en. Imagine an ocean of lava, torn by
storm and vexed by tempest, suddenly gazed at by a Gorgon and changed
to stone. Such was the desert of Sinai. The whole supplies of the
world could not maintain three millions of people on the desert of
Sinai for forty years. It would cost one hundred thousand millions of
dollars, and would bankrupt Christendom. And yet there they were with
flocks and herds--so many that they sacrificed over one hundred and
fifty thousand first-born lambs at one time.

It would require millions of acres to support these flocks, and yet
there was no blade of grass, and there is no account of it raining
baled hay. They sacrificed one hundred and fifty thousand lambs, and
the blood had all to be sprinkled on the altar within two hours, and
there, were only three priests. They would have to sprinkle the blood
of twelve hundred and fifty lambs per minute. Then all the people
gathered in front of the tabernacle eighteen feet deep. Three millions
of people would make a column six miles long. Some reverend gentlemen
say they were ninety feet deep. Well, that would make a column of over
a mile.

Where were these people going? They were going to the Holy Land. How
large was it? Twelve thousand square miles--one-fifth the size of
Illinois--a frightful country, covered with rocks and desolation. There
never was a land agent in the city of Chicago that would not have
blushed with shame to have described that land as flowing with milk and
honey. Do you believe that God Almighty ever went into partnership
with hornets? Is it necessary unto salvation? God said to the Jews
"I will send hornets before you, to drive out the Canaanites." How
would a hornet know a Canaanite? Is it possible that God inspired the
hornets--that he granted letters of marque and reprisal to hornets? I
am willing to admit that nothing in the world would be better
calculated to make a man leave his native country than a few hornets
attending strictly to business. God said "Kill the Canaanites slowly."
Why? "Lest the beasts of the field increase upon you." How many Jews
were there? Three millions. Going to a country, how large? Twelve
thousand square miles. But were there nations already in this Holy
Land? Yes, there were seven nations "mightier than the Jews." Say
there would be twenty-one millions when they got there, or twenty-four
millions with themselves. Yet they were told to kill them slowly, lest
the beasts