at follows? How comes it that the oak is
potentially in the acorn, and the living creature in the egg? No germ is
a manufactured article: it is a part of the system of the universe.

ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE PROLOGUE, i. 1-6.

Books linked by conjunction "And:" Scripture history a connected whole,
1.--So is secular history organic: "Philosophy of history." The
Pentateuch being a still closer unity, Exodus rehearses the descent into
Egypt, 2.--Heredity: the family of Jacob, 3.--Death of Joseph. Influence
of Egypt on the shepherd race, 4.--A healthy stock: good breeding.
Goethe's aphorism, 5.--Ourselves and our descendants, 6.

GOD IN HISTORY, i. 7.

In Exodus, national history replaces biography, 6.--Contrasted
narratives of Jacob and Moses. Spiritual progress from Genesis to
Exodus, 7.--St. Paul's view: Law prepares for Gospel, especially by our
failures, 8.--This explains other phenomena: failures in various
circumstances, of innocence in Eden; of an elect family; now of a race,
a nation, 9.--Israel, failing with all advantages, needs a Messiah.
Faith justifies, in Old Testament as in New, 10.--Scripture history
reveals God in this life, in all things, 11.--True spirituality owns God
in the secular: this is a gospel for our days, 12-13.

THE OPPRESSION, i. 7-22.

Early prosperity: its dangers: political supports vain, 13.--Joseph
forgotten. National responsibilities: despotism, 14.--Nations and their
chiefs. Our subject races, 15.--The Church and her King: imputation.
Pharaoh precipitates what he fears, 16.--Egypt and her aliens: modern
parallels, 17.--Tyranny is tyrannous even when cultured, 18.--Our undue
estrangement from the fallen: Jesus a brother. Toil crushes the spirit,
19.--Israel idolatrous. Religious dependence, 20. --Direct interposition
required. Bitter oppression, 21.--Pharaoh drops the mask. Defeated by
the human heart. The midwives, 22.--Their falsehood. Morality is
progressive, 23.--Culture and humanity, 24.--Religion and the child, 25.

CHAPTER II.

THE RESCUE OF MOSES, ii. 1-10.

Importance of the individual, 26.--A man _versus_ "the Time-spirit,"
27.--The parents of Moses, 28.--Their family: their goodly child,
29.--Emotion helps faith, 30.--The ark in the bulrushes, 31.--Pharaoh's
daughter and Miriam, 32.--Guidance for good emotions: the Church for
humanity, 33.

THE CHOICE OF MOSES, ii. 11-15.

God employs means, 34.--Value of endowment. Moses and his famil