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The Redeemed.
creation , to understand that Being whose essence it is not given to man to comprehend . Had I walked humbly much guilt would have been spared me . The captivity of our nation prayed upon my spirit ; the desire to see thee free from the insolence of the oppressor—for even in my pride and sin I loved thee— engrossed my every thought . Thus half inclined to fall , the tempter , Arphax , found me : like the parent of
all evil , he proffered knowledge , spoke of wisdom to the world unknown , roused the innate passions of my nature , and I became an apostate . " Here the repentant Israelite bowed his head to the dust , and remained absorbed for awhile in prayer . " Yon remember the bitter hour in which we parted ; the next saw me a prisoner , immured within the pyramid . Arphax had overheard my remorse , and denounced me to the Hierarch .
The miracles that our inspired leader wrought , the destruction of Pharaoh and his army , the deliverance of Israel , inflamed the priesthood . Nature had given way before the cruelties , the tortures , I endured , had not His power sustained me , in my dark dungeon . He heard my groans , beheld by tears of penitence , and gave me strength . Arphax finding that the severities I had endured , and my clamp prison , had robbed me of all strength—for my limbs were as a child ' s , my loins weak
as a new-born babe ' s —obtained from the chief priest permission to remove me to the plain ; not from compassion , but that I might regain my strength to endure fresh tortures . Once again I breathed the air of heaven pure and free ; my limbs trembled beneath the weight of my worn frame ; my first act ivas to offer homage to the God of Israel . The idolater , the scoffing Arphax , struck me ; when , in an instant , my
former strength returned , he fell beneath my blows , and , like a startled deer , I bounded o ' er the plain : how upheld , He only knows . I traversed dreary wilds , gained the desert , and found thee , Rachael . " " But Arphax , the idolater , " exclaimed his bride , "" did he perish ?" "Doubtless ; either beneath my blows or by the vengeance of tiie
enraged 2 iriesthood . " "Neither , " exclaimed the Egyptian , who , with the keen appetite of a bloodhound , hacl traced his victim , ancl now stood before him , "he hath arrived in time for vengeance . " The broad blade of the Egyptian ' s sword was raised over the breast of Reuben , when , at that instant , the storm which had been gradually gathering burst over their heads ; the electric fluid , attracted by the blade of the Egyptian ' s weapon , struck it from his hand—Arphax lay a heap of ashes at the feet of him so wonderously redeemed .
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The Redeemed.
creation , to understand that Being whose essence it is not given to man to comprehend . Had I walked humbly much guilt would have been spared me . The captivity of our nation prayed upon my spirit ; the desire to see thee free from the insolence of the oppressor—for even in my pride and sin I loved thee— engrossed my every thought . Thus half inclined to fall , the tempter , Arphax , found me : like the parent of
all evil , he proffered knowledge , spoke of wisdom to the world unknown , roused the innate passions of my nature , and I became an apostate . " Here the repentant Israelite bowed his head to the dust , and remained absorbed for awhile in prayer . " Yon remember the bitter hour in which we parted ; the next saw me a prisoner , immured within the pyramid . Arphax had overheard my remorse , and denounced me to the Hierarch .
The miracles that our inspired leader wrought , the destruction of Pharaoh and his army , the deliverance of Israel , inflamed the priesthood . Nature had given way before the cruelties , the tortures , I endured , had not His power sustained me , in my dark dungeon . He heard my groans , beheld by tears of penitence , and gave me strength . Arphax finding that the severities I had endured , and my clamp prison , had robbed me of all strength—for my limbs were as a child ' s , my loins weak
as a new-born babe ' s —obtained from the chief priest permission to remove me to the plain ; not from compassion , but that I might regain my strength to endure fresh tortures . Once again I breathed the air of heaven pure and free ; my limbs trembled beneath the weight of my worn frame ; my first act ivas to offer homage to the God of Israel . The idolater , the scoffing Arphax , struck me ; when , in an instant , my
former strength returned , he fell beneath my blows , and , like a startled deer , I bounded o ' er the plain : how upheld , He only knows . I traversed dreary wilds , gained the desert , and found thee , Rachael . " " But Arphax , the idolater , " exclaimed his bride , "" did he perish ?" "Doubtless ; either beneath my blows or by the vengeance of tiie
enraged 2 iriesthood . " "Neither , " exclaimed the Egyptian , who , with the keen appetite of a bloodhound , hacl traced his victim , ancl now stood before him , "he hath arrived in time for vengeance . " The broad blade of the Egyptian ' s sword was raised over the breast of Reuben , when , at that instant , the storm which had been gradually gathering burst over their heads ; the electric fluid , attracted by the blade of the Egyptian ' s weapon , struck it from his hand—Arphax lay a heap of ashes at the feet of him so wonderously redeemed .