peace-offering
("ram of consecration"), 415.--The wave-offerings, 415-16.--The result,
416-17.

CHAPTER XXX.

INCENSE, xxx. 1-10.

The impalpable in nature, 418.--"The golden altar," 419.--Represents
prayer. Needs cleansing, 420.

A CENSUS, xxx. ii-16.

A census not sinful. David's transgression. The half-shekel. Equality of
man, 421.--Christ paid it, 422.--Its employment, 423.

THE LAVER, xxx. 17-21.

Behind the altar. Purity of priests, 423.--Made of the mirrors, 424.

ANOINTING OIL AND INCENSE, xxx. 22-38.

Their ingredients. All the vessels anointed, 424.--Forbidden to secular
uses, 425.--Modern analogies, 426-7.

CHAPTER XXXI.

BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB, xxxi. 1-18.

Secular gifts are sacred, 428-30.--The Sabbath. The tables and "the
finger of God," 431.

CHAPTER XXXII.

THE GOLDEN CALF.

Sin of the people; of Aaron. God rejects them, 432.--Intercession. The
Christian antitype, 433-4.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

PREVAILING INTERCESSION.

The first concession. The angel, 435.--"The Tent of the Meeting," 436.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

THE VISION OF GOD.

To know is to desire to know. A fit season. The greater Name, 438.--The
covenant renewed. The tables. The skin of his face shone, 439.--Lessons,
440.

CHAPTERS XXXV.-XL. CONCLUSION.

The people obey, 441.--The forming of the nation: review, 441-3.

CHAPTER I.

_THE PROLOGUE._

EXODUS i. 1-6.

"And these are the names of the children of Israel which came into
Egypt."

Many books of the Old Testament begin with the conjunction And. This
fact, it has been often pointed out, is a silent indication of truth,
that each author was not recording certain isolated incidents, but parts
of one great drama, events which joined hands with the past and future,
looking before and after.

Thus the Book of the Kings took up the tale from Samuel, Samuel from
Judges, and Judges from Joshua, and all carried the sacred movement
forward towards a goal as yet unreached. Indeed, it was impossible,
remembering the first promise that the seed of the woman should bruise
the head of the serpent, and the later assurance that in the seed of
Abraham should be the universal blessing, for a faithful Jew to forget
that all the history of his race was the evolution of some grand hope, a
pilgrimage towards some goal unseen. Bearing in mind that there is now
revealed to us a world-wide tendency toward the supreme consummation,
the bringing all things under