LETTER VI.

Moses departs for Egypt--The Illimitable Sea--Reflections upon the infinity of God--A storm--Despair of passengers--Their gods unavailing to save--Moses invokes the true God--The storm ceases--The crowd offer divine honors to Moses--His anger at their sacrilege--He arrives in Egypt--Is in the bosom of his family--Oppression of the Hebrews--Their miraculous increase--Tradition of God's revelation of Himself to Abram--A miracle!--God's command to Abraham--His obedience--God's promise--The fulness of time at hand--Woman of salt--City of Salem--Moses strives to arouse the Hebrews--He is doubted and discredited--pp. 449-461.