The Pillar of Cloud Explained
By Editor
THE following from an English journal, the Christian Commonwealth, shows to what extent accredited ministers of the gospel in Protestant churches accept of the records of divine revelation. It seems to us that it would be much easier to deny that such a man as Moses ever existed, or that such an exodus from Egypt ever took place. Here is the item:— "Wonderful expositions will never cease. The pillar of cloud which accompanied the Israelites is described by Canon Taylor in Good Words as a sandstorm. He recently saw one in Egypt. As it approached, the black column blotted out the sun like a pillar of darkness, and then, as it passed behind, it was like a column of fire, illuminated with the lurid light shining through the haze. Moonlight would produce a similar illumination at night, and thus the pillar of fire of the exodus may be accounted for. What is puzzling is, how Moses could have been so much sillier than Canon Taylor as not to know cloud and fire from sand and moonshine."