New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-04

mysterious Nile stream that poured into the Medter
ranean by mouths; the Temple Of the Sun grand
the purple obesks shooting into the air like petr6ed
sunbeansi the solemn statues catching the morning
in their stony Eye; and giving an answering
They have left the ch fields happy IN their harvests
Of grain and grass the pastures dotted over with brows
ing cattle the trees laden with every species Of delicious
fruit The sluggish. lazy savish life OF dependence
they have given up They are ont IN the Arabian viii
derncss the most terrible of an deserts, and behind
them not to be crossed rolls the Red Sea- Around
them without beginning. without end, without limit
lies the bOundless waste Of sand. Nothing 10 be seen
but sand except some ragged Limestone mountains In
the far distance fearful TO think Of than the sand IL
self for the sight Of them makes them think Of lions,
jackls and poisonous serpents Sand before and sand
behind sand all the time day and night Summer and
Winter 20 sleep on, 10 walk still always and always
sand sand hot fiery embers beneath their feet blaz
ing like fiery sparks before their eyebas singing them
with its crystal points like insects drifting by them in
great ooud, binding suffocatng, overpowering. mad
lasting as the sand. and Infinitely moreterIibe making
tlcU hide their faces in tic daytime piercing their
thckes sh@tAr thrusting his flaming sword again and
again through screen and veil and tent and touching
the yery heart Of their hearts with the soaring blade
No Deep cool grott.s. soft Clouds no green garden
spots groves Of date trees dropping luscious irut
no fresh cascades from the hills murmuring fOun-
tains no sweet rivers to battle in no higsfro which
they can catch the breath Of the morning or the evening
wind Few and scanty, at long Intervals little cigmps
wIeeheG grass Peep up sOU O e nr for The Sau
provoke a hunger they cannot satisfy. The sparse
bushes are hacgard with drouth The scattered palms
look as II o curse had fallen on them, which forbade
their bearing frGit again forever. 81,
Thc'sand cheats well as scorchcs and orures the
poor travellers For Often they toll on in the heat OF
the day they before Gem what seem lake Of iIesh
water The broad siil sheet. unrufind by boat or
breeze stretches far away cool ana faiT win Winning
cree KS uttng promontories shelving shores hcyuet
surface Rejecting the sunbeams that laugh and play on
il Many and many time they hurry forward enrling
and foamng of the month. only to mud their far axe "i
water dclusion cruel tfick put Oh them by Tie al
ospherc and the sand else the deceitn ghttefng OF
salt that fills the place where lake had once beeh
More than one time reaching such place they turn
their heads backward and see as they ttnk bc"I''
fu lake whore they know there can be nothing but
sard II long before they learned not to run after
these imaginary lakes; for the sight Of them was very
tempting ard they sIil hoped that tbs OF mat one
might be real.
The jewellers in the desert we're very few indeed Tor
there was nothing there 10 support large humer "a
people The patient camel, who Journeys ther. carries
fountains Of water IN his stomach and eats his poor
food over and over again. Men aud women cross TIE
wilderness only when they must on ceir way from one
cy to.another then they so N sHi parties an" .ne
Even the Bedouin Arabs might staryo IN those place,
where the Israees If they had nothing 10 ea' Dut
VhAt tie desert gave ihom.
Of food No long train Of wagons had they loaded MIN
army supplies comuiisssry stall no cutters. lucy
did not even take hard bread They could not have
taken enough for many deys and they one ava! rom
Egypt in much haste 20 put UP enough Tor ever 70
few days. And here they were thouSnhds HiH 'Aous
ands Of pcoplc,--men. women chidIe-hh inhehsS
multitude Of mouths 10 feed They had no caieiH 10
cook and eat asses domestic animals no rats or
mice or frogs. II they had been azy luxurious p-"Ie
going into tse wilderness for the pleasure Of H. or ron
motives Of idle curiosity. because they we're Glkeoi-
tented angry uncomfortable because they had nothing
else 10 do because they had too much 10 do' the!
