The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-06

sured by dream.
Z. Jacobs gratitude.
Sign OF pillar and oblatlon.
Promise of dedication Of site and
THE rEACHEits LANTERN.

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Sign OF pillar and oblation.
Promise of dedication Of site and
tithing Of income.
THE TEACIlElt'S LANTERN.
on craft in the mana gement Of ones
AFFAIRS. ''The Lord used Jacob for
holy purposes but in spite Of
his despicable conduct. not because Of
1t. The senl Of Divine disapproval Is
clearly affixed. Those who think Chi
<cane-a little of it. at least-indispen-
sable to success, find no comfort or
Justification in this instance.
Jacob was terribly punished. He
was separated forever from his doting
mother; was cxiled forty years; got
paid back In his own coin, with com
pounded interest. AS he practiced
ticed one on him to withhold the
transgressor Is hard.
Great are the advantages Of solitude.
OF Luz. chances are he never would
have seen the ladder. Our age needs
more chance to mediate. The pendu-
lum has swung to the opposite Of
well does George Herbert say:
Choose some time to be alone
Salute myself"
The stoniness Of Jacobs pillow had
to this day, in the East William Tay-a
lor, missionary bishop to Africa. car
ried stone in his satchel. It had a
notch In 1t as II artificially made just
to conform to a human head. The
bishop was won't to supplant feather
pillows with his stone. and affirmed
that It drew the heat from the head
and superinSuced to sleep.
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Be carc:ul not to make the ladder
OF the vision serve too many purposes.
Jesus in His conversation with Ma
, mediatorial work. which spans the
| chasm between God and man, and
makes ntercommunication possible.
That is enough. (John !. CID
| The pillar reared and anointed may
stand for the use of form in religion.
| Constituted as we are. the employment
OF religious ceremony is Indispensable.
Some one says the forms Of religion
man uses the ladder to reach greater
altitude. The Journalist just keeps
running up and down 1t to exhibit his
agility.
Aims and prayers are inseparable.
Jacob evinced his sincerity by pouring
one-tenth of the oil in his cruise upon
a the memGral he he had set up This re-
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pensable for the comfort Of his long
journey. The Divine claim Is small.
God takes the earnings OF one finger
and let's US keep that Of the other nine.
Once in childhood, far from home. /
was taken by a person I did not know
I to strange house. The loneliness
was almost insufferable; but just ms
he e sfares the halway i GLANCED
stood my father, smiling at me. The
whole situation was changed in an in
slant. That is but faint suggestion
Of how the sight Of the Heavenly
staircase OF the dream. must have ban
ished Jacobs loneliness and treasured
him.
Events and persons cluster about
Bethel like filings about q magnet
Here Abraham had a tent and God had
an altar; Cen XII. 50 Here Abraham
showed his generous en- spirit IN allowing
taking the best portion (xiiI). Here
Jacob dreamed (xxviii. 49, and made
oblation (xxxv, II, 15). It was the de-
pository Of the ark. and there was ar
orally rcsorted. Judges sxx, 19). 1t
was one of the holy cities to which
Samuel resortcd as circuit Judge. q
f Eisha v ~ Kn E'qh s! ss M'nss 5chu ss 2.
Kings y, 291, arc associated with It.
and Hosea GIL, 4, s? refer to It.
A foul blot is on the fair record OF
this ancient place, Almost continuous
ly with the pure worshi POT jehovah
at this place runs the worship of local
dlvinities, until Jeroboam makes calf
worship the State religion Of the
Northern Kingdom q Kings XII, ESQ
Strange that a place so conspicuous
In the Old Testament is not SO mucl
as mentioned In the new, Yet Jesu
and the, apostles must have been Otter
In this locality.
Probably that the name Bethel wa.
in use with religious Significance be
same Significance; as, for example
the chief sanctuary Of the NOLAN
medan world, the Beithallah Of Mecca
Jewish tradition says that the ston
Jacob set up. at Bethel WAS remove,
to the second temple and. used as tn
4 # Is supposed to have survived ed''1 IT, Il
destruction of the Romans,
Tho ruins OF Bethel cover four acres
anna hoEst walls astMard
a hill covered by the most perfac
heap Of ruins to be seen even In thi
country OF ruins. This Is oft-mention
ed Al.
Mr.. Chichester Withdraws.
LEl1sBURd. Var April BE-. -, Chi
cratic candidates for Congress from til
Eighth Virginia District. has formal
withdrawn from the contest by reaso
d Of personal eng gcmnt =. M