The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-01-31
JACOBS DREAM
Read Genesis %.


Beloved, in approaching this second divis-
ion of our subject ;od.>. / ZEE, u.d, / n,.s
repeat What said befor,. that | cannot tax
the time to give the sources of my in!or.
nation or to quote literally from the. hun
drcds of refer noes. books and authors that
have consulted on this subject can only
try to give yOu the results OF this long.
exhaustive study on this s. beet without
stopping to tel you how the conclusions
were reach d.
If YOU were 10 20 today to the city o.
{ London. England. one Of the most wonder
, full bui dings that would claim your atien-
ton there is the great Westminster Abbey.
As you 60 through ii with The guide who
! is supplied for that purpo e. he would take
YOU into one certain room in that great
Abbey. and among the many interesting
things there ha would show you Il great.
costly chair and would tell You that is
the Coronation Chair of England As YOU
examine ii YOU wolId notice that just under
meath the : at and between the IoHr legs
of the chair there repOses strange I'M
shapelv. una:traclive stone, and when you
ask about it he wouId tell you, as he has
I old hpndrcds and thousands OF others,
that is Jacobs Stone. and that HIS been
20 id for hundreds and hundreds OF years,
and vet the statement seemed to make little
impression until in these latter years, thu
c'o.ing years of this wonderful age, when
the SIKH Age of tn, wor Dis history is
rapidly drawing TO Il cu>c nov, when Col
IS ready to let thcs things be known, now
IN these last W wears men and women led
| by tie Spirit of God. have studied this won
derluI thing as it never had been studied
before and now We know something at least
! of what il means.
| In order TO understand the story of thi,
stone we must 90 buck. then to lis b gin
ming. for The stone in Westminster Abbey
today ! am persuaded. is none o,hcr than
ithe identical stone upon which the wand r"l
| Jacob laid his weary head and which hr
\ Afterwards set up Tor pillar OF witness
Z to testify to the keeping OF the covenant
4 hat God had MADE with him there. W.
have just read the wonderful story Leaving
his fathers house he com at tht end oi ,
/ dav', Journey To the walled city Of Luz
! The gates arr closed and he cannol enter
| lie find, n"ar the galc a store which hac
been partially prepared for building thu
wan bat had been discarded. He puts his
i ad upon thai and LAYS him down to rest
During his s.ccp he has this wonderful Wis
on % the ladder set M on the earth an'
reaching to heaven and The angels Of Coo
ascending and descending that ladder, ant
God speaks 10 him there and rencws to hin
the wonderful covenant that He had made
wears before with Abraham, his grand
father and had repeated TO Isaac. his father
that this land on which he then slept sho1lc
he his and his seed forever. and 50 i'll tn;
morning. as The custom Of his time was
he takes the stone from beneath his head
sets ii up in the ground as pillar o
witness and pours the oil of witness upot
it and goes on his way.
God prospers him in his cho en- home o
Haran and vars after this, when grca
property and large family were his. Coo
appeared to him in his.s;ranger home ant
said. Il am the God ofT'chcl, wh-re thou
anoinicdcsi the pillar. Go back now tc
/ thy fathers home" aud in, obedi nee tc
that command he goes bacI and comes once
more 10 the identical spot where he had
+ spent that eyentfrI night. Ard now tllf
wonder of tn sorry is thai there God mel
him again and ncwed the promis,, and
then the statement Is positively made by
Moses in Genesis thai he sci up anofher pill
lar of wiincss al that place called Bethel.
ask now. why should he have set W
that second pillar if il we're roi that he
proposed To carry the FIRST one with him
and surely thai would be the most natural
thing in the world for him to do. The irsi
! stone was his title deed 10 the land on
which he had laid his head II was the wit
ness for all limc between him and God Of
the wonderful promise and covenant that
God had made there and So undoubtedly
he look up the hrsI pillar, replaced it with
the second and carried The first with him or
10 his fathers home.
When he went down years la!er into the
land of Egypt to be nururcd there by the
wisdom and guidance Of his >ons Joseph
would he rot take with him as his most
sacred possession the title deed to the lana
that he was leaving temporarily? Surely
he would do this and then he would tell
his sons about it. Read the story for your
self and learn how he came at the last Of
his life TO die and called about him his
Twelve sons and said. Il will tell You now
what is TO beGall each one of YOU in the
last days" and when he came TO the bless
ing of Joseph he told him that he and
his children we're to inherit the birthrighl
rather than Reuben, the rsl-born, who had
been SGT aside for his sin, and when h
gives Joseph the blessing. then the sacred