The Israelites, or God's people, are spoken of in the lesson. They are now in Egypt. Let me mark it on the board. Here is _Egypt_, [drawing a rough outline of the Red Sea, river Nile, and the Mediterranean; and, proceeding northerly, of Palestine.] Pointing to the latter, the teacher said, Here is--_Canaan_, one child replied. Yes! that little girl has it. And what city is this? [making a dot near the corner of the Dead Sea.] Je-_rusalem!_ [a little boy finishes the word.] God's people had been dwelling in Canaan; how did they come to be in Egypt, where we find them in our lesson? Who first went down to get corn? _Joseph._ Yes. There was no corn in the land. What do you call it when there is nothing to eat? _Famine!_ a bright boy replies. Very well, indeed. Who, then, went first to buy corn? _Joseph._ And who followed him? _His brethren._ What did they go for?--to keep them from--_Starving!_ That is it, exactly. I like to hear children answer so well. Can any of you tell me how many Israelites or Jews there were in Egypt? How many is that? [Writing the figures 2,000,000 on the board.] _Two million!_ [eagerly responded a little fellow, who certainly did credit to his week-day instructors.] Yes, there were probably two million--men, women, and children. What was the name of the king of Egypt? It begins with P.--_Pharaoh._ Yes, God said to him, "Let my people--_go_." but Pharaoh said, "I--_won't_!" Then God said, "I will show him what I will do. My people shall go, that they may serve me." So God told his people to get ready that night, when our lesson begins. What should you think this was? [Drawing a rough figure of the face of a clock.] _A clock._ Yes. What hour is the hand pointing to? _Twelve o'clock._ What time of night do you call that? _Midnight._ Yes, at midnight God said he would go from house to house in the land of Egypt, and every house where he did not see something on the door he would go in and kill the first-born. Let us make a door, now. [Drawing the outline of a door.] We won't take time to draw it very nicely. "Every house where I see something on the door," God said. What was it he must see on the door? _Blood!_ _blood!_ [Taking the red crayon, spots of red are dotted here and there over the white door-posts, representing blood.] Yes; wherever I see the blood of a little killed lamb on the door, I will not go in and slay the first-born. This blood must first be in a--[Drawing an outline of a bowl or basin,]--_Basin_, the children reply. Yes; and how are you to get the blood on the door? [Taking the green chalk, and drawing a bush.] Here is a little bush, called hyssop, something like a huckleberry bush, and the people were to take that and dip it in the basin, into the blood, and do what? _Sprinkle it on the door!_ Yes. What part of the door? (A pause.) L-i-n-t-e-l; what does that spell? _Lintel._