Identifier: cosmotheologies00shaw (find matches)
Title: Cosmotheologies
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Shaw, Robert, M. A
Subjects: Bible Creation Religions
Publisher: St. Louis, Becktold
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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childto her to be nursed and brought up, promising to give her for thisservice a good recompense. The woman took the child and nursedhim and when he was grown up to boyhood she brought him toPharaohs daughter who adopted him as her son. And she calledhis name Moses, because, said she, I drew him out of the water.And when Moses had grown up to mans estate, and had attainedsuch an excellent education as the city of Thebes then afforded tothose who were able to acquire it, he went out one day walkingamong his brethren, the Israelites, and was much affected by thetreatment he saw them receive at the hands of their taskmasters;and as he was taking a general survey with his eyes he espies anEgyptian smiting an Hebrew. And when he cast his eye round and saw that there was no manin sight he killed this Egyptian smiter, and hid his body in the sand. MOSAIC DISPENSATION. 19 The next day after he went out to walk in the same manner andand saw two men, that were Hebrews, striving with each other;
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MOSES AND HIS SISTER MIRIAM. and he said to the one whom he understood to be the offender, why-do you smite your fellow Israelites! And the man addressed an- 20 CREATOR AND COSMOS; OR, COSMOTHEOLOGIES, ETC. • swered, who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Dost thouintend to kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? Thiscaused Moses at once to suspect that his act of killing the Egyptianwas known. And besides when it came to the ears of Pharaoh hesought to apprehend and kill Moses! But Moses lost no time inmaking his way out of Egypt, and in escaping into the land ofMidian, in the peninsula of Sinai, wherein having arrived he satdown by a well. While *Hting there it happened that the sevendaughters of the priest-princeof Midian, whose name was Shethro,came to the well to wTater their fathers flocks. They had barelysucceeded in drawing enough to fill all the troughs when the shep-herds who also were pasturing their cattle in that district came andwithout much ceremony drove t

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