Excerpt from From Elim to Carmel: Aspects of Christian Doctrine and Experience
The Red Sea rolled its victorious waves above the chivalrous dead of Egypt's great army. It stood forever as a barrier between the taskmasters of Goshen and the shouting hosts of liberated Hebrew slaves. But wide and treeless stretches of blistering sand lay round them on every side. Although they were free, forever free, and the echoes of their independence anthem still lingered upon the desert air, or swept up the dry and sultry wadies on the hot wings of the wind, still the land of promise - the future home of the people and the nation - was ten days march westward across the trackless wastes of the desert.
Their inheritance lay on the other side of the Jordan. The clusters from Eshcol, the pomegranates, the rocks filled with honey and the valleys abounding in succulence, soil and climate, field, orchard, and vineyard, attest the divine veracity.
The possession of that inheritance could not add one jot to their freedom; that was perfect. But the land, their inheritance, could lay its wealth on their altars; it could open its resources for their sustentation, and give to them its facilities for growth and culture.
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