power more invincible than human strength, was not compromised by delay. Others arose in the place of Moses. The election of the people of Israel was marked especially in this, that they never lacked spiritual leaders, preaching and acting after the example of the first and greatest of the prophets, and enforcing alike by persuasion, counsel, and promise, and by the sterner arguments of threatening and punishment, the preservation—ever becoming more easy,—and the authority—perpetually widening—of