The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-19
Holy Land, Canaan or PaleStin
In 81 LETTERS. LETTER NO. 8.
written for Brandon News, by Virgil
MORIAH, OR MOUNT OF JEHOVAH.

Mount Moriah is one of the four hills, or
mountains, upon which Jerusalem was
built, and the one upon which the tenn
pie of Solomon was built, and now
occupied by the Great Mosquee of Omar.
The mention of this memorable mountain
is found first in Gen. 1872. Abraham
was living, at that time, at Beersheba,
twenty miles south of Hebron, and from
Jerusalem forty-six miles on an air line,
and flfty-one by the Travelled route
When the Lord would prove Abraham s
faith and constancy, he called on him to
take his son, Isaac and sacrifice him on
"Moriah" Sand it came to pass after
these things, that God did tempt (proved)
Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham:
and he said, behold here am l. And he
said, take now thy son, thine only son,
Isaac, whom thou lowest, and get thee
unto the land of Moriah, and offer him
there for burnt offering upon one of the
mountains, which will tell thee of, (Gen.
22:I-2.) Notwithstanding God had told
Abraham that in and through this child,
he was going to bless the world. and that
his seed would be past numbering;
he now tells him to kill him as a
sacrifice on the Mount of Moriah.
So Abraham took his beloved son,
and the son of promise, and with
some of the servants went north in the
direction of Moriah, and on the third day
he came in sight of the place, which God
had designated. He no doubt kept the
whole matter profound secret from
old Mother Sarah.
Abraham was at this time one hundred
and twenty-five years old and Isaac about
tWenty-six. Leaving the servants at the
base of the mountain, he places the wood
he had prepared upon his son, Isaac,
and together they went toiling up the
mountain to obey the God of his fathers.
Now as we behold Isaac in obedience to
his fathers command, toling up moriah
carrying the wood upon which was to be
sacrificed, we see Jesus Christ, the worlds
Redeemer, in type ''going forth without
the gates" bearing his own cross upon
which he "died for the sin of the world"
Abraham had great faith in God, and
was willing to trust all to him in life and
death. 1t is said of him in Hebrew It:I7,
by faith Abraham, when he was tried,
offered up Isaac, and he that had received
the promise offered up his only begotten
son of whom it was said, that, in Isaac
shall thy seed be called, accounting that
God was able to raise up, even from the
dead, from whence also he received him in
figure" So God gave, in fact, his only
begotton son, and then raised him up from
the dead.
Moriah comes in sight again at the time
David numbered the people and displeased
God B. c. 1913 and eight hundred and
flfty-four years after Abraham offered
Isaac on the same mountain. And Da-
vid's heart smote him after that he had
numbered the people, and David said
unto the Lord, have sinned greatly in
that have DONE *@ So Cad came
to David and told him, shall seven
years of famine come unto thee in thy
land, or wilt thou flee three months before
thy enemies, while they persue there, or
that there be three days pestilence in thv
land Now advise and see what answer
/ shall return to him that sent me.
And David said unto Cad, am in a great
strait, let US fall now into the hands of the
Lord. for his merces are great, and let me
not fall into the hands of man, So
the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel from
the morning even to the time appointed,
and there died of the people from Dan
even to Beersheba, seventy thousand.
And when the angel stretched OUT his
hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the
Lord repented him of the evil, and said
to the angel, that destroyed the people,
1t IS enough; stay now thine hand"
And the angel of the Lord was by the
threshlng place of Arauham Moriah) the
Jebuslte:" Jerusalem originally belong
ed to the ancient Jebustes, and was
called Jebus. And Cad came that dav
to David and said unto him, go up. rear
an alter unto the Lord in the threshing
floor of Araanah the Jebusite.v And
David did as the prophet, Cad, had said
and refused to ccept the oxen and thrush
Ing implements as a gift, but paid Araanah
fifty shelkels Of silver for them, saving.
but will surely buy it of thee at price:
neither will offer burnt offerings unto the
Lord my God of that which doth cost me