BOYS OF THE BIBLE. 127

of slaves into Freedom! Who would have thought that the’
long, angular boy, Abraham Lincoln, reading his Bible by
the light of the pine logs in the log cabin in Kentucky,
would grow to be our American Moses, and would lead
four millions of slaves into the happy light of Freedom!
So history repeats itself and God fulfills himself in many
ways.

For Moses and for Lincoln alike, the task of emancipa-
tion was terrible. There was a Red Sea for both to cross,
a baptism of blood for each, but with God behind them and
round about them, the simple rods held in their firm and
faithful hands became omnipotent.

Safe landed on the further shore of the Red Sea, the
stately form of Miriam, the sister of Moses, is seen, leading
with timbrel and dance and song, the procession of the free.
A grander war-song than that has never trembled on mor-
tal lips. Not to the courage and sagacity of her heroic
brother, not to chances or the fortunes of war, but to the
God of Israel this great deliverance is wholly ascribed.

“The Lord has triumphed gloriously! His right hand
and His holy arm have gotten Him the victory!”

With singular poetic force Miriam marks the complete-
ness of the overthrow of the Egyptians by language that
accumulates in strength. ‘They sank;” “they sank to the
bottom like a stone;” “they sank like lead in the mighty
waters!” Well might she cry aloud, “Who is a God like
unto Thee?” For Egypt had lords many and gods many,
but they had all failed. Every barrier erected to keep the
Hebrews in bondage had been broken down. Every hin-
drance had been overcome. The voice of God had shaken
the palaces of Mizraim’s ancient splendor.

“Let my people go!”