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The Blessing P at Bethel OUR BIBLE STORY by the “Highway and Byway” Preacher (A Vision Between the Lines of God’s Inspired Word.) (Copy right, 1906, l*y J. M. Edson.) Scripture Authority.—“So Jacob came to Buz. which is In the land of Canaan, that is. Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was burlrtl beneath Bethel under an oak; * and the name of It was called Allonbachuth. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob; they name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.”—Gen. 35:6-10. , ES, this is the very spot, and there is the stone which I set for a pillar aft er my vision that night,” and as Ja cob spoke his face beamed with an appreciative light, and after a long silence, during which his eyes drank in the old k familiar scene, he continued, enthu siastically: “And it was right here, in this hollow rock, that I made my bed. My, how good that hard rock seemed, after the hot, weary journey of the day.” “And is this where God met you and talked with you?” asked Rachel, soberly, looking about her with quick ening interest. “How saered is this place,” she exclaimed, fervidly, after a thoughtful phuse, and then added, as she placed her hand lovingly within his own: "Tell me the story of thy vision again.” “As I did years ago when we watered thy father’s sheep at the well?” he asked, with a smile, and as the flood nf tpnrter memories swent over him he drew her close to his side and told again the story of the night spent • there so long before. They had that day reached the memorable spot, and having pitched their tents on the grassy slopes to one side, and as the sun had set and the cool and quiet of the evening hour gave them rest from their labors, Ja cob and Rachel had walked out to gether, and, drawn by an irresistmle I impulse. Jacob had sought out the I place where nearly 30 years before he had passed the night alone. Memory was quickened by each familiar object, and with glowing heart and thrilling voice he rehearsed each detail of that night’s experience, while Rachel lis tened with breathless interest. She recalled how, when she had first heard the story from Jacob’s lips as she rested on the well curbing, there had crept into her heart a sense of awe, and dread of the great God, and she had wondered how she would feel were she to meet Him as Jacob had. It was her first, serious thought of the true God. With superstitious reverence she had bowed before her father’s gods, but here was a God high over all, invisible, yet speaking and with hosts of angels to do His bidding, and that first dim ray of light had slowly grown with the years, and as she stood in that sacred spot it seemed to her she could almost see'theangels and hear thevoice of God as He had talked with Jacob. A new realization and appreciation of I God stirred her heart. The old super stitious dread was gone, and in its place there glowed a love and desire for the true God which she had not known or felt before. Looking up with the light of the new faith shining in her eyes, she exclaimed, fervidly: “Oh. Jacob, how glad I am that I left the images behind. I wonder now at the struggle which it cost to give them up, but oh, how much more God has given in their place.” “Yea, I have found it so, too, my love.” His wife’s words struck a responsive chord in his own heart, for there had swept over him like a flood the mem ory of how, through the years as he had given up his own will and purpose and desires, God had given him more and more of His presence and bless ing. They were enjoying a common experience, and it drew their hearts together in a new and deeper bond of sympathy. << A n T L /% O n /I -_ God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac. ' and of thy God,” she continued, earn- j estly, “I have thought of Him as only belonging to them and to thee, but now I can say that the God of Abra ham and of Isaac and of Jacob is my God, and I am so happy.” Jacob leaned over and tenderly kissed her upturned face, and his arm which encircled her waist pressed her more closely to him. but in that sacred moment he spoke not a word. They understood. Heart spoke to heart in its own expressive language, which needs no interpretation and knows no lack. The return to Bethel had brought new and rich and full expe rience into their lives, and as £he shadows deepened they stood there in silence, enjoying the sacred Influences of that hour. “My love,” Jacob said, at last, half playfully, “wouldest thou linger here all night, thinking to see the vision of the ladder and the angels?” “Nay,” she said, softly, as they turned and walked slowly towards l their tents; “there has been vision of God in my heart this night, which is better. Surely the house of God hath been filled with His