h? Why were he and his
kingdom punished?

Is it ever right, for an individual to raise his hand against a
recognized and established authority? Or, when there is an
established government, should an individual ever attempt to punish
crime or avenge personal wrong? Were our revolutionary forefathers
right in resisting the demands of King George? Are numbers
essential to the rightness of a cause?

In what ways does God to-day call men to do an important task? Do
you consider Lincoln a man raised up by God for a purpose and
called by him to service? If so, how did the call come? Was
Moses' call similar? Should a clergyman have a definite call to
his life-work? Should every man? Does every man have such a call,
if he but interprets rightly his experiences?

A working girl had seen the story of Moses at a moving picture
show. Afterwards she commented as follows: "Our walking delegate
is a regular Moses. He said to the factory boss, 'You let my
people go.'" In what respect is the labor struggle to-day similar
to that in Egypt under Moses?

_Subjects for Further Study_.

(1) The Egyptian System of Education. Breasted, _Hist. of the
Ancient Egyptians_, 92-94, 395; _Hist. of Egypt_, 98-100; Maspero,
_Dawn of Civilization_, 288; Erman, _Life of the Ancient
Egyptians_, 328-368.

(2) Origin of the Jehovah Religion. Budde, _Religion of Israel_,
1-38; Gordon, _Early Traditions of Gen_., 106-110; Hastings, _Dict.
of the Bible_, Extra Vol. 626-627.

(3) The Practical Training for Statesmanship of Augustus, Gladstone
and Lincoln. Plutarch, _Lives of the Emperors_; Morley, _Life of
Gladstone_; A. good Biographical Dictionary; Brown, _The Message
of the Modern Pulpit_.

(4) Compare the government of Egypt under Pharaoh with that in
China in the days of Confucius and with that of Greece in the days
of the siege of Troy. Homer, _Iliad and Odyssey; Life of
Confucius_.

STUDY IX

THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF LAW.

MOSES' WORK AS JUDGE AND PROPHET.--Ex. 18; 1-27; 33:5-11.

_Parallel References_.

_Hist. Bible_ I, 198-203.
_Prin. of Politics_, Ch. VI.
Maine, _Ancient Law_.

Jehovah spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his
friend--Ex. 33: 11.

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads
over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens. And they judged the people at all
seasons: the hard cases they brought unto M