Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-01-11

palace, and its light streams into two
hearts with unprecedented radiance.
But Of all the tales Of borning babes.
Abraham told one that Is unsurpassed.
It's circumstances raise the common
miracle Of childhood to its nth pow
er. The patriarch had Just round
ed out a full century, while his wife
was but ten years younger, when the
long hoped-for child arrived. Event
extraordlnary-tO account for tim
possible, to human reason and under
standingl Only one word can explain
God.
Years Of married life for Abraham
and Sarah were crowded with strange
and unique events. Almost every con-
ceivable experience came to them in
some form, except that browning glory
Of all home life and welded hearts.
the birth Of a baby. Fon such an
event they had hoped and prayed and
waited, but in vain, until one day
Abraham could endure It no longer.
Out of his agony Of disappointment he
cried unto God for son and heir.
Immediately God answered him. He
took fhe longing patriarch out under
the stars and told him such should
his seed be. With greater expectancy
they prayed and waIted-years passed
their hearts grew faint at hope de-
ferred. They could not understand.
They were tortured with disappoint-
ment.
Then Sarah planned an expedlent.
She would help fulfill Gods promise.
Ishmael was born Of Hagar the bond
slave in Abraham's household. Dark
shadows overspread the sky. They
cast baleful suspicion into the home
life OF this cody couple. The years
continued to go by and the shadows
deepened. But one day-at the set
time-the heir Of promise came to
Abraham's tent--a boy. Sarah was
his mother. Unbounded joy flooded
these aged lives. SO wonderful was
1t all that they named him Laughter"
Faith had prevailed.
Months went by and again Joys sky
was elouded-the light obscured by
darker clouds than ever. Hagar and
her boy shared Abraham's home life
but 1t could not continue. A day came
when Sarah caught Tshmaei hooking
Isaac-~that was enough-it was the
last straw. Hagar must go.
The thing was very grlevous to
Abraham. He loved the boy Ishmael.
But there was no choice. Out into
the desert they went. The shadows
one by one disappeared.
This experience has been written In
Genesis for Our learning The Apostle
Paul explains 1t Is a foreshadowing
Of the inharmony of two great prlnei-
ples-Law and Grace. The one rep
resented by Hagar, the bondwoman,
and her son. and the other by Sarah,
the free woman, and her son. Ishmael
could remain only until Isaac was
born. Both could not live together.
Neither can law and grace live to-
gether In the House of God. The law
with its do. and thou shalt live con
tinued until Christ came, bringing the
grace of God to men. He became "the
end Of the law. for righteousness" so
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