Welsh Journals

THE TREASURY. Vol. VII. AUGUST, 1870. No. 80. Cjre liUmcrnr d % last. |N the charge of Moses to the children of Israel, relative to 'Iwi, their conduct in the Land of Promise, he bids them " remem- $29S\ ber all the way which the Lord their God had led them in the Wilderness." The charge alluded to contemplates a very marked change in the circumstances of the people, and a change which Moses feared might be prejudicial to them. We need hardly say that a great change of circumstances constitutes a severe trial of principle, and especially when it is a change from circumstances of hardship and scarcity to those of ease and plenty, and this we know was the characteristic of the change in the condition of the Israelites when leaving their Wilderness life for their life in Cauaan. Their con¬ dition in the Wilderness was such as was calculated in the highest degree to teach them dependence upon God and respect for His laws. They had to receive cheir daily supply of food direct from His hand; the water which they drank was miraculously brought forth from the rock by his power; He was their Leader, going visible before them iu a pillar of cloud by day, and of fire by night; at His bidding they halted and advanced; by His direction they turned to the right hand or to the left. In their wilderness life they were thus manifestly living from hour to hour in direct com. munication with God; God's dealings with them were a series of miracles in which His hand was- ever manifest. All this, however, would be to a large extent altered, on their entrance into the Promised Land, the land flowing with milk and honey. Here they would sow fields and plant vineyards, and build cities, and acquire wealth; the miraculous would, in a great measure, cease, and-natural law take its place. It would be none 15