presence.” “Yea," responded Jacob as the dark outlines of the tents came into view and the hum of voices and the bleat ing and lowing of the sheep and cat tle broke upon their ears, “and let us share with the rest the blessing which we have received. To-morrow we will build an altar to our God, and offer sacrifices for all the people. Thus shall Bethel be for all most truly the house of God, and the gate of Heaven.” The next morning, as Jacob was i gathering the stonea with the help of his sons for the building' of the altar, < he told them the story of his vision there and of God’s word to him. “And this stone," he explained, as : they placed it on top of the rude pile, i ——1 1 - ■ 1 " 1 ■ “is the one on which I rested my head that night, and which I set as a me morial, pledging God that if He would be with me, .sad keep me, and give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, and bring me again to thi#‘place in peace, that He should he my God.” “And He has, hasn’t He, father?** spoke up Joseph, a lad of some 14 years, who had been listening almost breathlessly as his father related the experiences of long ago. And then, without waiting for his father to reply, he added, impulsively: “And He shall be my God, too.” “Well spoken, my lad,” responded the father, warmly, patting him on the head. “Thy brothers here may well follow thy example.” There was no response to this chal lenge, and Jacob was too busily en gaged in the preparations for the sac rifice to take note of the shadow which passed over the faces of the older boys. Already there was be ginning to creep into their hearts a feeling of jealousy towards the son of Rachel. It needed no very observ ing eye to discover the deeper affec tion which the father felt towards the only son of his beloved wife, and to have him held up before their eyes as an example made them angry. And instead of thrusting aside such unworthy feelings and entering into the spirit of the occasion and the serv ice for which they were making prep arations, they nourished the evil promptings and hardened their hearts against the Divine influences, and thus missed the blessing which might have been theirs. But all joined in the solemn serv ice, and everyone, the wives and chil dren, the servants and their families, and the women and children who had been taken captive at Shechem, were present as Jacob offered the sacrifices of the best of the sheep anu the cat tle upon the altar. Even the aged Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, Jacob's mother, who when she had heard that Jacob had re turned to Canaan insisted on making the journey to the place where he was sojourning, was there, having been carried up the rocky path to the place before the altar. Jacob, having fin ished making the offerings, proclaimed to all assembled that the God whom they worshiped that day was me only God, the true God of Heaven. “He It was.” he went on to declare, “who spoke to me in this place as I fled and said: ‘I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the w’est, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.’ And God has done all that He has promised, and will yet fulfill His word in respect to the inheritance of the land. Only fear God and obey Him.” As Jacob finished and the assembled people stood in reverent silence—even the babes in the arms of their mothers seeming to feel the influence of the solemn occasion and stilling their cries —the clear, shrill voice of Deborah was heard, saying: "Hear ye the words of Jacob. Now do I understand the words spoken to Rebekah by God concerning Jacob, saying that he should be stronger than his brother Esau. Stronger in faith, and mightier in power with God. Unto him has come the blessing promised Abraham because by faith he has claimed it from God. Ah, that Re bekah had lived to see this hour.” Again silence fell and the people continued with bowed heads while the smoke of the sacrifice rose heaven ward. All at once on the outskirts of the company a sob was heard, and presently there appeared a Shech emite woman with her two children, a boy and girl, making her way towards the altar. As she came before Jacob she bowed herself to the ground, and then cried: “ ‘God’s blessing for all the famili®s of the earth,’ did you say? May not that blessing reach even me? May aot the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, ind of Jacob, be my God? I would have my children grow up to know the true God.” Was there given Jacob in that mo meat me iamiesi glimpse oi me per fect sacrifice which was to make one ill people in Christ Jesus? Was it the consciousness of his own guilt md need and God’s mercy towards lim? Whatever it was, Jacob’s heart responded to the appeal, and he re plied, pointing to the slain lamb on the altar: “Through the sacrifice we all have icceptance with God. If thine heart is right toward Him He will receive thee.’’ Deeply impressed by all the stirring incidents of the afternoon, the com pany departed, and as Deborah was borne back to her tent, she remarked :o Jacob: "Surely, it has been good to be here. Jod hath met with us this day. Now ■shall my spirit depart In peace, for mine eyes have beheld a foregleam of the promised blessing.” And that night the vision of angels was Deborah’s portion, and with the ingels her spirit ascended to the pres ence of God, and all that they found resting In her tent the next morning svas the lifeless body, and on her face the smile that was left there when 5he greeted her Heavenly visitors isd gladly Joined them in their up ward flight. And they carried her to the oak beneath which she had sat :he day before, and there with many tears and much weeping, they buried aer, and Jacob called the name of be place Allonbachuth, that is, the pak of weeping, and as he lingered :here after the others had gone, pon lering deeply over the wonderful ex periences of the past few days, God ippeared unto him and said: “Thy name • is Jacob: thy name ;hall not be called any more Jacob, but tsrael shall be thy name: and He called his name Israel.” "And I shall strive to be. no longer racolp, the supplanter,” he Vesponded, 'ervidly, “but Israel, the prince of 3od” I 1 -■ I the Temple I i Sunday School Lasson far Ocl. 22,1905 1 I Specially Prepared for This Paper. LESSON TEXT.—Ezras:10—1:5. Memory Verses 10, 11. GOLDEN TEXT.—"The temple of God Is holy, which temple ye are.”—1 Cor. 3:17. TIME.—From B. C. 636-515. Peloubct In hlB “Select Note*" gives the foUowlng dates: 536—Spring. Left Babylon. 536— July. Arrived at Jerusalem. 536—Three months getting settled. 536—October. Al tar set up. Worship begun. 635— May. Foundations of temple begun, followed by 15 years of delay and opposition. 62tf*» Work on temple renewed. 520— September and October. Haggal. the prophet, prophe sies. November and December. Zechuriati, the prophet, prophesies. Four years more in building the temple. 616—Teifjple com pleted 70 years after Us destruction. PLACE.—Jerusalem and vicinity. Comment and Suggestive Thought. INTRODUCTORY.—In our last les son we saw a large body of exiles leav ing Babylon with high hopes, and tri umphant songs of joy. But the journey was long, tedious and full of hardships. There were 42,360 of them, according to each of the three versions extant. But the detailed numbers all come short of this sum, and it is supposed that the 11, 000 or 12,000 not ranked in the list un der any place or family name were Israelties of the northern tribes. If these left Babylonia in March (Apoc. Esdras 5:6), they could not well reach Jerusalem, after a journey of nearly 800 miles, before some time in July. It took Ezra four months to make the jour ney (Ezra. 7:9). They found the city in ruins, as it had lajn for 50 years since its complete destruction by Nebuchad nezzar. "Trees were growing wild on the Mountain of the House, and the jackals prowled among heaps of shat tered masonry. Crumbling stonework and charred timbers marked the site of palaces and towers, and choked the streets. The city walls and gates were leveled w-ith the ground.”—Hunter. The first business of the returned exiles was. nnnrKA tn nrnvide snmp kind of d well ings for themselves and their families. They accordingly settled in the small cities surrounding Jerusalem, perhaps repairing the houses and walls that had been ruined by the besieging armies years before, or contenting themselves with huts or tents. The territory they controlled was. of course, small, and hemmed in on all sides, including ‘‘only Bethlehem on the south, while on the north their territory measured no more than 25 miles in length by 20 in breadth," and even upon this en croached the heathen or mongrel popu lation. x V. 10. “Builders laid the foundation:" The corner-stone, or the first course. This was made the occasion of a great ceremonial. “Priests in their apparel: ’’ The elegant and beautiful official robes used by the priests in their celebrations, especially the blue and scarlet and pur ple robes, with gold and gems, of the high priests and others, described in Exod. 39. “With trumpets:" Not for music; but, like our church-bells, for summoning assemblies and joyful an nouncements: "Sons of Asaph:" A guild of singers named after the famous singer and leader in the time of David. "Alter the ordinance (order) of David:" (See 1 Chron. 15:16-21). V. 11. “Sang together by course:” R. V., "one to another." responsively. “He is good:" etc. See 1 Chron. 1C:34. 41; Psa. IOC. 107, 118. "They praised the Lord:" The joy of the younger people who remembered the exile, but had no memory of the Temple of Solomon, was very great. V. 12. “Ancient men, that bad seen the first house:” which was destroyed B. C. 586. 