Through the Wilderness. 117

 

Israelites journeyed through the desert to a
home they had never seen, so we are all
travelling through this life to the better land
that God has promised to His people. We
meet with dangers as they did, with many
things to try our faith as they did; but we
have always to believe that the way God leads
us is the right way, however much we see to
frighten us.

“Tf we will only do what we know to be
right, and leave the rest to Him, all the
dangers and difficulties shall be got over at
last, and we shall enter that blessed home
where our Father wipes all tears away.

“ Only trust in God, and honestly follow the
right, and every difficulty will be got over at
last: ‘the crooked shall be made straight, and
the rough places plain.’

“ How good and comfortable is this the last
lesson, as it seems to me, of the first Bible.”

“Good and comfortable!” Stephen was
troubled at the words; he knew they were
true, and yet how could he follow them?

More cast down than ever, he bade his aunt .
good night, and went to bed, to lie long awake,
dreading Ned’s anger, and all that might
come to-morrow.