The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-06

touched with e feeling of his infirms- ties. for he Lad been in all points tess- ed asI Israel himself was being tested Here is an interesting study in phil ologyS an illustration of h0w words have their origin. These people found on the ground one morning giobuie of the coagulated juice of the tarfa- They had never seen 1t before. naturally they cried. In their language. "Manhur in our language. What is it?t and that is what it was Gin name) always after ward for them-manna. It is a fas- cmating pursuit. this investigation Of the striving of the human mind to ex- press itself in articulate sound. We have a homely illustration of 1t in the chiid's learning to talk.
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 The Jewish tradition that . pot of mama was kept in the ark is probably, an error. They were directed to set the pot of mama (iiteraily) before not in the ark. It was a mama pot a acceptable of the kind the Israelites used. It is not necessary to suppose that 1t was filled with miraculously- preserved mama. The vessel itself | stood for the contents. It was an object-lesson-a souvenir.
 | Here is incidental evidence that the l Sabbath was already in existence | Before the Decalogue the Israelites are | directed to gather 6 double portion of mama on the sixth day. and not to gather any on the seventh under penal | ty of divine disfavor. The fourth com-
 mandment is evidently not a new or- dinance, but the reiteration of a com | mand already binding. The Sabbath
 is not only for man. but has been his ! from the beginning of time. It is not Hebrew. It is human! From a natural standpoint 1t would he infinite
 folly for labor to give up its rest.
 The desert is camera. It photo- | graphs and preserves. The face of cultivated countries and the names of
 civilized nations are in a perpetual state of change, but the desert and It's
 inhsbitants are alike unchangeable | So we can know by what we see there l to-day how Israel looked in the wilder
 ness. and what his experiences were. The Bible is a microcosm. A little
 world crowded between its lids. As
 in camera, one sees in 1t all the ! familiar objects of nature. This Is consequent upon the nearness to na- lures heart with which the inspired writers lived. It Is one of the beauties | and literary characteristics of the | Bible. This correspondence between the natural and spiritual is so wonder full and helpful, that we can not but believe 1t designed. God intended
 that the natural should interpret to us | the supernatural.
 l Israers supreme and inveterate error after all was not only that he dis | trusted Gods providence as to his food.
 but that he regarded that food itself
 as the chief thing he was to i've for.
 But this Is not the error of Israel, 1t
 Is the error of humanity It Was this
 Jesus confronted when he said, Say
 not what shall we eat?" And. again.
 Man shall not live by bread alone.''
 Mere living Is not the end of life.
 In this sense mama is the type of
 Jesus. He is the Bread of life, the
 Bread of heaven. in that he shows us
 the true sustenance of life. He said,
 My meat Is to do the will of him that
 sent me-" Concord with God, being
 lin time with the infinite" that is the
 real support and object of life.