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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ises, and generally, as it always was in the case of Pharaoh,their hearts became harder and harder. Instead of being betterafter God had raised them up and made them strong and well, orremoved some trial or affliction, they became worse than before. Have you not found something of this also in your ownexperience? When you have desired something which you haveasked your father or mother to secure for you, you have promisedthat you would run all the errands they asked, or that you wouldgo to school and study your lessons very faithfully, or that youwould go to bed cheerfully at night without complaining, or youhave made your parents some other promises; and yet, after youhave received the object you asked for, you have failed to keep yourpromise. Or, to go a step further, has it not been so with what you havepromised God that you would do? You may have entered intocovenant with Him, made certain promises, and then afterwardforgot to fulfill those promises. Let us always remember when we
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226 Moses Leading the Children of Israel Through the Red Sea. FROGS. 227 make promises to God, or to our parents, that we are not to be likePharaoh. After God has answered our prayers we should not for-get to be obedient to Him and to keep our promises. Pharaoh was a great covenant-breaker, but when at last hegave the Children of Israel permission to leave Egypt, and thenbroke his promise and followed them with his army that he mightdestroy them, God opened up the waters of the Red Sea and theChildren of Israel fled from before Pharaoh. When this wickedking and covenant-breaker saw them, he pursued after them withhis horses, his chariots and his army; and when they were all in themidst of the sea, God took away His restraining power from thewater which stood piled up on both sides of the way along whichthe Children of Israel had marched safely, and the water camedown in great torrents and buried this wicked king and all hishorses and his chariots and his men. So God destroyed this gre

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