ous God likewise. His work is
perfect. 'A God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is
he.'

In him Moses can trust, but not in the children of Israel; they are
a perverse and crooked generation, who have waxen fat and kicked.
God has done all for them, but they will not obey him. Even in the
wilderness they have worshipped strange gods, and sacrificed to
devils, not to God; and so they will do after Moses is gone; and
then on them will come all the curses of which he has so often
warned them. 'The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy
both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of
gray hairs. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that
they would consider their latter end! How should one chase a
thousand; and two put ten thousand to flight?' What a people they
might be, and what a future there is before them, if they would but
be true to God! But they will not. And so Moses' death-song, like
his life's wish, ends in disappointment and sadness, and dread of
the evils which are coming upon his beloved countrymen.

Lastly, he blesses them, tribe by tribe, in strange and grand words,
such as dying men utter, who, looking earnestly across the dark
river of death, see further than they ever saw amid the cares and
temptations of life. And he blesses them. He will say nothing of
them but good. He will speak not of what they will be, but of what
they ought to be and can be. But not in their own strength--only in
the strength of God. Man is to be nothing to the last; and God is
all in all.

'There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the
heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal
God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

'Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by
the Lord, the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thy
excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and
thou shalt tread upon their high places.'

Those are the last words of Moses. Then he goes up into the
mountain top, never to return; and the children of Israel are left
alone with God and their own souls, to obey and prosper, or disobey
and die.

The time of their schooling is past, and their schoolmaster is gone
for ever. They are no more to be under a human tutor. They are
come to man's estate and man's responsibility, and they are to work
out their own fortunes by their own deeds