A Sermon Preached in nien Church, Shanghai, by the Rev. A. N. Rowland, M.A., on November 25, 1923
"Lhe manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old. corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan." Joshua 5.
Israel was entering om a new \ind of experience. The pene? of special protection and provision was over, it was time to. settle down to the conditions of common life. Not that it was all easy going in the wilderness. There were reasons for trembling and reasons for grumbling, as we are told in the stories of the Exodus. But when the people, came to look back afterwards it seemed a time of special privilege. When they ame immersed in the problems of rational and civic life, oppressed by Kings, overrun by enemies, visited by every kind of political trial, they looked back fondly to those happy days when God's care and guidance were in full evidence. They pictured the old life as a time when they were borne on eagile's wings and fed with angel's bread.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.