GOD DELIVERING HIS PEOPLE.

In this picture we see friends standing around the
bed, on which lies a dead child. You will see they are
dressed like a king’s family. It is in the palace of king
Pharaoh. His ‘arst-born son is dead. There was not
only death in the king’s home, but the first-born in every
Egyptian family was dead.

. It is a very strange story; let me tell you about it.
God had sent many judgments upon the Egyptians, to
make them willing to let his people go out of their land,
but the proud and haughty king had refused to hear:God;
so the Lord determined to slay the oldest child in every
home in Egypt. He sent a death angel through the land
to do this dreadful work. Now, the Lord wanted to save _
his people, the children of Israel, from this terrible afflic-
tion, and so he told them what to do.

As they were living among the Egyptians, the Lord
told them they must take a lamb and slay it the night the
death angel was to come, and sprinkle the blood on the
door-posts of their houses. So when the angel came and
saw the blood, he would pass over that house, for he knew
some of God's people were there. But in every house of
the Egyptians there was great sorrow, for the angel of the