MR. GEORGE RAWLINSON, in his latest work, "Egypt and Babylon," gives the following striking illustration of the manner in which many of the events related in the Old Testament are being most unmistakably corroborated by modern discoveries:— "The construction of 'store-cities' has received recent illustration of the most remarkable kind. The explorers employed by the Egypt Exploration Fund have uncovered at Tel-el-Maskoutah, near Tel-el-Kebir, an ancient city, which the inscriptions found on the spot show to have been built, in part at any rate, by Rameses II., and which is of so peculiar a construction as to suggest at once to those engaged in the work the idea that it was a 'store-city.' The town is altogether a square, inclosed by a brick wall twenty-two feet thick, and measuring six hundred and fifty feet long on each side. The area contained within the wall is estimated at about ten acres. Nearly the whole of this space is occupied by solidly built square chambers, divided one from the other by brick walls, from eight to ten feet thick, which were unpierced by window or door, or opening of any kind. About ten feet from the bottom, the walls show a row of recesses for beams, in some of which decayed wood still remains, indicating that the buildings were two storied, having a lower room which could only be entered by means of a trap-door, used probably as a store-house or magazine, and an upper one in which the keeper of the store may have had his abode. Thus far the discovery is simply that of a 'store-city,' built partly by Rameses II.; but it further appears, from several short inscriptions, that the name of the city was Pa Tum, or Pithom; and there is thus no reasonable doubt that one of the two cities built by the Israelites has been laid bare, and answers completely to the description given of it."—Sel. NOTICE the negative character of the commands regarding the Holy Spirit: "Resist not," "quench not," "vex not," "grieve not," seeming to imply that if we do not restrain and force him away, it is his blessed disposition to abide and spring up as a well of living water.