{"1": {"fulltext": "i\\nIfe\\nf\\nMl\\nsVp|\\n|^)0|\\nI\\n9\\ni (JB\\nMi\\niWcy cl\\nB\\nWL^^^ m\\n1\\nm\\nIS\\nI 1H\\nBt^J \u00c2\u00a3jf\\nI- H\\niiiiH\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0h", "height": "4484", "width": "3357", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap, Copyright JS r o. _.\\n8helf.____._\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nti", "height": "4384", "width": "3236", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4425", "width": "3236", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Bible Ibomes anb ^families.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Gift from Heavfn", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "BIBLE HOMES\\nAND FAMILIES\\nOPENING UP THE BOOK OF BEGINNINGS\\nTHE KEY TO THE WHOLE BIBLE\\nBY\\nJENNIE ANDERSON PIERSON\\nINTRODUCTION BY\\nROBERT J. BURDETTE\\nCHICAGO:\\nJOHN W. ILIFF AND COMPANY,\\n1900.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "76966\\n-6^\\n-S^ s\\n^?S5\\nLibrary of Congress\\nTwo Copies Received I\\nNOV 171900\\nCopyright entry\\nSECOND COPY\\nDeHvorw if\\nORDLH DIV.5ION\\nNOV 19 19U0\\nNo\\nCOPYRIGHT 1900\\nBY JENNIE ANDERSON PIERSON\\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Cfyis book is louirtgly irtscribeb to tfye memory of my bear IHotfyer\\n(now rtumbereb unify tfyy saints, in glory eperlasting/ rofyose cfyilb=\\nlike faitfy fyas blesseb me all tfye bays of my life.\\n3ennie Ctnberson Pierson.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "preface.\\nHE purpose of this book is to group Bible characters and\\nscenes before its readers, and to open up to them the book\\nof beginnings, the key to the whole Bible. The home and\\nthe family, with all that emanates from them, marriage, life, death,\\nsin, sacrifice, worship, nations and races are here portrayed.\\nMost people can tell the story of a sacred character, here and\\nthere, or of scattered incidents of Bible history, but with the Bible,\\nas a whole, and the relation of one family to another, they are un-\\nfamiliar.\\nIt is my earnest desire that the perusal of this book may in-\\ncrease our reverence for the home, warn us of our responsibility in\\nthe institution of the family, and be helpful to the children of our\\nFather s great family everywhere.\\nEach statement herein made is founded upon the word of God.\\nInstead of giving references, I have written quotations in full, that\\nmy readers may have before them my authority.\\nI have prayed for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and, as I\\nhave studied and written, mine eyes have been opened, and I have\\nbeheld wondrous things out of thy law/\\nI have consulted no helps save Brown s Family Bible, and the", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "14 PREFACE.\\nS. S. edition of the Holy Bible, with concordance, as printed at the\\nUniversity Press, Oxford. To these I wish to acknowledge my in-\\ndebtedness.\\nTHE AUTHOR.\\nOh, teach me, Lord, that I may teach\\nThe precious things Thou dost impart\\nAnd wing my words, that they may reach\\nThe hidden depths of many a heart.\\nOh, give Thine own sweet rest to me,\\nThat I may speak with soothing power\\nA word in season, as from Thee,\\nTo weary ones in needful hour.\\nOh, fill me with Thy fullness, Lord,\\nUntil my very heart o erflow\\nIn kindling thought and glowing word,\\nThy love to tell, Thy praise to show.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Untrobuction.\\nSmall wonder that the Home-love glows like a celestial fire in\\nhuman hearts when it dates back to Eden when the stars frescoed\\nthe blue dome that canopied the bower which the first man and\\nwoman called home. Small wonder that the best-known song in the\\nworld should be a song of home that first sang itself in the longing-\\nheart of a homeless man. So often it is, that out of the byways of\\nsorrow, in the loneliness of troubled and grief -burdened lives, break\\nforth the songs with souls, the stories that are eternal. So Milton\\nsang the glories of light, when the glowing splendor of midday and\\nthe rayless mystery of midnight were alike to his sightless eyes. So,\\nJohn Bunyan, looking from his den in the prison of old Bedford\\ntown, saw the busy city of Destruction, with its crowded marts and\\nits careless men; he saw the flying Christian, crying Life Life\\nEternal Life! He saw the dismal Slough and the distant shining\\nwicket gate; he saw the hill of Difficulty and the House Beautiful,\\nwith its wonders of revelation; he saw the valley of Humiliation\\nand watched the terrible battle with Apollyon; he saw the silent,\\ndarkly flowing river, and caught glimpses of the gleams of glory\\nthat streamed from the opening gates beyond that Jordan. And all\\nthat his free soul saw, his chained hand penned on pages that can\\nnever fade. And so, too, when the world asked for a song of home,\\nit waited through the ages, and the centuries, and the years, until\\nthere came to sing it for all home-loving hearts, a man without a\\nhome. The pathetic numbers that welled up like sobs of homesick-\\nness in the longing heart of Payne, closing his eyes upon the twilight", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "16 INTRODUCTION.\\nof his pilgrimage among strangers, and in a foreign land, will\\nawaken tender and sympathetic responses in the sonls of men and\\nwomen so long as they build homes for themselves. Only in the life\\nof a homeless man, in the soul of a wanderer could such a love-\\nsong find birth and voice. He longed for home until his very life\\nbreathed itself into the passionate yearning. He dreamed, and his\\ndreaming painted for him a picture of all that was fair, and pure,\\nloving and beautiful, and this oasis in the wilderness of his life\\nhe called a home. And always, in every time and every land, when\\nthe singer sings of home, men will listen, with tender eyes and loving\\nhearts.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094ROBERT J. BURDETTE.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Uable of Contents,\\nCHAPTER I.\\nPage\\nGod s Preparation For Man s First Home 23\\nCHAPTER II.\\nThe Home in the Garden 31\\nCHAPTER III.\\nThe First Family 39\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nThe Home in the Ark 59\\nCHAPTER V.\\nThe Home in the Tent 73\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nThe Home in Canaan 105\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nThe Home of the Shepherd 129\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nThe Home in Egypt 159", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "5Lt8t of Ullustrations.\\nPage.\\nGift from Heaven. Frontispiece\\nCreation First and Second Days 22\\nCreation Third and Fourth Days 20\\nCreation Fifth and Sixth Days 30\\nAdam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 38\\nAdam and Eve Driven From Paradise 48\\nThe Murder of Abel 52\\nNoah and His Family Entering the Ark 58\\nThe Flood Destroying the Earth 64\\nAbraham Departing From Haran 72\\nThe Separation of Abram and Lot 78\\nMap of Genesis 80\\nAbimelech Restoring Sarah to Abraham 90\\nAbraham Sending Away Hagar and Ishmael 94\\nAbraham Offering Up Isaac 100\\nCanaan in the Patriarchal Ages 104\\nAbraham s Servant and Rebecca at the Well 110\\nEsau Selling His Birthright For Pottage 116\\nJacob Obtaining the Blessing From Issac 122\\nJacob s Vision of the Angels 128\\nJacob Wrestling With the Angel 138\\nMeeting of Esau and Jacob 142\\nJoseph Sold By His Brethren 150\\nJacob Mourning the Loss of Joseph 154\\nJacob s Arrival in Egypt 158\\nJoseph Interpreting Pharaoh s Dreams 164\\nJacob s Sons Imprisoned By Joseph As Spies 168\\nJoseph Becoming Known to His Brethren 176\\nJacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph 182", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "(Bob s preparation for flfcan s\\njftrst Ibome.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Bible Ibomes anb families\\nCHAPTER I.\\n(Sob s Preparation for ^Hart s ^jtrst fiomc.\\nf URING six long periods of time, which God calls days, He\\n1 was busy creating and preparing the earth for man s first\\nI home.\\n4**^ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.\\nThis first creation was simply a mass of earth, covered by water;\\na great deep, without form, and void; that is, shapeless, bare,\\nempty and dark, until the spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, moved\\nupon the face of the waters. This manifestation, or presence of the\\nthird person in the Trinity, brought the light, which God com-\\nmanded to shine out of darkness. God is light and in him is no\\ndarkness at all.\\nThis light of God He called day; The day is thine, the night\\nalso is thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun.\\nThe withdrawal of this light caused the darkness, which God\\ncalled night.\\nThe sun, moon and stars were not created until the fourth\\nperiod of time; and this light of God was the same as that which\\nIsaiah tells us shall be ours again, when we need no more the light\\nof the sun and the moon.\\nI form the light and create darkness.\\nYou remember when Moses came doAvn from Mount Sinai,\\nwith the tables of stone, where he had been forty days and nights\\nwith God; how his face shone, so that the children of Israel were\\nafraid to come near him. God is light. And as Jesus is now the\\nlight of the spiritual world, so God was then the light of the mate-\\nrial world and I believe is the source of all light.\\n23", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "24 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nHow long this first day and night lasted we do not know, but\\nthe earth bears record that it was thousands of years.\\nIn His own good time God appeared upon the earth again, and\\ncreated the firmament or sky. He also divided the waters which\\nwere under the sky from those above it; and He called this firma-\\nment, or expansion of air, heaven. Job says He bindeth up the\\nwaters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.\\nDuring the long night which followed this period, the earth was\\nstill covered with water, like one vast ocean, over which was now\\nsuspended the beautiful sky which God had created in the second\\nday. But in the third day, when God s presence again shone out\\nof darkness, He called the waters on the earth together into one\\nplace. a He shut up the sea with doors. He said, Hitherto shalt\\nthou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be\\nstayed. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering\\ntogether of the waters called He Seas. The sea, is His and He\\nmade it, and His hands formed the dry land.\\nNow our earth was all barren and brown. Just picture to your-\\nself, if you can, how desolate everything must have looked, during\\nthis third day or interval of time, in which God was preparing for\\nman this home; no green grass, or herbs, no trees or fruit or flow-\\ners, no living thing; just one vast stretch of earth and air and sky.\\nYet God was well pleased with the progress of His work, for we\\nare told at this time that God saw that it was good.\\nBut behold, now, how the scene was changed! God spoke, and\\nthe earth was covered with grass. He created every plant of the\\nfield before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it\\ngrew. That is, there were no seeds planted; nothing from which\\nvegetation could grow. For the Lord God had not caused it to\\nrain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.\\nThus you see every variety of herb and tree was created perfect in\\nitself, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after\\nits kind, and the seed of each was there, that the plant might be\\npropagated throughout all the future. Now as the earth stood per-\\nfect before the Lord, covered with grass, and every variety of plant", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "And the earth brought forth grass.\\nAnd God said. Let there be lights to divide\\nthe day from the night.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "GOD S PREPARATION FOR MAX S FIRST HOME. 27\\nand herb and tree, there went up a mist from the earth, and\\nwatered the whole face of the ground.\\nThus ended the third day.\\nThe fourth day dawned, as had the others, with no sun in the\\nsky. But now all plant life, as it stood, needed the solar system,\\nwith which we are familiar; the regular rotation of seed-time and\\nharvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and\\nnight. As yet there had been no growth; for God had not pro-\\nvided for it. The vegetable world stood complete in itself, ready\\nfor the next step in creation. And God said, Let there be lights in\\nthe firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and\\nlet them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.\\nAnd God made two great lights, the greater light (or sun)\\nto rule the day and the lesser light (or moon) to rule the night; he\\nmade the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the\\nheaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and\\nover the night, and to divide the night from the darkness.\\nAnd the evening and the morning were the fourth day. You see\\nthis day and night, measured by God s presence or absence, had\\nnothing whatever to do with the day of twenty-four hours, which\\nHe instituted during this fourth visit to the earth.\\nAs yet no living thing had appeared upon the earth. There\\nwere the wood-covered hills with their purpling shadows; there\\nwere green pastures and still waters, mighty forests of oak and\\npine, deep glens and pleasant valleys and towering mountains,\\ngreat orchards filled with luscious fruits, and beautiful gardens of\\nfairest flowers; all overhung with light, fleecy clouds of rarest tints.\\nBut, O the loneliness of it all Earth, air and water were void of\\nlife. But now God spoke, and sky and water were inhabited by the\\ncreatures for which He had prepared them. First the waters\\nbrought forth abundantly, swimming creatures and fowl, that is,\\nfish and birds, to live in the water, and to fly in the sky. And God\\ncreated great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which\\nthe waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every\\nwinded fowl after his kind. And God commanded them to be", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "28 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nfruitful and fill the seas, and the fowl to multiply in the earth.\\nAnd the evening and the morning were the fifth day.\\nIn the sixth and last period, God made the cattle and beasts,\\nand everything that creepeth upon the earth. Last of all, he\\ncreated man in his own image, forming him of the dust of the\\nground, and breathing into his nostrils the breath of life. Thus\\nman became a living soul. These words explain all the wonders\\npertaining to man; the distinction between him and all other life.\\nThe spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty\\nhath given me life. Unlike all other life, man is a part of the\\nbreath of God. He was the crowning work of God s creation,\\nand to him God gave dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the\\nfowl of the air, over the cattle and over everything that creepeth\\nupon the earth, and over all the earth, to subdue it. And God\\nsaid, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon\\nthe face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a\\ntree to you it shall be for meat. Thou hast made man a little\\nlower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honor.\\nAnd God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.\\nThus you see that all the work which God had done, in the cre-\\nation and preparation of this earth, was that it might be a fit and\\nbeautiful and comfortable home for man.\\nLook abroad over this\\nGreat, wide, beautiful, wonderful world,\\nWith the wonderful water around it curled,\\nAnd the wonderful grass upon its breast,\\nand you will gain a faint idea of God s love for man. O, that man\\nhad measured up to this mighty love!", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Zhe Ibome in tbe (3ar6en.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "And God said, let the waters bring forth\\nabundantly.\\nAnd God said. Let us make man in our image\\nand let him have dominion over all the earth.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nCfye ^ome in tfye (5arben.\\nTHE sweet idea of home, as we know and love it, came to us\\nfrom God Himself, and was a part of that first Adam, which\\nname means, the man. Immediately upon his creation, we\\nare told, that in earth s fairest spot, eastward in Eden, the\\nLord God planted a garden, and there he put the man whom\\nhe had formed.\\nHow pleasant must have been the planning and the planting of\\nthat fair old garden. Where no weeds, no rank growth, no decay;\\ncould mar or destroy its beauty. Where sin had not yet entered in,\\nand where out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every\\ntree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. There in its\\nperfection grew the fig tree; and Ezekiel tells us of the cedars, the\\nfir trees and the chestnut trees in the garden of God. And in\\nanother place he describes the cedar: It shall bring forth\\nboughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar; and under it shall\\ndwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof\\nshall they dwell. And the following description of Ezekiel we\\nmay apply to the other trees of Eden. By the river upon the bank\\nthereof shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade;\\nneither shall the fruit thereof be consumed. Daniel tells us also\\nof a tree whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and\\non it was meat for all; the beasts of the field had shadow under\\nit, and the fowls of the air dwelt in the branches thereof. We\\nknow by name two wonderful trees that God planted in Eden:\\nThe tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of\\nknowledge of good and evil.\\nAlthough these trees are the only ones mentioned by name as\\nbeing in Eden, yet, as we are told that God planted there every tree\\nthat was good for food and pleasant to sight, we may, in imagina-\\ntion, call to mind the beautiful descriptions in the Songs of Solo-\\nmon and apply them to the garden of Eden. Even then we shall\\n31", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "32 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\ncome far short of the reality. O Eden, thy plants are an orchard of\\npomegranates, with pleasant fruits, cypress with spikenard, and\\nsaffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense,\\nmyrrh, and aloes, with all the chief spices. A fountain of gardens,\\na well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.\\nAwake, O north wind; and come thou south; blow upon my\\ngarden, that the spices thereof may flow out.\\nThink of the luxuriance and beauty of tropical gardens, bereft\\nof the intense heat, and the usual, disagreeable accompaniments of\\nvenomous animal life!\\nThere the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, the vines with\\nthe tender grape give a good smell; and there are apple trees\\namong the trees of the wood.\\nThe apple tree of Palestine is described: As affording a\\ngrateful shade, its fruit was enticing to the eye and sweet to the\\ntaste. It imparted fragrance and was of a golden color, amid sil-\\nvery leaves.\\nBy the water-courses of Eden, the sweet bay-tree spread itself,\\nand the drooping willow grew up out of the river with the bul-\\nrushes and the flags.\\nThere were found great forests of balm, box, ash and gopher;\\nthe last named being the wood used in the construction of the ark.\\nThere were also hemlock, hazel, walnut, oak, poplar, pine, elm and\\nebony trees; and orchards of almond, anise, apple, olive and pome-\\ngranates, with oil-trees and grape-vines.\\nBesides these were the spice-gardens in which were the cinna-\\nmon trees described as growing thirty feet high, with long, lance-\\nshaped leaves, and white blossoms.