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Willard + +Release Date: April 3, 2012 [EBook #39282] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADOPTED SON *** + + + + +Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p align="center"><img src="images/1.jpg" alt="The Adopted Son"></p> +<br><br> +<p align="center"><img src="images/2.jpg" alt="This book belongs to..."> +<br><br> +<p align="center"><img src="images/3.jpg" alt="Moses strikes the rock"><br> +MOSES STRIKES THE ROCK</p> +<br><br> +<table border="1" align="center"> +<tr> +<td> +<p align="center">ALTEMUS' CHILDREN OF THE BIBLE SERIES</p> +<hr> +<hr> +<h1>THE ADOPTED SON</h1> +<hr> +<hr> +<h2>THE STORY OF MOSES</h2> +<p align="center">BY</p> +<h2>J. H. WILLARD.</h2> +<hr> +<hr> +<p align="center">ILLUSTRATED +<hr> +<hr> +<p align="center"> +PHILADELPHIA<br> +HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY +</p> +</table> +<br><br> + + +<table border="1" align="center"> +<tr> +<td> +<h1>Altemus'</h1> +<p align="center">Illustrated</p> +<h1>Children of the Bible Series</h1> +<hr> +<hr> +<p>The Boy who Obeyed<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of Isaac</span><br> +The Farmer Boy<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of Jacob</span><br> +The Favorite Son<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of Joseph</span><br> +The Adopted Son<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of Moses</span><br> +The Boy General<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of Joshua</span><br> +The Boy at School<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of Samuel</span><br> +The Shepherd Boy<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of David</span><br> +The Boy who would be King<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of Absalom</span><br> +The Captive Boy<br> +<span class="indent">The Story of Daniel</span><br> +The Boy Jesus</p> + +<hr><hr> +<h2>Fifty Cents Each</h2> +<hr><hr> +<p align="center">Copyright, 1905</p> +<h2>By Henry Altemus</h2> +</table> +<br><br> +<br><br> + + +<p align="center"><img src="images/4.jpg" alt="Moses brings the Ten +Commandments down from Mount Sinai."></p> + + +<h1>THE ADOPTED SON</h1> +<h2>THE STORY OF MOSES</h2> +<p><font size="+3">A</font>BRAHAM, a descendant of Shem, one of the sons of +Noah, was the father and founder of the great Israelitish, or Hebrew, nation. +God chose him from all the people living on the earth at that time, for this +purpose, promising that He would make his name great and that his descendants +should have for their own the land of Canaan, a country in Palestine lying +west of the river Jordan and the Dead Sea.</p> +<p>Abraham had a son named Isaac, who became the father of Jacob, and Jacob +was the father of twelve sons, among whom was Joseph, who was sold into +slavery by his brothers when but a boy. Joseph was taken to Egypt and in time +rose from a slave to be the governor of that country under Pharaoh, its +king.</p> +<p>Jacob, with his eleven sons and their families, settled in Egypt at the +invitation of Pharaoh, and after the death of their father his sons continued +to live there, and became prosperous. After the death of Joseph they increased +rapidly in numbers, and from shepherds and herders of flocks became masters of +various crafts and occupations. At this time they began to be called "The +Children of Israel."</p> +<p>They lived in towns and villages in the land of Goshen, on the eastern +border of Egypt, industrious and contented. The king who had been so friendly +to Joseph was now dead, and another Pharaoh ruled the land. He watched with +much distrust the growing wealth and greatness of the children of Israel and +determined to prevent any possible harm they might do him by making them work +for him instead of for themselves.</p> +<p>So Pharaoh began to treat the Israelites like slaves. Under the direction +of his officers he set them at work making bricks and then had them build two +cities to hold his treasures. From a prosperous people they were now reduced +to the condition of common laborers, working without pay day after day in the +burning heat of that country.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/5.jpg" alt="Working without pay day after +day."><br>"WORKING WITHOUT PAY DAY AFTER DAY."</p> +<p>But in spite of their hardships the Israelites increased in numbers, and, +to further crush them, Pharaoh ordered that all their boys should be destroyed +as soon as they were born. But the people would not obey this order, and then +Pharaoh commanded that all boys should be flung into the Nile, the sacred +river of Egypt, immediately after their birth.