The narrative connected with the Pyramids is most touching; on that account the writer proposes giving the life of the builder as she describes these wonderful monuments of antiquity. She has never attempted writing for publication before, therefore she humbly prays the reader to be indulgent and to overlook all errors and shortcomings, and to believe that this volume is brought before the world simply to uphold the truth of the Holy Bible which has recorded the narrative; and the appositeness of St. Paul's assertion, that God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are. CONTENTS. VII. MISSION OF MOSES IN THE EAST VIII. MISSION OF MOSES IN THE WEST 22 THE STOREHOUSES OF THE KING. CHAPTER I. JOSEPH-THE BUILDER. JOSEPH was the son of Jacob's old age, and con- |