ABSTRACT
One of the distinctive emblems of the Festival is the leaf-crowned hut which is raised and decked in honour of the Holyday. The Tabernacle, it says, is to recall the huts in which God caused the Israelites to dwell when they were wandering in the desert. The Tabernacle pleads for itself and its kind. A further explanation of the Tabernacle meets us. Those huts in which the Hebrews sheltered in the desert— surely they were a welcome refuge from the physical discomfort incidental to their wandering life, a witness, moreover, to the saving protection of Almighty God. In proportion to the strength of our belief in the all-sufficiency of the heavenly refuge, in the vanity of earthly strength and help, in the reality and the omnipotence of the Everlasting Arms, will be the tranquillity and the joy that come to bless our lives.
