When God told Moses to speak to the children of Israel and bid
them go forward there was another urgency to reenforce this
injunction. The chariots of Egypt were behind them; they must go
forward or die.
Has not the greater part of human progress been due to necessities
urging from behind and below--hunger, necessity for shelter, climates,
hardships, trials. By all these God has ever been driving men up out of
their Egypt of sloth and slavery toward a higher destiny.
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=Need of the World=--See LOVE, THE WORLD’S NEED.