their experience with his own. The cause of God appeared to have failed when that generation refused to enter the land of Canaan, but it did not fail. It took forty years, but God raised up a new generation to whom he gave the land of Canaan, as he had promised, and the cause of God went on. The graves in the wilderness must have been a powerful testimony to Elijah not to give up on God when he seems to have been utterly defeated. We cannot be sure, but it would seem