Chapter III: THE BURNING BUSH, ii. 23-iii

Death of Raamses. Misery continues, 43.--The cry of the oppressed, 44.--Discipline of Moses, 45.--How a crisis comes, 46.--God hitherto unmentioned. The Angel of the Lord, 47.--An unconsuming fire, 48.--Inquiry: reverence. God finds, not man, 49.--"Take off thy shoe." "The God of thy father," 50.--Immortality. "My people," not saints only, 51.--The good land. The commission, 52.--God with him. A strange token, 53.

A NEW NAME, iii. 14; vi. 2, 3.

Why Moses asked the name of God: idolatry: pantheism, 54.--A progressive revelation, 55.--Jehovah. The sound corrupted. Similar superstitions yet, 56.--What it told the Jews. Reality of being, 57.--Jews not saved by ideas. Streams of tendency. The Self-contained. We live in our past, 58.--And in our future, 59.--Yet Jehovah not the impassive God of Lucretius, 60.--The Immutable is Love. This is our help, 61.--Human will is not paralysed, 62.--The teaching of St. Paul. All this is practical, 63.--This gives stability to all other revelations. Our own needs, 64.

THE COMMISSION, iii. 10, 16-22.

God comes where He sends, 65.--The Providential man. Prudence, 66.--Sincerity of demand for a brief respite, 67.--God has already visited them. By trouble He transplants, 68.--The "borrowing" of jewels, 69.

CHAPTER IV.

MOSES HESITATES, iv. 1-17.

Scripture is impartial: Josephus, 70.--Hindrance from his own people. The rod, 71.--The serpent: the leprosy, 72.--"I am not eloquent," 73.--God with us. Aaron the Levite, 74.--Responsibility of _not_ working. The errors of Moses, 75.--Power of fellowship. Vague fears, 76.--With his brother, Moses will go. The Church, 77.--This craving met by Christ, 78.--Family affection. Examples, 79.

MOSES OBEYS, iv. 18-31.

Fidelity to his employer. Reticence, 80.--Resemblance to story of Jesus. He is the Antitype of all experiences, 81.--Counterpoint in history. "Israel is My son," 82.--A neglected duty Zipporah. Was she a helpmeet? 83.--Domestic unhappiness. History _v._ myth, 84.--The failures of the good, 85.--Men of destiny are not irresponsible, 86.--His first followers: a joyful reception, 87.--Spiritual joy and reaction, 88.

CHAPTER V.

PHARAOH REFUSES, v. 1-23.

Moses at court again. Formidable, 89.--Power of convictions but also of tyranny and pride. Menephtah: his story, 90.--Was the Pharaoh drowned? The demand of Jehovah, 91.--The refusal, 92.--Is religion idleness? Hebrews were taskmasters, 93.--Demoralised by slavery. They are beaten, 94.--Murmurs against Moses. He returns to God. His remonstrance, 95.--His disappointment. Not really irreverent, 96.--Use of this abortive attempt, 97-8.

CHAPTER VI.

THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MOSES, vi. 1-30.

The word Jehovah known before: its consolations now, 99.--The new truth is often implicit in the old, 100.--Discernment more needed than revelation. "Judgments," 101.--My people: your God, 102.--The tie is of God's binding, 103,--Fatherhood and sonship, 104.--Faith becomes knowledge. The body hinders the soul, 105.--We are responsible for bodies. Israel weighs Moses down, 106.--We may hold back the saints, 107.--The pedigree, 107-8.--Indications of genuine history, 108-9.--"As a god to Pharaoh," 110.--We also, 111.