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GOD REMEMBERING HIS COVE-
NANT.

See those men so hard at work. Who are they?
Listen, and I will tell you. We learned in a previous.
lesson that Jacob and his family had come into Egypt to.
be fed by the boy Joseph, who had been sold by his broth-
ers as a slave, but whom God had made ruler over all
Egypt.

The king was pleased at first, ee Joseph's friends.
had come, for he loved Joseph very much. By and by,
when this king was dead, and another had taken his place,
who did not know about Joseph, the new king became
very oppressive. He was afraid these people would be-
come stronger than his people, for God had greatly blest.
and multiplied them; and so he made a cruel command,

_ that every male child should be slain as soon as he was.

born.
This was why Moses was hid in the bulrushes, by his
mother, to save his life. The wicked king not only had

_the little baby boys slain, but he made the people serve

him as'slaves, making brick, and doing all the hard labor
the king could find.

God saw all this, and he remembered the covenant he
had made with their fathers, to multiply and prosper