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What the pillar of cloud was to our fathers by day, and the
pillar of fire by night, are the wise and the learned to us,
O fellow Israelites! We walk at the light which their bright
intellects emit. Our progenitors winding their steps through
trackless deserts, cast a look around, and lo! a guide from
heaven led them forth. We, the travellers of a road, rough
and rugged, see a beacon illuming our horizon. At its
radiance, we can always discover a safe issue. Oh!
how lurid would be the mist created by its absence! But,
Israel will never be unshrouded in darkness. I read it in the chronicles of truth. [In Hebrew].
He will not take away the pillar of cloud
by day, nor the pillar of ~~cloud~~ fire by night from before the people.
the future, will, like the past, be directed by God's own agency.
To the end of time, the house of Jacob will produce men, whose
spiritual teaching shall mould the mind of multitudes.
Let us never fear that infidelity will dethrone pity. That
the rule of wickedness will supplant that of godliness.
A Gideon arose, and the idols were cast down. Samuel
became the Judge, when the children of a high priest contaminated
the alter. The same day which ~~he saw~~ beheld the
Literally, the Hebrew verb stand in the future tense.

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