welcome to anything we have." Then a good meal was prepared for him. He was put to sleep in Charlie's bed. He was dressed in some of Charlie's clothes, and money was given him to take him home in comfort. All this was done "for Charlie's sake." And so when we ask anything for Jesus' sake, God, our heavenly Father, will surely give it to us, if it be well for us to have it. Joseph's mission brought Joseph's trouble brought him When Joseph became rich and And thus we have Joseph and Jesus compared. Joseph was sent on a mission by his father; and so was Jesus. Joseph's mission was to show his father's love; and so it was with Jesus. him into trouble; and so did that of Jesus. to great honor; and so it was with Jesus. great, he used his power for the good of his brethren; and this is just what Jesus is doing all the time. And so, when we read the sweet story of Joseph, let us never forget to think about Jesus, and to love and serve him for all that he has done for us. same here. OSES told the children of Israel that God would MOSE raise up to them a prophet like unto him. Deut. xviii: 15. And Christ was the person to whom he referred when he said this. Moses was one of the greatest men of whom we read in the Old Testament. Like Joseph, he spent the greater part of his life in Egypt. The history of Moses is very different from that of Joseph in many respects. But there is one thing in which the lives of these two good and great men are much alike: they both have many things in them that remind us of Jesus. We have seen how beautifully Joseph and Jesus may be compared together. And we may do the The life of Moses is full of illustrations of the character and Moses knew this, and he told the children of Israel so work of Christ. 100 when he said to them,-"The Lord thy God will raise up unto you a prophet, from the midst of thy brethren, like unto me." This promise, or prophecy, refers to Christ. And it gives us an interesting subject of Bible study. It leads us to think of our blessed Saviour as "the prophet like Moses." A prophet is one who speaks for another, and especially who speaks for God. And this is what Christ was sent into our world to do. He was to be a prophet. He was to come into our world on purpose to speak to us for God. And so the apostle Paul says, that, "God, who spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son." Heb. i: 1, 2. It is true that Jesus was to be a prophet. And we are not only told this about him, but were are told also what sort of a prophet he was to be. He was to be "a prophet like Moses." And the question we must try and answer now is this: What are some of the things in which Jesus was a prophet like Moses? I say some of them; for we cannot speak of them all. If we should try to count them, we should find that there are thirty or forty things in which Jesus was like Moses. I will only speak of five of these things. Moses was exposed to great danger at the time of his birth; and it was the same with Jesus-and so we may begin by saying that Jesus was like Moses in—THE DANGER AT TENDING HIS BIRTH. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, tried to kill Moses as soon as he was born. The children of Israel were increasing so fast that he began to be afraid of them. Then he gave orders to have all the male children of the Israelites thrown into the river. And this was the law of Egypt at the time when Moses was born. Exod. i: 22. The mother of Moses hid her child for three months. What an anxious time she must have had during those months! No doubt the officers of Pharaoh, who had been appointed to execute this cruel law, were going about, all the time, hunting for young children, whom their fond mothers were trying, in one way or another, to save alive. How many a piercing shriek would be heard, in the homes of the Israelites, as some poor mother pressed her darling to her bosom, in the vain attempt to prevent it from being torn from her embrace, and cast into the river Nile! How often the heart of Jochabed, the mother of |