The Levite who presided over the idolatrous worship of the house of Micah, and later of the tribe of Dan, was of the family of Gershom, the son of Moses. Judges 18:, 30, R.V.) Nabal, the churlish world-ling, was of the house of Caleb, (i Sam. 25:3.) What contrasts to their progenitors ! And do we not learn in this to "cease from man," to "let no man glory in men " ? It is not ancestry, but Christ, who saves ; not lineage, but individual devotedness, that insures faithfulness to God.