would have dried up and persisted IN week. ~
But they vers brave. believing people hi o. lh' u
God and Of tus, in Providence They went forth IN
greet spirit Of devotion. They felt that they were IN
tla Of t.frt
the Lord would guide them. guard them. and bring
them safely t? the end They were ready 20 meet any
danger behr any hardship; they were ready even 10
die on the road; but they Innst do the Lords Will
D Now when people 40 into The "lderhess-ihto Any
kind Of widerness-in spirit IKE the 'or ooscrhcs
sake Tor loves sake FOR Gods sake. M HatfeT1ho"
desoata the desert NAV be- though !; fnrnish not NJ
much A. q drop OF water "A blade Of grass they do not
staIye. They have all they ask ior-iood ana Gill
surely die live Where other people would
faint far they SO forward The Israehte The Old
story rsys fgrcd well -railsr u1ur1ousy Ia fact lbev
we're Ike the fowl Of the air that sowed not TesPed
not uor gathered into barns vet Lad their mouths hIcd
. hy tie Heavenly Father. Every evening, rocss OF
quails lcw tie camp, IN order that tbc! Mgat
drop down dead among the people; Just penui e-,lrh
Tor their evening meal k'rrJ nofhihs the me- 81 .ne
wilderness covered thick WIN dew ana men te
dew was dried up the gruuid woh crused win small
round beads thai looked like boar ffo me mn time
WIN, is II what l. MF 80 IL called Mama, or
D " What il IT, IL was found every morning OF the
same hour In quantity nst sufficient for TIE morning
ma a
lenty well tie purpose 81 bread They SUPPOSE 10
be such bread ~ was eaten N heaven Zach man
gathered Ia bis apron az much a. be neeGea u ea' anu
. whatever he took VIE a. much Gs he needed II Lo
,ot little IL vas enough, II be took much. II was 10
more than enough. Al be- took be ATE, and he hnh DO
yish a. eat more than be took. The mnnna would not
Iecp from one day another. but Ia few hours Oted
and became very offensive In the words 81 the old
story "it bred worms and sishk Only on TIE ri1lA
dsy there fell supply fof The day Aiief when Nhs ~.
sabbath: for the people we've not allowed I" 40 the i'Hs
work on tie sabbath. 30 the people never Suffered
nom want Of food. They bad neither food to get nor
food % keep They had no care Tor what they snolu
eai or fpr what they should drlnk
For water was furnished ~ them as wonderfully NJ
bread and meat vns 1hey came sometimes TO bitter
fountains, bitter thai they e9ria 10, smnloS 10.
water however thirsty they might BE- IL seemed as u
thew woud die Of thirst sooner than drink bu aeie
vas always plant near by whose leai corrected tho
bitterness and no sooner did thty put tho ~ :. ,s
surng than the water tasted sweet and quen,hed ,en
Z ,iirs AZ water never had done before. oren tbet
found themselves IL parts OF inc dcset "beIs eie
we're DO fountains At ALL not even bitter ones peinals
iucc ruck 80 hot from tn intense inyt N tAe sun
hearus that IL might well they fancied. dry up the wa
trrs Of q luke "a rock like furnace. senoibg hety
breath far out the desert threatening To bist e,e
,bi, that cnnc near. Their great leader bhd 0hy 10
,,uck n with hs staff the water dubbed IRON ia stVh!
center gureled down III stony sdes ran IN n'aelr
over Tie rand 10 the rthesi corner OF NE camp ana We
pauting diving company had drink "i,hou' VIC 'oeDo
~ gnir "a the surfing. nd this went on. II We may
believe H. furty years I'LL the Wilderness Nahoeis
was ended and tie Promised Land was reached
/ Your vide-oien cyo~, my children. look AZ II thoy
wanted IN ask mc where the quais and waters came
frorn II they were real quAs and real waters. Now
that r matter that do not pretend 10 tncH nrdn
about; tell the story have read II put ul 20
NOW about Il, and al think about It am Wiling 10
D5t some foolish people let me tell you first who wa
mol remember that corn made OF gnsee OF thh, oxen
are made of grass and who must visit The shanie~ DO
re they believe in the possibility Of dDhei inugI ~
the whole story have been telling They cay .n.I ~,
Iyrneltes II they into the desert al an hle ri,
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