</p> +<p>At this time a child was born among the Israelites whose life was to be one +of the most remarkable that history has recorded for us. His father's name was +Amram and his mother's Jochebed, and they belonged to the tribe of Levi, the +third son of Jacob. They had two older children, a son named Aaron and a +daughter named Miriam.</p> +<p>The mother of this little boy managed to keep him out of sight for three +months, and then she made a little boat of the water-reeds called papyrus, +fastening them together with clay and pitch. It was not much more than a +basket, but she put the baby into it and placed it among the rushes at the +edge of the river Nile, leaving her daughter Miriam to see what became of her +baby brother.</p> +<p>The Egyptians had many beliefs which appear very strange to us now. One of +them was that anything surrounded by papyrus would be safe from the crocodiles +which infested the river. Possibly Jochebed had some faith in this +superstition, for during the time when the Israelites were living contentedly +in the land of Goshen, many of them had fallen into the customs of the +Egyptians, worshipping Ra, the sun-god, Apis, the sacred calf, and others of +their national deities.</p> +<p>While Miriam was watching the little boat and its precious burden, the +daughter of Pharaoh, with her attendants, came to the river to bathe. She saw +the little boat floating among the rushes and ordered it to be brought to her. +As she looked down at the baby it cried, and, while she must have known that +it was the child of Israelitish parents, her heart went out to it in pity, and +she declared that she would bring it up as if it had been her own child.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/6.jpg" alt="It was not much more than a +basket."><br>"IT WAS NOT MUCH MORE THAN A BASKET."</p> +<p>Miriam then came forward and asked if she might find a nurse for the child. +The princess sent her on this errand and the little girl hastened to bring her +mother. Then the princess gave the baby into the charge of its own mother, and +promised her that she should be paid for taking good care of the child.</p> +<p>When the baby had grown to be quite a boy the princess took him to her +palace and treated him as if he had been a son of her own. She named him +Moses, which means "drawn out," because she had taken him from the water.</p> +<p>Then the princess had him trained and taught as though he were really to be +a prince. He was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became +learned and powerful. All the pleasures and honors of Pharaoh's court were +open to him, and from them he could have selected what pleased him most.</p> +<p>But the misery and degradation of his own people appealed to him more +strongly than the splendor and preferments of the Egyptian court. His spirit +was especially stirred one day when he saw an Egyptian overseer abusing an +Israelite in the fields where that oppressed people were still making +bricks.</p> +<p>In his anger at this sight he killed the Egyptian and buried the body in +the sand. The next day he interfered in another quarrel—this time +between two of his own people, but all he received for his efforts as +peacemaker was the knowledge that they knew he had killed the Egyptian the day +before.</p> +<p>For this reason, and also because Pharaoh suspected him of scheming to +deliver the Israelites from their bondage, Moses felt that his life was not +safe in Egypt, so he left the court and went to the land of Midian. He was +then forty years old.</p> +<p>One day when he was resting by the side of a well, the seven daughters of +Jethro, the chief and priest of Midian, came there to water their father's +sheep. Some shepherds, who also wanted to use the well, drove them away, but +Moses took the part of the maidens and watered their flocks for them.</p> +<p>When Jethro heard of this he invited Moses to be his shepherd and to live +in his house. Moses accepted the home offered him, and in time married +Zipporah, one of Jethro's daughters. They had two sons, one named Gershom, a +word which means "stranger," and Eliezer, or "God is my help."</p> +<p>For the next forty years Moses led the life of a shepherd in the land of +Midian, in gradual preparation for the great work he was to do later. He +certainly learned patience and must have become familiar with the country +through which he was to lead the children of Israel when the time of their +deliverance from Egypt came. During this time the afflictions of the +Israelites had been increased. Another Pharaoh ruled the land, but his reign +brought no relief to the nation toiling under cruel taskmasters.