. The training of the Chosen people. als would be transmitted andvibrate through the whole mass. On the whole, inspite of many failures the task was successfully ac-complished. The homogeneity and vitality of theHebrew race is a perpetual witness to the greatachievement. We can readily discriminate several forces whichcontributed to the success of this enterprise. Chapter 10. Making a Nation 33 One was the conviction, impresed upon the wholepeople, that God was with them, and that they werewholly dependent upon Him. We might think thatthe deliverance from Egypt, by itself, would beenough to fa
. The training of the Chosen people. als would be transmitted andvibrate through the whole mass. On the whole, inspite of many failures the task was successfully ac-complished. The homogeneity and vitality of theHebrew race is a perpetual witness to the greatachievement. We can readily discriminate several forces whichcontributed to the success of this enterprise. Chapter 10. Making a Nation 33 One was the conviction, impresed upon the wholepeople, that God was with them, and that they werewholly dependent upon Him. We might think thatthe deliverance from Egypt, by itself, would beenough to fasten this conviction, but, as the writerof the one hundred and sixth Psalm sees so clearly,men forget even great providences. In the weeksimmediately following the exodus the sense of depend-ence on God was deepened by a series of remarkableevents. The sweetening of the waters of Marah (:23-25); the giving of the quails and the manna(Ex. ch. 16) ; the gushing of the waters from therock at Meribah (Ex. 17:1-7), and the defeat of. From a photograph by Professor George L. Wilderness near Sinai. the Amalekites at Rephidim (Ex. 17:8-16) werevivid evidences that God was with them. To be sure,all doubts and murmurings were not banished bythese deliverances. There was still room in their na-tures for the surprising infidelity disclosed in the epi-sode of the golden calf (Ex. ch. 32). But there areabundant indications that these great displays of di-vine power in their behalf created a common convic-tion of dependence upon God that unified the peo-ple, making them conscious of a common life and acommon destiny. We see another contribution toward making thenation in the administrative system introduced byMoses, at the suggestion of Jethro (Ex. ch. 18). An 34 Old Testament History onlooker often sees more of the game than the play-ers; and that was the case with Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, who seems to have been a man of raregood sense and practicality. If the fa
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