1. Moses was born at the time Pharaoh issued the decree for male offspring to be destroyed.1 How shall we as a matter of choice imitate this fortuitous birth of Moses? Someone will rightly raise the objection that it does not lie within our power to imitate in our own birth that famous birth. But it is not hard to begin the imitation with this seeming difficulty. 2. Everyone knows that anything placed in a world of change never remains the same but is always passing from one state