would
not suit tomorrow, and those of tomorrow would not suit the next
day. Why? Because God had something new to perform every day, and that
which was given yesterday would not be adapted to the work God saw fit
to perform today or tomorrow, hence, as often as the day rolled
round new revelation had to be given to Moses to make known to him
what the Lord required at his hand, what his mission was, what he was
to do in the house of Pharaoh and before all the Egyptians. Having
accomplished these wonders, by new revelation, Moses and the whole
house of Israel, some twenty-five hundred thousand in number, left the
land of Egypt and came forth to the eastern border of the Red Sea.

If there had been sectarians in that large company, they would
doubtlessrevelation. He
did not tell them to search previous revelations for that was all that
was necessary, but he gave them revelation telling them what to do,
and that revelation was, “Stand still, and see the salvation of God?”
If they had not got this new revelation they might have been so
confused that, instead of standing still, some would have run for one
mountain, and some for another, some this way and some that; but a new
revelation made them understand that their duty, instead of fleeing,
was to stand still and see the salvation that God would work out for
them. Moses was commanded to smite the waters of the Red Sea, and he
did so, and they were parted asunder by the power of the Almighty and,
as we are informed in another place, they stood