The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-06-06

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man took "a golden earring OF hall a shekel
weight, and two bracelets l0r her hands
of ten ehckeA weight of gold, and said,
Whose daughter art thous tell me. ! pray
thee; Is there room in thy fathers house
for us TO lodge iny And she said unto
him. ] ann She daughter of bcthuel. The
son of Micah which she bare unto Major
She said moreover unto him. We have
both straw and provonder enough and
room 20 lodge ia. Aud the man bowed
down hs head and worshped Che Lord"
Genesis "a: 2l26.
line next incident is the wooing and the
departure The old servant tells his story,
makes his appeal aud the text is spoken,
"Wilt thou go with this man! And she
said, | viii co." Genesis "a %. And the
camel train is moving once more, the fam
ily of Rebekah watching until the last
camel Is lost TO view in the distance. The
journey Is unevcntful, but The end of it IS
more than striking And Isaac went out
20 mediate in the field at eventide; and
he lifted up his eyes and saw. and, behold,
the camels were coming. And Rebekah
lifted up her eyes, and when she saw
Isaac she lighted off the camel For she
had said unto the servant, What man is
this that walketh In the field 10 meet usl
And the servant had said, 1t Is my master;
therefore she took a veil and covered her
self. And the servant told Isaac all things
that he had done And Isaac brought her
unto his mother Sarah's tent, and took
Rebekah and she became his wife; and he
loved her, and Isaac was comforted after
his mothers death" Genesis "a 63-67.
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Here is a lesson Of divine providence.
! Hear Abraham when he says, The Lord
| God of heaven which took me from my
! fathers house, and from the land of my
| kindred, and which spake unto me, and
/ that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy
/ seed will / give this land He shall send
/ His angel before thee, and thou shalt
! take a wife unto my son from thence.
! Genesis, "a: Z. We think of this as Old
/ Testament history simply. We hear God
| saying, GAS / was with Moses i will be
with thee" and we say certainly, but not
with myself. Why it is we always think
J OF Gods care of the patriarchs as mira
/ Giles, without its counterpart IS in our own
| lives, when God is our Father, everything
/ in our life is precious to Him, and the
very hairs of our head are numbered? He
is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob,
and He is your Cod The angel OF the
Lord is still living. We have grown world
| lv wise and speak or Impressions, convic-
| tions, condolences impulses. when all the
time it is the angel of the Lord speaking
] to us. Have you noticed that there were
two servants, one winged one IN the air
and the other in charge Of the cameis. 1t
is always so. Tt is by this double ministry
that providences are confirmed. All
| through life we see it; in the conversion
unusual You say. Il feel q strong inn
pulse to do a certain thing" 1t is the an
gel Of the Lord troubling the stagnation OF
your heart You say that | am impressed
that | ought to do thus and so, when 1t
is the finger Of God writing His purpose
on your soul These are but the heavenly
ministers of Jehovah. Look around you
ard you will find some opportunity for
service fitting into your impulse or con
vction, and that which yesterday you
wondered at as coincidence fills you
with the spirit of worship to-day as you
say, 'Ihe Lord was in this place and
knew it not" Life without a religious
Interpretation is little less than a trag
edy" while life thus viewed may have
many twists and turns, but ends in heaven
find here a good picture of real service
When Eeazar was leaving Abraham h(
said, "Peradventure, the woman will moi
be willing to follow me unto this land
must / needs bring thy son again unto the
land from whence thou camestY' Anf
Abraham SAID unto him, Beware, thou
that thou bring not my son thither again
The Lord God Of heaven, which took me
from my fathers house, and from the lane
of my kindred and which spake unto me
and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy
seed will | give this land He shall senC
His angel before thee, and thou shalt talk
a wife unto my son from thence. And /
the woman will not be willing to follow
thee then thou shalt be clear from Thu
my oath; only bring not my son thithe
again" Genesis "a: 5-S.
1t is the same figure that we have o
the Waterman upon the walls. Both o
these appeal strongly to US. We are no
free from responsibility until we have trieC
at least to win every soul over whom w
have an influence for Christ. l cannot con
vert even the smallest child, nor can you
but / can try to tell them what | hav
been commissioned to say, for | am m.
brothers keeper Oh, for the intense de
sire to do our Masters will that Eeaza
, had. His camels are cared for, he ha
, entered the house of Bethuel. He
weary with his long journey, the SAVIOR
, meat prepared for his feast appeals t.
, Ills weakness, but hear him say, can
there was set meat before him to eat
, but he said, l viii not eat, until / hav
told mine Grand And he said spea
. on" Genesis "a: 49, Is not this lik
z Paul on his missionary journey il
journeyings often, in perils Of waters, i
) peris of robbers, in perils by mine ow
: countrymen, in peris by the heather, i
/ perils in the city, in perils in the wilder
ness, in perils in the sea, in perils anon
false brethren; in WEAKNESS and painful
ness, in watchings often, in hunger an
) thirst, in Hastings often, in cold an
nakedness" Corinthians IL: 1921 An
is it not like Jesus Himself, when He
5 weary by the well side, hungry wit
: much fasting and sends His disciple {
4 buy meat which He forgot to eat becaus
/ of the woman by His side. l am sur
I Rebekah saw in him the great love {
{ Isaacs heart. And when they sale
e wilt thou go with this man? She saiC
4 / will 60"