interesting thought.

"If God was so careful of His children in these small matters," said
Clytie; "no wonder they believed He would care for them in graver matters,
and no wonder they looked forward so eagerly to the coming of His Son,
whom He promised should be sent to save them from His wrath."

Through God's succeeding minute directions for the building and upholstery
of His tabernacle, "with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and
purple and scarlet, with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them,"
the interest of the little boys rather languished; likewise through His
regulations about such dry matters as slavery, divorce, and polygamy. His
directions for killing witches and for stoning the ox that gores a man or
woman had more of colour in them. But there was no real interest until the
good God promised His children to bring them in unto the Amorites and the
Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the
Jebusites, to "cut them off." It was not uninteresting to know that God
put Moses in a cleft of the rock and covered it with His hand when He
passed by, thus permitting Moses a partial view of the divine person. But
the actual fighting of battles was thereafter the chief source of
interest. For God was a mighty God of battles, never weary of the glories
of slaughter. When it was plain that He could make a handful of two
thousand Israelites slay two hundred thousand Midianites, in a moment, as
one might say, the wisdom of coming to the Feet, being born again, and
washing in the blood ceased to be debatable. It would seem very silly,
indeed, to neglect any precaution that would insure the favour of this
God, who slew cities full of men and women and little children off-hand.
The little boy thought Milo Barrus would begin to spell a certain word
with the very biggest "G" he could make, if any one were to bring these
matters to his notice.