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And what of his body? When a mere babe, a king's daughter saw him; and was so struck with his beauty that she adopted him as her son. Grown to manhood, seeing a fellow-Hebrew, a slave, brutally treated by an Egyptian overseer; he sprang upon the latter; closed with him in a terrible struggle; and left him dead upon the field. Facing one of the greatest rulers the world then knew; surrounded by his mighty retinue, and backed by his armies; this man single-handed, leaning only upon his Maker and himself; with unquailing front, never relaxed his efforts for one moment, until the tyrant let the people go. For forty years of march over desert, sea, and mountain at the head of a mighty multitude, ignorant, fractious, mutinous, surrounded with difficulties and dangers; beset by unknown foes, he never slept a night under a roof. Eighty years old at the start; ten more than most men hope to ever see; yet, at the end of those forty memorable years, he came through in such splendid form that we are told that "Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died; ." What