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THE SUEZ CANAL.
ing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt,"1 bore past this spot
their young Hebrew prisoner to sell him into slavery. But no army, however laden
with the spoils of victorous war ; no caravan, however enriched with the accumulation of
successful commerce, can so fire our imagination or fix our thoughts as the two poor
fugitives, who, weary and footsore, fled across this dreary waste, escaping with " the young
Child" from the wrath of Herod the king.2 The glory of God, the salvation of man,
the sole hope of a ruined world, had been committed to their charge. He who was
carried in His mother's arms or walked with infant feet over this oft-trodden track, had
stooped to mortal weakness that we might rise to a glory which shall never pass away.
i Genesis xxxvii. 25. s Matthew ii. 13-21.
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ing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt,"1 bore past this spot
their young Hebrew prisoner to sell him into slavery. But no army, however laden
with the spoils of victorous war ; no caravan, however enriched with the accumulation of
successful commerce, can so fire our imagination or fix our thoughts as the two poor
fugitives, who, weary and footsore, fled across this dreary waste, escaping with " the young
Child" from the wrath of Herod the king.2 The glory of God, the salvation of man,
the sole hope of a ruined world, had been committed to their charge. He who was
carried in His mother's arms or walked with infant feet over this oft-trodden track, had
stooped to mortal weakness that we might rise to a glory which shall never pass away.
i Genesis xxxvii. 25. s Matthew ii. 13-21.
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