_The wilderness of Sin._ MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS OF SIN People may be strong and hopeful at the beginning of a project, and most effusively and devoutly thankful at its close, but the difficulty is to go manfully through the process. I. Processes try men’s temper. See how the temper of Israel was... [ Continue Reading ]
_That I may prove them._ LIFE A PROBATION There can be nothing more sobering than the truth that this life is a state of trial and preparation for another. There is at the same time something wonderfully satisfying in the idea. It puts life before us in a point of view which satisfactorily explain... [ Continue Reading ]
_Manna._ THE MANNA I. Its mystic character. “What is this?” Christ was a mystery to His contemporaries. So is the Christian to his. “The world knoweth you not.” II. Its uses. To save from starvation, famine, and death. Christ is “the Bread that cometh down from heaven.” 1. The manna was for all.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gather of it every man according to his eating._ SPIRITUAL ASSIMILATION Why did each receive but three quarts a day? Might not a nutritious and delicious food like this be stored, and become an article of merchandise and a source of wealth? No, the Edenic law was not merely a penalty, but a method... [ Continue Reading ]
_To-day ye shall not find it in the field._ THE SABBATH IN RELATION TO SECULAR TOIL I. That men must not engage in secular toil on the sabbath. Men must not even earn their daily bread on the Lord’s day,--they must provide it before. II. That men engaged in secular toil on the sabbath will, as a... [ Continue Reading ]
_Put an omer full of manna therein._ AN INSTRUCTIVE MEMORIAL I. By whom the memorial was enjoined. “The Lord.” We have need to set up memorials in our lives which shall call upon our souls to remember the benefits of the Lord. It is the will of heaven that its gifts should be held in constant reme... [ Continue Reading ]