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The Bible aS q Book Of Travels.

Much Of the Bible really forms book
OF travels. Journeyings occupy con-
siderable space in the divine records.
@Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from thy fathers
house, into a land that L will show
thee" was one OF the first revealed
commands after the catastrophe of the
deluge, and the attempt to build the
Tower of Babel. 1t was addressed to
Abram, who became the father of the
faithful; and, obedient to the mandate,
he departed at once. The following
little picture Of foreign travel stands at
the head of numerous volumes, includ-
ing some most popular in the present
day: $50 Abram departed, as the Lord
had spoken unto him: and Abram was
seventy and five years old when he de-
parted out Of Haran; and Abram took
Sarah his wife, nnd Lot his brothers
son, and all their substance that they
hsd gathered, and the souls that they
had gotten in Haran, and they went
forth TO go into the land of Canaan,
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 III life, dressed
in prim tive Oriental costume, seated
on the back OF a patient camel, with
his nephew and wife and other relations
accompanying him i'll long retinue: the
tiocks and herds not far off with shep-
herds and drivers, all with their lord
and master pursuing dlvinely directed
journey to a distant land they had never
seen before. There was enterprise in
this original expedition, and curiosity
and wonder must have stirred the
bosom of this early explorer as he
tracked his way over unknown lands, as
his eye rested on plain, valley, and
mountain, and as he drew nigh to the
wooden hills of Northern Canaan, and
paced the shores of the Lake of Cali
lee, and saw u fertile country spread
out before him under the shadows of
Ebal and Gerizim.
Soon afterward we are told the story
Of another traveller how Eliezer, the
eldest servant of his house, arose and
vent to Mesopotamia, the region
whence Abram had come, into the city
Of Major. to find wife for his masters
son; and beautiful indeed are the Incl
dents recorded of the ends and results
Of that singular journey A little fur
ther on, and we find the father of Isaac
On his travels again, down into Egypt.
In the very next chapter Isaac's son is
seen starting for Pendanarum, to be-
hold vision of angels by the way: and
then, back after his eventful marriage,
hereaches "...'e citv Of Arbah, which is
Hebron, where Auram and Isaac so
iourned." Travels multiply as we pur-
sue the histo y of jacobs son. Joseph,
and then his brethren, time after time,
are described to us as ON their way to
the rich corn-bearing country on the
banks of the Nile. and the steps they
take are fraught with romantic surprise
from beginning to end, constituting al
. together narrative of matchless inter-
sst.
Moses is traveller OF unequaled re-
novn from Goshen to the Red Sea, and
down to Sinai, and by zigzaS course
through the desert up to Pisgah, where
m the mountain top he catches glimpses
ot5he land of promise; and troops of
tuelers in our own day have delighted
tofetrace his steps and follow in his
footprints. Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Jere-
miah, Ezekiel and other prophets were
also travellers. Most of the apostles
haoitually moved from place to place,
especially Saint Paul. whose journeys
a.e distinguished landmarks in the New
Tsstament. Nor did the Lord contine
aHasslf to any one home spot in Cali
Ice or Judea; He went about i'll all di-
fections doing good.
Aswe Englishmen and women pur-
sue our tourist expeditions, for which
% many facilities are now provided.
and which are so universal that almost
e'erylFM p spring. summer and au-
tumn IS on the movs it's surely con
ndfhdnsof sha Iewipg interest that
se Have So MANY Bihae precedents for
oFRnetice' when followed in wisdom.
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