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diff --git a/39282.txt b/39282.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47b4fbe --- /dev/null +++ b/39282.txt @@ -0,0 +1,923 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adopted Son, by J. H. Willard + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Adopted Son + The Story of Moses + +Author: J. H. 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 + + + + +[Illustration: "Moses strikes the rock."] +MOSES STRIKES THE ROCK + + + ALTEMUS' + CHILDREN OF THE BIBLE SERIES + + + THE ADOPTED SON + + BY + + J. H. WILLARD + + + ILLUSTRATED + + + PHILADELPHIA + HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY + + + + Altemus' Illustrated + Children of the Bible Series + +The Boy who Obeyed + The Story of Isaac +The Farmer Boy + The Story of Jacob +The Favorite Son + The Story of Joseph +The Adopted Son + The Story of Moses +The Boy General + The Story of Joshua +The Boy at School + The Story of Samuel +The Shepherd Boy + The Story of David +The Boy who would be King + The Story of Absalom +The Captive Boy + The Story of Daniel +The Boy Jesus + + Fifty Cents Each + Copyright, 1905 + By Henry Altemus + + +[Illustration: Moses brings the Ten Commandments down from Mount +Sinai.] + + + + THE ADOPTED SON + THE STORY OF MOSES + + +ABRAHAM, 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. + +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. + +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." + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "Working without pay day after day."] +"WORKING WITHOUT PAY DAY AFTER DAY." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "It was not much more than a basket."] +"IT WAS NOT MUCH MORE THAN A BASKET." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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." + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "A bush of acacia apparently on fire."] +"A BUSH OF ACACIA APPARENTLY ON FIRE." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "Aaron threw down his rod and it became a serpent."] +"AARON THREW DOWN HIS ROD AND IT BECAME A SERPENT." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "The appearance of fire at night."] +"THE APPEARANCE OF FIRE AT NIGHT." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "Pharaoh and his host were overwhelmed."] +"PHARAOH AND HIS HOST WERE OVERWHELMED." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "Covered the ground with a curious substance."] +"COVERED THE GROUND WITH A CURIOUS SUBSTANCE." + +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. + +[Illustration: "Water poured out in abundance."] +"WATER POURED OUT IN ABUNDANCE." + +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. + +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. + +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." + +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. + +[Illustration: "Among clouds from which lightning gleamed."] +"AMONG CLOUDS FROM WHICH LIGHTNING GLEAMED." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "A bunch of grapes that took two men to carry it."] +"A BUNCH OF GRAPES THAT TOOK TWO MEN TO CARRY IT." + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[Illustration: "Moses made them a farewell address."] +"MOSES MADE THEM A FAREWELL ADDRESS." + +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." + +[Illustration: "He looked out over the land of Canaan."] +HE LOOKED OUT OVER THE LAND OF CANAAN. + +[Illustration: "And there he died."] +"AND THERE HE DIED." + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adopted Son, by J. H. Willard + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADOPTED SON *** + +***** This file should be named 39282.txt or 39282.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/9/2/8/39282/ + +Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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