ere under the cloud, and all passed through
the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same
spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed
them; and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well
pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things
were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things,
as they also lusted. Neither, be ye idolators, as were some of them;
as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to
play.... Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted,
and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them
also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these
things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let
him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.' Doesn't that
look as though God meant the Sabbath for us, too, Leslie?"

Leslie dropped back on her pillow of moss with a sigh. "I s'pose it
does," she answered somewhat disconsolately. "But I never did like
Sundays anyhow!" and she drew a deep breath of unrest.

"But, dear,"--Julia Cloud's hand rested on the bright head
lovingly,--"there's a closer sense than that in which this belongs to
us if we belong to Christ; we are Israel ourselves. I was reading
about it just this morning, how all those who want to be Christ's
chosen people, and are willing to accept Him as their Saviour, are
Israel just as much as a born Jew. I think I can find it again. Yes,
here it is in Romans: 'For they are not all Israel which are _of_
Israel: neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all
children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which
are children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the
children of the promise are counted for the seed.' That means the
promise that was given to Abraham that there should be a Messiah
sometime in his family who would be the Saviour of the world, and the
idea is that all who believe in that Messiah are the real chosen
people. It was to the chosen people God gave these careful
directions--commands, if you like to call them--to help them be what a
chosen people ought to be. And the Sabbath rest and communion seems to
be the basis of the whole idea of a people who were guided by