The Footsteps of St Paul - 1877 Author:John Ross Macduff Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: were still oat at their precarious and protracted toils on the lake. " Fair hoy ! the wanderings of tby way It is not mine to truce, Through buoyant youth'... more »s exulting day, Or manhood's bolder raee, "Wbiit discipline tby heart may need, 'What clouds may veil tby sun, The eye of God alone can rend, And lot In-, will be done." 1 We have just spoken of Simon's ordinary education : the religions knowledge imparted to him, hke that of all Jewish youths, would, in accordance with the strict injunctions of the Mosaic law, be communicated by his parents, saving perhaps some simple instruction by the StrpIierim, or other attendants of the synagogue. We may transfer to the Galilean boy what has beeh so well said regarding the early life of one who will come often to be associated with him in future chapters—young Saul of Tarsus :—" The rules respecting the diligent educationof children, which were laid down by Moses in the 6th and 11th chapters of Deuteronomy, were doubtless carefully observed ; and he was trained in that peculiarly historical instruction spoken of in the 78th Psalm, which implies the continuance of a chosen people, with glorious recollections of the past, and great anticipations for the future : ' The Lord made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which He commanded our forefathers to teach their children ; that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn; to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same: that they might put their trust in God, and not to forget the works of the Lord, but to keep His commandments' (vers. 5-7). The histories of Abraham and Isaac, of Jacob and his twelve sons, of Moses among the bulrushes, of Joshua and Samuel, Elijah, Daniel, and the Maccabees, were the stories o...« less