t so many deep scars upon the fair land of Egypt--and
immediately the wind ceased, its strong pressure was relaxed, the sudden
swell of the tide caught the waters, and they, as if impatient of
restraint, leaped again to their wonted channel, burying the hopeless
and helpless enemy.

"A sudden cessation of the wind at sunrise, coinciding with a spring
tide (it was full moon), would immediately convert the low, flat
sand-banks, first into a quicksand, and then into a mass of waters,
in a time far less than would suffice for the escape of a single
chariot or horseman loaded with heavy corselet."--_Canon Cook._

The destruction was as complete as it was sudden. Not one escaped. The
disaster was overwhelming, crushing. The Egyptians never again disturbed
the Israelites during all their after wanderings.

THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOINGS.

"But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the
sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on
their left.

"Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.

"And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the
Egyptians; and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord,
and his servant Moses."

There was only one explanation of this event, and that was the Lord
wrought it. There could be no room in the mind of any of the children of
Israel to doubt that God was with them. Repeatedly had they seen their
enemies baffled and discomfited; now they saw them destroyed. What folly
to contend with such a God! Would it be possible for these people thus
delivered ever to doubt God? ever to distrust Him? ever to disobey Him?
It would seem not.

They had every reason to believe Him, to be grateful to Him, to love and
serve Him devotedly. Without lifting a finger, they, an unarmed people,
with not a soldier in all their ranks, nor a weapon worthy the name, had
triumphed over a chosen detachment of the finest army in the world at
that time, led, too, by a king who was familiar with battles and
accustomed to victories.

Josephus says that, after the passage of the sea by the Israelites,
a west wind set in, which (assisted by the current) drove the bodies of
the drowned Egyptians to the eastern side of the gulf, where many of
them were cast up upon the shore. In this way, Moses, according to him,
obtained weapons and armor for a considerable num