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8 What did the Israelite against Moses, saying, \V1 What did Moses do? for direction and help. What did the Lord do? through him to the people he had made provision f waters. "The Lord showe had cast into the waters, tl God not only had prepare He had watched over it th of rain and tliat it should Kv iiriv ttoccorJur i 4-1-*^* Israelites. For years God necessity and had been pr God's covenant with us with Israel. His promise! ' when our hour of disappc shall come we may feel su by surprise but that he lit advance. But God had provided thing more and better th? His people out on a jourr It vyas important that at t lesson concerning the car m their behalf through al he have devised a better this? The experience rev< edness and the complainitij thoughtfulness of God and It was a lesson on the fc murmuring' tend to sweet rather make the people le which God was bestowing followed was the memory retrospect? Did the murr stir himself on their beha learn this lesson and forbe Had it been a man and in this instance would not to restrain rather than to i pie? In the fact that Go people immediately sweete evidence of God's love to 1 serving. Has He not deal We seem to hear the rea once give me such a swee not murmur again." So we of Israel indulged in some turn to the next chapter what occurred within aboi bread was exhausted, lo! again. Their good resolut God sweetened the wate pie to do what they could waited until the young met the tree and cast it into part; he waits for us to do The risen Christ is a pi who are united to Him. raised up Jesus from the raised up Christ from the < mortal bodies by his Spiri y THE PRESBYTERIA s do? They "murmured tat shall we drink?" "He cried unto the Lord"' He revealed to Moses and that years and years before or the sweetening of these :d him a tree which, when he le waters were made sweet." d that tree years before but at it should not die for want not be cut down or injured t it should hp readv for flip had been anticipating; their oviding for it. is the same as His covenant 5 to us are just as sure, and jintment or discouragement re that it has not taken God is provided for the event in in advance for Israel somem water. He was starting ley to the Land of Canaan, he start they should learn a e which He would exercise II their wanderings. Could lesson on this subject than ialed at once the shortsightdisposition of man and the His mercy to His people. >lly of murmuring. Did the en the waters? Did it not ss fitted to enjoy the gifts <; upon them? In days that of that murmuring a sweet nuring influence God to bell f? Would that we might ar finding fault with God. not God who was the giver the murmuring have tended ncrease his love for the peod instead of chastising the ned the waters, we have an the unworthy and the undet even thus with us? der sav. that "If God wnnld t correction I would surely fancy. Perhaps the children such pood resolutions. But and note that It describes it a fortnight and when the the people are murmuring ions lasted only a fortnight, rs. But he required the peoI and to do it in faith. He 1 plied the axe and cut down the spring. God does His our part. ledge of the rising of those "If the Spirit of him that dead dwell in you, he that lead shall also quicken your t that dwelleth in you." r N OF THE SOUTH. Devotional ai A VISIT TO THE By Minot C We reached Manila just a ture it was, as the morning 1 gauze veil over the steamet of every sort, some lying qu of a smaller breed gliding a Our visit in Manila was i Ill m IllSUULlIVC ilS wen, IK Americans and Filipinos in t whom we could discuss tl One day the Rev. Dr. Jame sion, the first Protestant mi Philippines, took us out int? might have a true conceptioi On the boat for Cavite we "Concord.'' the only war ves in the fight with the Spania Cavite there followed a ride comfortable little two-wheel Hoard, one of the many unci ion. It is built of nipa, as houses, and rejoices in the . ing lit with electric lights, tl vite. Here a little compan worship and instruction and Sabbath, under the leadersh Our next mode of conv< amusing-looking little craft, It is a dugout with a coupl fastened on outriggers on < from the boat itself. The or in the water and acts as a flo ward side is up in the air am ially when a boy climbs out After our banca ride came cart to a river, then across just big enough to hold th man who pulled the boat ac rope. Safely across, our driver \ ve jogged alongva particul river on one side, tropical f ied on both sides, and hei nipa houses. The nipa, by t ing, looks like a dwarf pain" thatch. A nipa house would but for the tropics it is ce light, airy, cool, picturesque. At last we reached the v Ueve they call it) of Imus, a part of a charmingly novel a Our host was a Mr. Behre Commissioner of Lands for ernment. He is in effect thousands of acres of land Friars, and bought, you wil ernment, a very wise and el exceedingly knotty problem. We had lunch at the arm an army post for several reg August 4, igog. id Selections PHILIPPINES. . Morgan. t sunrise, and what a picliaze hung like a luminous s and launches and craft ietly at anchor and others bout between them, nade peculiarly delightful :cause of the number of litterent walks of life with le "Philippine question." s B. Rodgers, of our misssionary to preach in the 0 the country, so that we 1 of life outside of Manila, met Captain Sears of the sel with the fleet that was rds ten years ago. From : in a diminutive and uned cab to a chapel of our ler Dr. Rodgers' supervisare most of the native cnlltorv rlictinoftrvr* Ko .JV...HH T Uiouu^iiuil UX Ut" irough its nearness to Cay of Christians meet for [ Bible study, Sabbath by ip of an elder, eyance was a banca, an but surprisingly speedy, e of hollow bamboo logs ?ach side five or six feet ie on the leeward side lies at. The one on the windJ serves for ballast, especon it. another ride in a Spanish the river in a ferry-boat e pony and cart and the ross the stream on a wire vhipped up our steed and larly charming road?the oliage, luxuriant and varre and there picturesque he way, when it is growi, and makes an excellent not do for a cool country, rtainlv the ir1#?a1 thincr? j ** v*""b illage (or barrio as I bevhere we spent the major nd interesting day. :nds, an American, who is the United States Govthe landlord of tens of formerly owned by thfr 1 remember, by our Gov- ? fficient way of solving ar? ly mess, for Imus is now ;iments of Filipino scouts.