A Simple
incident is often the means by which something immeasurably greater is revealed to us, as when, on a starlit night, the stirring of a tiny leaf on a high bough discloses to the upturned gaze of the watcher the bright light of some distant planet.
It
is recorded in the thirty-fifth chapter of Numbers that Moses, governed by divine wisdom, appointed a certain number of cities to be designated as "cities for refuge.
In
the epistle to the Hebrews it is written, "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
