The sacred mountains . rolledby, his grave unknown and unvisited, untilat length he is seen standing on Mount Ta-bor, writh Christ, in the Jordan at last—in Canaan at last. I will not speak here of the instructionthis scene affords : but from the very summitof his sorrows, where he had gone to die,Moses for the first time in his life, caught aview of Canaan. He did not know as hewent over the rocks, torn and weary, howlovely the prospect was from the top. Inthis world it frequently happens that whenman has reached the place of anguish, God folds away the mist from before h
The sacred mountains . rolledby, his grave unknown and unvisited, untilat length he is seen standing on Mount Ta-bor, writh Christ, in the Jordan at last—in Canaan at last. I will not speak here of the instructionthis scene affords : but from the very summitof his sorrows, where he had gone to die,Moses for the first time in his life, caught aview of Canaan. He did not know as hewent over the rocks, torn and weary, howlovely the prospect was from the top. Inthis world it frequently happens that whenman has reached the place of anguish, God folds away the mist from before his eyes, 7# 78 SACRED MOUNTAINS. and the very spot he selected as the recepta-cle of his tears becomes the place of hishighest rapture. For thirty days did the Israelites mournat the base of that mountain over their de-parted leader, and then mournfully strucktheir tents and moved away. Consecratedby the death of Moses—receiving his laslprayer and last sigh, Mount Pisgah stoodthe Jjfth sacred mountain on the Mount Horeb not being so isolated asArarat or Sinai, does not occupy so defi-nite a place in nature or history as of the group that surrounds Sinai, itpresents the same barren and desolate ap-pearance, and stands amid the same bleakand forbidding scenery. These solemn sum-mits rise together in the same heavens, andthe silent language they speak has the samemeaning. Still, Horeb has less distinguish-ing characteristics than Sinai, and the latterovershadows it as much in interest as itdoes in nature. The Mount of Terror ismonarch there in the desert, and all othersummits are but his body guard. They wit- 80 SACRED MOUNTAINS. nessed his grand coronation when the lawwas given, and shook to the thunders thathonored the ceremony. Mount Horeb has not been consecratedonce, but thrice, and hence has a threefoldclaim for a place amid the immortal list ofSacred Mountains. Moses learned his firstlessons around its base, and amid its soli-tudes formed the thoughtful
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