Numbers 10:1-10 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,… One of the good doctors whom I often heard in my boyhood had a voice like the distant rolling of thunder. He exchanged pulpits with a neighbour, whose voice was peculiarly effeminate. It was a little voice, and withal quite musical. The doctor returned to his own congregation for the evening service. Arising in his place, he commenced with this preface, "My friends, you have to-day heard the gospel through a silver trumpet; but to-night you must hear it through a ram's horn." Alas! how many are charmed with the silver trumpet! Sweet morsels, drops of honey-dew, like globules of sugar-coated opiates, form the only compound suited to their taste. "Peel it, pare it, smooth it, trim it!" is their cry, "take away from it those distorted and hideous features! Fashion it, form it, compound with it some thrilling narrative, some pleasant story, and we will receive it." In other words, make it anything but the plain simple gospel, and it may become palatable. We have advanced to a strange pass in our tastes touching the gospel of the Son of God. (Buffalo Christian Advertiser.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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