\\nAmong the flowers were the historic rose of Sharon, and the lily\\nof the valley. What a rich and well favored land it was, for a\\nriver went out of Eden to water the garden. You see, the garden\\ndid not comprise the whole land of Eden; it was planted there;\\nand this river that rose in Eden was parted into four heads, which\\nflowed around Paradise, one on each side of it. They were Pison,\\nGihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates, Moses compares the plain of\\nJordan to Eden, saying of it, It was well watered everywhere,", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE GARDEN. 33\\neven as the garden of the Lord. Eden was rich also in gold and\\nprecious stones, for in this second chapter of Genesis, Moses says\\nof the river Pison, the first boundary of the garden, that is it\\nwhich compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold,\\nand the gold of that land is good; there is beryl and the onyx\\nstone.\\nEzekiel, speaking of the beauty and wisdom of the King of Ty-\\nrus says: Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every pre-\\ncious stone was thy covering, the ruby, topaz and the diamond, the\\nberyl, the onyx and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald and the\\ncarbuncle and gold. Thus you see that the foundations of this gar-\\nden, like those of that other Paradise, whose gates, we pray, may\\nnot be closed against us, were garnished with all manner of\\nprecious stones; that it contained also the tree of life, and that in\\nit there w T as, as yet, no sin and no death.\\nAnd the four rivers which flowed around the garden remind one\\nof the river of water of life, pure as crystal. To continue the\\ndescription of these rivers the second boundary of this fair and\\nspacious garden, the river Gihon compassed the whole land of\\nEthiopia. Hiddekel, the third river, went toward the east of As-\\nsyria, and the fourth border, the river Euphrates, sometimes called\\nthe Flood, was the river which Abraham crossed to enter\\nCanaan, the promised land.\\nGod gave this garden with everything it contained to Adam,\\nplacing upon him only one restriction. And the Lord God com-\\nmanded the man saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest\\nfreely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou\\nshalt not eat of it, for in the clay that thou eatest thereof thou shalt\\nsurely die; that is, be a dying man. As yet it was his privilege\\nto eat of the tree of life, that he might never know death.\\nAdam was placed in the garden to dress it and to keep it; that\\nis, to enjoy his home; not to till the ground; not to weed it; thorns\\nand thistles were not yet known. There was nothing to offend the\\neye. He was simply to do w T hat pleased him, in the way of arrang-\\ning, trimming and training; to be thoroughly at home in the gar-\\nden, with its flowing waters, its choice fruit and flowers, its glitter-", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "34 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\ning gold and sparkling stones. Adam was to name the beautiful\\nfish that filled the waters, and to the wonderful birds of Paradise,\\nwith their gay plumage, he gave their names. And God brought\\nall the animals unto Adam, and whatsoever he called every living\\ncreature that was the name thereof.\\nAmong the animals which Adam named were The lion, which\\nis strongest of beasts and turneth not away for any.\\nThe greyhound and the goat also.\\nThe fallow deer with its red or brown coat; and the swift\\ndromedary, traversing her ways,\\nThe scarlet-coated goat, and the wild goat, whose flesh was the\\nvenison which Esau brought to his old father Isaac. There was the\\ntimid, fleet-footed hart, to which King David makes such beautiful\\nreference. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so pant-\\neth my soul after thee, O God.\\nThen there was also the loving hind and the pleasant roe.\\nThink you not that many, many happy hours could be spent\\nwith these innocent companions?\\nIn the song of Deborah are these words: Speak ye that ride on\\nwhite asses. Seven thousand of these returned with the captives\\nfrom Babylon. So they were first in Eden. In the garden were\\nalso the bear and the roe buck, the camels and the chamois, and the\\nflocks of sheep.\\nAlso the tiny creatures of which Solomon speaks: The conies\\nare but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks,\\nThe locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by\\nbands,\\nThe spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings pal-\\naces.\\nThe ants are a people not wise, yet prepare they their meat in\\nsummer.\\nThese are only a few of all those that God brought into the gar-\\nden for Adam to name, but in order to consider wisely the beauty and\\nloveliness of this animal kingdom, we must not forget that its char-\\nacter was such as is described by Isaiah, The wolf also shall dwell\\nwith the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE GARDEN. 35\\ncalf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child\\nshall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their voun r\\nones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the\\nox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and\\nthe weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den. They\\nshall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth\\nshall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the\\nsea.\\nAmong the winged creatures were the gentle dove, the raven\\nand the crowing cock, the cormorant, the crane and the crow, the\\ncuckoo, the eagle, the hawk and the sea fowl.\\nThere were also the keen-sighted kite, the crested thrush, the\\nmagnificent ossifrage, and the partridge.\\nNo doubt Father Adam admired the many colored peacock,\\nand the pelican with its rushing plumes. Perhaps Father Adam\\nlistened many times to the whistling quail and the sweet-voiced\\nswallow, or watched the black storks building their nests in the fir\\ntrees, or the graceful swans floating on the placid waters. The\\nquiet pigeon, the loving turtledove, and the vulture were also in\\nthe garden, for in this beautiful home there was plenty of room\\nand sustenance for all. But, as yet, there was not found an help-\\nmeet for Adam.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Zhe jfirst jfamil^.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\ntEEje ^trst family.\\no| ND THE Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,\\nIV and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the\\nI flesh instead thereof.\\nV-\u00c2\u00bb And the rib which the Lord God had taken from\\nman, made (or builded) he a woman, and brought her unto\\nthe man. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and\\nobtaineth favor of the Lord. Adam was well pleased with the\\nwoman, and claimed her at once as a part of his own body, saying:\\nThis is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be\\ncalled Woman, because she was taken out of man.\\nLet us remember that The man is not of the woman, but the\\nwoman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman,\\nbut the woman for the man.\\nTherefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and\\nshall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.\\nThus was instituted the sacred ordinance of marriage, which\\nSt. Paul says is honorable in all, and our marriage sendee says is\\nnot to be entered into lightly or unadvisedly, but soberly, discreet-\\nly, and in the fear of God.\\nYou remember that after Adam had named every living crea-\\nture, there was not found an helpmeet for him, therefore was\\nthe woman made.\\nLet us see if she became to him the help which the Lord de-\\nsigned she should be.\\nAdam and his wife are now at home in the garden. We do not\\nknow that the Lord told the woman of the one tree whose fruit\\nwas forbidden, but it is supposed that Adam made her acquainted\\nwith the fact, for very soon she had occasion to use this knowledge.\\nHow soon this was we do not know. It may have been weeks or\\nmonths, but of what intervened we have no knowledge. We can-\\nnot but hope that Adam and his wife had some happy days in the\\n39", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "40 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\ngarden, and that the love songs written by Solomon, and typical\\nof the mntnal love of Christ and His church, are descriptive also of\\nthe love of our first parents; that first and only pure love known\\nupon the earth, before sin had left its blight upon everything.\\nCtbam to (Et e.\\nBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold thou art fair; thou hast\\ndoves eyes within thy locks; thy hair is as a flock of goats\\nThy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came\\nup from the washing; whereof every one bare twins, and none are\\nbarren among them.\\nThy lips are like a thread of scarlet; and thy speech is comely;\\nthy temples are like a piece of pomegranate within thy locks.\\nThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which\\nfeed among the lilies.\\nUntil the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me\\nto the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.\\nThou art all fair, my love there is no spot in thee.\\nThou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast\\nravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy\\nneck.\\nHow fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! How much better\\nis thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all\\nspices!\\nThy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb honey and milk\\nare under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the\\nsmell of Lebanon.\\nA garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up; a\\ngarden sealed\\nI am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gath-\\nered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb, with\\nmy honey I have drunk my wine with my milk, O beloved.\\nI went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley,\\nand to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates\\nbudded.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST FAMILY. 41\\nHow beautiful are thy feet, thine head upon thee is like Carmel,\\nand the hair of thy head like purple\\nHow fair and how pleasant art thou, O love for delights.\\nThis thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts like clus-\\nters of grapes, the smell of thy nose like apples, and the roof of thy\\nmouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly,\\ncausing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.\\nI am my beloved s, and her desire is toward me.\\nCome, my beloved, let us go forth into the field;\\nlet us get up early to the A T ineyards; let us see if the vine flourish,\\nwhether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth\\nthere will I give thee my loves.\\nThe mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner\\nof pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O\\nmy beloved.\\n(\u00c2\u00a3r e s Song to Ctbam.\\nAs the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my be-\\nloved among the sons, I sat down under his shadow with great de-\\nlight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.\\nHe brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over\\nme was love\\nThe voice of my beloved! Behold, he cometh leaping upon the\\nmountains, skipping upon the hills.\\nMy beloved is like a roe or a young hart, behold he standeth\\nbehind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself\\nthrough the lattice.\\nMy beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair\\none, and come away.\\nFor lo, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.\\nThe flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of\\nbirds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.\\nThe fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the\\ntender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and\\ncome away.\\nO my dove, that art in the clefts of the rocks, let", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "42 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nme see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy\\nvoice, and thy countenance is comely\\nMy beloved is mine, and I am his he feedeth among the lilies.\\nUntil the day break and the shadows flee away, turn, my be-\\nloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the moun-\\ntains.\\nI sleep, but my heart waketh; it is the voice of my\\nbeloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my\\ndove, my undefiled for my head is filled with dew, and my locks\\nwith the drops of the night.\\nI rose to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with\\nmyrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles\\nof the lock\\nMy beloved is white and ruddy, his head is as the most fine\\ngold, his locks are bushy and black as a raven.\\nHis eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters,\\nwashed with milk, and fitly set.\\nHis cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers; his lips like\\nlilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.\\nHis hands are as gold rings set with the beryl; his belly is as\\nbright ivory overlaid with sapphires.\\nHis legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold;\\nhis countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars,\\nHis mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely. This is\\nmy beloved, and this is my friend.\\nHow fittingly these beautiful songs of Solomon portray to us\\nthe joyous and innocent natures of Adam and Eve, as they were\\nbefore their fall.\\nAlas, that the scene should be so soon changed.\\nIn order to understand how anything but good could be in\\nEden, the home which God had created, we must remember\\nthe words of St. John: And there was war in heaven; Michael\\nand his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought,\\nand his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found\\nany more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old\\nserpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST FAMILY. 43\\nworld; he was cast out into the earth. So though we may wonder\\nmuch, and never know how evil came to be in heaven, its presence\\nhere on the earth is fully explained to us.\\nThe old, old struggle for the ascendancy between good and evil\\nwas waged first in heaven. Thank God that Michael and his an-\\ngels prevailed there, and that that old serpent called the Devil\\nand Satan was cast out into the earth, where the war began\\nagain.\\nThus is explained to us the mystery of Evil. There is no doubt\\nabout it, that morality comes with the coming of choice. Thus it\\nwas necessary that Adam and Eve should choose between obedi-\\nence and disobedience, for until they were tried and had resisted\\nthey were innocent, but not good; but it was not necessary that\\nthey should choose evil.\\nHad humanity been victorious, in the struggle here, Satan\\nwould have been banished from earth, as he was from heaven.\\nImmortality would have been won, and the whole earth would have\\nbeen as Eden.\\nThat God regretted that the eyes of our first parents were\\nopened to know good and evil is told to us most forcibly in His\\nquestion to Eve: What is this that thou has done?\\nDo you wonder that as God looked down the ages, and saw the\\nsin and suffering which this victory of the dragon s was to bring\\nupon the children of Eve, that he repented that he had made\\nman on the earth, and that it grieved him at his heart?\\nWe are told by St. John in Revelation that the dragon was\\nwroth with the woman, which explains why he went into the gar-\\nden, where he first appeared to Eve, in the form of a serpent, and\\ntempted her thus Yea, because God hath forbidden you, do you\\nnot eat of every tree of the garden?\\nAnd the woman said unto the serpent: We may eat of the\\nfruit of the trees of the garden.\\nBut of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,\\nO 7\\nGod hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest\\nye die.\\nAnd the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surelv", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "44 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\ndie. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your\\neyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and\\nevil/\\nYou see how Satan then, just as he does now, mixed the truth\\nwith falsehood. God meant that in the day they ate of it they\\nshould be mortal dying humanity.\\na And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,\\nand that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to\\nmake one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave\\nalso unto her husband with her; and he did eat.\\nThus did she fall short of that for which she was created a A\\nhelpmeet for her husband.\\nAnd the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that\\nthey were naked. No good thing ever came to them from the\\nknowledge which they had thus gained. They were made not like\\nunto God, but like unto Satan, knowing and desiring evil. And\\nthey sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons, or\\nthings to gird them about with.\\nAnd they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the\\ngarden in the cool of the day. How pleasant is this picture of\\ntheir friend and companion! Yet, Adam and his wife hid them-\\nselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the\\ngarden. To them everything was changed; the pleasant air blew\\nchill. The rustling leaves made them start with guilty fear; every\\nsound, even the crowing of the cock or the lowing of the herds,\\nseemed to warn them of impending danger.\\nCan any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?\\nsaith the Lord.\\nDo not I fill heaven and earth?\\nAnd though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will\\nsearch and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my\\nsight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent,\\nand he shall bite them.\\nAlas, that they should desire to hide themselves from one who\\nhad always been their friend. For if our heart condemn us; God\\nis greater than our heart; and knoweth all things.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST FAMILY. 45\\nAnd the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him,\\nWhere art thou?\\nAnd he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid\\nbecause I was naked; and I hid myself.\\nAnd God said, Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I com-\\nmanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?\\nAlready Eve s punishment began to come upon her, for Ad-\\nam s love and praise were turned into upbraiding. He said, The\\nwoman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree\\nand I did eat.\\nAnd the Lord God turned to her and said, What is this that\\nthou hast done?\\nShe did not and could not realize all the fearful consequences\\nthat were to follow this dreadful act of disobedience, but life al-\\nready was so changed, so full of terror and dismay, so shorn of\\nlove and happiness, that she dared not look into the future.\\nAnd she said, The serpent beguiled me and I did eat.\\nAnd the Lord God punished them according to the degree of\\ntheir guilt.\\nThe serpent, into which Satan entered, was cursed above all\\ncattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou\\ngo, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life; the very\\nname serpent is synonymous with all that is vilest in the earth.\\nGod also told Satan that he should put enmity between him\\nand the woman, and between his seed and her seed.\\nOf his seed St. John savs Ye are of vour father the devil, and\\nthe lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the\\nbeginning, and abode not in the truth. When he speaketh a lie he\\nspeaks of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it.\\nIn this dark and apparently hopeless tragedy, there is one ray\\nof light; we find it in the latter part of the curse which God pro-\\nnounces upon Satan.\\nAlthough the war, which is here begun between Satan and hu-\\nmanity, is to be waged for long ages, God promises that the seed\\nof the woman shall finally bruise the serpent s head.