. Twelve stones were brought up from the Jordan and erected in Gilgai. They gave fathers the opportunity of telling their children of the miraculous passage of the river. We, too, through our Lord, have passed through the waters of death on to resurrectionground. Let the great deliverances of God wrought for our fatherland, as well as those wrought for us personally in Christ, be more frequent subjects of family-talk.

The’presence of the Ark alone restrained the piled-up waters. Thus Jesus stands between us and whatever

would overwhelm us, especially sin and death, Heb. 2:14. Do not, in rejecting him, reject your only screen.