The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-07
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full than on that duy to his father. AS
the old man ran his emaciated fingers
through his sons hair he said to HIM
self. "How shall / give him up? What
win his mother say when come pacK
without my boy? ] thought ne wouiu
have been the comfort OF my declining
years. thought he would have Deen
the hone of ages to come. Be8utiiui
and loving, and yet to die under my
own hand. Oh, Godi 10 there not some
other sacrifice that will do? Take my
life and spare hisl Pour out my piooo
and save Isaac for his mother anu the
world!' But this was an inward s.fue
ole The father controls his feelings
nd looks into his sons face and says
"Isaac, must tell you alp his son
said. "Yes, father, thought you had
something on your mind; tell IT. Inc
father said, my SON. Isaac thon ar.
the lamb" "Oh," you say, why dion
that young man. if he was twenty OF
thirty years of age. smite into the dust
his infirm father? He could have done
it," Ali Isaac knew by this time that
the scene was typical Of Messiah VINO
was to come, and so he made no strug-
ole They fell on each others neck
and walled out the parting. Awful
and matchless scene Of the wilderness.
The rocks echo back the breaking OF
their hearts. The cry, my son' my
sopl' The answer. my father! my
father"
Do not compare this, as some people
have. to Agamemnon, willing to offer
nm his daughter, Iphigenia, to please
the rods. There is nothing compara-
BILE to this wonderful obedience to the
true God. You know that victims Tor
sacrifice were always bound, so that
they might not struggle away. Raw
: linps, the martyr. when he was dying
for Christ's sake, said to the black
, smith who held the manaclesi "Fasten
those chains tight, now, for my hesh
; may struggle nightly" So lsaac,s
$ arms are fastened, his feet are tied
q The old man, rallying all his strength
u lift. him on to a pile OF wood
Fastening a thong OH one EIDE
y of the altar, he makes it span thu
y body of Isaac, and fastens the thong
at the other side the altar. and an
:. other thong, and another thong
- There is the lamp pickering In to-
y wind, ready to be put under the brush
- wood of the altar. There Is the kni1e
- sharp and keen. Acknowledgements
- with his mortal feelings on the on
10 side. and the commands of God on tn
10 other-takes that knife, rubs I'd
&c fat of it on the palm OF hi
~ hand, cries to God for help. comes u
:. to the side of the altar, puts partin
|" kiss on the brow of his boy, take
40 a message from him for mother an
a home, and then, lifting the glitterin
weapon for the plunge OF the deati
"a stroke-his muscles knitting Tor tn
81 work-ths hand begins to descend.
falls! Not on the heart OF Isaac, o'
- on the arm of God, who arrests u
stroke, making the wilderness quai
gu with the cry: Abraham! Abraham
an Law not thy hand upon the lad, Eor
IA him any HARM"
~, "a What is this sotnd back in Il
IT, woods! 1t is a cracking as OF tr
80 branches, bleating and a struggl
,ar Go, Abraham, and see what it is. y
r. it was a ram, that, going through {
A. woods, has its crooked horns fasten
-, and entangled in the brushwood, a.
lot could not get loose; and Abrahs
- siezes it gladly, and quickly unloose
Isaac from the altar, puts the ram
49, in his place, sets the lamp under t
brushwood of the altar, and as t
:. dense smoke Of the sacrifice begins
rise, the blood rolls down the sides
the altar, the drops Kissing into
!, : fire. and / hear the words: "Beht
. rs the lamb of God, who takes away
=. sins of the world"
"a Well, what are you going to get
as of thisP There is an aged minister
spv the Gospel. He says: Il should
nw out of 1t that when God tells
= 7 to do thing, whether it seems reas
- able to you are not, go abe
III, and do it." Here Abraham could
- have been mistaken. God did
speak SO indistinctly that it was
I'll certain whether He called Sarah,
rs. Abimelech, or somebody else; but W
divine articulation, divine intonati
49,. divine emphasis, He said: 'Abraha
IA Abraham rushed blindly ahead to
, ;oLs his duty, knowing that things wo
the come out right. Likewise do SO ye
a.. selves. There Is mystery OF y
hau life. There is some burden you h
ny to CARRY. You don't know why
.n,. has put it on You. There is some
tbs secution, some trial, and you d.
~ know why God allows it. There
her work for you to do. and you have
reil, enough grace, you think, to do it.
Won as Abraham did. Advance, and
I'm your whole duty. Be willing to {
son up Isaac, and perhaps you will
ara have TO give lip anything. "Jeho'
ther jireh'-the Lord will provide" A
tai lesson this old minister gives III
"a II Out yonder. in this house, is an
two woman; the light Of heaven in
4 of face, she is half way through the d
son she has her hand OH the pearl OF
neo- gate. Mother. what would you get
hill OF this subject? "0h." she says
NJ Is would learn that it is in the last p
Il ON that God comes to the relief. You
one the altar was ready and Isaac
a in fastened on it, and the knife
Here lifted; and just at the last NOR
Won God broke in and stopped proceed
tine: So it has been in my life of sew
or years. Why, sir, there was a
wing when the -four was
IS up out of the house; and
H. {,lJa Of NOM and had not