\\nAnd when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "46 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nown son, made of a woman, to redeem them that were under the\\nlaw.\\nAnd the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet.\\nThat through death he might destroy him that had the power\\nof death, that is the devil.\\nOur Saviour, Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and hath\\nbrought life and immortality to light. God s curse upon the\\nwoman was to come to her through her husband and children;\\nthose whom she had irreparably wronged; her children should\\nbe brought forth with much suffering; the great joy of dawning\\nmotherhood should always be alloyed with physical pain. And\\nher husband should rule over her.\\nAnd unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto\\nthe voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I com-\\nmanded thee, saying thou shalt not eat of it cursed be the ground\\nfor thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.\\nThorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou\\nshalt eat the herb of the field. Hitherto growth had been spon-\\ntaneous, now it should be secured only through hard labor. In-\\nstead of eating the choicest fruits of Eden, they should eat the\\nherb of the field. Man had taken a long step downward nearer\\nthe cattle of the field, farther away from the angels.\\nIn the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return\\nunto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art,\\nand unto dust shalt thou return.\\nIn these words God pronounced the first burial service; for\\nalthough Adam and his wife lived many years after this, upon the\\nearth, yet the time when they should lie down in the ground was\\never before them, for they had chosen the tree of death, although\\nthe tree of life was in the garden, and they might freely have eaten\\nof it.\\nJust here there are a few words thrown in; sort of remarks by\\nthe way. And Adam called his wife s name Eve, because she\\nwas the mother of all living. Alas, that she became the mother\\nof mortals, when immortality had been hers to give.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "ADAM AND EVE DRIVEN FROM PARADISE.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST FAMILY. 49\\nUnto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord make coats of\\nskins and clothed them.\\nAnd the Lord God said, behold the man is become as one of\\nus, to know good and evil knowing good and evil was very\\ndifferent from and being as God, in whom was no evil.\\nAnd now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of\\nlife, and eat, and live forever; therefore the Lord God sent him\\nforth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he\\nwas taken.\\nThank God, that in His infinite wisdom and love, He prevented\\nour father Adam from partaking of the tree of life, after he became\\na sinner, and thereby entailing upon his descendants the untold\\nmisery of immortality, in this sorrowing and suffering world.\\nSo he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the gar-\\nden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every\\nway, to keep the way of the tree of life.\\nWho maketh his angels spirits, his ministers a flaming fire.\\nAlthough this day, when our mother Eve beheld for the last\\ntime the gay gardens, the towering forests, the smiling rivers, and\\nthe jeweled foundations of her first home must have been a sad one,\\nyet there was a sadder day still in store for her. Poor old Eve;\\nhow much trouble she brought upon us all! And yet we cannot\\nbut sorrow for her.\\nBy and by, when her little son was laid in her arms, we mothers\\nknow, that her first thrill of exultation: I have gotten a man\\nfrom the Lord, was choked by the remembrance that it was be-\\ncause of her sin that he was a mortal a dying, sinful man. Eve\\ncalled this first boy Cain, and when some time after his little\\nbrother was born to them, she called him Abel. Years elapse be-\\ntween this event and the next one related of the family of Adam.\\nThis was when these boys were grown to manhood, and had chosen\\ntheir trades or occupations.\\nCain, like his father, is a tiller of the ground; you remember\\nthat God Himself chose Adam s occupation for him, and what\\nmore natural than that the first son should choose the same; but\\nAbel was a keeper of sheep.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "50 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nAnd in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of\\nthe fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord, a thank offer-\\ning.\\nAnd Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of\\nthe fat thereof, a sin offering. You see thus early in the history\\nof our race was our Redeemer, Christ, typified although this com-\\nmand was given later. Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of\\nthy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors; the first born of thy sons shalt\\nthou give unto me. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and\\nwith thy sheep.\\nAnd the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering.\\nBut unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect.\\nMany people wonder over this, and think that the first fruits\\nof the ground were not as acceptable to God as the firstlings of the\\nflock, but this was not the case; it was because of the difference of\\nthe spirit in which each one made his offering.\\nBy faith Abel offered unto God a more acceptable sacrifice\\nthan Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous,\\nGod testifying of his gifts; and by it, he being dead yet speaketk.\\nAnd Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell.\\nAnd the Lord said unto Cain: Why are thou wroth, and why\\nis thy countenance fallen?\\nIf thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou\\ndoest not well, sin lieth at the door.\\nSuch a wise and gentle warning. If Cain could only have mas-\\ntered his jealous, angry feelings, and have realized that the trouble\\nwas with himself. But as he cherished his anger and hatred in his\\nheart, he met his brother and talked with him. And it came to\\npass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against his\\nbrother, and slew him.\\nDo you not think that Eve now, if never before, remembered\\nthe words of the Lord: In sorrow thou shalt bring forth chil-\\ndren. This was the first blood shed upon the earth; the blood\\nof righteous Abel. Alas, that blood has been flowing on the earth\\never since, and from the same cause.\\nSt. John says: For this is the message that we heard from\\nthe beginning, that we love one another; not as Cain, who was", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "THE MURDER OF ABEL.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST FAMILY. 53\\nof that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he\\nhim? Because his own works were evil, and his brother s right-\\neous.\\nBut the Lord, then as now, made inquisition for blood. Imme-\\ndiately He said to Cain, Where is Abel, thy brother? And he\\nsaid: I know not; am I my brother s keeper?\\nAnd now God confronted Cain with the same old question, with\\nwhich He had confronted his mother: What hast thou done? The\\nvoice of thy brother s blood crieth unto me from the ground.\\nAnd that God has not forgotten this cry, we know by the\\nvision which St. John gives us in his Revelation: And I saw\\nthe souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the\\ntestimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, say-\\ning, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and\\navenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And for an-\\nswer they are told, That they should rest yet for a little season\\nuntil the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able\\nto stand?\\nAnd God said to Cain: And now art thou cursed from the\\nearth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother s blood\\nfrom thy hand. When thou tillest the ground it shall not hence-\\nforth yield unto thee her strength.\\nThe ground was cursed for Adam s sake, and Cain was cursed\\nfrom the ground.\\nAdam s punishment was to till the ground, but from Cain was\\nwithheld even its natural increase.\\nAnd God said to Cain: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou\\nbe in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment\\nis greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out\\nthis day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be\\nhid. In these last words Cain realized negatively one of the truths\\nwhich Christ preached in His sermon on the Mount:\\nBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\\nAnd St. Paul warns us also of the same truth: Follow peace\\nwith all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the\\nLord.\\nCain feared greatly that, as a wanderer upon the earth, he", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "54 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nshould be slain as he had slain his brother; so the Lord set a\\nmark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. What this\\nmark was, we cannot tell, but we know it could not have been\\nthe same seal as that of which St. John speaks so many times\\nas being in the foreheads of the servants of God. Tradition says\\nthat Cain s tongue turned white, or that a red star shone in his fore-\\nhead.\\nAnd Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt\\nin the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.\\nFrom the presence of the Lord. Does this mean forever?\\nWhat he so dreaded, being hidden from the face of God, had come\\nto pass, but was there no hope for him?\\nThus were Adam and Eve bereft of both these sons, Then was\\nadded another son unto them, who was a great comfort to Eve.\\nShe called his name Seth., For God, said she, hath appointed me\\nanother seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.\\nThis is the last time that Eve is mentioned by name. According\\nto the words which God had spoken, her individual life is lost in\\nthat of her husband s. The sacred Eecord says, All the days of\\nAdam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and\\nhe begat sons and daughters, and we have every reason to believe\\nthat Eve also lived to great age. Seth was like his brother Abel\\nin disposition. The Bible says of him, Adam begat a son in his\\nown likeness, after his image.\\nAdam lived to the ripe old age of nine hundred and thirty years,\\nand saw his children of the ninth generation around him. In the\\nseventh generation was born a man named Enoch, who walked\\nwith God three hundred years, and he was not, for God took\\nhim the first man who went to heaven without dying, as did\\nElijah. And Jude tells us that Enoch, the seventh from Adam,\\nprophesied, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of\\nhis saints.\\nEnoch s son, Methuselah, lived to be nine hundred and sixty-\\nnine years old, and was the oldest man who ever lived, although\\nhe was only thirty-nine years older than Adam, who lived long", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST FAMILY. 55\\nenough to see the wickedness he had brought upon the earth, for\\nhe lived until the time of Lantech, the father of Noah.\\nThus closes the record of earth s first family. And all the\\ndays that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and\\nhe died.\\nIt is appointed unto men once to die.\\nBlessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:\\non such the second death hath no power.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Zbe 1bome in tbe Hrfc.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "l iujujjiiiuiiaiaii i\\nNOAH AND HIS FAMILY ENTERING THE ARK.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nCfye bomc in tfye CLxk.\\nIN ORDER to understand the condition of mankind at this period\\nof the world, we must know that there were two distinct races,\\ndescended from Adam the children of Cain and the children\\nof Seth. Cain was of his father the devil, choosing evil rather\\nthan good.\\nA murderer, God sent him forth from his home, branded: A\\nfugitive and a vagabond in the earth. And vet he became the\\nfather of a race of men.\\nAt the time of his murderino- Abel, he was about one hundred\\nand twentv-eiii ht years old, and already married. It is probable\\nthat a band of men and women from his father s house went out\\nwith him into exile.\\nShortly after this a son was born unto him, and he called his\\nname Enoch, which means to consecrate.\\nWe cannot but hope from this that Cain did repent of his\\nwickedness, and that he consecrated this son to God. He also\\nbuilded a city and called it Enoch after his son. His son of the\\nsixth generation, Lainech, was a murderer like himself. These are\\nhis words: I have slain a man to mv wounding, and a voting man\\nto mv hurt. If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, truly Lantech\\nseventy and seven fold. Lantech s son Jabal was a shepherd like\\nAbel; for we are told that He was the father of such as dwell in\\ntents, and of such as have cattle, while his brother, Jubal, was the\\nfather of musicians, of all such as handle the harp and organ.\\nAnother son, Tubal Cain, was a smith, an instructor of every\\nartificer, in brass and iron. You see how mighty was this race\\ndescended from Cain, for these children of Lamech, the murderer,\\nonly one thousand years from the creation, were shepherds, musi-\\ncians, inventors. It was probably they who invented the plough,\\nbut, alas! also the sword came from their hands.\\nCain s descendants were worldly-wise, but wicked.\\n59", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "60 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nOn the other hand, we have an account of the race descended\\nfrom Seth, who was appointed by God to take the place of right-\\neous Abel, whom Cain slew. Seth s son of the sixth generation,\\nEnoch, instead of being a murderer like Lamech, walked with\\nGod. It was Enoch s grandson, another Lamech, who said of his\\nson, Noah,: This same shall comfort us concerning our work and\\ntoil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath\\ncursed.\\nIt was owing to the difference in the character of these two\\nraces that the children of Cain were called sons of men, and the\\ndescendants of Seth were called the sons of God.\\nNow, when Noah was five hundred years old, it came to pass\\nthat the descendants of Cain began to multiply greatly in the\\nearth, and their daughters were very fair to look upon, so that\\nthe sons of God took them wives of all which they chose.\\nGod, seeing this, said: My spirit shall not always strive with\\nman; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years, or I shall\\ngive him an hundred and twenty years wherein to repent.\\nFrom this union of the sons of God with the daughters of\\nmen were born giants in the earth, mighty men which were of\\nold, men of renown.\\nBut the wickedness in the earth was great. Every imagina-\\ntion of the thoughts of man s heart and his purposes and desires\\nwere only evil continually.\\nAnd it repented the Lord, that he had made man in the earth,\\nand it grieved him in his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy\\nman whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man\\nand beast and the creeping thing and the fowl of the air.\\nBut Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah\\nwas a just man, and perfect in his generation, and Noah walked\\nwith God, as did his grandfather Enoch before him. And Noah\\nbegat three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. And as God looked\\nabroad over the earth, once so fair and peaceful, and saw it so cor-\\nrupt and so full of wickedness, He said to Noah The end of all\\nflesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through\\nthem and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE ARK. 61\\nO thou that dw dl -st upon many waters, abundant in tn -as-\\nures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy coYetousn\\nNow is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger\\nupon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will\\nrecompense upon thee all thy abominations.\\nAnd mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity, but.\\nI will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations\\nshall be in the midst of thee, and ye shall know that I am the\\nLord.\\nAnd God said to Noah, Make thee an ark of Gopher wood,\\nrooms shalt thou make in the ark and thou shalt pitch it within\\nand without with pitch. It was to be live hundred and forty-seven\\nfeet lonu ninetv-one feet broad and hftv-hve feet high. It Avas to\\nbe upwards of eighty thousand burthen. A window shalt thou\\nmake to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the\\ndoor of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, sec-\\nond and third stories shalt thou make it.\\nThe word Zohar, here translated window, signifies also splendor,\\nlight, and never occurs in the singular but in this one place, so\\nthat this meant a place for light and air, probably a verandah\\naround the whole upper portion of the ark, something similar to\\nthat with which our modern steamers are provided. The ark was\\njust about the length of many of our great ships of the present day.\\nAnd in a cubit shalt thou finish it; that is, run the roof up to a\\ncubit in size.\\nI see no reason why the idea should obtain that the ark was\\nincommodious and unsightly. It was designed by the great Archi-\\ntect, who planned heaven and earth, and the man who built it\\nlearned of the greatest of all workmen, and was under His direc-\\ntion for a hundred years. We may rest assured that it was a\\nbeautiful and comfortable abode for the family of Noah, and that\\nample provision was made for the care and sustenance of the\\nnumerous animals which were to be committed to his keeping.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2And, behold. I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the\\nearth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under\\nheaven; and evervthincr that is in the earth shall die.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "62 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nSo God established His covenant with Noah, promising to save\\nhim and his family, also two of every living thing of all flesh;\\nfowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creep-\\ning thing of the earth after his kind. God also told Noah to\\ngather in an abundance of all kinds of food, to take with him into\\nthe ark, when it should be finished.\\nThus Noah did, according to all that God commanded him, so\\ndid he.\\nBy faith Noah being warned of God, of things not seen as yet,\\nmoved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by the\\nwhich he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteous-\\nness, which is by faith.\\nThe just shall live by faith. God spared not the old world,\\nbut saved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,\\nbringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.\\nYou see Noah was fearless, as well as good; it took as much\\ncourage then, as it would now, to begin building an ark, and to\\npreach righteousness and repentance, and the destruction of the\\nworld by a flood of waters, But Noah did this, in spite of scoffs\\nand sneers, for a hundred years; his faith in God strong and un-\\nwavering.\\nWe do not know how long the ark was finished, and lay high\\nand dry in the sight of an unbelieving and mocking world; but in\\nthe fulness of time, God gave the long expected command Come\\nthou, and all thy house into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous\\nbefore me in this generation.\\nOf every clean beast shalt thou take to thee by sevens, the\\nmale and his female; and of beasts that are not clean, by twos, the\\nmale and his female, to keep seed alive upon the face of the earth.\\nThis was seven days before the flood began; still time to repent,\\nhad any desired so to do; but the hearts of all those upon the earth\\nwere filled with unbelief. They looked with pity upon poor, foolish\\nNoah and his family. But after seven days had elapsed, in the\\nsix hundredth year of Noah s life, the fountains of the great deep\\nwere broken up and the windows of heaven were opened.