The sacred mountains . Perhaps there is no mountain on ourplanet, which from its associations has fur-nished more cheering promises to man thanMount Pisgah. Around its summit clustersome of the most glorious truths of our re-ligion, and a light falls there like the radi-ance of heaven itself. But of these I do notdesign to speak. Others have exhibitedthese truths better than I could; and follow-ing out my original plan, I wish merely todescribe the scenes connected with thismountain, rather than the truths they de-velop. Moses, like Aaron, was denied entranceinto the land of Canaan. Though he
The sacred mountains . Perhaps there is no mountain on ourplanet, which from its associations has fur-nished more cheering promises to man thanMount Pisgah. Around its summit clustersome of the most glorious truths of our re-ligion, and a light falls there like the radi-ance of heaven itself. But of these I do notdesign to speak. Others have exhibitedthese truths better than I could; and follow-ing out my original plan, I wish merely todescribe the scenes connected with thismountain, rather than the truths they de-velop. Moses, like Aaron, was denied entranceinto the land of Canaan. Though he had 68 SACRED MOUNTAINS. braved the wrath of Pharaoh, renounced hisworldly expectations, perilled his life, and ledon the hosts of Israel for forty years throughthe wilderness, for the sole purpose of reachingthe promised land, his eyes were only to beonce gladdened by the sight. He had escapedthe wTrath of his pursuers—the pestilencethat swept so many thousands to death—thebite of the flaming serpents that strewed
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