During
the long and weary period of forty years in which the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness before entering the Promised Land, they often murmured against Moses, the servant of God.
In
one of his parables, Christ Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman put into three measures of meal until the entire mass was changed through the action of the leaven.
On
the Green of the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, there stands a well-known statue of an armed farmer apparently ready for immediate call to action.