\\nIn the self-same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "THE FLOOD DESTROYING THE EARTH.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IX TRE ARK. 65\\nJapketk, and Noah s wife and his sons wives into the ark. And the\\nLord shut the door. And the flood was forty days upon the\\nearth. How safe and yet how awe-stricken they must have felt!\\nNo doubt their hearts were filled with grateful praises to God, as\\nthey heard the storm beat without; the dashing rain, the thunders\\nand lightnings of God s wrath, as it fell upon a wicked and faith-\\nless world.\\nHe that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall\\nabide under the shadow of the Almighty.\\nI will say of the Lord, He is nry refuge and my fortress; my God,\\nin Him will I trust.\\nSurely He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowder, and\\nfrom the noisome pestilence.\\nHe shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings\\nshalt thou trust.\\nThou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the\\narrow that flieth by day;\\nNor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the\\ndestruction that wasteth at noonday.\\nA thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right\\nhand; but it shall not come nigh thee.\\nOnly with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of\\nthe wicked.\\nBecause thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the\\nmost High, thy habitation.\\nThere shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come\\nnigh thy dwelling.\\nThe family in the ark felt no terror as they saw the waters in-\\ncrease upon the earth, for Noah had w T aited a hundred years to see\\nthis day. No doubt they were saddened at the destruction of their\\nold friends and neighbors, whose dismay and terror increased as\\ntheir homes were swept aw r ay, and the w T aters overwhelmed them\\neverywhere. It must have been a fearful sight, while the agonized\\nshrieks and groans of the drowning were only stilled in death. As\\nthe fury of the storm increased, the ark was borne up above the\\nearth and the people climbed the high hills for safety.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "66 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nBy degrees, however, the waters increased so greatly that the\\nark was borne upon the face of them. Soon every object was\\nhidden from view, And all the high hills that were under the\\nwhole heaven were covered.\\nNearly thirty feet upward did the waters prevail, and the\\nmountains were covered.\\nTruly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from\\nthe multitude of mountains.\\nAll in whose nostrils was the breath of life, died.\\nAnd Noah only remained alive and they that were with him\\nin the ark.\\nThe descendants of Cain were destroyed from the face of the\\nwhole earth, and the new civilization was to be through the family\\nof Seth.\\nThe ark was now borne on the breast of the waters, and the\\nfamily in the ark were afloat. It was not an unpleasant sensation;\\nout on the ocean sailing. And yet to feel one s self adrift in\\nmid-ocean, without compass, chart or map is not usually pleasant\\nto contemplate.\\nA dreary feeling will come with no land in sight, nothing but\\nwater as far as the eye can reach.\\nBut the home in the ark was a safe one, for the family had\\nGod s words to Noah, Thee have I seen righteous before me in this\\ngeneration. Although they were separated from old scenes and\\nformer neighbors, they were all together, an unbroken family. We\\nfathers and mothers know what a comfortable feeling comes to us\\nwhen the storm is raging without, and all our dear ones are safely\\nsheltered within the home nest. So Noah and his wife and his\\nsons and their wives felt the joy of companionship, of love and\\nsafety, with God s mighty protection around them.\\nAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty\\ndays.\\nFive long months were they at sea, knowing not where they\\nwere, nor what were God s plans in regard to them, for up to this\\ntime they could see not the least decrease in the waters. They\\nsimply trusted in God s promise, and they were rewarded for their", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE ARK. 67\\nfaith, for at the end of one hundred and fifty days we are told that\\nGod remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle\\nthat was with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over\\nthe earth, and the waters asswaged.\\nThe howling of the wind must have been like a storm at sea,\\nbut their craft was strong, and they knew who was at the helm.\\nThe fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven\\nwere stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.\\nNow the waters gradually began to diminish, and the ark\\nrested, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month,\\nupon the mountains of Ararat in Armenia.\\nHow far the ark had moved from the home of Noah we cannot\\ntell, but probably, in the seven months before it rested on the\\nmountains, it had floated a long distance. So that everything\\nwould be strange and unfamiliar in that new home toward which\\nthe family in the ark were so long voyaging.\\nOn the first day of the tenth month, the family saw the tops\\nof the mountains, at which sight they must have been as much re-\\njoiced as was Columbus at his first glimpse of the new continent.\\nForty days after this view of the mountain tops, Noah sent\\nforth a raven, w T hich went to and fro, until the waters were dried\\nup from off the earth.\\nThen he sent forth a dove, but she found no rest for the sole of\\nher foot, and she returned unto him into the ark.\\nIn seven days more Noah sent forth the dove again, and she\\ncame to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf,\\npluckt off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off\\nthe earth.\\nNoah waited a week longer, and then he sent forth the dove\\nagain, and she returned to him no more.\\nSo Noah removed the covering of the ark, and behold, the\\nface of the ground was dry.\\nIt was now over a year since God had shut them in, yet although\\nNoah knew that the earth was again dry, he waited patiently for\\nGod s command.\\nGo forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and thy sons", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "68 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nwives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing,\\nand be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.\\nAnd Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt\\nofferings unto him. And the Lord smelled a sweet savor, a fore-\\nshadowing of the truth, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath\\ngiven himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-\\nsmelling savor.\\nThe Lord was pleased at Noah s gratitude and worship and ac-\\ncepted his offering.\\nAnd the Lord said: I will not again curse the ground any\\nmore for man s sake.\\nNeither will I again smite any more everything living, as I\\nhave done; for the imagination of man s heart is evil from his\\nyouth.\\nWhat is man that he should be clean? And he that is born of\\na woman, that he should be righteous?\\nBehold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother\\nconceive me.\\nSo God made this promise to Noah that while the earth re-\\nmaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer\\nand winter, and day and night shall not cease.\\nFor a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great\\nmercies will I gather thee.\\nI have sworn that the waters of Noah should no longer go over\\nthe earth. And God blessed Noah and his sons, as He had their\\nforefather, Adam, over sixteen hundred years before, and to them\\nHe gave the same commands: Be fruitful and multiply and re-\\nplenish the earth. To them He gave the same dominion over all\\nthe earth, and over all animal life that He had given to Adam.\\nGod gave to that first man the fruit of every tree, except the\\ntree of life; now He extended to Noah, besides the fruit of the trees,\\nthe use of animal food. In this gift also He made one exception;\\nHe retained the blood, which is the life; God alone is the giver of\\nlife.\\nOne direction which Noah received from God at this time was", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE ARK. 69\\nthat great law which, has obtained among mankind ever since:\\nWhoso sheddeth man s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.\\nGod established His covenant with Noah and perpetual genera-\\ntions, that the earth should be destroyed no more, forever, by a\\nflood.\\nWhen we look upon the rainbow of promise, the token which\\nGod has set in the cloud, know we then, that God will have us in\\neverlasting remembrance. I never look upon this beautiful sym-\\nbol of God s love that my faith in Him is not strengthened with\\nthis miraculous vision before me, life and death and the resurrec-\\ntion become glorified realities.\\nAs the appearance of the bow in the day of rain, so was the\\nappearance of the brightness round about. This was the appear-\\nance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.\\nAnd he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine\\nstone, and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight\\nlike unto an emerald.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Zhe 1bome in tbe Zcnt", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM DEPARTING FROM HARAN.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nOje V)omc in the (Tent\\nS GOD chose Seth from the family of Adam to represent Him\\nin the earth, so from the family of Noah He chose Shem.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The Lord knoweth them that are his.\\nAs we look down the line of descent from Adam to Shem,\\neven of those called the sons of God, we find bnt few names\\nthat the Lord thought worthy to be singled out from the multitude.\\nAfter Seth came Enoch of the sixth generation. His son\\nMethuselah, we cannot but feel must have served God, because of\\nthe long life with which he was honored.\\nThen there was Lanieeh, whose language bespeaks for him the\\ntitle of a God-fearing man. Next came righteous Noah, the father\\nof Shem.\\nBut it is not until the tenth generation from Shem that another\\nman appeared whom God could honor with a call.\\nThou art the Lord, the God who didst choose Abrani and\\nbrouuhtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees.\\nHis fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood ithe River\\nEuphrates) in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and\\nthev served other Gods.*\\nm\\nThe birthplace of Abram, Ur of the Chaldees, was at that time\\n(four thousand years ago) a flourishing and beautiful city. It was\\na place in which learning was encouraged, arts and sciences were\\ncultivated. There astronomers studied the heavens, poets wrote\\nhymns and epics, patient scribes stamped on soft clay those early\\nbooks, which have been so helpful to students of ancient life and\\ncustoms.\\nThe River Euphrates did not then flood the country, but spread\\nitself in a network of sparkling canals.\\nThe palm tree grew in Chaldea in Abram s day, in such lux-\\nuriance that the fruit hung in golden clusters upon ir. Here also\\ngrew the tamarisks, the acacias and the pomegranates. Golden\\n73", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "74 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES,\\nfields of wheat, and the millet and corn plants of all kinds grew\\nthere most plentifully.\\nWhen you think of this home where Abram was born and lived\\nwith his father Terah and his grandfather Nahor, the following\\nwords seem truly wonderful: By faith Abraham, when he was\\ncalled to go out into a place which he should after receive for an\\ninheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he\\nwent.\\nIt meant a, great deal in those days for a family to give up home\\nand friends, prosperity with a promising future, to go into a place\\nwhich they knew not of. The old idea of perpetuity of families and\\nof homesteads has almost passed from the earth in this age of\\nrapid transit, but even now it were wise for any family to be as\\nsure of the Lord s voice as was Abram, before giving up the home\\nand the work in which God has placed them.\\nBut Abram was sure of the call of God, for Paul tells us that\\nThe God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he\\nwas in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran.\\nGod had a great work for Abram, and called him forth from an\\nidolatrous and superstitious people. He had grown up from boy-\\nhood surrounded by these influences, even his own father Terah\\nserved other gods, but it was because of the call of God that\\nAbram persuaded his father Terah to take the tribe and start for\\nthe land of Canaan. With them were Abram s wife Sarai and his\\nnephew Lot, his dead brother Haran s son.\\nAnd they came unto Haran and dwelt there.\\nThey had traveled over six hundred miles from Ur to Haran;\\nthey were many months in making the journey.\\nIn Haran they found pastures for their cattle, and Terah, no\\ndoubt, was pleased with the temples, which afforded them oppor-\\ntunities for idol worship, and being weary of travel, they remained\\nin Haran two years, at the end of which time Terah died.\\nNow the Lord appeared unto Abram again. This was the sec-\\nond time, and He said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and\\nfrom thy kindred, and from thy father s house, unto a land that I\\nwill shew thee; and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE TENT. 75\\nbless thee and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.\\nAnd I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that\\ncnrseth thee; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be\\nblessed.\\nAbram was seventy-five years old at this time when he departed\\nwith Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother s son, and all their sub-\\nstance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten\\nin Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and\\ninto the land of Canaan they came.\\nIn studying the life of Abram, there is only one key which will\\nexplain all the wonders of God s providence over him, and His oft\\nrepeated promises to him.\\nAnd he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for\\nrighteousness.\\nNow as Abram passed through the land unto the plain of Moreh\\nhe found the Canaanites, another race entirely, the descendants of\\nNoah s son Ham.\\nHere the Lord appeared unto him the third time, and said:\\nUnto thy seed will I give this land, and there he builded an altar\\nand called upon the name of the Lord, who appeared unto him.\\nThis was on a mountain, having Bethel on the west and Hai on\\nthe east, and here Abram pitched his tent and sojourned for awhile.\\nBy faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange\\ncountry, dwelling in tabernacles. In a few months he again jour-\\nneyed on, going still toward the south.\\nAnd about this time there was a grievous famine in the land,\\nand Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.\\nAnd as they came near to enter into Egypt, Abram arranged\\nwith Sarai, his wife, that she should say that she was his sister.\\nAnd it came to pass that when Abram was come into Egypt,\\nthe Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair; and\\nSarai was taken into Pharaoh s house.\\nAnd he entreated Abram well for her sake, and cared also for\\nhis servants and camels and asses.\\nAnd the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great\\nplagues, because of Sarai, Abram s wife.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "76 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nAnd Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they\\nsent him away and his wife and all that he had.\\nNow we must use the key, and the Lord counted his faith unto\\nhim for righteousness. Abram, the friend of God, was subject to\\ntemptations, and sometimes yielded just as we do.\\nAnd Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that\\nhe had, and Lot with him, into the south.\\nAnd Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold.\\nIt was now three years since Abram had first entered Canaan\\nand built an altar unto the Lord at Bethel, unto which place he was\\nnow, in his wanderings, come again, and here he stopped and\\ncalled on the name of the Lord.\\nLot, all this time, still continued to travel and pitch his tents\\nwith the company of Abram; and Lot also was rich in flocks and\\nherds and tents.\\nAnd their riches were more than that they might dwell to-\\ngether; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear\\nthem because of their cattle.\\nAnd there was strife between the herdmen of Abram s cattle\\nand the herdmen of Lot s cattle.\\nNow in this little circumstance which follows, we can see\\nclearly the generous, large-hearted nature of Abram.\\nAnd Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,\\nbetween me and thee and between my herdmen and thy herdmen;\\nfor we be brethren.\\nIf it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with\\nall men.\\nBehold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell\\ntogether in unity.\\nFollow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no\\nman shall see the Lord.\\nBut the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peace-\\nable, gentle, easy to be entreated.\\nAnd Abram said to Lot, Is not the whole land before thee?\\nSeparate thyself, I pray thee, from me; if thou wilt take the left", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "--S^SBlHBiBIBBBjaBai\\nSL 1\\niw*\\nTHE SEPARATION OF ABRAM AND LOT.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "TEE HOME TH1\\nhand, then I will go to tl _ r if tL the right h;\\nthen I will g he left.**\\nThere is a w..\u00c2\u00bbnderfnl lesson in this eL Lot s ith\\nAbrani. had left an idolatrous nation and was no doubt hiniself a\\nshipper of the tra- r St. Peter q him as a j\\nand righteous man. and yet because the pilain of Jordan was\\nwa~ s the _.irden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt.\\nell tL nd pitched his tent toward Sodom.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2But the men 6 lorn were wicked and sinners before the\\nLor ^dingly.\\nshowed Himself well aed with Abrani s conduct towaril\\nnd that he was still in Canaan, the land of promise, and\\nspoke unto him the fourth time: Lift up now thir 5, and look\\nfront the place where thou art northward, and southward, an\\nward, and westward,\\nr all the land which thou seest. to thee will I _ it. and to\\nthy seed forever\\nAnd I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a\\nman can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy ilso be\\nnumbered.\\nArise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the\\nbreadth of it: for I will give it unto the\\nAbrani ggered not at the promise of through unbe-\\nlief, but was strong in faith, giving glory 1. fully persua\\nthat what he had promised he was able also to perform.\\nThink of this wonderful faith: for in this land _ Mm\\nnone inheritan* l t much s1 set Ms foot on. yet he prom-\\nI that He would give it to him for a pc n. and to hiss\\nafter him. when as yet he had no child.\\nAll around Abrani were strong, powerful, idolatrous nari\\nand to them the whole lane naan bel\\nOne of the strongest races descended from Xoab was through\\nMs son Ham. whom Noah cursed. And tL utiful land, in\\nwMch Abram was now a pilgrim, and which God p roniised to give\\ntohissc named from Ham s son Canaan.\\nThere were .rood many different tribes spying the Ian", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE TEXT. M\\nCanaan, each bearing separate names, but they were all included\\nunder the name Canaanites.\\nIt was because of the wickedness of these people that God was\\ngoing to take their land from them, and give it to the seed of\\nAbiam.