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THE OPEN COURT.
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CHAPTERS FROM THE NEW APOCRYPHA.


GOD'S PRESENCE WITH HIS PEOPLE.


BY HUDOR GENONE.

While they tarried by the seaside a certain Pharisee saith unto him, Master, we know that God is gracious and doeth all things well.
Because we have heard with our ears and our fathers have told unto us His loving kindness of old;
How He led His people out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
How He fed them with manna in the wilderness, and gave them water to drink out of the rock;
How He sent His ravens with food unto Elijah, the Tishbite;
And commanded in the house of the widow of