The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-25

is that myriadB OF young men ana
women during these days have come
height and depth and breadth. and
power of the love of man or woman
and of woman for man. Again has
been realized the poets word,
Il could not love thee. dear. so much,
Loved 1, not honor more
In this day of remuneration and
loneliness, countless spirits have as
cended to new levels of realization of
the divine beauty and possibilities of
love, in the breasts of the absent SOL
dear ones at home, love has conquer
ed the baser aspects and temptations
@; war time.
May we not reverently say that. as
God was interested in the marriage
of Isaac and Rebekah, SO that he sent
his angel to prepare the way for their
union, so He is also concerned in the
true love of men and women today
and especially. as men follow the path
of service which He himself, has so
clearly marked out? If God pays any
attention at all to men and women,
it surely must be in the hottest ex-
perience Of their lives; for God is
love-"
A Woman's Hour OF Destiny.
The idyllic picture OF the scene by
the far-away Haran well (soldiers
of late have been filling their can
to life. We find in the inspired record
little touch which. reveals one of
the minute accuracies of the Bible.
And the damsel was very fair to
look upon and she went down to the
| well, and filled her pitcher, and
| came up"
| She went down" to the we'll That
| is the nature. of the wells in this re-
| gfon, as I can testify. l have spent
the noon-time halt. when caravaning
+. over upper Mesopotamia, at wells sc
deep in the limestone rock that one
! descended two-score steps to reach
the water. In the home of Isaac. down
in southern Canaan, the wells were
/ dug so that the vessel was let down
from the top; but in Haran Rebekah
| went down" and came up
Art has been fond of picturing Re
| bekah with her waterjar at the we'll
She makes a graceful pose in the pic
never lifted one of those full jars. al
I have done. They weigh like a pig OF
lead. 1t is a heavy burden that the
women of the East bear. with their
interminable water carrying. Nova
days, Standard Oil tins have taken the
ter yet, in some places gasoline
pumps have been installed, lifting ar
immemorial and unreasonable bur
den from womanhood. This revolu-
tionizing war is going to take the
liberation of civilization to all of Re
| bekah's sisters turnout the earth.
| 1t was while modestly and humbls
acting as a servant of servants tina
Rebekah- found herself the choice o.
the representative of her cousin Isaac
the son of the great Sheikh Abraham
That is destinys way-to catch u!
unaware. Few women find love b!
seeking it; most win it by deservin:
it. Nobody can tell what fate has il
store for her around the next corner
we are ever meeting with unreaogni
zed opportunities and possibilities. 81
the only recourse is to be worthy a
all times.
This is not lesson on Isaac, whit
was walking in the fields of Canaan
at eventide. waiting for his bride
The home they made was happ.
one tho married by favoritism for on
son on the part of the wife and mothei
but of that later. Our present inter
est has been with Rebekah, whom des
tiny found ready and fit when it called
Thus she became a first link in tina
human chain which bound Abraham
with Christ; and which made her on,
Of the mothers of the worlds redemp
linn