\\nWho against hope believed in hope, that he might become the\\nfather of many nations, according to that which was spoken.\\nAfter God spoke to Abram at Bethel, he moved his tent again\\nand came and dwelt in the plains of Mature in Hebron, and built\\nthere an altar unto the Lord.\\nAbram kept his tents here, or in this neighborhood, for nineteen\\nyears, and many wonderful things happened to him during this\\ntime.\\nThe first which we have to narrate is the battle of the kings,\\nfour against five. Five of the kingdoms of Canaan, among which\\nwere Sodom and Gomorrah, had for twelve years been subject to\\nChedorlaomer, the great king of the Elamites, descendants of\\nShem. In the thirteenth year they rebelled, and in the fourteenth\\nyear came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and\\nsmote these Canaanites, And then went out the King of Sodom\\nand the King of Gomorrah, and the three kings that were with\\nthem, all descendants of Ham, and joined battle with the four\\nkings.\\nAnd the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits, and the kings of\\nSodom and Goniorrak fled, and fell there; and they that remained\\nfled to the mountain.\\nThis vale Siddim was the very place where, over three hundred\\nyears before, Hani s descendants, the forefathers of these inhabi-\\ntants of Sodom and Gomorrah, had tried to build the tower of\\nBabel, and had used brick for stone and slime for mortar. Now\\nsome of these tribes which Chedorlaomer smote are described by\\nMoses as a people great, and many and tall as the Anakims, which\\nwere also accounted as giants.\\nThese were the people whom the descendants of Shem smote.\\nAnd they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all\\ntheir victuals, and went their wav.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "82 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nAnd they took Lot, Abrani s brother s son, who dwelt in Sodom,\\nand his goods, and departed\\nAnd when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive,\\nhe armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hun-\\ndred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.\\nAnd he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by\\nnight, and smote them.\\nAnd he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his\\nbrother Lot, and his goods, and the women also and the people.\\nAnd the King of Sodom went out to meet him after his return\\nfrom the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were\\nwith him.\\nThus was Lot and his family and all that he had saved with\\nwicked Sodom and Gomorrah, because of righteous Abram. And\\nlo! to Abram in his self-sacrificing effort for Lot, there came a great\\nblessing. Melchizedek, King of Salem (which is King of Peace),\\nbrought forth bread and wine; and he was the priest of the most\\nhigh God.\\nAnd he blessed him and said Blessed be Abram of the most\\nhigh God, possessor of heaven and earth;\\nAnd blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine\\nenemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.\\nSt. Paul says, Now consider how great this man (Melchizedec)\\nwas, unto whom the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.\\nThis character, Melchizedec, is one of the most wonderful in all\\nthe Bible; and is well worth your study. Read what St. Paul says\\nconcerning him in the seventh chapter of his Epistle to the He-\\nbrews,\\nAnd David says, The Lord hath sworn and will not repent;\\nthou (Christ) art a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedec.\\nWas it not a great honor, that this priest of the most high\\nGod should meet Abraham, returning from the slaughter of the\\nkings, and bless him?\\nThe King of Sodom offered Abram the goods that were taken in\\nthe battle, but Abram said he had made this vow I will not take\\nfrom a thread even to a shoe latchet, and that I will not take any-\\nthing that is thine, lest that thou shouldest say, I have made Abram\\nrich.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE TEXT. S3\\nAfter this Abram had his tifth vision of the Lord, in which He\\nsaid, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeeding great\\nreward.\\nAnd Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I\\ngo childless?\\nTo me thou hast given no seed; and lo, one born in my house\\nis mine heir.\\nAnd behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This\\nshall not be thine heir, but he that shall come forth out of thine\\nown bowels shall be thine heir.\\nAnd he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for\\nrighteousness.\\nAnd then for the first time, Abram asked a pledge of the Lord.\\nAnd the Lord told him to take an heifer, a she goat and a ram of\\nthree years old, and a turtle dove and a young pigeon. The first\\nthree were to be divided in halves, each half laid over against the\\nother, but the birds divided he not.\\nAnd when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon\\nAbram; and lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.\\nThen the Lord shewed him a vision of his children, as strangers\\nand servants in a strange land, and how they should be griev-\\nously afflicted for four hundred years: also how He should judge\\nthat nation, and bring Abraham s children forth with great sub-\\nstance into the land of Canaan.\\nAnd thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried\\nin a good old age.\\nAnd as a pledge of this, when the sun went down, and it was\\ndark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed\\nbetween those pieces.\\nIn the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saving,\\nUnto thy seed have I given this land, from the River of Egypt\\nunto the River Euphrates.\\nHe also promised to give into their hand all the inhabitants of\\nthe land of Canaan.\\nHow strange it is that after a special blessing from God, when\\nwe have been in the very secret of His presence, and have felt", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "84 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nHis benediction over us, upon coming out into the busy world,\\nwith its cares and struggles and limitations, we find the tempter\\nawaiting us.\\nSo as Abram came, fresh from the pledge of the smoking fur-\\nnace and the burning lamp; fresh from the vision of that far dis-\\ntant future, in which he saw his children s children, the tempter, in\\nthe form of his wife, came to him with a plan by which they might\\nhave a child; as though they should have to make God s words pos-\\nsible of fulfillment Sarai suggested to Abram that he should take\\nHagar, her maid, to be his wife, she being Sarai s bond-slave; her\\nchildren would be Sarai s children, according to the custom of\\nthose times.\\nSo Abram hearkened unto the voice of his wife, as did Adam\\nunto the voice of Eve, so many years before; both Adam and\\nAbram knew that they were doing wrong, and were following their\\nown inclinations, as well as the voices of their wives.\\nChoosing evil brought trouble into the tent, just as it had into\\nthe garden.\\nThe following little scene in the home life of Abram and Sarai\\nbrings out beautifully Abram s royal devotion and courtesy to his\\nwife, who is truly mistress in the tent.\\nLikewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowl-\\nedge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as\\nbeing heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not\\nhindered.\\nWhen Sarai saw that she was despised in the eyes of Hagar,\\nshe said to Abram, My wrong be upon thee. The Lord\\njudge between me and thee.\\nAnd Abram did not upbraid her, but gave her the soft answer\\nwhich turneth away wrath. He said unto Sarai, Behold thy\\nmaid is in thy hands; do to her as it pleaseth thee.\\nAnd when Sarai dealt hardly with her she fled from her face\\ninto the wilderness.\\nHere the Lord Jehovah spoke these words to her, as she lay\\nweary and disconsolate:", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE TENT. 85\\nReturn to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her\\nhands\\nI will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not\\nbe numbered for multitude, and thou shalt bear a son,\\nand shalt call his name Ishmael, because the Lord hath heard thy\\naffliction.\\nAnd he will be a wild man, his hand will be against every\\nman, and every man s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the\\npresence of all his brethren.\\nAnd she called the name of the well where God spoke unto her,\\nBeer-Lahai-roi, Thou God seest me.\\nAnd when Abram was eighty-six years old Hagar bare him a\\nson, and he called his name Ishmael.\\nThirteen years after this, the Lord appeared unto Abram in his\\nsixth vision, with these beautiful words: I am the Almighty God;\\nwalk before me, and be thou perfect.\\nAnd as Abram fell on his face, God talked with him, and estab-\\nlished the covenant of circumcision with him, and changed his\\nname from Abram to Abraham, for a father of many nations have\\nI made thee\\nAnd I will make thee exceedingly fruitful and I will make na-\\ntions of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.\\nIt was nearly nine hundred years before King David s time, but\\nhe was a lineal descendant of Abram in the fourteenth generation,\\nand a fulfillment of this prophecy.\\nThis is the covenant which God made with Abraham, and with\\nhis seed after him: Every man child among you shall be cir-\\ncumcised.\\nEvery male that is eight days old that is born in thy house, and\\nhe that is bought with thy money must needs be circumcised.\\nAnd my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting cov-\\nenant.\\nThis covenant was to the seed of Abraham, what baptism is to\\nus.\\nAnd he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the right-", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "86 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\neousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised; that he\\nmight be the father of all them that believe, though they be not cir-\\ncumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them\\nwho also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abra-\\nham.\\nFor the promise that he should be the heir of the world was\\nnot to Abraham or to his seed, through the law, but through the\\nrighteousness of faith.\\nIt was at this time that God also changed Sarai s name to\\nSarah, which means princess, and that He made this wonderful\\npromise concerning her: And I will bless her, and give thee a\\nson also of her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peo-\\nple shall be of her.\\nNow Abraham questioned in his heart, Shall a child be born\\nunto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah that is\\nninety years old bear?\\nAnd then out of the fulness of his heart came forth unto God\\nthe desire that had been there for thirteen years.\\na O that Ishmael might live before thee!\\nWhich prayer, right in itself, and which God answered, shows\\nhow often we are content with less than God desires to give us.\\nIshmael was not the child of promise, But he who was of the\\nbond-woman was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman was\\nby promise.\\nThis one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,\\nwhich is Hagar.\\nBut Jerusalem which is above (the heavenly Jerusalem) is free,\\nwhich is the mother of us all.\\nAnd God said, Sarah, thy wife, shall bear thee a son indeed,\\nand thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my cove-\\nnant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after\\nhim.\\nAnd remembering Abraham s prayer for Ishmael, God said:\\nAnd as for Ishmael, I have heard thee; behold, I have blessed him,\\nand will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;\\ntwelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE TEXT. 87\\nBut my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall\\nbear unto thee at this set time in the next year.\\nAnd he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abra-\\nham.\\nTalking with God! Surrounded by His presence, honored with\\nHis confidence; truly Abraham was the friend of God forever.\\nThou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, fear thou\\nnot, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will\\nstrengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with\\nthe right hand of my righteousness.\\nIn the self-same day, as God had said unto him, Abraham took\\nIshmael and every man among the men of his house and circum-\\ncised the flesh of their foreskin. And Abraham was ninety-nine\\nyears old when he was circumcised.\\nWe now have before us a beautiful picture of Oriental hospital-\\nity. As Abraham sat in the tent door in the heat of the day, the\\nLord appeared unto him; and as he looked he saw three men, and\\nhe ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself toward\\nthe ground.\\nThese were the Lord Himself and two of His angels, and Abra-\\nham said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass\\nnot away, I pray thee.\\nThen Abraham offered them water to wash their feet and food\\nfor the refreshing of their bodies, which they accepted.\\nAnd Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah and said,\\nMake ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and\\nmake cakes upon the hearth.\\nAnd Abraham ran unto the herd and fetched a calf, tender and\\ngood, and gave it unto a young man, and he hasted to dress it.\\nAnd he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed,\\nand set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree, and\\nthey did eat.\\nBe not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have\\nentertained angels unawares.\\nUse hospitality one to another without grudging.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "88 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nAs every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same\\none to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.\\nFor I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty\\nand ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and ye took me in.\\nAnd they said unto him, Where is Sarah, thy wife? and he\\nsaid, Behold in the tent.\\nAnd He (the Lord) said, I will certainly return unto thee, ac-\\ncording to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah, thy wife, shall have a\\nson. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.\\nAnd she laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old,\\nshall I have pleasure, my lord being also old?\\nAnd the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh?\\nIs anything too hard for the Lord?\\nThen Sarah denied having laughed, And he said, Nay, but\\nthou didst laugh.\\nO Lord of God, Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the\\nearth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is noth-\\ning too hard for thee.\\nGod is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abra-\\nham.\\nWith God all things are possible.\\nAnd the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom;\\nand Abraham went with them to bring them on their way. This\\ngoing a short distance with those starting on a journey seems to\\nhave been customary in olden times, as we have several instances\\nof it in the Bible. Paul and others being often brought on their\\nway by the church.\\nI would that I could do justice to the incident which follows:\\nAs the four, the Lord, the two angels and Abraham, went on their\\nway toward Sodom, the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham\\nthat thing which I do; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a\\ngreat and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be\\nblessed in him?\\nThis was the Lord Jesus Who was talking and Who had ap-\\npeared so many times to Abraham, for Jesus Himself said while\\nhere upon earth, No man hath seen God at any time.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE TENT. 91\\nAnd now He gives us a reason for taking Abraham into His con-\\nfidence, a beautiful truth concerning him:\\nFor I know him, that he will command his children and his\\nhousehold after him; and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do\\njustice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that\\nwhich he hath spoken of him.\\nDid you ever think of it, that while there are many great men,\\nthere are very few great fathers, and yet of all the beantiful char-\\nacteristics of Abraham, there is none more remarkable than this:\\nThat he commanded his children and his household after him.\\nIt was because of this that the Lord could bring upon him\\nthat which he had spoken.\\nAnd ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath, but bring\\nthem up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.\\nCorrect thy son and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give\\ndelight unto thy soul.\\nWhy is it that so many righteous people, ministers and church\\nmembers, have children who are a reproach to them? Is it because\\nthey are hypocrites, as some think? Nay, but because they have\\nneglected this one rule, which Joshua laid down for himself: As\\nfor me and my house, we will serve the Lord.\\nAnd these words which I command thee this day shall be in\\nthine heart; And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy chil-\\ndren.\\nLook at Eli and Samuel and King David! Was their home life\\nwhat it should be? Did they command their children after them?\\nBut Abraham receives his reward, and the Lord confides in him,\\nand as they walk, He tells him of the great wickedness of Sodom\\nand Gomorrah, and that He is going down to see if it is altogether\\naccording to the cry of it.\\nAnd as the two angels turn toward Sodom, the Lord remained,\\nwhile Abraham stood yet before him and pleaded for the tAvo\\nwicked cities of the plain.\\nHis cry was, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the\\nwicked?\\nAnd the Lord promised him that if there were fifty or forty or", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "92 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nthirty or twenty, or even ten righteous persons within Sodom, that\\nHe would not destroy it for their sakes.\\nAnd the Lord went his way as soon as he had left communing\\nwith Abraham, and Abraham returned unto his place.\\nBehold, this was the iniquity of thy Sister Sodom, pride, ful-\\nness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her\\ndaughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and\\nneedy.\\nAnd it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain\\nthat God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of\\nthe overthrow.\\nNow after his long residence in the plains of Mamre, Abraham\\njourneyed on again. It must have been with feelings of sadness\\nthat he left this resting place in his pilgrimage, where God had\\nappeared to him so many times, and had so wonderfully blessed\\nhim. At Mamre Ishmael was born the vision of the lamp of fire\\nwas given him and he received the visit of the angels. And years\\nafter Isaac came here to die.\\nAt Gerar Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister, and\\nAbimelech, King of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.\\nBut God appeared unto Abimelech and told him to restore\\nSarah unto her husband. And when Abimelech asked Abraham\\nwhy he had deceived him, Abraham said, Because I thought\\nsurely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for\\nmy wife s sake.\\nAnd yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my\\nfather, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my\\nwife.\\nAnd it came to pass when God caused me to wander from my\\nfather s house that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou\\nshalt shew unto me. At every place whither we shall come, say of\\nme, He is my brother.\\nAnd Abimelech, because of the words which God had spoken\\nunto him, made presents of sheep and oxen and men servants and\\nmaid servants unto Abraham, and restored unto him his wife.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "HMwT-wiWSBiiSii 1\\nABRAHAM SENDING AWAY HAGAR AND ISHMAEL.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE TENT. 95\\nAnd Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee; dwell\\nwhere it pleaseth thee.\\nAnd unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a\\nthousand pieces of silver. Behold, he is to thee a covering* of the\\neyes.\\nThus was she reproved.\\nSo Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and\\nhis wife and his maid servants, and they bare children.\\nFor the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of\\nAbimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham s wife.\\nNow they dwelt at Beer-sheba, As the Lord had. spoken, Sarah\\nbore Abraham a son when he was a hundred years old. And he\\ncalled his name Isaac, and as the Lord had commanded he circum-\\ncised his son at eight days old.\\nAnd Sarah said God hath made me to laugh, so that all who\\nhear me will laugh with me.\\nThen was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with\\nsinging.\\nSing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into sing-\\ning, and cry aloud.\\nAnd the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a\\ngreat feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.\\nAnd Sarah saw Ishmael, the son of Hagar, mocking.\\nBut as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him\\nthat was born after the spirit, even so it is now.\\nWherefore Sarah said unto Abraham, Cast out this bond-\\nwoman and her son; for the son of this bond-woman shall not be\\nheir with my son, even with Isaac\\nAnd the thing was very grievous in Abraham s sight because\\nof his son.\\nBut God comforted Abraham and told him to hearken unto\\nSarah s voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.\\nAnd also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation,\\nbecause he is thy seed.\\nEarly the next morning Abraham put bread and a bottle of", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "96 BIBLE HOME 8 AND FAMILIES.\\nwater on Ha gar s shoulder, and sent her away with her child, who\\nwas now a lad of fourteen years.\\nAnd the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the son\\nforever.\\nI have no doubt that Abraham s heart still yearned after this\\nson of the flesh. In this world we must bear the results of our\\nactions, even though the actions are forgiven.\\nHagar wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba, until the\\nwater was spent in the bottle, and then she laid Ishmael under a\\ntree and sat down a good way off, expecting that he would die from\\nheat and thirst. And she lifted up her voice and wept.\\nAnd the angel of the Lord spoke to her and said, Fear not, for\\nGod hath heard the voice of the lad where he is,\\nArise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand, for I will\\nmake him a great nation.\\nAnd God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.\\nAnd God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wil-\\nderness and became an archer.\\nAnd his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.\\nNow Abraham still abode at Beer-sheba in the land of Gerar,\\nand Abimelech, the king, and Phichol, the chief captain of his host,\\nsaid unto Abraham, God is with thee in all that thou doest.\\nHow wonderful to so live that even the heathen shall acknowl-\\nedge the presence and the power of our God!\\nNow Abimelech desired to enter into an agreement with Abra-\\nham that he should deal truly with him and his son and with his\\nson s son, as he had dealt with him.\\nAnd Abraham said I will swear. Then he reproved Abime-\\nlech because of a well of water which Abimelech s servants had vio-\\nlently taken away.\\nAnd Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto\\nAbimelech, and both of them made a covenant.\\nAnd Abraham set seven ewe lambs by themselves\\nthat they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.\\nThis well was called Beer-sheba, the well of the oath.\\nThen Abimelech returned to his home, and Abraham planted", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN THE TEXT. 97\\na grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord,\\nthe ever-lasting God. Wherever the tent was pitched, there was\\nraised an altar unto the Lord.\\nAnd Abraham sojourned in the Philistines land many days\\nBeer-sheba.\\nAnd it came to pass, after these things, that God did tempt\\nAbraham, or let us, like St. Peter, call it rather a trial of faith\\nthan a temptation.\\nLet no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God;\\nfor God cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth he any man.\\nNow when God called Abraham, he answered, as he had\\nthroughout his whole life, Behold, here am I.\\nAnd he said, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom\\nthou lovest and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him for\\na burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell\\nthee of.\\nWhen Abraham received this command, he did not even plead\\nwith God, as he had for Sodom and Gomorrah.\\nBy faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and\\nhe that had received the promises offered up his only begotten\\nson.\\nAnd Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his\\nass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac, his son,\\nand clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went\\nunto the place of which God had told him.\\nIt was not until the third day that they came in sight of the\\nplace.\\nThen Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with\\nthe ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come\\nagain to you.\\nAnd Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it\\nupon Isaac, his son, and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife;\\nand they went both of them together.\\nAnd he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the\\nplace of skull. 1", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "98\\nBIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nIsaac was now a grown man, over twenty years of age, although\\nhe still seemed but a lad to his father.\\nAnd Isaac spake unto Abraham, his father, and said: My\\nfather, 7 and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold\\nthe fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?\\nAnd Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb\\nfor a burnt offering; so they went both of them together.\\nThis is a beautiful picture of a man who commanded his house-\\nhold, so that they kept the way of the Lord, also of a son who hon-\\nored his father.\\nWhen they came to the mount, Abraham built an altar, and\\nlaid the wood in order, and bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on\\nthe altar upon the wood.\\nIsaac was a willing sacrifice and made no resistance as his fa-\\nther stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.\\nHath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices\\nas in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold to obey is better than\\nsacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.\\nWill the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten\\nthousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first born for my trans-\\ngression the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? And\\nwhat doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love\\nmercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?\\nAs Abraham stood with the knife uplifted ready to obey God at\\nsuch a fearful cost, the angel of the Lord called to him out of heav-\\nen and said, Abraham, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.\\nAnd he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou\\nanything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing\\nthat thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.\\nAbraham came as near to God in this act of obedient sacrifice\\nas is possible for mortal man.\\nGod so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.\\nGreater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life\\nfor his friends,\\nAbraham in laying down Isaac gave that which was dearer to\\nhim than his own life.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "l-\u00c2\u00abfC.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM OFFERING UP ISAAC.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN TILE TENT. 101\\nWas not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had\\noffered Isaac his son upon the altar?\\nSeest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works\\nwas faith made perfect?\\nAnd the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed\\nGod, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness; and he was\\ncalled the Friend of God.\\nAnd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold be-\\nhind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.\\nAnd Abraham offered up the ram instead of Isaac.\\nAnd Abraham called the name of that place, Jehovah-jireh,\\nwhich means the Lord will provide.\\nAnd now God honored Abraham with words which we find\\nnowhere else in the Bible. By myself have I sworn, saith the\\nLord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld\\nthy son, thine only son;\\nThat in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will\\nmultiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which\\nis upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his ene-\\nmies;\\nAnd in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed\\nbecause thou hast obeyed my voice.\\nFor when God made promise to Abraham, because he could\\nswear by no greater, he sware by himself.\\nThis mountain in the land of Moriah, where Abraham offered\\nIsaac, is supposed to be the place where many hundreds of years\\nlater the Lord appeared unto David, and where Solomon built the\\ntemple; in Mount Moriah, in Jerusalem.\\nIn possessing Jerusalem, his seed possessed the gate of his\\nenemies,\\nTwelve years after this wonderful event just narrated, Sarah\\ndied, being one hundred and twenty-seven years old. She had lived\\nto see many happy years with her dearly loved son Isaac. Few\\nwomen are more highly honored, more truly loved or more deeply\\nmourned by husband and son than was Sarah, the princess; al-", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "102 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nthough she did not live to see her grandchildren around her. Sarah\\ndied in Hebron in the land of Canaan at Mamre.\\nAnd Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.\\nAnd Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the\\nsons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you;\\ngive me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury\\nmy dead out of my sight.\\nAnd they answered, Hear us, my lord: Thou art a mighty\\nprince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead.\\nSo for four hundred shekels of silver Abraham bought the field\\nof Ephrom, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the\\nfield, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were\\nin the field, that were in the border round about.\\nHere Abraham buried Sarah his wife, and this burial place,\\nwhich Abraham bought, was the only ground in Canaan which he\\never owned, yet he looked forward to the day when the whole land\\nshould belong to his children.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Xlbe Ibome in Canaan.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\ntlfye ^ome in (Lanaart.\\nOf LTHOUGH Isaac was born to his mother in her old age,\\n/Jk yet were they blessed with thirty-seven years of mutual\\nlove and fellowship.\\nv-\u00c2\u00bb From the sacred narrative Ave have a beautiful im-\\npression of pleasant days of peace and plenty spent together by this\\nmother and son.\\nWhat more natural than that after her death, life to Isaac\\nshould be lonely and desolate.\\nSarah was the wife of Abraham s youth, they having lived to-\\ngether for over a hundred years, and her queenly love and care had\\nbeen to him a priceless benediction. She was, indeed, a royal com-\\npanion for the friend of God.\\nIsaac s miraculous birth and beautiful, peaceful nature had\\nso filled her hungry, childless heart that her life, after his coming,\\nhad been one song of praise to God.\\nBut now all this was over, however much they might mourn for\\nher; they must gather up the broken threads, and go on the re-\\nmainder of their earthly pilgrimage without her. Three years after\\nher death Abraham, now well stricken in age, felt that Isaac-\\nshould have a wife, and yet he could not bear to have him marry\\none of the Canaanitish women around them.\\nNeither shalt thou make marriages with them, thy daughter\\nshalt thou not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take\\nunto thy son.\\nSo Abraham called to him his old and trusted servant, Eliezer\\nof Damascus, into whose hands he had given all things, and he said,\\nPut, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh; and I will make thee\\nswear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth,\\nthat thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the\\nCanaanites among whom I dwell; but thou shalt go unto my coun-\\ntry, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.\\n105", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "106 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nIn those days, taking an oath was a more solemn affair than\\nnow, for writing was not known, and all business transactions were\\nby word of mouth.\\nThere were two forms of oaths; lifting up the hands unto heaven\\nor putting the hand under the thigh.\\nAn oath was so binding and so solemn that it was not taken\\nhastily. Even Eliezer was unwilling to take the oath, which\\nAbraham desired, until he was quite sure that he could perform\\nthis difficult mission.\\nHe thought of it all; the long journey of over six hundred miles,\\nhis ignorance of the country, and of the family to which Abraham\\nwished to send him.\\nWe remember that sixty years before, when Abraham left\\nHaran, where he had lived for two years, he had a brother, Nahor,\\nwho remained behind him.\\nIn all these years he had heard from him but once.\\nSome traveler, passing through Beer-sheba, had told him that\\nhis brother Nahor s wife, Milcah, had borne him eight sons, and\\nthat one of these sons, Bethuel, had a daughter, Rebekah; but\\nthat was fifteen years before, and many changes can take place in\\nthat time.\\nSo Eliezer said, suppose I find a woman of thy kindred, and she\\nwill not come with me, shall I return and take Isaac into that coun-\\ntry to find a wife for himself?\\nAnd Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring\\nnot my son thither again.\\nHe remembered how the word of the Lord had come to him at\\nHaran, saying, G t thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,\\nand from thy father s house, unto a land that I will show thee,\\nand Abraham wa s unwilling to let Isaac go so many hundred miles\\naway from the land which God had promised to his children for a\\npossession.\\nHow well to be in the way of the blessing!\\nThen Abraham encouraged the heart of Eliezer with these\\nbeautiful words: The Lord God of heaven, which took me from\\nmy father s house, and from my kindred, and which spake unto", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN CANAAN. 107\\nme, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this\\nland; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a\\nwife unto my son from thence.\\nBehold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,\\nand to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.\\nAre they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister\\nfor them who shall be heirs of salvation?\\nAbraham also reassured Eliezer by telling him that if the\\nwoman refused to come with him, he should be clear from his oath,\\nand he cautioned him again not to take Isaac, under any circum-\\nstances, into Mesopotamia.\\nThen Eliezer put his hand under Abraham s thigh and swore\\nto him, and straightway prepared for his journey to Haran.\\nEliezer being steward of Abraham s house, all things of his\\nmaster s were under his hand. To this thought we must add an-\\nother, And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things\\nhe had given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men\\nservants and maid servants, and camels and asses.\\nTherefore, how great were the preparations which Eliezer made\\nfor his important undertaking! Abraham was now a mighty\\nprince in Canaan, and Isaac was his sole heir: It was meet that\\nsuch a caravan should appear at Haran as w^ould be in keeping\\nwith their wealth and station.\\nBlessed is the man that feareth the Lord. His seed\\nshall be mighty in the earth. Wealth and riches shall be in\\nhis house.\\nThe blessing of the Lord it maketh rich; he added no sorrow\\nwith it.\\nSo Eliezer, who delighted to honor his master, loaded his cam-\\nels with everything that might be needed by the way, or that could\\nfurther his undertaking when he should arrive at his journey s end.\\nI have no doubt that Isaac and his father watched the caravan\\noff with many anxious thoughts, for its return meant so many\\nchanges to them.\\nNow it was evening when Eliezer arrived with his caravan, at", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "108 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nthe gates of the city of Haran; and he alighted, and made his cam-\\nels kneel down by a well, just as the women came out to draw\\nwater. And as he saw them, he lifted up this earnest prayer: O\\nLord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed\\nthis day and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. Behold, I\\nstand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of\\nthe city come out to draw water; and let it come to pass that the\\ndamsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee,\\nthat I may drink/ and she shall say: Drink, and I will give thy\\ncamels drink also let the same be she that thou hast appointed\\nfor thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast\\nshewed kindness unto my master.\\nAnd immediately Rebekah, Bethuel s daughter, the grand-\\ndaughter of Nahor, Abraham s brother, came out with her pitcher\\nupon her shoulder.\\nNow Rebekah was a very beautiful girl, and as she came up\\nfrom the well with her pitcher filled with water, Eliezer ran to\\nmeet her, and asked her for a drink, and she quickly let down her\\npitcher and held it in her hand while he drank, and said, Drink\\nmy lord And I will draw water for thy camels also\\nThen she threw the water that was left in her pitcher into the\\ntrough, and ran again unto the well and drew water\\nfor all his camels.\\nAnd Eliezer silently wondered whether or not this was the\\nanswer to his prayer.\\nAnd as the camels had done drinking, he gave Rebekah a\\ngolden jewel for her forehead of half a shekel weight, and two\\nbracelets of ten shekels weight of gold.\\nAnd said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, I pray thee,\\nis there room in thy father s house for us to lodge?\\nAnd when she answered: I am the daughter of Bethuel; there\\nis plenty of room for thee in my father s house, and also straw and\\nprovender for thy camels, this faithful old servant bowed down\\nhis head and worshiped the Lord.\\nThink of him so many hundreds of miles away from his home,\\nwhile weary and worn with travel, so loyal to his master, and so", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "mm mism^ t^tm\\n-TrTTaaai\\nABRAHAM S SERVANT AND REBECCA AT THE WELL.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN CANAAN. Ill\\ngrateful to his master s God, that he stopped outside the gate and\\noffered up this beautiful prayer: Blessed be the Lord God of my\\nmaster Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his\\nmercy and truth; I being in the way, the Lord led me to my master s\\nbrethren.\\nSurely, as for Abraham and his house they served the Lord.\\nAnd Rebekah ran home and told all that had happened, to her\\nmother and the household; and shewed them the gold bracelets and\\njewel; and Laban, her brother, ran out to Eliezer at the well and\\nsaid, Come in, thou blessed of the lord; wherefore standest thou\\nwithout? for I have prepared the house and room for the camels.