Transcriber's Note.
The text comprises a series of letters in three groups. The firstgroup, the first letter within that group, and the third group,lack headings. Appropriate headings have been copied from theTable of Contents and inserted on pages 25 and 468.
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected as has inconsistenthyphenation.
THE FINDING OF MOSES.—Page 388.
THE
PILLAR OF FIRE;
OR,
Israel in Bondage.
By REV. J. H. INGRAHAM,
Rector of Christ Church, and of St. Thomas' Hall, Holly Springs, Miss.
AUTHOR OF
"THE PRINCE OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID."
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers.
No. 299 Washington Street.
1881.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by
G. G. EVANS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
THE MEN OF ISRAEL,
SONS OF
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
KINDRED OF MOSES,
THE GREAT LAWGIVER AND FRIEND OF GOD:
This Book
IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR;
WITH THE PRAYER,
THAT YOU, OF THIS GENERATION, WHO ARE DISPERSED IN ALL THE EARTH
MAY BEHOLD AND FOLLOW THE LIGHT OF
THE CROSS,
AS YOUR FATHERS FOLLOWED
THE PILLAR OF FIRE
AND ENTER AT LAST THE REAL CANAAN,
UNDER THE TRUE JOSHUA,
JESUS, THE SON OF ABRAHAM,
WHO ALSO WAS
THE SON OF GOD.
AUTHOR'S CHAPTER TO THE READER.
The idea of illustrating scenes of that period of the history ofEgypt in which the Israelites were held in bondage by herkings, and presenting it from a point of view outside of theMosaic narrative, yet strictly harmonizing therewith, occurred tothe writer some years ago.
In view of his object, he has carefully studied the history andchronology of Egypt, and endeavored to inform his mind uponthe manners, customs, laws, religion, and polity of the ancientEgyptians, so far as to aid him in an intelligent and practicalexecution of his work.
The difficulties which the question of dynasty, and of individualreigns have presented, will be understood by the Egyptianstudent. Whatsoever chronology or theory the authormight finally decide upon, he saw would be open to the objectionsof adherents to the opposite school.
After a thorough examination of the subject of the dynasties,the author has followed, chiefly, the chronology and theory ofNolan and Seyffarth, whose opinions are sustained by the ablestscholars.
But this work is by no means a "Book on Egypt." It professesto have nothing more to do with Egyptian antiquities,mythology, chronology, and history, than these naturally assembleabout his subject, whi