There is no nobler example of victorious faith which prolonged confident expectation beyond the insignificant accident of death than Joseph's dying 'commandment concerning his bones.' His confidence, indeed, grasped a far lower blessing than ours should reach out to clasp. It was evoked by less clear and full promises and pledges than we have. The magnitude and loftiness of the Christian hope of Immortality, and the certitude of the fact on which it reposes, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, should result in a corresponding increase in the firmness and clearness of our hope, and in its power in our lives. The average Christian of to-day may well be sent to school to Joseph on his death-bed. Is our faith as strong as--I will not ask if it is stronger than--that of this man who, in the morning twilight of revelation, and with a hope of an eternal possession of an earthly inheritance, which, one might have thought, would be shattered by death, was able to fling his anchor clean across the gulf when he gave injunction, 'Carry my bones up hence'? We have a better inheritance, and fuller, clearer promises and facts on which to trust. Shame to us if we have a feebler faith.
ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt. D.
FOUR SHAPING CENTURIES (Exodus i. 1-14)
DEATH AND GROWTH (Exodus i. 6, 7)
THE ARK AMONG THE FLAGS (Exodus ii. 1-10)
THE BUSH THAT BURNED, AND DID NOT BURN OUT (Exodus iii. 2)
THE CALL OF MOSES (Exodus iii. 10-20)
A LAST MERCIFUL WARNING (Exodus xi. 1-10)
THE PASSOVER: AN EXPIATION AND A FEAST, A MEMORIAL AND A PROPHECY (Exodus xii. 1-14)
THOUGHT, DEED, WORD (Exodus xiii. 9)
A PATH IN THE SEA (Exodus xiv. 19-31)
'MY STRENGTH AND SONG' (Exodus xv. 2)
THE SHEPHERD AND THE FOLD (Exodus xv. 13)
THE ULTIMATE HOPE (Exodus xv. 17)
MARAH (Exodus xv. 23-25)
THE BREAD OF GOD (Exodus xvi. 4-12)
JEHOVAH NISSI (Exodus xvii. 15)
GERSHOM AND ELIEZER (Exodus xviii. 3, 4)
THE IDEAL STATESMAN (Exodus xviii. 21)
THE DECALOGUE:--I. MAN AND GOD (Exodus xx. 1-11)
THE DECALOGUE:--II. MAN AND MAN (Exodus xx. 12-21)
THE FEAST OF INGATHERING IN THE END OF THE YEAR (Exodus xxiii. 16)
'THE LOVE OF THINE ESPOUSALS' (Exodus xxiv. 1-12)
THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE (Exodus xxv. 30)
THE GOLDEN LAMPSTAND (Exodus xxv. 31)
THE NAMES ON AARON'S BREASTPLATE (Exodus xxviii. 12,29)
THREE INSCRIPTIONS WITH ONE MEANING (Exodus xxviii. 36; Zech. xiv. 20; Rev. xxii. 4)
THE ALTAR OF INCENSE (Exodus xxx. 1)
RANSOM FOR SOULS--I. (Exodus xxx. 12)
RANSOM FOR SOULS--II. (Exodus xxx. 15)
THE GOLDEN CALF (Exodus xxxii. 1-8, 30-35)
THE SWIFT DECAY OF LOVE (Exodus xxxii. 15-26)
THE MEDIATOR'S THREEFOLD PRAYER (Exodus xxxiii. 12-23)
GOD PROCLAIMING HIS OWN NAME (Exodus xxxiv. 6)
SIN AND FORGIVENESS (Exodus xxxiv. 7)
BLESSED AND TRAGIC UNCONSCIOUSNESS (Exodus xxxiv. 29; Judges xvi. 20)
AN OLD SUBSCRIPTION LIST (Exodus xxxv. 21)
THE COPIES OF THINGS IN THE HEAVENS (Exodus xl. 1-16)