it their business to deceive and cheat people, but by his own Almighty power.

And the wicked king was so stung and plagued by these great swarms of flies and wasps, that he called for Moses, and gave him and the people leave to sacrifice to the Lord, but not out of the land of Egypt. Moses told him, that they could not do so, as God had bade them go into the wilderness; and that, indeed, if this had not been the case, they must needs go out of the land to offer sacrifice, because the people would not endure to see them kill the cattle, which they looked on as among their many gods, but would at once rise and destroy them. Besides, God had said, that he would make known his whole will to the people of Israel, when they were out of Egypt, and not before.

Those who serve God aright come out from the noise and bustle of the world; they separate themselves from the company of the wicked.' "For what communion hath light with darkness? What concord has Christ with Belial? What part hath

9910

my wheat into my garner." Shall I then be found among the wheat or the tares?

question!

Solemn

QUESTIONS.

1. When God speaks to any one many times, and he does not attend, what does his heart become?

2. What does sin do when it is finished?

3. What will those young persons do, who wish to gain knowledge and to make the best of life?

4. What may each one say, in reference to the knowledge of God?

5. Who are they who, when God bids them to do any thing, excuse themselves by saying, there is a lion in the way ?

6. Who are the wicked?

7. What do they do who serve God aright?

8. What may all those who love the Lord, say?

9. When the Judge of all shall come, what difference will

he make between the righteous and the wicked?

10. What will the great Husbandman say, in the final harvest, to the angel reapers?

THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL.

At last, when God had sent his angel to cut off the first-born of all the families of the people of Egypt, Pharaoh let the people go. He was full of alarm, lest he and his subjects should perish. God can compel the mightiest of his foes to "lick the dust before him,"1 Ps. lxxii. 9.

There was but one way out of Egypt into Canaan, without crossing the Red Sea. This was over a neck of land called Suez. It might have been supposed, that the people would have taken this way, as they had no boats or ships in which they could get over the deep waters. But God "led them by the way of the sea."

We very often see, that God's "thoughts are