Joshua: A Story of Biblical Times depicts the life story of Joshua relating the biblical
account of Moses and the subsequent Exodus and entry into the Promised Land for the
Israelites. Bai the second prophet of Amon who acted as the representative of the aged and
feeble chief-prophet and high-priest Rui went into the holy of holies the throng of inferior
servants of the divinity pursued their various duties and the frenzied mob rushed through the
streets of the city towards the distant Hebrew quarter. As the flood pouring into the valley
sweeps everything before it the people rushing to seek vengeance forced every one they met
to join them. No Egyptian from whom death had snatched a loved one failed to follow the
swelling torrent which increased till hundreds became thousands. Men women and children
freedmen and slaves winged by the ardent longing to bring death and destruction on the hated
Hebrews darted to the remote quarter where they dwelt. How the workman had grasped a hatchet
the housewife an axe they themselves scarcely knew. They were dashing forward to deal death
and ruin and had had no occasion to search for weapons-they had been close at hand.
