The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-06
The International
Sunday-School Lesson
xxvlii,1-5, 1922. April Z. 1907
jacobs Vision and Gods Promise.

J0cODS lHlOn ana GOu'h A-rOmlAe.
Esaus prowess could easily undo
jacobs plotting. Mother and son seem
not to have duly appreciated the risk
of exciting the rage OF the hunter,
used to striking deadly blows. The
Edomite, like another elder brother,
and with more cause than he, was at
once inflamed with murderous, enmity.
The mothers wit was not long in
seeming the danger, and she bade her
favorite ny. Jacob was heir ap-
growing with phenomenal rapidly;
the successor OF q vast Oriental estate;
but he must needs take his departure
In the most ignomlnious plight; no
single servant; nothing but the stick
in his hand. Out he goes shelterless
fugitive. tramp, with four hundred
ahead Of him. The odds seen, against
him; for he has bcenSscneryatcd by
tent-llfe, while his pursuer Is used to
chasing. game. One cannot but con-
trast the grandson's sorry exit with
entrance to that land. The man
who was SO used to the sweets of do
mesticlty was getting further and
further from home his 81 sorrows in In
keep far from the dwellings OF men.
He starts at every&sight and sound.
Bitter are his tears. feryent his pray
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as He did to His, disciples. storm
tossed on Gennesaret. For two nights,
probably. the fugitive must lie down
In the cleaning uncomforted.
(probably) Jacob lighted on Qiterally)
the place-likcly one of his grand
fathers camping-places. The very
sight of the altar may have strenghth-
there the wrestling which made him
| Israel forty years later at the Jabbok
The kingdom Of heaven suffered vio-
lence that night. as Jacob laid his head
on stone from Abraham's altar. j.
| The last object left on the dimming
vision Of the patriarch may have been
the Jagged staircase, the receding
rocky Lodges opposite. and family re-
the steps rise to heaven, are illumi-
| mated BY an unearthly radiance and
peopled by angel forms. But all this
is but by way OF approach to the inef-
apSHd have rs been indescrba a com
forting, but the spoken word Is added.
ground on which he lies he shall pos
sess; and that his progeny shall be so
numerous that they cannot be confined
In narrow limits, but shall break out
pass. Jchovah's protective company Is
assured. .. Jacob. on waking.
cries: Jehovah was here, though / had
forfeited all claim upon him, and mad
no right to expect His coming" a
holy awe fills the dreamer's soul He
cries again: why, this lonely place
proved the very portal to Jehovah's
palace!' He converts his pillow
| into pillar, and makes an oblation
| upon 1t from his scanty cruise. He
names the place House OF Cod" He
enters into sacred treaty Of rect
] procity: Since God has made His as
suring promises, l will make mine.
| This spot shall be n permanent place
of worship, and I will 1.-THE my In
come"
ANALYSIS AND KEY.
| i. Possibility and danger of Esau's
| rage overlooked.
| Mother advises flight
l 2. Jacobs exit In contrast to Abra-
l hams entrance
3. jacobs fear and loneliness.
4. 4. Camps on the third night at "The
Site of Abrahams altar (proba-
4 bly).
Religious impressions OF place.
| Faith and prayer.
i 5. Last object on Jacobs closing
i eye.
Jagged staircase Of recedlng
1 rocky lodges
l The ladder OF the dream.
! g. Jehovah: protective company as