The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-18

60 S'Aat Elelzer raised q QueS-
teon WIN his dying master. What,
- none OF n daughters of Abra-
hams kindred up in Mesono,amia
should be willing to make the lonr
tourney south to thu land OF prom
use! Should Isaac return to Meso-
poea!nia: The answer was clear; the
family mission anne before the wife.
Isaac's work In the world was TO
catry o the covenant of his father
OF promise. II the wife would not
share that lot with him, the she
shOufd not BIO his wife. The divine
can n commission take precedence
or all human relationships.
The problem + an ~ever-recurrinR |
one. What II = woman will not
marry Z MAJ because she has decided |
not 20 De q ministers wife, OF not
70 90 70 h foreign mission field |
Tnere Is but one course open It is
as clear as Scripture. She may stay
behind. but the man must go. No
woman is fit to be wife who will not
share her husbands life. going where
ever his call leads him.
In q remote village along the In
and Sea Of Japan. I one time ran
across one OF these common tragedies.
The man way in the employ Of q great
American corporation. He had been
promoted to a position OF RESPONSE
bility. His feet were on the ladder
and mounting upward. But his wife
petulantly and childishfy said that
h would not live in Japan. Either
the home had to be wrecked or the
mans future had to be sacrificed, all
for a woman's within.
One proof of R~ebekah's f%oreordina-
| ton to be the wife of Isaac was her
| prompt readiness to go with the mes
sengers. without a days delay, straight
back to the southland. She had he
quality OF decision which many a
mar since has wished for her sis
ters. h knew her mind; che knew
her hours; she had the courage to
turn her back or the past, for the
mysterious future to which she had
heard the call.
Religion and Eusenics.
Some old fogies used to wall a
great deal in public about the mod
ern young peoples societies, because
they said they were just match
making organizations" They com
1 planned that young men and young
women met each other in Christian
Endeavor and marriages resulted.
AS II there were any better or nobler
way to meet a sharer Of ones whole
life than in the work Of the church
and in allegiance to God. The bis
problem Of eugenics which is loom
ing large upon the social horizon
will scarcely be solved in the lega
n scientific way that some scien'
lists plan. The normal. unartificla
form of eugenics is for pure me1
and pure women, whose lives ar,
given in service to God, to find eacl
: other and to pledge their mutual faiti
I within the comprehensive Christian
! covenant.
: The two most importan In hours il
| a PERSONS life are his first consciou
meeting with God in personal rela
E tionship and his first conscious meet
. Ing with the life that is to be hi
sours comrade through the rest Q
9 time. Even as Eleizer prayed 70
, h success of his matrimonial mis-
sion. SO young men and young WON
. en- should pray for the guidance Q
I God in this greatest choice upo.
which the future Of the nation an
the world depends.
Any light and frivolous and VI
9 considered notion of marriage is ne
only contrary to a realization of one
n obligations to the world. but ais
contrary to the spirit of the ScriI
e lures. God planned from the begir
= ming that man and woman shout
become one in His ear and In tn
n service OF mankind. It is not unres
le sonable to believe that they who hay
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e held accountable in Gods time {
, reckoning. Their are thousands
e. men n women who, from shor'
AZ sightedness, cowardice or selfishnes
Is have turned their backs upon tt
welded life. In so doing they ha,
. repudiated Gods program
The world progresses according
the old Persian legend of the jufta.
OF This is a bird with one wing, b
er the male has a wing on one side al
1t a hook on the other: and the fema
ne has a wing on the opposite side Al
a ring to match the hook: and WIN
be the two were linked together tn
he could fly, and only then.
w The Brides HoHae-C Coming.
ne This old story is suggestive Of h
OF man nature Isaac was a quiet, sta
at-hOme, negative character, fond
eT meditating in the garden In h CO
a. Of the evening. He could easily
imposed upon. He dug wells al