Chapter I: THE PROLOGUE, i. 1-6

Books linked by conjunction "And:" Scripture history a connected whole, 1.--So is secular history organic: "Philosophy of history." The Pentateuch being a still closer unity, Exodus rehearses the descent into Egypt, 2.--Heredity: the family of Jacob, 3.--Death of Joseph. Influence of Egypt on the shepherd race, 4.--A healthy stock: good breeding. Goethe's aphorism, 5.--Ourselves and our descendants, 6.

GOD IN HISTORY, i. 7.

In Exodus, national history replaces biography, 6.--Contrasted narratives of Jacob and Moses. Spiritual progress from Genesis to Exodus, 7.--St. Paul's view: Law prepares for Gospel, especially by our failures, 8.--This explains other phenomena: failures in various circumstances, of innocence in Eden; of an elect family; now of a race, a nation, 9.--Israel, failing with all advantages, needs a Messiah. Faith justifies, in Old Testament as in New, 10.--Scripture history reveals God in this life, in all things, 11.--True spirituality owns God in the secular: this is a gospel for our days, 12-13.

THE OPPRESSION, i. 7-22.

Early prosperity: its dangers: political supports vain, 13.--Joseph forgotten. National responsibilities: despotism, 14.--Nations and their chiefs. Our subject races, 15.--The Church and her King: imputation. Pharaoh precipitates what he fears, 16.--Egypt and her aliens: modern parallels, 17.--Tyranny is tyrannous even when cultured, 18.--Our undue estrangement from the fallen: Jesus a brother. Toil crushes the spirit, 19.--Israel idolatrous. Religious dependence, 20. --Direct interposition required. Bitter oppression, 21.--Pharaoh drops the mask. Defeated by the human heart. The midwives, 22.--Their falsehood. Morality is progressive, 23.--Culture and humanity, 24.--Religion and the child, 25.

CHAPTER II.

THE RESCUE OF MOSES, ii. 1-10.

Importance of the individual, 26.--A man _versus_ "the Time-spirit," 27.--The parents of Moses, 28.--Their family: their goodly child, 29.--Emotion helps faith, 30.--The ark in the bulrushes, 31.--Pharaoh's daughter and Miriam, 32.--Guidance for good emotions: the Church for humanity, 33.

THE CHOICE OF MOSES, ii. 11-15.

God employs means, 34.--Value of endowment. Moses and his family. "The reproach of Christ," 35.--An impulsive act, 36.--Impulses not accidents. The hopes of Moses, 37.--Moses and his brethren. His flight, 38.

MOSES IN MIDIAN, ii. 16-22.

Energy in disaster, 39.--Disinterested bravery. Parallels with a variation, 40.--The Unseen a refuge. Duty of resisting small wrongs. His wife, 41.--A lonely heart, 42.