Every child in any way familiar with the Old Testament history can give a graphic description of the seemingly supernatural crossing of the Red Sea by the children of Israel in their journeying out from the bondage of Egypt toward the promised land, even though their sense of this historic record be strangely confounded with the fairy tales which so delight the heart of the imaginative child.
The thought is still present, even while perhaps undefined, that in some unaccountable way this experience of the Children of Israel is fact, while the other is fable. The immature thought of children not being able to grasp that point wherein fact and fable diverge, is satisfied to know that God has power to so aid his persecuted and faithful followers, with perhaps a faint belief that even the glories of fairy land could become real, if only controlled by the same Principle that guided Moses' followers. And can we not see that the Christian of to-day is in the same chrysalis state of thought, which has not as yet broken loose from the bondage of material sense into the faintest realization of spiritual possibilities? Are we not too much held by our theories and opinions, and as a result, very reluctant to accept one thought that is in any way contrary thereto?
Jesus said, "Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven." The believing child would surely say, "If God so rescued the Children of Israel in the past, could he not do it again, and in the same manner if need be?" No adult, however skeptical, would think of quenching this childish faith by expressing a doubt as to God's ability, even while, perhaps, advancing the thought that such a deliverance would be supernatural.
