56 ", THE LORD, WILL HOLD THY HAND."

 The princess called him her son and named him
Moses, for she said, Because I drew him out of the wa-
ter :" and that is the very meaning of his name.
 God answered his mother's prayers: He sent the
princess to find him before the dark night or any hungry
beast came; He made her see that it was best to hire a
Hebrew nurse for the baby; He planned it all that the
sister should watch and the mother be called, and that
Moses should grow up and be taught in the palace. Is
there anything prettier than a baby's hand, soft and dim-
pled, helpless and innocent? Just such a little hand was
lifted up as the princess looked at the stranger baby.
God watched and kept that little hand; it learned to write,
and the first five books of the Bible are the work of that
same hand. It held a shepherd's crook and led great flocks
for forty years, after Moses had lived in the king's palace
forty years. Then the same hand carried a rod which
God gave him and did with it great wonders and signs.
The rod was lifted over the sea and it became dry land
to let the people walk over with Moses as their leader;
it struck a rock and water gushed out for thirsty thou-
sands to drink; in battle the hand lifted up the rod, and
Moses' army conquered. That same hand received from
God two tablets of stone on which God himself wrote
the laws which we all should learn and obey.