Milford chronicle., 1904-04-15
Talma8e

BY Rev.
Frank De eOiff
TaJm az e. D. D.


ercise of our faith, and that the divin
blessing follows this union Of faitl
and works The text is Genesis xxx
80, "And the tlocks brought forth cat
tie, ringstaked. specked and spotted.
Laban, though a man of wealth ant
influence among the Hebrews of his
day, was yet, like many rich men In
our time. mean and unprinciped where
bargain was involved In his com
pact with Jacob the weak points of
his character were strikingly revealed.
He had two daughters. Leah was
tender eyed. but Rachel was very beau
tiful;' in other words. the elder sister
was hon1ely and unattructive She
was maiden lady whom no one cared
TO marry; her eyes were infamed. or
watery, or east" her disposition was
evidently as much askew as her eyes.
Jacob was deeply in love with the
younger sister, but after he had served
seven long years for her old Laban
cheated him out of his promised bride
and palmed off upon the young man
the unattractive elder sister Then.
in order to win the younger sister,
Jacob had to serve seven more long
years, and as a result he had two
wives instead Of one
Power of the Mind.
At the end of his fourteen years of |
service Jacob prepared to leave his IA |
ther-in-law's employ. He wanted to
take his two wives and go off and
build home Of his own somewhere.
This, however. Laban did not wish him
to do. So the crafty Laban made a con-
tract with Jacob that if he would stay
and continue in charge of his herds of
cattle and fOcks of sheep he. Laban.
would give to the young man as paw
ment for his services all the calves and
the lambs and the kids that were born
rlngstraked or speckled or spotted.
Jacob agreed TO the bargain. But [
when he agreed the young man was l
crafticr than the Old man As the IA
ther-in-law had been unprincipled with s
jacob. so Jacob was unprincipled now b
with Laban. What did Jacob do? Did $
tie allow nature to simply take its usual Il
courseE No. He began to scheme and +.
TO cunningly influence the colors of Il
the calves, the kids and the lambs 50
about to be born. He took some rods
Of green poplar and hazel and chestnut Il
ana laid those rods of white and black al
IN the watering troughs of the herds oi
and the fOcks, Then, when the COWS &C
ana the sheep and the goats came to w
drink out of the watering trOughs the cl
black and white rods reflected in the lie
water made such a startling impress na
sion upon them that the calves. kids IN
ana lambs born thereafter were influ- ii'
enced by that prenatal shock. and most un
If them were ringstraked and spotted ac
md speckled. Thus Jacobs herds he
grew larger than Laban's. and the
'raft Of the INSCRIPTIONS sOn-in-law /
verreached the dishonesty of the ia the
her-in-law. he
After Jacob placed the rods Of green mo
oplar and hazel and chestnut in the you
troughs the startling and far SilC
eachlng effect produced upon the ami and
lals is not to be wondered at. If Chr
ou place a stick In the water. by the the
Ws OF reflection that wood may seem unit
become a creature of life l remem- as t
'r when lad once dropping my fish not
q pole, and as it lay at the bottom leav
the brook the ripples made that rod en-
Ok like long serpent wriggling M becH
ream. As these cattle stoop TO drink l an
see them start back as though a ven. idea
lous Kissing snake was lifting up in
fatal fangs to strike. My text pre- ease
nts one of the best instances TO no have
Ind in literature Of the far reaching vine
est of the mind over the nbvsicaI for h
" fort
Mental HnlIucinatiOns, to e.
We may grant today the influence give
the mind over the body, but we do work
go so far as to assert that all phys right
diseases or abnormalities are the the
ect results of mental hallucinations our d
the straked, spotted and speckled gerne
geny Of the cows. sheep and goats sional
e the result of Jacobs wicked act. sionai
do not advocate the theory that q ary b
seon's knife is only another name the p
a butchers ak, that a modern hos yeast
is only a Satanic incubator. that down
edicine bottle is only fools poison | hot to
that sickness is only a synonym | to be
sin; but, as there are thousands fort L
tens Of thousands of men and wo- been
who honestly believe in faith works
:" pure and simple. as we torn room
definition, 1 have chosen in this
ION to preach on Jesus Christ as Faitl
Divine Healer and to show both pie. ar
Biblical and a common sense commC
1point that the surgeons knife to the
the PHYSICIANS prescription have Bible
ri in the worlds Christianization medica
civilization as well as the minis scriptit
pulpit and the consecrated school Bible '
er's Cesk. strued
Bible teaches us that faith upon d
d always go hand in hand with often q
s. The same divine laws which words
to men in ordinary walks of life are for
also to the patient in the in clans {
s room or upon the hospital op- here all
lg table. The Christ who stands This 8,
e sick bed is the same Christ who Job ha
lpanies us when. in health and friends,