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 their cure, not down. This was a sign for the house of Israel, teaching us that when the sensual mind looks up to the Lord, there is effected a spiritual connection with the Saviour. Truth is as a curative medicine, that flows into the inmost of the soul, pervading the whole man with its healing virtue, from the highest affections of his heart down to the lowest sensual faculties of his being. Man is thus cured of the fiery serpent's bite—of the wound inflicted by falsehood grounded in evil, and is made wholly alive in the Lord. O Christian! look thou up to God, whence cometh thine everlasting help! Grovel not in the mire of sensual pleasures, but leave to the serpent its meat of dust!

UNGERING and thirsting are mentioned in Scripture to denote, spiritually, the earnest longings of the mind. To hunger is expressive of an ardent desire of the will to be nourished with all the good that cometh down from God out of heaven. This good is called the bread of God—living bread, and is represented by the manna, granted to the Israelites in the wilderness. When these travellers to Canaan hungered and desired food, the manna was given in abundance, to instruct us, when the spiritual travellers to the kingdom wish for goodness, purity,