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Now the Bible story is, that this warning came true. More than once
we read of drought--long, and severe, and ruinous. In one famous
case, there was no rain for three years; and Ahab has to go out to
search through the land for a scrap of pasture. 'Peradventure we
shall find grass enough to save the horses and mules alive.'
And most distinctly does the Bible say that these droughts came at
times when the Jews had fallen into idolatry, and profligacy
therewith. That is the Scripture account. And if you believe in
the living God, whose providence ordereth all things in heaven and
earth, that account will seem reasonable and credible to you.
What special means God used to bring about these great droughts we
cannot know, any more than we can know why a storm or a shower
should come one week and not another. And we need not know. God
made the world, and God governs the world, and that is enough for
us.
Be that as it may, Moses goes down to the very root and ground and
true cause of the riches of the land, and of the rainfall, and of
the prosperity of the Jews, and of the prosperity of any living
nation on earth, when he says, 'Therefore shall ye lay up these my
words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon
your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
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