glect the remedy. It does no good
to look at the wound. If we had been in the Israelitish camp and had
been bitten by one of the fiery serpents, it would have done us no
good to look at the wound. Looking at the wound will never save any
one. What you must do is to look at the Remedy--look away to Him who
hath power to save you from your sin.

Behold the camp of the Israelites; look at the scene that is pictured
to your eyes! Many are dying because they neglect the remedy that is
offered. In that arid desert is many a short and tiny grave; many a
child has been bitten by the fiery serpents. Fathers and mothers are
bearing away their children. Over yonder they are just burying a
mother; a loved mother is about to be laid in the earth. All the
family, weeping, gather around the beloved form. You hear the
mournful cries; you see the bitter tears. The father is being borne
away to his last resting place. There is wailing going up all over
the camp. Tears are pouring down for thousands who have passed away;
thousands more are dying; and the plague is raging from one end of
the camp to the other.

I see in one tent an Israelitish mother bending over the form of a
beloved boy just coming into the bloom of life, just budding into
manhood. She is wiping away the sweat of death that is gathering upon
his brow. Yet a little while, and his eyes are fixed and glassy, for
life is ebbing fast away. The mother's heart-strings are torn and
bleeding. All at once she hears a noise in the camp. A great shout
goes up. What does it mean? She goes to the door of the tent. "What
is the noise in the camp?" she asks those passing by. And some one
says: "Why, my good woman, have you not heard the good news that has
come into the camp?" "No," says the woman, "Good news! What is it?"
"Why, have you not heard about it? God has provided a remedy." "What!
for the bitten Israelites? Oh, tell me what the remedy is!" "Why, God
has instructed Moses to make a brazen serpent, and to put it on a
pole in the middle of the camp; and He has declared that whosoever
looks upon it shall live. The shout that you hear is the shout of the
people when they see the serpent lifted up." The mother goes back
into the tent, and she says: "My boy, I have good news to tell you.
You need not die! My boy, my boy, I have come with good tidings; you
can live!" He is already getting stupefied; he is so weak he cannot
walk to the door of the tent. She puts her strong arms under