BAPTIST MAGAZINE FOR 1870. THE PROFITS ARISING FROM THE SALE OF THIS WORK ARE GIVEN TO THE YATES AND ALEXANDER, SYMONDS INN, CHANCERY LANE. MDCCCLXX. THE BAPTIST MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1870. Divine Leading: A HOMILY FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. BY THE REV. W. LANDELS, D.D. "Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.”Psalm lxxvii. 20. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not."-Psalm lxxviii. 53. "And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation."-Psalm cvii. 7. WHILE HILE these words apply escape-their Red Sea, through the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness into Canaan, they may with great propriety be applied to the divine leading of saints in all ages. The deliverance and wanderings of the Israelites are, by almost universal consent, regarded as typical of the religious life. And, whether they were designed to be so or not, the resemblance must be very striking which has obtained such general recognition. Indeed, it is too palpable to be easily overlooked. Saints have their Egypt-their house of bondage, from which they them their former life, from which they are henceforth separated— their baptism, uniting them to their prophet and leader-their wilderness wanderings, presenting the variations of palm-groves and burning rocks, wells and barren sands, victories and occasional reverses, rest and toil, and finally their Jordan crossing and their entrance into the land of promise, the celestial Canaan, of which Palestine was the unquestionable type. With good reason, therefore, and especially at a season when we are led to take a retro |