_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 ]