another, and takes him into the tent,
and says: "Just tell him how the Lord saved you;" and he tells just
the same story; and he calls in others, and they all say the same
thing.

The young man says it is a very strange thing. "If the Lord had told
Moses to go and get some herbs, or roots, and stew them, and take the
decoction as a medicine, there would be something in that. But it is
so contrary to nature to do such a thing as look at the serpent, that
I cannot do it." At length his mother, who has been out in the camp,
comes in, and she says, "My boy, I have just the best news in the
world for you. I was in the camp, and I saw hundreds who were very
far gone, and they are all perfectly well now." The young man says:
"I should like to get well; it is a very painful thought to die; I
want to go into the promised land, and it is terrible to die here in
this wilderness; but the fact is--I do not understand the remedy. It
does not appeal to my reason. I cannot believe that I can get well in
a moment." And the young man dies in consequence of his own unbelief.

God provided a remedy for this bitten Israelite--"Look and live!" And
there is eternal life for every poor sinner, Look, and you can be
saved, my reader, this very hour. God has provided a remedy; and it
is offered to all. The trouble is, a great many people are looking at
the pole. Do not look at the pole; that is the church. You need not
look at the church; the church is all right, but the church cannot
save you. Look beyond the pole. Look at the Crucified One. Look to
Calvary. Bear in mind, sinner, that Jesus died for all. You need not
look at ministers; they are just God's chosen instruments to hold up
the Remedy, to hold up Christ. And so, my friends, take your eyes off
from men; take your eyes off from the church. Lift them up to Jesus;
who took away the sin of the world, and there will be life for you
from this hour.

Thank God, we do not require an education to teach us how to look.
That little girl, that little boy, only four years old, who cannot
read, can look. When the father is coming home, the mother says to
her little boy, "Look! look! look!" and the little child learns to
look long before he is a year old. And that is the way to be saved.
It is to look at the Lamb of God "who taketh away the sin of the
world;" and there is life this moment for every one who is willing to
look.

Some men say, "I wish I knew how to be saved." Just take God at His