Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
A ROCK OF
Considerable Space i'll the binle FILLED
with Accounts of Journeyings.

Considerable Space in the binie FILLED
with Accounts of Journeyings.
Much If the Bible really forms a
hook of travels. Journeyings occupy
q considerable space in the divine
records. sect thee out OF thy country,
and from thy kindred, and from thy
father's house, into a land that l will
show thee,n was one Of the first re-
vealed commands after the catastrophe,
of the deluge, and the attempt to build
tbe Tower of Babel. 1t was addressed
to Ahram, who became thefather OF the
faithful: and, obedient to the mandate
he departed at once. The following,
little picture of foreign travel stands at
theh head of numerous volumes, lnclud-
mo some most popular in the present
day: $50 Abram departed, as the Lord
had spoken unto him; and Lot wenti
with him; and Abram was seventy-tive
wears old when he departed out
of Haran; and Abram took Sarah
his wife. and Lot his brothers
son. and all their substance that
they had gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran, and they
Went forth to 20 into the land of Ca
naan. and into the land of Canaan they
came. And Abram passed through the
land unto the place of Sichem, unto the;
plain of Moreh." We can picture the
patriarch, far advanced in life, dressed;
in primitive oriental costume. seatedy
on the back of a patient camel, with:
his nephew and wife and other rela-
lions accompanying him in long RED
tinue, the tlocks and herds not far OFT
with shepherds and drivers, q with
their lord and master pu16A1g a di-
v1nely directed journey to a distant,
land they had never seen before. There
was enterprise in this original ,.eNpedi-
ton, and curiosity and wonder must
have stirred the bosom of this early ex-
plorer as he tracked his way over I'M
known lands, as his eye rested on plain.
valley and mountain, and as he drew
nigh to the wooded hills of Northern
Canaan, and paced the shores of the,
Lake of Galilee and saw a fertile coun-
try spread out before him under the
shadows of Ebal and Gerizim.
Soon afterward we are told the story
of another t~raveler-how Eliezar, the
eldest servant of his house, arose.
and went to Mesppotamia, the region;
whence Abraham had come into the
City of Major, to find a wife for his
masters son; and beautiful. indeed, are
the incidents recorded Of the ends and
results of that singular journey. A
little further on, and we find the
father Of Isaac on his travels again,
down in Egypt. In the very next chap
ter Isaac's son is seen starting for Fan
danarum, to behold a vision of angels
by the way; and then, after his event
full marriage, he reaches ''the city OF
Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abra-
ham and Isaac sojourned.' Travels
multiply as we pursue the history of
Jacobs son, Joseph, and then his chill
dren, time after time, are described to
us on their way to the rich corn-bear-
ing county on the banks of the Nile,
and the steps they take are fraught
with romantic surprises from be-
ginning to end, constituting alto
gcthera narrative of matchless interest.
Moses is a traveller of unequaled re-
nown from Goshen to the Red Sea,
and down to Sinai, by a zigzag curse
through the desert up to Pisgah,
where in the mountain top he catches
glimpses of the land Of promise; and.
troops of travellers in our own day
have delighted to retrace his steps and
follow in his footprints. Elijah, Elisha,
Jonah. jeremiah Ezekiel and other
| prophets were also travellers. The apos-
ties, most Of them, habituaily moved
from place to place, especially st. Paul,
whose journeys are distinguished land
marks in the New Testament. Nor did
our Lord cogline Himself to any home
spot in Galllee or Judea; He went
about in all directions doing good.
As we Englishmen and women pur-.
sue our tourist expeditions, for which
so many facilities are provided, and
which are so universal that almost
everybody in spring, summer and au-
tumn is on the move, it is surely a con-
sideration of %hallowing interest thatwe
have SO many Bible precedents for our
| practice when followed in WISDOM
DR.. John Stoughton, IN the QusUer.