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Taking the Old Testament history alone, how suggestive 
are its names and memories of the Christian's varied and 
chequered experience! 

Here is his Bethel—the rough, stony pillow of hardship 
and suffering; but it is at the base of a heavenly ladder, 
passing up and down which are angels of consolation. 

Here is a Marah—the bitter pool of sorrow, 
but wherein the divine healing Tree is cast. 

Here are Palms and Wells of Elim, symbolic 
both of shadow and refreshment in pursuing 
life's wilderness march. 

Here he has reached Rephidim, also with its double 
emblem and significance; the combination of the two 
factors in the believer's life—the active and the passive
—work and prayer—Joshua fighting in the valley; Moses, 
Aaron, and Hur in supplication on the mountain summit. 

Here is the gloomy border-river; but through its flood 
the true Ark of the Covenant precedes the hosts of Israel, 
conducting in safety to the land of promise. 

We can write over all, "They shall abundantly utter the 
memory of Your great goodness." The last of these 
memories is sung in heaven—"They went through the 
flood on foot—there did we rejoice in Him!"

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