\\nAnd Laban brought Eliezer and his servants into the house\\nand gave them water to wash their feet; and he ungirded the cam-\\nels and fed them.\\nThen meat was set before them, but Eliezer refused to eat until\\nhe had told them his errand. And they said, Speak on.\\nAnd Eliezer told all his wonderful story; how the Lord had\\nled him and blessed him, and Laban and his father, Bethuel, said,\\nThe thing proceedeth from the Lord; we cannot speak unto thee\\nbad or good.\\nBehold, Kebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her\\nbe thy master s son s wife as the Lord hath spoken.\\nAnd Eliezer worshiped the Lord, bowing himself to the\\nearth.\\nAnd he brought forth from his caravan jewels of silver and\\njewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he gave\\nalso precious things to her mother and her brother, Laban.\\nThen he and his servants ate their supper and tarried all night,\\nand in the morning Eliezer wished to leave them, but Rebekak s\\nmother and brother said, Let her abide with us for ten months or a\\nyear, and after that we will let her go with you.\\nBut Eliezer said, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath pros-\\npered my way.\\nAnd they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her\\nmouth.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "112 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nAnd they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go\\nwith this man? And she said, I will go.\\nAs we read these few simple words do we realize the tragedy\\nwrapped up in them? Rebekah left her home, her father, mother\\nand brother for a stranger, in a strange land; she gave up all things\\nthat were dear to her, and she never again saw home or mother\\nSo they went away, Rebekah and Deborah, her nurse, and\\nEliezer and his men.\\nAnd they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our\\nsister; be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy\\nseed possess the gate of those which hate them.\\nAnd this blessing was granted unto her. Look abroad over\\nthe earth, and you will see the thousands of millions of her chil-\\ndren, and they did possess Jerusalem, the gate of her enemies, as\\nGod promised they should do, and according to the prophecies they\\nwill possess it again.\\nIt was with a grateful heart that Eliezer turned his camels\\nheads homeward, having added Rebekah and Deborah and her\\ndamsels to his party. This was probably Rebekah s first trip away\\nfrom home, and I have no doubt she enjoyed the novelty and ex-\\ncitement of the situation; where is the young girl who would not?\\nIt was a journey of months, and she must at times have been\\nvery weary, yet she was treated like a princess, with servants to\\nwait upon her and everything provided for her comfort. Even to\\nmodern maidens this love story of Rebekah s, so different from the\\nlove stories of to-day, is full of romance. It is pleasant to picture\\nthis beautiful, oriental girl, in her lofty seat upon the back of the\\npatient camel, dreaming of the future, and wondering over and\\nover again how Isaac, her unknown lover, looked, and if she should\\nbe happy in that far away home which awaited her.\\nAnd it is very sweet to all of us to know that the next few\\nverses prove beyond a doubt that she never regretted her choice.\\nAs they went on their way Isaac came from the well, Lahai-\\nroi (where, the Lord spoke so beautifully to Hagar), for he dwelt\\nin the south country, Beer-sheba, his home, for one hundred and\\neighty years.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN C AX A AX. 113\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2And it was eventide and Isaac went out in the field to medi-\\ntate/ and to pray.\\nCould any words describe better the character of Isaac, the man\\nuf peace?\\nThis book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth: but\\nthou shalt meditate therein day and night for then thou\\nshalt make thy way prosperous, and thon shalt have good success.\\nBut his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he\\nmeditate day and night.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy\\nwavs.\\nT will meditate also of all thy work and talk of thy doings.\\nI remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy works: I\\nmuse on the work of thy hands.\\nAnd Isaac lifted up his eyes, and saw. and behold, the camels\\nwere coming.\\nAnd Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she\\nlighted off the camel.\\nFor she had questioned Eliezer, and he had told her that the\\nman coming to meet them was his master.\\nTherefore she took a vail and covered herself.\\nAnd the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.\\nAnd Isaac brought her unto his mother Sarah s tent and took\\nEebekah and she became his wife; and he loved her; and Isaac\\nwas comforted after his mother s death.\\nXow Abraham did not live long with Isaac and Rebekah, for\\nin about a year he married Keturah. and she bore six sons unto\\nhim, but neither these sons nor Ishmael were the heirs of Abra-\\nham.\\nFor Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.* But unto the\\ns\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbns of Keturah he gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac,\\nhis son. while he yet lived.\\nNow, although Abraham was so well pleased that Isaac had\\nmarried a daughter of his people, and that Sarah s tent was again\\noccupied, his faith was once more tested. He was assured that", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "114 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nin Isaac s seed the nations of the earth should bo blessed, yet for\\ntwenty years they had no children.\\nBut when Isaac s prayers wore heard, and Rebekah bore twin\\nboys, what a day of rejoicing it must have boon!\\nEsau, the older, was strong and Large and rod all over like a\\nhairy garment, bu1 Jacob, (ho younger, was a white, smooth-\\nskinned baby.\\nWhen Rebekah had enquired of the Lord concerning them, lie\\nhad told her thai the elder should scare the younger.\\nIsaac was sixty years of age when I hose boys were born. Any\\none can toll by the short description of them that Esau was frank-\\nhearted and generous, bold and daring, and given to a wild life in\\nthe open air, and because of Isaac s quiet retiring nature, he de-\\nlighted in this manly son; but Jacob s nature was gentle and home-\\nloving, much like his father s, but alas, that in it was also much of\\nhis mother s ami Ins Uncle Laban s crafty, worldly wisdom.\\nNow these boys had the example of their grandfather Abra-\\nham s saintly life before them for fifteen years, but it was Jacob\\nwho seemed to profit by it, for he grew up with the longing in his\\nheart for the blessing which should be given to his elder brother.\\nAt the age of one hundred and seventy-live years Abraham\\ndied; an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his peo-\\nple.\\nAnd his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him beside his dearly\\nloved wife Sarah, in the cave of Machpolah, which he had bought\\nfrom the sons of I loth.\\nTims died this man of whom Nehemiah said, God found his\\nheart faithful.\\nAnd it came to pass after the death of Abraham that God\\nblessed his son Isaac; and Isaac d welt by the well Lahai-roi.\\nAnd the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the\\nfield; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.\\nThis description of Jacob, short as it is, means a great deal, and\\nwill explain many things in regard to his character which are hard\\nto understand, A plain man, if you will turn to the references\\nyon will see (hat (his might be translated a perfect man. Now we", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "ESAU SELLING HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR POTTAGE.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN CANAAN. 117\\nknow that the life of Jacob was very far from perfect; but neither\\nwas Abraham s life perfect; Man looketh on the outward appear-\\nance, but God looketh on the heart. Jacob was a very patient\\nman, like Job, and his desire was toward God. This explains why\\nGod chose him for the blessing instead of his more attractive\\nbrother Esau.\\nHis dwelling was in tents, which better befitted the heir of the\\npromises, for he was a sojourner in Canaan, as in a strange coun-\\ntry.\\nAnd Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison, but\\nRebekah loved Jacob. This unwise preference, plainly mani-\\nfested, brought trouble into the home of peace-loving Isaac, as we\\nshall see.\\nOne day Esau came home from the field tired and faint, just\\nas Jacob made some pottage of red lentiles, and Esau said, Feed\\nme, I pray thee, with that same red pottage, for I am faint; there-\\nfore was his name called Edom, which means red, and his descend-\\nants were alwavs called Edomites.\\nNow Jacob, thinking ever of his brother s much coveted pos-\\nsession, said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said,\\nBehold, I am at the point of death, and what profit shall this\\nbirthright do me?\\nAnd Jacob made him swear that he would relinquish all claim\\nto the birthright and then he gave him bread and pottage of\\nlentiles, and Esau ate and drank, and rose up and went his way;\\nthus did Esau despise his birthright.\\nHath a man no better thing under the sun than to eat and\\ndrink?\\nWhat advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and\\ndrink; for to-morrow we die.\\nLook diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God\\nas Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.\\nShortly after this event there was a famine in the land of\\nCanaan, as there had been, over a hundred years before, when\\nAbraham first came to sojourn there. And Isaac went unto Gerar,\\nabout twenty miles west of Beer-sheba, the land of Abimelech, the", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "118 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nKing of the Philistines, and here the Lord appeared unto him for\\nthe first time.\\nThe Lord told him not to go down into Egypt, but to remain\\nwhere he was; and He promised him that He would perform the\\noath which He sware unto Abraham, I will make thy seed to mul-\\ntiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these\\ncountries, and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be\\nblessed.\\nAnd Isaac dwelt in Gerar for a few months.\\nDid you ever notice how the sins as well as the virtues of\\nparents are inherited by their children?\\nHere was Isaac, great in faith, pure in heart, built up in the\\npromises, just as his father Abraham had been, and yet we see him\\nstooping to the same small deceit toward another Abimelech, of\\nwhich his father had once been guilty. He thought to pass Eebekah\\noff as his sister, but Abimelech saw him sporting with her in the\\nfield, and he sent for him and said, Behold of a surety, she is thy\\nwife, and timid Isaac admitted that he had called her his sister,\\nlest he should die for her.\\nThen Abimelech reproved him, and commanded his men that\\nevery kindness should be shown to Isaac, for he remembered the\\ncovenant which had been made with Abraham.\\nAnd Isaac became very great. He had flocks and\\nherds and great store of servants; and the Philistines envied him.\\nAnd filled up the wells, which his father s servants had digged,\\nwith earth, for you know in that country digging a well establishes\\na claim to the land.\\nSo when Abimelech asked Isaac to go from them, for he was\\nmuch mightier than them, Isaac pitched his tent in the valley.\\nNow, Isaac was of such a peaceful nature that when his ser-\\nvants found a well of springing water and the herdman of Gerar\\nstrove for it, he gave it up to them. Twice after this he gave up\\nthe wells which his servants dug. The same night that he removed\\nfrom thence to Beer-sheba, the Lord appeared to him, the second\\ntime, and he built an altar there.\\nNow Abimelech and his chief captain, Phichol, came unto", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN XJANAAN. 119\\nhim, as they had unto Abraham, and wanted to enter into friendly\\nrelations with him.\\nTkev said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee.\\nThou art now the blessed of the Lord.\\nAnd Isaac made them a feast, and they sware one to\\nanother.\\nAnd Isaac sent tliem away in peace; and the well that his\\nservants found there he called Shebah. Therefore, the name of the\\ncity is Beer-sheba,\\nIsaac s sons were now forty years old, and at this age Esau mar-\\nried two wives Judith and Bashemath whose fathers were llit-\\ntites.\\nYou remember, it was of these Hittites, or children of Heth,\\nthat Abraham bought the field and the cave for a burial ground for\\nSarah.\\nThese w T ives, of course, were heathen, and we are told that they\\nwere a great grief of mind to Esau s father and mother.\\nAn interval of thirty-six years occurs between the event of\\nEsau s marriage to the heathen women and the next one which is\\nrecorded, but we know from all that occurred before and from\\nwhat follows after, that they are years in which Isaac is prevented\\nfrom securing the blessing for either son because of his unfair\\npartiality for Esau. Isaac knew when Rebekah Avent to enquire\\nof the Lord, that He had told her that The elder should serve the\\nyounger, yet he coveted the blessing for Esau, and determined to\\nsecure it to him, even though he knew that his children, with\\nheathen mothers, brought up in the midst of idolatrous worship,\\nwere not fitted for the great future which God intended for the\\nheirs of the blessing. Now, although Isaac was remiss in his duty,\\nthis does not excuse Rebekah and Jacob for their part in the fol-\\nlowing transaction. The blessing would have been given, where\\nit belonged, without any deception on their part.\\nIt came to pass, when Isaac was one hundred and thirty-six\\nyears old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he\\ncalled Esau, his elder son, and said unto him, My son, and he said\\nunto him, Behold, here am L", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "120 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nThen Isaac told him that he was now old, and knew not the\\nday of his death, and he wished him to take his quiver and his\\nbow out into the field and hunt him some venison, and prepare\\nhim savoury meat, such as he loved, that he might bless him before\\nhe died.\\nAnd Kebekah heard this, and when Esau was gone, she called\\nJacob to her and told him all.\\nThen she bade him go to the flock and bring her two kids of the\\ngoats, from which she would prepare just such meat as his father\\nloved, and he should take it to him, that he might bless him before\\nhe died.\\nJacob was rather timid about doing this not because he\\nthought it was wrong, but for fear the deceit might be discovered.\\nHe said, Esau is a hairy man, while I am a smooth man. If my\\nfather should find me out, I shall bring a curse upon me and not\\na blessing.\\nAnd his mother said, Upon me be thy curse, my son.\\nSo Jacob obeyed her voice, and she prepared the savoury meat,\\nand took of Esau s clothes, which were in the house, and put them\\nupon Jacob.\\nShe also put skins of the kids upon his hands and upon his\\nneck. And Jacob went unto his father and said, My father, and\\nhe said, Here am I. And he said, Who art thou, my son? And\\nJacob said unto his father, I am Esau, thy first born; I have done\\naccording as thou badest me; arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my\\nvenison, that thy soul may bless me.\\nNow Isaac was not quite satisfied on account of Jacob s voice,\\nbut, as he felt his hairy hands, he blessed him, and said Art thou\\nmy very son Esau? And he said, I am.\\nThen he ate of the venison and drank of the wine, and told\\nJacob to kiss him, and when he smelled the raiment, he said, See,\\nthe smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath\\nblessed.\\nTherefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness\\nof the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.\\nLet people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee; be lord", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN Ci.VA.iT. 12.J\\nover thy brethren, and let thy mother s sons bow down to thee.\\nCursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that\\nblesseth thee.\\nIt is not wonderful that both sons should have desired this rich\\nblessing, from a father who had power with God, and could call\\ndown np m them such treasures as the--.\\nBut we know that much of the joy of receiving it was taken\\nfrom Jacob because of the fear of detection, and that his mother\\ntrembled for him as she watched for Esau s return. And they\\nmight well be uneasv. for Jacob had scarcely left his father s\\npresence when Esau came from the field; he also prepared the\\nsavoury meat, which his father loved, and brought it to him.\\n-And Isaac, his father, said unto him, Who art thou? And he\\nsaid, I am thy son, thy first born, Esau.\\nAnd Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? Where\\nis he that hath taken venison and brought it to me and I have eaten\\nof all before thou earnest, and have blessed him? Yea and he shall\\nbe blessed.\\nAnd when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with\\na great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless\\nme, even me also, O my father/\\nAnd he said thy brother came with snbtilty, and hath taken\\naway thy blessing.\\nHow well this illustrates Isaac s gentle nature: he knew that\\nhe had been deceived, and that Rebekah must have helped Jacob\\nin his deception. Yet he had no thought of upbraiding them; he\\naccepted the inevitable, even though his lifelong wish and plan was\\nfrustrated by it.\\nThen Esau said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? for he hath\\nsupplanted me these two times; he took away my birthright, and\\nbehold now he hath taken away my blessing.\\nEsau seems to have forgotten that it was his own impatient\\nnature which had induced him to sell his birthright; that no one\\ncould have taken that away from him.\\nAnd now he said unto his father, Hast thou not reserved a\\nblessing for me?", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "124 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nAnd Isaac answered, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and\\nall his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn\\nand wine have I sustained him; and what shall I do now unto thee,\\nmy son?\\nAnd Esau said, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless\\nme, even me, also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and\\nwept.\\nFor we know that afterward when he would have inherited\\nthe blessing he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance,\\nthough he sought it carefully with tears. It was a sad trial to\\ngentle, loving Isaac to see his strong, fearless, and yet many times\\ncareless and indifferent son broken down with grief like this, so,\\nalthough he could not give him the desired blessing, he did his\\nbest to comfort him with these words Behold, thy dwelling shall\\nbe the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;\\nand by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy brother; and\\nit shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion that\\nthou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.\\nAnd shalt serve thy brother These words were very hard\\nfor Esau to bear; yet they were fulfilled, in King David s time.\\nAnd he put garrisons in Edom; and all they of Edom became\\nDavid s servants.\\nBut the latter part thou shalt break his yoke from off thy\\nneck was also fulfilled in the time of King Joram. In his days\\nEdom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king\\nover themselves.\\nAnd Esau hated Jacob, because of these words of his father s,\\nand he said that it would not be long until his father s death, and\\nthen he should kill Jacob.\\nHow truly this vain threat of Esau s proves to us that we know\\nnot the day of one s death, for, although Isaac was blind and feeble,\\nhe lived for forty-four years after this. But Bebekah, upon hear-\\ning of these words of her elder son, was very much frightened, and\\ncalled Jacob to her and told him that Esau proposed to kill him.