This "desert life," as we may call it, is of an importance that cannot be overvalued. And, as if with a trumpet, we would sound it in the ears of our brethren. Let us turn to the pages of God's own Book, for we can turn nowhere else if we are seeking light on this or any subject. On scanning its precious pages, we find that the men of God-God's mighty men-were those who had been in "the school of God," as it has been well called; and His school was simply this:"in the desert alone with Himself." It was there they got their teaching. Far removed from the din and bustle of the haunts of men-distant alike from human eye and ear- there they met alone with God; there they were equipped for the battle. And when the time came that they stood forth in public service for God, their faces were not ashamed, nay they had faces as lions; they were bold and fearless, yea, and victorious for God, for the battle had been won already in the desert alone with Him. Selected.