This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... THE BRAZEN SERPENT. "The Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass that every one, that is bitten, when he hokelli upon it shall live." Numb. zxi. 8. Alas! what broods of vileness nestle in man's heart! As wave succeeds to wave, sin presses on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... THE BRAZEN SERPENT. "The Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass that every one, that is bitten, when he hokelli upon it shall live." Numb. zxi. 8. Alas! what broods of vileness nestle in man's heart! As wave succeeds to wave, sin presses on the heels of sin. If a brief calm seems to give peace, a fiercer storm soon rises. The seeds of evil, for a while concealed, revive as weeds in spring. All human history proves this. But the recurring murmurs in the wilderness are saddest evidence. Seven times already has rebellion raged. And now again, because the way is long, there is revolt, and blasphemies are muttered. "The people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water: and our soul loatheth this light bread." Numb. xxi. 5. Here is another proof, that there is no blindness like unbelief. Surely the sweetest manna fell with every morning's dawn. Surely the purest stream flowed closely in the rear. But hard ingratitude sees frowns on mercy's lovliest brow. Reader, are not your features in this picture? By nature this same quarry is your cradle. You spring, a branch of this sin-bearing tree. And if fretful distrust be not your constant fruit, free grace has wrought in you a mighty change. Israel's murmurs soon plunge them into deep waters of distress. Hence learn to dread this evil. Flee its touch. Bar fast the door against its entrance. Wrath follows in its rear. The dregs of woe are in its cup. Whoever sinned and suffered not? See what swift vengeance overtakes these rebels!" The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people: and much people of...
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