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 maidens, she discovered an ark of bulrushes in the water, and sent one of her maids to fetch it: when the ark was brought to her and opened, a beautiful child was found in it. Pharaoh's daughter took care of the child, and paid a nurse to attend it, and bring it up. She named the child Moses—because, she said, "I drew him out of the water." Names were originally given to mark and express the quality of the thing named; and often had their origin from special circumstances as was the case here. The origin of the name Moses is as follows:—The Egyptians call water by the name of Mo, and those who were taken out of the water, and thereby saved from being drowned, they called Uses—thus when the two words are put together, they form Mouses: but it was the custom in ancient languages, and is so in some modern ones, when two words were joined together, and formed what is called a compound word, that if the first word ended with a vowel, and the other began with one, the first letter of the last word should be struck out—thus when the letter U is struck out of the last word, the name of is formed—the name importing taken out of the water or saved from drowning.

It is very remarkable that the daughter of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, should pay the wages of the nurse who suckled and brought up the child Moses; who, when arrived at maturity, was the very man who delivered the Hebrews from her father's yoke. Pharaoh commanded that every male child of the Hebrews should be thrown into the river, in order that the race of the Israelites might be destroyed; but the Divine Providence ordered that he who was to make Pharaoh tremble, and be the deliverer of the Hebrews from his