The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-06

Application of an old Text TO the Daily
Needs of Men.

At Pine-street Baptist church Sunday
\,he pastor. Rev. j. b. Huison. preached
Ifrom the 18th verse OF the 2oth chapter
Il Numbers. "And Moses lifted up ms
hand ard. with his rod. he smOte the
Pock twice: and the water came out
huudantly. and tho ccngr egation drank
End their beasts also. Mr.. HOtsoH
aid there were two separate ana nls-
inct accounts of the shifting OF the rock.
ne In Exodus and one in Numbers, ana
here Were TWO separate ana as
net smtines done I'm the first year
y their Journey through the wilderness
Ybni the other I'm the forueth year the
paast year of their Wauderingsi hOth REFER
IL Christ. This was called Nassau, a
i4Hce OF temptation. The Israelites were
tt't here. ana the thought occurs. lhe
sihaker said that n the lsraclites hdd
kaoWn that God was trying them. was
pfdNiug them. they would not have COM
plbined And so with us God suffers
usJ 20 Do lea into temptation that he
may Try ns, and many times We are
ready TO ask. is God with us; IF we
coi2li bat know that he IS proving Us
We would Doe submissive and irustiul ~
Hin. This rock Is type of the Lord
jesus. lie is called a rock, "a stone,
chief cornerstone. and this rock signi-
nes durability. The rock is still there.
Adam Clarke SAYS 10 IL of red granite,
made by the outnowing waters
marks that could not have been
made as IL flowed out of IT, The
Israfiltes drank OF this water. nOtWlth-
standing their former sins. IL matters
not how rcbellious they had been, they
could drink freely OF these waters, and
50 TIL is with as. Il matters not what
our sins have been. God permits MS to
the litng water. 10 Is noticed that this
rock was smitten. This is typical OF the
suncrif.Fs OF our Lord. lie has been
smittcE for our sins. that to was snit-
l.r4 FHt.N
az suffering our Saviour bore. He was
smittcn twice-smittcn by God and man.
Smittcn 10y the Jew ana by the Roman
government; smittcn, as IL were. for
saken by God when on the cross, smii-
ten In Pilates judgment hall; smitten
when stripes without number were LAID
upon Him. Moses was the representa-
tive OF tho people Through him Trey
partakers OF the sin OF shifting the rock
and to-day We are all partakers Of the
Sin OF cruCifying our Lord. Whenever
He was smitten we are to-day partakers
OF that sin. Mr.. Hutson said Moses was
great man. perhaps the greatest. prob
ably excepting Paul. we read Of. or
course. ne was not perfcct-he sinned.
but this was the only sin we read Of
az all God told Moses 20 speak 20 the
rock. hut Moses was angry. and no one
can become angry without commifting
some sin. and Moses. doubtless. had
some doubts as 10 whether speaking 10
remembered when he hal smitten the
rock years ago water came and so IN
his anger and his doubt he smote the
rock twice. II was the only sin We
read Of that Moses committed. ana II
seem very small one, bat God told him
hhat for il he should not enter the
promised land. SO II hchoOves us TO
watch these small sins. Beware Of them
Then We notice that every man was a
par;aker of this water. IL flowed album
dainty. and altman and hcast-wcre
free 10 drink OF n. And 80 to-day. Christ
the rcck IL smltten. and all the worlo
A. free 20 drink OF the water that flows
from him. Suppose. the speaker said.
that there had been a stubborn man
there who had said | Will not drink
that water. he would surely nave died.
ana SO to-day. II we refuse the water
.hrist offers US we shall die.
rrhis rock was smitten for every man
mere and so with us. The, blood OF
christ was shed for all. ana as
nartake OF this bread let each Try ~, 70
yysslire that His body was broken lot 10,
Ne" When we drink OF this wine 'e'