CALL OF MOSES.

This little boy you see, looking up so sweetly from
the cradle, is Moses, whom God afterward called to do
a great work for him. Let me tell you how God so won-
derfully preserved Moses when he was a little baby.

Moses’ mother was a Hebrew woman, and lived in
Egypt. The king of Egypt feared that the descendants
of Jacob might grow strong in the land, and make them
trouble; so he made a cruel law, that all the baby boys
should be slain as soon as they were born. What a cruel
king he must have been.

When Moses was born, his mother, in some way,
hid him in an ark of bulrushes, and made it to float on
the water. The ark was hid in the rushes, near where
Pharoah’s daughter came down to the river to bathe.
She heard the little baby crying, and took pity on him,
and adopted him as her son.

So this little boy did not have to die, but became a
member of the king’s family. When the king’s daughter
wanted a nurse for the baby, who do you think was
found? Why it was Moses’ own mother; but no one
knew it was his mother. Was not this very nice; that