51 years before. They must have been 60 or 70 years old. "Wept with a loud voice:” The weeping was not because the new temple was smaller than the first, for it was larger (comp. Ezra 6:3; 1 Kings 6:2; 2 Chron. 3:3, 4). They wept because of the contrast be tween the beauty, the magnificence, the gold and gems of the old temple, and the simplicity and poverty of the new struc ture (Hag. 2:3; Zeeh. 4:10). Ezra 4:1-5. Fifteen years B. C. 535 520. “When the adversaries of Judah: " The Samaritans, and the foreign colon ists from Babylonia, Persia and Elam (vs. 9. 10), which "Esar-haddon king of Assur:" (Assyria) (V. 2). (B. C. 720-715) and also Sargon and Asshur-banipal (B. C. 665) had sent to Samaria (2 Kings 17:24). Thus they had lived in Samaria 130 to 180 years. "For we seek your e.mi and we do sacrifice unto Him:” But they did it in a different way. partially in connection with other things which would destroy the perfec tion and power of the Jewish worship. V. 3. "But Zerubbabel” and the other leaders refused the alliance. Two views of the course pursued by Zerubbahel have been taken. First. Many have re garded it as a great mistake, a piece of narrow-minded, bigoted folly, which made enemies of thosp who should have been friends, and kindled hatred and jealousy, and lowered the moral tone and cooled the zeal of the new colony. Such seems to be Geikie's view. On the other hand. Rawlinson calls It "an hero ic refusal to accept the material aid of a rich and powerful people at the risk of imperiling religious purity.” “Thus was a great peril averted.” Illustrative Points. The temple was the symbol and type of God’s spiritual temple, both the in dividual Christian and the whole people of God (1 Cor. 3:10-16). The first thing for each one who would build the Temple of the Church and of Society is to be himself a temple of the Holy Ghost. The true Christian character when complete is a beautiful and costly tem ple. Compare Solomon’s temple. The exiles’ temple was 20 years, and Herod's temple was 46 years in building, but many a soul requires more years than these for its completion. What an Oyster. Knows. Oysters, even after they have been brought away from the sea, know by instinct the exact hour when the tide is rising and approaching their beds, and so, of their own accord, open their shells to receive their food from the sea, as if still at home. Babyless Town. Marksboro, a town of 500 Inhab itants in New Jersey, has earned the strange distinction of not reporting the birth of a baby for five years. There is not a cradle or baby car riage in the whole place. - 'ir J SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. 1 ■'-'■■ 1 ... An Interesting hygrometer is made by dipping a strip of calico in a so lution of one part of cobalt chloride, 75 of nickel oxide and 20 of gelatine in 200 of water. The strip is green ' in fine weather, fading aB moisture appears. Novel use of Roentgen rays is made by a Berlin company maunfacturing submarine cables. The cables are tested by being passed over two eye pulleys over an X-ray tube, the screen above showing auy defect correctly and with greater certainty than the resistance tests usually employed. Small protuberances, like drops of melted metal, have been noticed by N. Orloff on the surface of an alum inum plate that has been used to cover a dish containing radium bro mide. Radioations from these pro tuberances showed no lessening after six months, and it is inferred that par ticles of radium accumulated around slight nuclei of aluminum to form a stable alloy. Electricity is fatal to the discern ment of certain colors. Yellow and pink, two totally different colors, look strangely alike by electric light. Heliotrope is also quite pink, and sub tleties of shade are quite lost in it No light shows up shades and colors as wax candles did. It is certain that all the modern artificial illuminants mix up colors and shades inextricably, and electric light is worst of all. Glass containing manganese is slowly turned violet by sunlight, and Sir William Crookes has found that radium produces in a few days a col oration as intense as that caused by the sun in years. F. Fischer has now been studying the effects of ultra violet rays, and reports that the light of a mercury arc lamp in a quartz tube gave a slight color in 15 min utes to four out of eight glasses, and an intense violet hue in 12 hours. The color proved to be due to manganese silicate. CONCERNING CHURCHES. , Women without hats are not to be admitted hereafter to Canterbury cathedral in England. Pope Pius X. has sent the papal bene diction to the members of St. Liborius church choir. St. Louis, in recognition of their consistent and sustained observ ance of the regulations regarding church music. As a memorial to the late Jay Cooke, one of the founders and rector’s warden of St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal church of Ashbourne, Pa., a memorial hall will be built there. The plans for the build ing. which will cost |15,000, have been accepted. The funds will be provided by Mr. Cooke’s children. Twenty-five years ago, says a religious worker, the ruling idea of the church was that children should be seen and not heard. The result was that few were seen and none heard. The growth of young people’s societies in the churches in the last auarter-century means that the truth is realized that the young are the most efficient builders of the King dom of Heaven on earth. Dr. Adolf Fritzen, bishop of Stras burg. has again issued an edict forbid ding priests within his diocese to use bicycles. He is sharply criticised there for by the newspapers, which call at tention to the fact that b/cycling ceased long ago to be a mere secular sport, and that priests often find the wheel most useful, especially those who have to visit members of their congregation in remote country places. Notwithstanding the French people are demanding the separation of church and state, the Roman Catholics of France have given more to the world-wide propagation of their faith than all other countries combined. Out of a total of $1,352,017.07 given for that cause last year France contributed $701,008.64, while American Roman Catholics gave only $156,942.92, about one-eighteenth as much as was given to missions by the Methodist Episcopal church alone. SHORT AND SHARP. The honesty of lots of men has never been tested. It’s a wise man who says nothing at the right time. A great deal of silvery laughter is filtered through a mouthful of gold teeth. The young man who thinks he knows it all is just on the brink of acquiring some knowledge. The genuine kind of charity is that which opens the purse and keeps the mouth shut about it. This would be a pleasant old world to get along in if men would pay their debts as cheerfully as they pay their grudges. True, Too True. She—Girls will be girls, you know. He—Yes; and if they live long enough some of ’em will be old maids, too.— Yonkers Statesman. BOUNDING THE COUNTRY. Habit Which Seem* to Lay Hold Up on Political Oratora and Spellbinders. "Have you ever noticed how often our public speaker* bound thi* country?” asked an observer of thjng* in general, in the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Two years ago I went to a large mass meet ing, at which there were several stand* arranged so that the orators, so-called, could address the assembled crowds. I took a place before one of the platform*, and after awhile a well known politician, heavy in avoirdupois and dignity, was in troduced and launched into his speech, which began along the old lines: “ ‘As I look out upon this multitude of the good citizens of this city, I feel sure that on the second Tuesday in Novem ber they will declare in no uncertain man ner ’ etc. You know how the rest goes. “He had not been speaking long before I heard the words fall: ‘From the stormy shores of the Atlantic to the calm slopes of the Pacific, from the gulf on the south, this great movement will sweep all be fore it.’ I did not wait to hear any more of his platitudes, but made my way over to the second stand, and here an other modem Cicero was telling the con script fathers how to vote, how to save the city, how to keep the patriots in of fice. ‘The *511 is going forth,” said he, ‘from the blue waters of Lake Superior down to where the rippling waves of the gulf wash the fair snores of Louisiana. From the strands of the Carolinas to the sunlit fields of California, the people are resolved, etc.’ “I pushed through the crowd and went toward the third platform, but even from a great distance I could hear a lusty spellbinder crying out in a fog-horn voice: ‘From Tampa bay to Puget sound, from—* but I pulled my hat over my ears and rushed for my car." SHE SAID IT IN LATIN. Of Which Language She Knew Quite as Much as She Did of Greek. During the recent strikes in New York city, when it was an even thing between apprehension as to what the strikers might do and apprehension as to what the green hands pressed into service by the railway management might fail to do, passengers on the Subway and elevated roads felt that they were taking their lives in their hands whenever they boarded a train. in the nervous throng descending one morning from a Ninth avenue elevated ctation was a woman whose pretentious and inappropriate attire would have in formed a Sherlock Holmes, even before she opened her mouth, that she was anofher one of the first cousins of Mrs. Malaprcp. 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