The eternal
God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
'Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by
the Lord, the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thy
excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and
thou shalt tread upon their high places.'
Those are the last words of Moses. Then he goes up into the
mountain top, never to return; and the children of Israel are left
alone with God and their own souls, to obey and prosper, or disobey
and die.
The time of their schooling is past, and their schoolmaster is gone
for ever. They are no more to be under a human tutor. They are
come to man's estate and man's responsibility, and they are to work
out their own fortunes by their own deeds, like every other soul of
man.
For Moses himself must not enter into the promised land. In spite
of all his faith, his courage, his endurance, his patriotism, he has
sinned against God, and he must be punished; and punished, too, in
kind--in the very thing which he will feel most deeply, in being
shut out from the very happiness on which he has set his heart all
along.
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