On the whole, it may be remarked, that when God calls any person to an extraordinary work, he so orders it, in the course of his Providence, that he shall have every qualification necessary for that work. This was emphatically the case with Moses; his Hebrew extraction, the comeliness of his person, his Egyptian education, his natural firmness and constancy of character, all concurred with the influences of the Divine Spirit, to make him in every respect such a person, one among millions, who was every way qualified for the great work which God had given him to do; and who performed it according to the mind of his Maker.

"Servant of God, well done!"

CHAPTER II.

Abraham.

GOD'S PURPOSE RESPECTING ABRAHAM; LEAVES HIS COUNTRY; RECEIVES A PROMISE OF A SON; REALIZES THAT PROMISE; IS COMMANDED TO OFFER HIM A BURNT OFFERING; DISTRIBUTES HIS POSSES

FTER the flood, the sacred narrative rapidly conducts us to the man, the history of whose descendants, their sins, their sorrows, their excellences, their rewards, and their punishments forms the great theme of the remainder of the

Old Testament.

The purpose of the Most High was to choose a man, and in him a family and a nation, to be His witness upon the earth, and the repository of ancient truths, and of Messianic hopes, until the fullness of redeeming time should come.

The person on whom this choice fell was Abram, the son of Terah, of the line of Shem, whose native place was "Ur of the Chaldees."

The only thing related of him previous to his seventieth