down to the present day, is not the particular term, designating the
commander of a small company of soldiers, but a general term, standing
for leadership in the largest sense. Moses, according to this meaning
of the word, was one of the greatest of the worlds captains, for he
took a cowardly, unorganized mob of slaves and led them through the
most appalling difficulties and dangers, to freedom, and to a position
where national existence was possible. While there was little actual
fighting in the journey from Egypt to Palestine, yet there was
necessity, every step of the way, for the highest qualities of
leadership.

Joshua was a great captain in the more strictly military sense of the
word. He found the force organized and disciplined by the leadership
of Moses, and he used it as a skillful swordsman uses a keen and
tempered blade. In his campaigns he displayed the abilities of the
great military genius.

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THE FINDING OF MOSES

Slow glides the Nile: amid the margin flags,
Closed in a bulrush ark, the babe is left,--
Left by a mother's hand. His sister waits
Far off; and pale, 'tween hope and fear, beholds
The royal maid, surrounded by her train,
Approach the river bank,--approach the spot
Where sleeps the innocent: she sees them stoop
With meeting plumes; the rushy lid is oped,
And wakes the infant, smiling in his tears,
As when along a little mountain lake
The summer south-wind breathes, with gentle sigh,
And parts the reeds, unveiling, as they bend,
A water-lily floating on the wave.

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[Illustration]
VIEW FROM RAMAH, THE TRADITIONAL HOME OF SAMUEL
Copyright by Underwood & Underwood
and used by special permission.

"We know not with certainty the situation of Ramah. Of Samuel as of
Moses it may be said, 'No man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this
day.' But the lofty peak above Gibeon, which has long borne his
name, has this feature (in common, to a certain extent, with any
high place which can have been the scene of his life and death),
that it overlooks the whole of that broad table-land, on which the
fortunes of the Jewish monarchy were afterwards unrolled. Its
towering eminence, from which the pilgrims first obtained their view
of Jerusalem, is no unfit likeness of the solitary grandeur of the
prophet Samuel, who lived and died in the very midst of the future
glory of his country"
[End illustration]

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MOSES

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