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 family. "The reproach of Christ," 35.--An impulsive act, 36.--Impulses not accidents. The hopes of Moses, 37.--Moses and his brethren. His flight, 38.
MOSES IN MIDIAN, ii. 16-22.
Energy in disaster, 39.--Disinterested bravery. Parallels with a variation, 40.--The Unseen a refuge. Duty of resisting small wrongs. His wife, 41.--A lonely heart, 42.
THE BURNING BUSH, ii. 23-iii.
Death of Raamses. Misery continues, 43.--The cry of the oppressed, 44.--Discipline of Moses, 45.--How a crisis comes, 46.--God hitherto unmentioned. The Angel of the Lord, 47.--An unconsuming fire, 48.--Inquiry: reverence. God finds, not man, 49.--"Take off thy shoe." "The God of thy father," 50.--Immortality. "My people," not saints only, 51.--The good land. The commission, 52.--God with him. A strange token, 53.
A NEW NAME, iii. 14; vi. 2, 3.
Why Moses asked the name of God: idolatry: pantheism, 54.--A progressive revelation, 55.--Jehovah. The sound corrupted. Similar superstitions yet, 56.--What it told the Jews. Reality of being, 57.--Jews not saved by ideas. Streams of tendency. The Self-contained. We live in our past, 58.--And in our future, 59.--Yet Jehovah not the impassive God of Lucretius, 60.--The Immutable is Love. This is our help, 61.--Human will is not paralysed, 62.--The teaching of St. Paul. All this is practical, 63.--This gives stability to all other revelations. Our own needs, 64.
THE COMMISSION, iii. 10, 16-22.
God comes where He sends, 65.--The Providential man. Prudence, 66.--Sincerity of demand for a brief respite, 67.--God has already visited them. By trouble He transplants, 68.--The "borrowing" of jewels, 69.