</p> +<p>One day Moses was feeding his flocks on a mountain called Horeb, when he +saw a bush of wild thorn, or acacia, apparently on fire. He looked more +closely but could see no smoke, neither were the leaves and twigs blackened or +consumed.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/7.jpg" alt="A bush of acacia apparently on +fire."><br>"A BUSH OF ACACIA APPARENTLY ON FIRE."</p> +<p>Then a Voice which seemed to come from the bush called, "Moses, Moses." +Understanding that it was the Voice of God, Moses answered, "Here am I." Then +God told him to come no nearer, and to take off his shoes and stand with bare +feet, for His presence made the spot holy ground.</p> +<p>Moses tremblingly obeyed and stood with covered face while God told him +that He had heard the cries and seen the affliction of the children of Israel, +and that He would set them free from their bondage in Egypt. He told Moses +that He had chosen him to be the deliverer of His people and their leader to +the land of Canaan, which He had promised to Abraham.</p> +<p>Moses felt unequal to this great undertaking and tried to excuse himself on +various grounds. He said that the Israelites would not listen to him unless he +could, by means of signs and wonders, convince them that he was the divinely +appointed leader, and he also said that he was not a ready speaker.</p> +<p>But God told him just what he had to do and that his brother Aaron should +be his spokesman. He bestowed upon him the power to do wonderful things and +promised His own protection and help. Moses could refuse no longer, and +accepted the divine commission. Then the Voice ceased, the vision of the +burning bush faded away, and Moses was alone again with his flocks.</p> +<p>When Moses returned to his home he told Jethro that he wished to go to +Egypt, and in the speech of those days Jethro replied, "Go in peace." So Moses +set out on his journey and on the way met his brother Aaron, whom God had sent +to meet him.</p> +<p>Then Moses related to Aaron all that God had said to him from the burning +bush, told him the part he was to take in God's plan, and showed him the rod +which he was to use in performing the wonderful things by which the Israelites +were to be convinced that he was their divinely appointed deliverer from the +land of Egypt. Then the two brothers went on their way together.</p> +<p>As soon as Moses and Aaron arrived in Egypt, they called the people +together and told them that God was going to deliver them from their bondage +and give them the land of Canaan. At first the Israelites were very thankful +for the message, but after the first failure of Moses to get Pharaoh's consent +to let them go they began to doubt it, especially as from that time the King +imposed harder tasks than ever upon them.</p> +<p>Then Moses and Aaron went a second time to Pharaoh. Aaron threw down his +rod and it became a serpent. The magicians of the court did the same thing, +and threw down their rods, which became serpents, but Aaron's rod swallowed +theirs. Then the King once more refused to let the people go.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/8.jpg" alt="Aaron threw down his rod and it +became a serpent."><br>"AARON THREW DOWN HIS ROD AND IT BECAME A SERPENT."</p> +<p>Then, one after another, God sent terrible plagues upon the Egyptian people +to show Pharaoh that He was the one Living and True God and that the children +of Israel must be allowed to go to the land He had promised them.</p> +<p>The first of these plagues was the changing of the waters of the Nile into +blood. The Egyptians were a very cleanly people, paying great attention to +their bodies, and were generally dressed in white. They were accustomed to +bathe in the Nile, and its appearance at this time must have filled them with +loathing. But Pharaoh again refused to let the people go.</p> +<p>Then one after another eight more plagues were sent upon the land. They +were equally disgusting to such a people and gave them the greatest discomfort +possible, but, while Pharaoh relented from time to time, he persisted in his +refusal to let the children of Israel depart from his kingdom.</p> +<p>During all this time the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was +exempt from these inflictions. Pharaoh must have known this and he must have +begun to understand that their God punished those who refused to do as He told +them, but he was obstinate and still refused his consent. It required another +and a more severe judgment before Pharaoh consented to let the children of +Israel go.