the dividing of the Red Sea, opening a passage for the Israelites to escape from the Egyptians. The pillar of cloud by day, and of fire by night, which went before the children of Israel as they marched through the wilderness.

Next there are the Miracles which were worked IN THE WILDERNESS. Let us see if we can remember them.

I. MIRACLES IN THE WILDERNESS.

1. Moses makes sweet the bitter waters at Marah.
2. Manna falls upon the ground every morning to feed
the Israelites.

3. The wind brings up great flocks of quails.

4. Moses draws a spring of water from the rock at Horeb.

5. Moses fasts for forty days and nights.

6. God writes the Ten Commandments on two tables of stone.

7. Fire falls from heaven to burn up Aaron's first sacrifice in the Tabernacle.*

8. Nadab and Abihu are burnt by fire from heaven for playing at being priests.

9. The destruction of Korah, Dathan, and Abiraın. 10. The consuming fire at Taberah (Numb. xi. 1). 11. Miriam's leprosy.

12. The budding of Aaron's rod.

13. Moses draws water from the rock at Meribah.

II. THREE CHIEF MIRACLES WORKED IN THE TIME OF JOSHUA.

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1. Dividing the waters of the Jordan.

2. The fall of the walls of Jericho.

3. The Sun and the Moon stopped in their course.

III. THREE IN THE TIME OF THE JUDGES.

Two of these were to Gideon.

Those worked by God to save the Ark.

* Lev. ix. 24.

THREE IN THE TIME OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND
JUDAH.

1. The withering and healing of Jeroboam's hand. 2. The destruction of the Assyrian army in one night. 3. The Sun going back on its course fifteen degrees on the sun-dial.

V. THERE ARE THOSE OF ELIJAH AND ELISHA.

NOTE.-A miracle is something which happens by God's will contrary to the usual course of nature.

QUESTIONS.

What is a miracle? Name some of the miracles mentioned in Genesis. Some that were worked in Egypt. What two did Moses see in Midian? Give a list of those in the Wilderness. What were the three in Joshua's time? The two in the time of the Judges? Why were the next worked? Tell me the three in the Books of Kings. What others are there in the same books? Who worked them?

CHAPTER XCIII.

MIRACLES IN THE WILDERNESS.

THERE are four miracles worked in the wilderness to supply the people with meat and drink.

1. THE BITTER WATERS OF MARAH ARE MADE SWEET. "So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; and they went out into the wilderness of Shur, and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

"And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah (i.e. bitterness).

"And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

"And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet" (Exod. xv. 22-25).

2. THE PEOPLE ARE FED WITH MANNA AND QUAILS.

"The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

"And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

"And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

"And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

"This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your per

sons; take ye every man for them which are in his

tents.

"And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

"And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

"And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

"Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

"And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

"And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

"And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to-day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

"And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

"And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to-day ye shall not find it in the field.

"Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

"And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

"And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath,

therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

"So the people rested on the seventh day.

"And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey" (Exod. xvi. 12-31).

3. MOSES DRAWS WATER FROM THE ROCK IN HOREB, AT REPHIDIM.

"All the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their jour