COTTAGE READINGS IN EXODUS.

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EXODUS I. II.

E are now to begin the second book of the Bible, the book of Exodus. You will remember, my friends, that the last chapters of Genesis told us of the death of Jacob and Joseph, and all his brethren, in the land of Egypt.

That was not their own country; they had been brought down there many years before, out of the land of Canaan, at the time of the seven years' famine.

You won't have forgotten how the Lord took care of His chosen people, the children of Israel, by sending Joseph before them into Egypt, where he became the governor of the country, and was able to preserve the lives of his father and all his family when the years of scarcity came.

God meant the children of Israel to stay a certain time in the land of Egypt. He had made known His will about it to Abraham long

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