</p> +<p>It was now the month of Nisan or Abib, which means the "month of green +ears," and in consequence of what occurred at that time Abib has ever since +been the first month of the Hebrew sacred year. By God's command the blood of +a lamb was to be sprinkled upon the sides and top of the doorway to every +Israelitish home. The lamb itself was to be roasted and eaten by the family, +who were to be dressed for a journey and ready to start on it at a moment's +notice.</p> +<p>At midnight the tenth and last judgment fell on the Egyptians. A wail of +anguish rose from every home in the land, for the first-born child in every +home lay dead. The angel of death had entered the palace of the King and the +hovel of his poorest subject alike, sparing only the homes where the blood- +sprinkled doorways told of God's protection.</p> +<p>Convinced at last that he could not successfully combat the God of the +Israelites, Pharaoh now begged Moses to hasten their departure, and the +Egyptian people were so anxious to have them out of the land that they gave +them jewels and clothing to induce them to go quickly.</p> +<p>So the whole Israelitish nation—some six hundred thousand men without +counting the women and children—set forth, on foot and in the night, +under the leadership of Moses, for the land of Canaan. With them they took the +coffin containing the embalmed body of Joseph, which had been carefully kept +in Egypt since his death. And God showed them the way they were to go by +having a cloud move before them in the daytime, and gave it the appearance of +fire at night.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/9.jpg" alt="The appearance of fire at +night."><br>"THE APPEARANCE OF FIRE AT NIGHT."</p> +<p>The shortest way to the Promised Land, which lay along the eastern coast of +the Mediterranean Sea, led through the country of the Philistines, a warlike +people who afterwards became the inveterate enemies of the Israelites, but +with whom they were not now able to contend. So they traveled in a +southeasterly direction until they came to that part of the Red Sea which is +now called the Gulf of Suez.</p> +<p>Pharaoh in the meanwhile had recovered from his terror and remorse, and +with a mighty army was pursuing the Israelites, intending to take them back to +Egypt. He first came in sight of them encamped upon the African border of the +Gulf. When the Israelites knew that they were pursued they turned angrily upon +Moses and Aaron for taking them away from Egypt. But Moses told them to trust +God for He would not let Pharaoh overtake them.</p> +<p>Then Moses lifted his rod and stretched it out over the waters, and God +sent a strong east wind which forced them back and left a passage for the +wandering people to cross to the other shore. So on they marched in the fury +of the storm, while Pharaoh and his host were overwhelmed by the waters, which +rushed back again after the children of Israel had reached the further +side.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/10.jpg" alt="Pharaoh and his host were +overwhelmed."><br>"PHARAOH AND HIS HOST WERE OVERWHELMED."</p> +<p>Then the Israelites broke out into songs of praise and thanksgiving to God, +who had so marvelously preserved them from Pharaoh's anger, led by Miriam, the +sister of Moses, the one who had watched him as a baby in his little papyrus +boat among the rushes on the bank of the Nile.</p> +<p>During the next three days of their journey no water was found. Then they +came to a well, but the water was not fit to drink. Again they found fault +with Moses, but he threw a tree which God showed him into the well and the +water at once became sweet and good.</p> +<p>Before long they were traveling in a desert country and their stock of food +gave out. As before, the Israelites accused Moses of having led them from +Egypt to die in the wilderness. But God sent them great flocks of quails, upon +which they fed, and covered the ground every morning with a curious substance, +round and white, which was good to eat. In wonder the Israelites exclaimed +"Man-hu?" which meant "What is it?" and so this mysterious food began to be +called manna.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/11.jpg" alt="Covered the ground with a +curious substance."><br>"COVERED THE GROUND WITH A CURIOUS SUBSTANCE."