? asked Charley. Why, they obeyed God, and sprinkled blood on the doorpostsand lintels of their houses, as He told them to do. They waited withindoors and ate a hurried and simple meal, which God had There was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a houre where there was not one dead.— Exodus xii, 30. Midnight drew near; all about them was quiet; there was no signof trouble ; none of the Egyptians suspected harm ; midnight wasjust at hand ; it came. Listen ! a wail is heard ; another and Lamentations and weeping rise on all sides and swell intoa great cry. In every house there is one dead. In palace and in FLYING FOR FREEDOM. 175 dungeon, among men and beasts, all the firstborn are smitten withdeath except alone in the houses of the children of Israel, on thedoorposts and lintels of which the blood of the lamb had been sprin-kled. How terrible ! said both the girls together, and really shudder-ing at the story. No wonder, resumed Grandpa, that Pharaoh rose at once, inthe dead of night though it was, and that he commanded Moses to go,and to take with him his troublesome people. Go they did that veryn
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