Every evening the six o'clock news reminds us of the crime, the corruption, and the catastrophies of the world in which we live. It was in such troubled times and in such hopeless circumstances that a young Hebrew mother placed her baby in a basket and set it afloat among the reeds of the river Nile. Even if the baby were to live, she could only see an intolerable existence for him as he would groan under the burden of hard labor and be driven to the point of daily exhaustion by the sting of the slavemaster's whip.

Little did she know that in her desperation to save her child, the hand of God was at work. God had a plan - a great master-plan of redemption - to save not only this child, but through him countless children yet unborn. Neither did the Egyptian princess, who found the boat-like …