</p> +<p>Then they got out of the desert and camped at a place called Rephidim. But +here there was no water, and the people became so angry with Moses that they +were ready to kill him. Then God told Moses to strike one of the rocks with +his rod and water poured out in abundance.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/12.jpg" alt="Water poured out in +abundance."><br>"WATER POURED OUT IN ABUNDANCE."</p> +<p>Then a new trouble came upon the wandering nation. A people called the +Amalekites attacked them, and for the first time since leaving Egypt they were +obliged to defend themselves by fighting.</p> +<p>Moses chose a young man named Joshua to be the leader of a selected band +and sent him to do battle for the children of Israel, while he held up his +hands in prayer to God to help His people. So long as Moses' hands were +uplifted Joshua was victorious, but when from weariness he let them fall then +the Amalekites prevailed. So Aaron on one side and Hur on the other supported +his weary arms and at sunset Joshua had won the battle.</p> +<p>Shortly after this Moses was visited by Jethro, his father-in-law, who +brought with him Moses' wife and two sons, who had remained with him in Midian +for safety. Moses welcomed them and told Jethro all the wonderful things God +had done for His people. Then Jethro said, "Now I know that the Lord is +greater than all gods."</p> +<p>From Rephidim the Israelites passed into the desert of Sinai and from the +top of Mount Sinai God gave Moses a message for them. Among clouds from which +lightning gleamed and thunder muttered, Moses was given the Ten Commandments, +which were to be kept by the Israelites and their children, and laws which +they were to observe.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/13.jpg" alt="Among clouds from which +lightning gleamed."><br>"AMONG CLOUDS FROM WHICH LIGHTNING GLEAMED."</p> +<p>A second time Moses was called to communion with God on Mount Sinai, and +Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of the children of Israel were +permitted to accompany him a part of the way, while he and Joshua, the young +leader of the Israelites in their first battle, went on further.</p> +<p>After waiting for six days Moses went alone nearer to the top of the +mountain and staid there forty days and forty nights while God disclosed to +him His purposes regarding the children of Israel, and delivered into his +hands two tables or tablets of stone upon which He had graven the Ten +Commandments.</p> +<p>When Moses came down from Mount Sinai a strange sight met his eyes. In his +absence the fickle Israelites had persuaded Aaron to make them an idol such as +they had seen in Egypt and which they could worship. They had given Aaron +their jewels of gold and he had made of them a golden calf, to which they were +now bowing down and offering sacrifices. In his anger Moses cast the tablets +of stone from him and in their fall they were broken.</p> +<p>Then after reproaching Aaron for what he had done, Moses destroyed the +golden calf by fire and by grinding it to powder, and strewed the ashes and +powder upon water, which he made the Israelites drink.</p> +<p>Then he stood at the gate of the camp and called for all those who were on +the Lord's side to come and stand beside him. The children of Levi, the third +son of Jacob, answered this call, and Moses told them to go through the camp +and slay every man they met. This they did, and three thousand Israelites fell +at that time.</p> +<p>After this God told Moses to make two tablets of stone like those he had +broken, and with them come alone to Him on Mount Sinai, where He would engrave +upon them the words which were on the first tablets. Moses did this, and when +he came down from the mountain his face shone so that Aaron and the people +were afraid to speak to him until he had put a veil over it.</p> +<p>For more than a year the Israelites remained near Mount Sinai, and during +that time Moses told them, among other things which God had imparted to him, +how the Tabernacle was to be made, who its priests were to be, and how the +services were to be conducted. The people brought him all the material they +had that was suitable for those purposes, and skilful men built the beautiful +and costly Tabernacle, in which was placed the Ark of the Covenant, which they +were also instructed to make.</p> +<p>Aaron was appointed high priest and his four sons were made priests to +assist him in the services. The Sabbath or seventh day was to be strictly +kept, and various feasts and ceremonies were instituted. Particularly the +feast of the Passover was enjoined upon the Israelites to commemorate God's +mercy in passing over their homes when the first-born of the Egyptians were +slain.