was called.

What the feast It was called the Passover, because the destroying angel passed over the houses of the Israelites, when he destroyed the first-born of all the Egyptians.

How the houses

The houses passed over were to were marked. be marked with blood, sprinkled

on the lintel and on the two side-posts.

Subsequently the blood was sprinkled instead on the bottom of the altar.

What blood was used.

The blood employed was that of a lamb, which each family was

com

manded to slay (without breaking a bone) between 3 and 6 o'clock in the evening, and to eat the same night.

What the lamb The lamb was called the Paschal was called. lamb, or lamb of the passover.

(1.) It was to be a male, without blemish, and not above a year old;

(2.) To be ROASTED whole, with the head, feet, and bowels; and

(3.) To be eaten with unleavened bread, and a salad of lettuce or of bitter herbs. If any portion remained, it was to be consumed at once by fire.

Two spits were thrust through the lamb, one lengthwise, and the other transversely, near the fore legs, forming thus a kind of cross, and the lamb might be said to be crucified.-Jahn's Arch. Bib.

The oven in which it was roasted was a hole

was called.

What the feast It was called the Passover, because the destroying angel passed over the houses of the Israelites, when he destroyed the first-born of all the Egyptians.

were marked.

How the houses The houses passed over were to be marked with blood, sprinkled on the lintel and on the two side-posts. Subsequently the blood was sprinkled instead on the bottom of the altar.

What blood was used.

The blood employed was that of a lamb, which each family was commanded to slay (without breaking a bone) between 3 and 6 o'clock in the evening, and to eat the same night.

What the lamb The lamb was called the Paschal was called. lamb, or lamb of the passover.

(1.) It was to be a male, without blemish, and not above a year old;

(2.) To be ROASTED whole, with the head, feet, and bowels; and

(3.) To be eaten with unleavened bread, and a salad of lettuce or of bitter herbs. If any portion remained, it was to be consumed at once by fire.

Two spits were thrust through the lamb, one lengthwise, and the other transversely, near the fore legs, forming thus a kind of cross, and the lamb might be said to be crucified.-Jahn's Arch. Bib.

The oven in which it was roasted was a hole

in the earth, about 2 feet in diameter, and paved at the bottom with stones.

The oven was first heated, and the fire was removed before the lamb was placed therein.-Jahn's Arch. Bib.

ture eaten.

In what pos- The posture in which the lamb was eaten was to be that of travellers in a hurry; having their loins girded for walking, shoes on their feet, and a staff in their hand.

feast lasted.

How long the The festival lasted eight days. It was held in the month called Abib, about our Easter; and during all the time no leavened bread was to be eaten.

Because leaven was forbidden, the feast was sometimes called the feast of unleavened bread. Abib, subsequently called Nisan, corresponded with our April.

2.-TYPES FOR SENIOR PUPILS.

The lamb a type.

The PASCHAL LAMB was a TYPE OF
CHRIST the " Passover, who was sacri-

ficed for us." (1 Cor. v. 7.)

(1.) The lamb was to be in the prime of life, without blemish: so Christ suffered in the prime of life, and was without blemish and without spot;

(2.) Not a bone of the lamb was broken: and the soldiers brake not the legs of our Redeemer, as they did those of the two thieves;

(3.) The lamb was roasted on two spits, which formed a cross; so our Lord was fastened to a cross;

(4) The blood of the lamb was sprinkled on the door posts: and we are cleansed by the "blood of sprinkling;”

(5.) The lamb was eaten and we must eat the flesh of Christ "by faith with thanksgiving;"

(6.) The feast of the Passover was to the Jews the "beginning of months:" and the resurrection of our Lord is to Christians the first day of the week.

Jesus Christ was crucified in the same month, day, and hour that the Paschal lamb was slain. The BURNING BUSH was a TYPE of JESUS CHRIST:

The burning

bush a type.

(1.) The bush itself was a type of his human, and the fire with which it burnt of his divine nature;

(2.) As the bush burnt but was not consumed, so Christ was subjected to death, but did not see corruption;

(3.) As a bush is the most ignoble of all trees, so Jesus Christ was a root out of a dry ground, despised and rejected of men.

The same phenomenon typifies also the CHURCH, which has long been persecuted so as by fire, but shall never be consumed.