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168 of itself) is evident from the whole tenor of the Sacred Scriptures, from the opening passage onwards. He is constantly described as an active and most active Being, taking an interest in all men's doings, leading the good, checking the bad, punishing the refractory, removing from the world those who would injure and destroy their fellow-men,—and, on the other hand, blessing, and promising still more highly to bless, those who obey His Word, and who love and serve and do good to each other. And what grand exhibitions of His Power are presented, in the course of His accomplishing all these purposes! See the great acts performed by the instrumentality of Moses, as the means of compelling the stubborn king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go. Behold Him, next, leading them on through the wilderness in a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; opening a path for them through the Red Sea, and overwhelming their pursuing enemies in the same waters, by a look and a word. How sublime is the language of that narration! "And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked at the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians; and took off their chariot-wheels, that they drove them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared. And the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in