</p> +<p>Then the pillar of cloud, which, with the pillar of fire, had never ceased +to show the Israelites the way they were to go in their journeys, rested over +the Tabernacle, and at this sign that they were to resume their march to the +land of Canaan, the children of Israel marched forth once more and in time +came to Kadesh-barnea, near the borders of the promised land.</p> +<p>Then a man was chosen from each of the twelve tribes to see what the land +of Canaan was like and to find the best way of entering it. They were gone for +forty days, and when they returned their accounts differed. All agreed as to +the exceeding fruitfulness of the land, in proof of which they brought back a +bunch of grapes so large that it took two men to carry it. But only two +advised an immediate advance into the land. These were Joshua, the young +general, and a man named Caleb.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/14.jpg" alt="A bunch of grapes that took +two men to carry it."><br>"A BUNCH OF GRAPES THAT TOOK TWO MEN TO CARRY +IT."</p> +<p>The ten remaining messengers frightened the people by their account of the +giants and warlike tribes they would have to encounter and the many dangers +that would have to be met, and the people, fickle as ever, believed these +reports and again reproached their faithful leader.</p> +<p>But their punishment was swift and severe. The ten messengers of evil died +on the spot, and God commanded Moses to tell the people that, for their +doubting and faultfinding, not one of them over twenty years old except Joshua +and Caleb should enter the land of Canaan. Their children might do so, but +they could never set foot in it. They were to wander in the desert until they +died.</p> +<p>After thirty-eight years the wandering nation, which during this time had +been fed with manna and so cared for by God that they were neither footsore, +neither did their clothes wear out, was again encamped at Kadesh-barnea. In +the interval great numbers of the people had died, and here Miriam, the sister +of Moses and of Aaron, died and was buried. Water was again scarce, and the +people, as formerly, heaped reproaches upon Moses and Aaron, who asked God +what to do.</p> +<p>God told them to speak to one of the rocks and it would produce water in +plenty. Instead of doing exactly what they were told, Moses and Aaron first +rebuked the people and then Moses struck the rock with his rod. An abundant +supply of water followed, but for this act of disobedience and this display of +irritation, both of the brothers were forbidden to enter the land of +Canaan.</p> +<p>Before long Aaron died at the age of one hundred and twenty-three years and +was buried in Mount Hor. After mourning him for thirty days, the people again +broke out into discontent and in punishment were bitten by venomous serpents, +which were sent among them for that purpose. Many died in this way, and then +the people turned to Moses, who prayed to God in their behalf. God told Moses +to make a serpent of brass and raise it upon a pole high above the heads of +the people, and every one who looked upon this serpent, although he had been +bitten, was healed at once.</p> +<p>At last the Israelites came within sight of their inheritance and Moses' +work was nearly done. He appointed Joshua to succeed him and lead the children +of Israel into the land of Canaan. Then he gathered the people together and +made them an affectionate farewell address. He wrote down for them all the +words of the laws which God had given him for them and gave them to the +priest.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/15.jpg" alt="Moses made them a farewell +address."><br>"MOSES MADE THEM A FAREWELL ADDRESS."</p> +<p>Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab onto a mountain from which he +could look over the land of Canaan, which he was not to enter, and there he +died. He was one hundred and twenty years old, yet we are told that his +eyesight was undimmed. Where he was buried no one knows. The Bible says, "The +Lord buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor."</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/16.jpg" alt="He looked out over the land of +Canaan."><br>HE LOOKED OUT OVER THE LAND OF CANAAN.</p> +<p align="center"><img src="images/17.jpg" alt="And there he died."><br>"AND +THERE HE DIED."</p> +<br><br> +<p align="center"><img src="images/18.jpg" alt="A design"> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adopted Son, by J. H. 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