. The training of the Chosen people. five senses; we neglect our noblerintuitions—the delicate but mighty promptingsthrough which the word of the Lord comes—and thenwe go back into the wilderness. After years havepassed we come back to the very place where wewere. There are the same giants and the same walledtowns. Then we say, I will obey, and, lo, the Chapter II. The Secret of Failure 39 giants are not nearly so terrible, nor the towns sostrong, when we come to close quarters with have obeyed at last, and found that God is withthose who have faith and act upon it, and we haveentered
. The training of the Chosen people. five senses; we neglect our noblerintuitions—the delicate but mighty promptingsthrough which the word of the Lord comes—and thenwe go back into the wilderness. After years havepassed we come back to the very place where wewere. There are the same giants and the same walledtowns. Then we say, I will obey, and, lo, the Chapter II. The Secret of Failure 39 giants are not nearly so terrible, nor the towns sostrong, when we come to close quarters with have obeyed at last, and found that God is withthose who have faith and act upon it, and we haveentered Canaan. But the waste of it! The happyyears we might have been there before! Our lackof faith kept us in the wilderness. 40 Old Testament History CHAPTER DISCIPLINE OF chs. 16, 17; 20 : 1—21 : 9. The reader of the narrative describing Israels thir-ty-eight years of wandering in the wilderness feels at once like asking,What did this ex-perience do for thenation? Were thereany compensatingadvantages to Israel. From a photograph. Scene in the Wilderness near Kadesh-barnea. in the hardships anddisappointments in-volved in keepingthe generation thatleft Egypt out of theland of promise? An important thingthat the experiencesof the wilderness didfor the people was to reveal them to Scriptures often dwell upon this purpose oftrial and suffering. Such experiences show whatis in men—the real constituents of their characters(Deut. 8: 2; i Pet. 1:7). The analogy is with theprocess of assaying, which reveals the proportion ofvaluable elements in the mass of ore. Undoubtedly,the generation that left Egypt had enjoyed many ofthe advantages of a high civilization, in spite of thefact that under the recent Pharaohs they had been inservitude. But, whatever else they knew or did notknow, they were ignorant of themselves. Probablythey did not imagine that there was in them such aspirit of faction and envy as to threaten the wholefuture of the great enterp
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