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afte r all, th a t kill men, b u t worry.— Beecher. v. 33. We saw giants. It is no t fa cility bu t difficulty th a t makes men.— Smiles. G iants cannot stand in the way of God’s work if His people will be val ia n t in His streng th .—Henry. 14:2. Israel m urm ured. ..W hat is more m iserable th a n discontent?— Shakespeare. It is no t for us to sit down and coolly criticize upon th e ways of Israel in th e w ilderness— to point out erro r here and failu re there. We m ust tak e these things as types set before us for our admonition. They are beacons to w arn us off from dangerous shoals th a t th rea ten our safety.— McIntosh. W herefore are th e acts of discontent and impatience here in our m idst ra th e r th a n the songs of praise and thanksgiv ing? Simply because we allow circum stances to sh u t out God instead of hav ing God as a perfect covering for our eyes and a perfect object for odr hearts. — Sel. Would God th a t we h ad died. There is no weariness like th a t which rises from doubting.— South. To wish for death is a-cow ard’s p art.—Ovid. To die and th u s avoid poverty or anything p ainful is no t the p a rt of a brave man. — Sel. He th a t despairs m easures P rovi dence by his own little contracted model. South. It is impossible for th a t man to despair who rem embers th a t his Helper is omnipotent.— J. Taylor. v. 3. B rough t un to th is la n d to fall by th e sword. All th e dangers th a t we are in are from our d istru st. We would succeed again st all enem ies if we did not make God our enemy.— Sum. Bible. v. 7. They spake un to Israel. The tru e Christian is always peaceful and happy, always able to praise God, come w hat may. His joys do no t flow from him self or from the scene th rough which he is passing, b u t from the living God, and th ey are beyond th e reach of every earth ly influence.— C. H. M. v. 8. If the lo r d delight in us. It
—H a rrie t Martineau.
13:28. Nevertheless th e people be strong. There is always sure to be a “ nevertheless” where man is concerned and when unbelief is a t work. Unbe lieving spies a r e COMMENT FKOM su re to see diffi- MANY SOURCES cu lties.^M cIn to sh . K. L. B rooks We s a w 'th e chil d ren of Anak. This was w alking by sight, no t by faith. 2 Cor. 5 :7 .—-Comp Bible. v. 31. W e a re n o t able. To believe a th ing impossible is th e way to make it so. Many feasible projects have been strang led by a cowardly imagination. — Collier. Nothing is to be feared bu t fear.— Bacon. Every noble acquisition is attend ed w ith its risk. He who fears to encounter th e one m ust not expect to a tta in th e other;-—Metastasio. They a re strong er th a n we. This is always the conclusion of unbelief, which leaves God out.^T-Bullinger. v. 32. B rough t an evil repo rt. Un belief reasons from th e difficulties to God— it begins w ith them . F a ith rea sons from God to th e difficulites— it be gins w ith Him.— C. H. M. We saw men of g re a t sta tu re. ..We need to have a sense of th e difficulties before us, for we can attem p t nothing g rea t b u t from a sense of th e obstacles we have to en counter.— H azlitt. In case of g reat ob stacles, remember th a t God, like a gym nastic train er, has p itted you ag ain st a rough antagonist. F o r w hat end? T h at you may he an Olympic conqueror. But th is cannot he w ithout toil.— Epictetus. Among those evils which befall us, th ere are many which are more painful to us in th e prospect th a n by th e ir actual pressure.—Addison. It is not obstacles,
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