Show NEW LIGHT ON THE HEBREW EXODUS IN these latter times new developments are frequently taking place which corroborate the statements of biblical history among the most recent are those which come from the ancient land of 0 egypt the scene of 0 early civilization 1 I n and where israel remained so long in bondage concern ing one of these discoveries the following is taken from the boston hernrd and will we are sure prove interesting to most of our readers the cunell cuneiform orm tablets recently taken from the egyptian tombs and now in the british museum have been arranged and deciphered by mr budge the english Egyptologist and are found to throw unexpected light on the social condition of egypt before the exodus and to explain the influx of the shem ites from mesopotamia it was these people who had bad the same acuteness and masterful energy that the jews during the last two or three centuries have displayed in russia they were more enterprising than the egyptians and almost gained the supremacy among them they helped build the pyramids and the great walls wall sand and got on finely till the rise of the nineteenth dynasty when they were so much oppressed pr essect by their that they rebelled aud and began the great exodus this is toe substance of much that these tablets contain there are also several letters which establish the pleasant social and legal relations between the mesopotamian and the egyptian kings and throw unexpected light upon phases of ancient life of which nothing has really been known i this is one of the most important finds of recent date it is a piecemeal addition to the slow reconstruction of the ancient world through the deciphering of the monuments that are constantly turning up amid the ruins of egypt appt the interest in these restorations to is almost as great id country as in england and the larne large contributions for the work of the egyptian exploring society of ghica miss edwards is the leader in england land and dr winslow has been the ane efel efficient ent promoter in the united states receive substantial encouragement through the fresh accumulation of these ancient hiAt historical orical fragments |