Excerpt from The Uplifted Hands, and Other Sermons Moses was a man of great moral hero ism. His vast shadowy figure looms up upon the dusky background of history, one of those phenomenal personalities from whom races date their existence. But, in the story, even Moses was bitterly assailed by these miserable slaves. Their patience was exhausted. The man to Whom they had looked for freedom had brought them into distress beside which their life under the Egyptian task-masters seemed like the good Old times. They had trusted him, now they began to curse him. He had apparently deceived them. That wonder ful land he had pictured to their dull ap prehension was only a dream, - a fool's paradise, it did not exist. Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children with thirst? This was their bitter mz'serere. The flesh pots of Egypt, the lash of their overseers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.