up like
walls on either side of the path on which the children of Israel traveled
through the midst of the sea. We would naturally suppose that water
would not do this, but it was a miracle wrought by the power of the
Almighty. He placed the waters, like solid walls on each side of his
people, and they walked through dry shod, while the Egyptian army, in
trying to pursue them, were overthrown in the midst of the sea.

Then comes another new revelation—given by inspiration—to sing how the
Lord had overthrown the enemies of his people, how the Lord had
magnified his great power and preserved his people from the Egyptian
nation, and delivered them from bondage. The hosts of Israel traveled
along from the shores of the Red Sea until they came to the foot of
MountSinai, where, by new revelation, they camped; and at a certain
time, the Lord, by new revelation, called Moses up into the mount; and
when he got there the Lord saw fit to write a certain code of laws on
tables of stone, and, after keeping Moses in the mount forty days and
forty nights, he sent him down, and when he got down he found that the
children of Israel had corrupted themselves in the sight of the Most
High, for they had made unto themselves gods, certain golden calves,
and they were worshipping them. Aaron had caused the people to strip
themselves naked, and they were dancing around the calves. Moses was
very angry, not with that kind of anger which fills the bosoms of
foolish men and women; but that principle of justice which burns