\\nNow, therefore, my son. Arise, flee thou to Laban, my\\nbrother, to Haran, and tarry with him a few days, until thy", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN CANAAN. 125\\nbrother s fury turn away and he forget that which thou\\nhast done to him; then I will send and fetch thee from thence.\\nWhy should I be deprived also of you both in one day? Rebekah\\nalready began to suffer for her deceit; and the few days which\\nshe proposed her much loved Jacob should be absent proved to be\\nover twenty years. Alas that she never saAV his face again!\\nThirty years of his life was he separated from his father, and\\nall because they had relied upon their human wisdom, instead of\\non the promises of God.\\nRebekah, intent upon Jacob s welfare, said to Isaac: I am\\nweary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take\\na wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the\\ndaughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?\\nThen Isaac, ever considerate of Rebekah s wishes, called Jacob\\nto him and blessed him again, and charged him not to take a wife\\nof the Canaanites, but to go to Padan-Aram, to his grandfather s\\nhouse the house of Bethuel, his mother s father and take a wife\\nof the daughters of Laban, his mother s brother.\\nAnd God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and\\nmultiply thee, that thou may est be a multitude of people.\\nAnd give thee the blessing of Abraham; to thee and to thy seed\\nwith thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a\\nstranger, which God gave unto Abraham.\\nYou see Isaac at last recognized the fact that Jacob was the\\nheir to the promises, and at the late age of seventy-six years, he\\nsent him away to fulfill his destiny.\\nI have no doubt that as he started off to go to the home of her\\nchildhood, Rebekah thought how different had been her coming,\\nnearly a hundred years before. She must have regretted the chain\\nof circumstances which made it necessary for him to leave his\\nfather s home and the land of his birth, in this hast} 7 friendless\\nsort of way on foot and unattended. As she watched his solitary\\nfigure fade into the distance, in imagination she saw a train of\\ncamels come slowly into view. On the back of one was seated a\\nbeautiful, dark-eyed maiden, and there, coming to welcome her,\\nwas her future lord he who had been for nearly a century the gen-", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "126 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\ntie, loving husband of the beautiful woman. As the record of Re-\\nbekah s life is closed for us, we see her for the last time with her\\neyes filled with tears. We know nothing of her death we only\\nknow that she was buried in the cave of Machpelah, with Abraham\\nand Sarah.\\nWhen Esau saw that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother,\\nand was gone to Padan-Aram, he remembered their charge to Jacob\\nthat he should not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan, so he\\ntook another wife Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, the grand-\\ndaughter of Abraham.\\nAnd Jacob went out from Beer-sheba and went toward\\nHaran.\\nAnd Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for\\na wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "TLbe Ibome of tbe Sbepberb.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "JACOB S VISION OF THE ANGELS.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nCfyc ^ome of tfye Sfyepfyerb.\\n*7T XD Jacob plodded on his weary way until the sun was set.\\nly The darkness gathered fast, and the gloom of night settled\\naround him. As the stars came out one by one, they seemed\\nx-,to him to have lost their wonted warnith and friendliness,\\nsince last he looked at them from the door of the tent which shel-\\ntered his warm-hearted mother and his gentle, patient father.\\nHe had never before realized what life would be without their\\nlove and care, and he felt it to be a hard fate that had sent him\\nfrom them on this lonely, toilsome pilgrimage.\\nAs the night closed in around him, he took of the stones for his\\npillows, and he dreamed.\\nIn a dream, in the vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth\\nupon man then he (the Lord) openeth the ears of men, and\\nsealeth their instruction.\\nThis was what God did to this timid, deceitful, yet patient, God-\\nfearing Jacob.\\nIn this lonely night, as he slept upon the ground, there came to\\nhim a beautiful vision of a ladder set upon the earth, and the top\\nof it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending\\nand descending upon it. And behold the Lord stood above it, and\\nsaid, I am the Lord God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of\\nIsaac; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy\\nseed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt\\nspread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to\\nthe south; and in thee and in thv seed shall all the families of the\\nearth be blessed.\\nAnd behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places\\nwhither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I\\nwill not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to\\nthee of.\\nThis beautiful vision, with the words of promise, ratified the\\n129", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "130 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nblessing of Isaac, which Jacob had desired all his life, and the\\nheart of the lonely man was comforted.\\nThe angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear\\nhim, and delivereth them.\\nIt is beautiful to know that in His work here upon earth, the\\nLord is attended by numerous angels, and spirits, who are sent\\nhere and there and everywhere to fulfill His commands.\\nBless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that do\\nhis commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.\\nBless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that do\\nhis pleasure.\\nThousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand\\ntimes ten thousands stood before him. And we, too, shall be add-\\ned to this innumerable throng, if only we are faithful unto death.\\nThis little marrow sphere, in which we are now so busy, will\\nwiden out until we shall be able to comprehend, and enter in to\\nthe work of the universe.\\nThis night spent with God and His wonderful host made a new\\nman out of Jacob; he arose from his stony pillows with the fear\\nof God in his heart instead of the fear of man.\\nAnd he took the stone and poured oil upon the top of it, and set\\nit up for a pillar, and he called that place Bethel (the house of\\nGod), but the name of the city was called Luz at the first.\\nAnd Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and\\nwill keep me in the way that I go and will give me bread to eat,\\nand raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father s house\\nin peace, then shall the Lord be my God.\\nIt was here that Jacob originated the system of tithing, for he\\nadded to his vow these words, And of all that thou shalt give me,\\nI will surely give the tenth unto thee. It seems strange that\\nJacob, fleeing from Esau, should have slept that first night under\\nthe very sliadow of his grandfather Abraham s altar, Bethel.\\nAfter this Jacob resumed his journey without anything of note\\nhappening to him, until he came to the children of the east.\\nAnd he rested in a field beside a well, where there were three\\nflocks of sheep waiting until all the shepherds should be gathered,", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF THE SHEPHERD. 131\\nand the stone should be rolled from the mouth of the well. And\\nwhen Jacob found the shepherds were from Haran, he asked them\\nof Laban, and they said, He is well and behold, Rachel, his\\ndaughter, cometh with the sheep.\\nWe can haye but a faint conception of the thoughts that filled\\nthe heart of Jacob as he saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his\\nmother s brother.\\nMany, many times he had heard his dearly loyed mother talk\\nof her brother Laban, the playmate and friend of her childhood;\\nand of Haran, her childhood s home; he could scarcely realize that\\nhe was, indeed, there, and that this beautiful maiden, before him,\\nwas his own cousin. It was of all this that he was thinking as he\\ndrew near, and rolled the stone from the well s mouth and\\nwatered her flock.\\nAnd this homesick man kissed Rachel his cousin, and lifted up\\nhis voice and wept; he had no gold bracelets or jewels to give her,\\nsuch as Eliezer had given to Rebekah. Although he was the son\\nof a mighty prince, he came alone and unattended, foot-sore and\\nweary, a fugitive from home, yet God had blessed him, and had\\nbrought him to his kindred.\\nWhen Jacob told Rachel that he was Rebekah s son, she ran\\nand told her father.\\nThis was wonderful tidings for Laban, for we have no record\\nthat he had ever heard of his sister since she left their father s\\nhome, nearly a hundred years before; so that we can well under-\\n7 %s *s 7\\nstand the warmth of his welcome; he ran to meet Jacob, and em-\\nbraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And\\nhe told Laban all these things. He opened his heart to his uncle,\\nand told him all about Rebekah and Isaac and their home, and\\nwhy he had left in such haste; and, I am sure, it was with a tremor\\nin his voice and a hunger in his heart that he talked to his uncle\\nand cousins of that dear father and mother and their home of\\nplenty so far away.\\nAnd Laban claimed him as his bone and flesh, and he visited\\nat his uncle s house for a month, but we know from Laban s words\\nthat he made himself very useful, for his uncle said to him, Be-", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "132 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\ncause thou art my brother (or a relative) shouldest thou therefore\\nserve me for naught? Tell me what shall thy wages be?\\nAs the presence of Eebekah had comforted Isaac for his moth-\\ner s death, so the presence of Rachel was as mother and home and\\nnative land to the heart of Jacob, as his answer to Laban s ques-\\ntion fully proves: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy\\nyounger daughter.\\nLeah, Laban s older daughter, was tender eyed, but Rachel\\nwas beautiful and well favored, and Jacob loved her.\\nIt was the custom, in the time and country of Laban, for the\\nfather to receive a dowry for his daughter, but think of the covet-\\nousness of a father who could take for a dowry seven years service.\\nAnd yet we are told that Jacob served seven years for Rachel;\\nand they seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to\\nher.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i At the end of the seven years service Laban made a great mar-\\nriage feast and invited to it everybody in the place. And in the\\nevening he veiled Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he gave Zil-\\npah, his maid, to Leah for a handmaid.\\nWhen Jacob upbraided Laban for deceiving him thus, his uncle\\ntold him that in his country the younger daughter could not be\\nmarried before the elder, although he had been careful to say\\nnothing of this custom when he agreed to give him Rachel for his\\nseven years work. Jacob, no doubt, thought of his own crafty\\nscheming with Esau, and made no objection when Laban offered\\nto give him Rachel also, at the close of the week s festivities, if he\\nwould serve him for seven years longer.\\nMany waters cannot quench love; neither can the flood drown\\nit.\\nLove beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,\\nendureth all things.\\nThus it happened that at the close of the feast Rachel was also\\nmarried to Jacob, and he loved her more than Leah.\\nLeah was gentle and tender-eyed, and she was comforted for\\nthe absence of her husband s love by the children with which the\\nLord blessed her.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF THE SHEPHERD. 133\\nHer first four sons were Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah. The\\nsons of Levi became the tribe which the Lord afterward set apart\\nfor the priesthood, and it was through Judah that the wonderful\\npromise to Abraham was fulfilled, In thy seed shall all the na-\\ntions of the earth be blessed.\\nAnd Rachel, being* grieved because she had no children, gave\\nher handmaid, Bilhah, to Jacob to be his wife, and she bore Jacob\\ntwo sons Dan and Naphtali. And about the same time Leah\\ngave her maid, Zilpah, to Jacob to be his wife, and she also bore\\nhim two sons Gad and Asher.\\nLeah s fifth son she called Issachar, and when her sixth son was\\nborn, Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry, now\\nwill my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six\\nsons; and she called his name Zebulun.\\nAnd afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Di-\\nnah.\\nAnd God remembered Rachel, and she bore a son and called\\nhis name Joseph, which means adding, for she said, The Lord\\nshall add to me another son.\\nLo, children are the heritage of the Lord; and the fruit of\\nthe womb is his reward.\\nAs arrows are in the hand of the mighty man, so are children\\nof the youth.\\nHappy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.\\nNow Jacob had eleven sons and one daughter, all born within\\nabout seven years.\\nAbout the time that Joseph was born Jacob s fourteen years\\nof service for Rachel and Leah expired, and he desired very much\\nto return to Canaan.\\nSo Jacob said to his uncle: Give me my wives and my children,\\nfor whom I have served thee, and let me go; for thou knowest my\\nservice which I have done thee.\\nBut Laban urged him to remain with him, saying, I have\\nlearned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.\\nAppoint me thy wages and I will give it.\\nThen Jacob told Laban again how he had served him, and how", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "134 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES,\\nthe little he had when he came unto him had increased to a multi-\\ntude, And now when shall I provide for my own house?\\nAnd Laban said, What shall I give thee?\\nThen Jacob proposed to take for his hire all the speckled and\\nspotted among the goats, and the brown among the sheep.\\nTo this Laban consented; so he removed the speckled and\\nspotted and brown from the flock, and gave them into the hands\\nof his sons, and he set three days journey between himself and\\nJacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban s flock.\\nAnd Jacob increased exceedingly and had much cattle, and\\nmaid servants and men servants, and camels and asses.\\nAnd he heard Laban s sons say that it was from their father\\nthat he had gotten all this wealth, and he also noticed that Laban\\nwas not friendly toward him as he had been.\\nWhile he was thinking of all this, the Lord spoke to him, say-\\ning, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and\\nI will be with thee.\\nAnd Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto\\nhis flock.\\nHow natural when there is to be a family counsel to go to some\\nquiet place, where the children, with their quick ears, and the\\nservants, with their ready tongues, will not be near to overhear\\nwhat is said.\\nAnd Jacob said, I see your father s countenance that it is not\\ntowards me as heretofore and ye know that with all my\\nheart I have served him. And your father hath deceived me, and\\nchanged my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt\\nme.\\nThus God hath taken awav the cattle of vour father and given\\nthem to me.\\nAnd the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying,\\nJacob, and I said, Here am I. And he said I have\\nseen all that Laban doeth unto thee. I am the God of Bethel,\\nwhere thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou voweclst a vow\\nunto me: Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto\\nthe land of thy kindred.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF THE SHEPHERD. 135\\nAnd Rachel and Leah answered Is there yet any\\nportion or inheritance for us in our father s house? Are\\nwe not counted of him strangers? For he hath sold us and quite\\ndevoured also our money.\\nFor all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that\\nis ours, and our children s; now then whatsoever God hath said\\nunto thee, do.\\nAnd ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath. Laban s\\nunjust and covetous conduct toward his daughters had turned\\ntheir hearts away from him.\\nThen Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon\\ncamels. And he carried away all his cattle, and all *his goods\\nwhich he had gotten for to go to Isaac, his father, in the\\nland of Canaan. And Jacob stole away unawares to\\nLaban, and on the third day when he found out that they were\\ngone, Laban went after them and overtook them after seven days\\njourney.\\nBut Laban was warned of God in a dream, Take heed that\\nthou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. So when Laban\\n.came up with Jacob he complained that he had stolen away, and\\nhad not let him send him away with mirth, and had not allowed\\nhim to kiss his sons and daughters.\\nAnd Laban said, The God of your father spake unto me yester-\\nnight, saying take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good\\nor bad. And now though thou wouldest needs be gone, because\\nthou sore longest after thy father s house, yet wherefore hast thou\\nstolen mv ^ods?\\nNow Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel s\\nfurniture, and sat upon them.\\nAnd Laban searched through all the tents, but found them not,\\nand Jacob was angry and said, What is my sin, that thou hast\\nso hotly pursued after me?\\nThis twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy\\nshe goats have not cast their young (without my care) and\\nthe rams of thy flock have I not eaten.\\nThat which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "136 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nthe loss of it, of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by\\nday or stolen by night.\\nThus I was; in the clay the drought consumed me, and the frost\\nby night; and mine sleep departed from mine eyes.\\nIn these words of Jacob s the lot of a shepherd is fully described\\nto us; the lonely vigils, the intense heat by day and the blighting\\ncold by night. Jacob, now nearly a hundred years old, was begin-\\nning to feel this burden, which he had carried from his youth up.\\nAnd this life of Jacob s was the common lot of all shepherds.\\nYet how God has honored them! Look down the years from\\nJacob s time and you will see David keeping his father s sheep;\\nand the shepherds on Judea s hills, who heard the song of the\\nangels, which has been echoed down the ages, until we still hear it.\\nThen there was the Good Shepherd, who carried the lambs in His\\nbosom; that same dear Shepherd who came to seek and to save\\nthat which was lost.\\nBut none of the ransomed ever knew,\\nHow deep were the waters crossed,\\nNor how dark was the night the Lord passed through,\\nEre He found His sheep that wa s lost.\\nAnd Jacob said, Except the God of my father, the God of\\nAbraham and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou\\nhadst sent me away now empty.\\nAnd Jacob and Laban made a covenant and set up stones for a\\npillar.\\nAnd Laban called it Mizpah, a beacon or watchtower: The\\nLord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from\\nanother.\\nAnd they sware that they would never pass over the pillar to\\nharm each other. And early in the morning Laban rose up, and\\nkissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them and departed.\\nThen Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.\\nWe do not know why they should have appeared to him at this\\ntime, unless it was to encourage his heart as he entered the prom-\\nised land, from which he had been so long absent. Much of the", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "JACOB WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF TEE SEEPEERD. 139\\njoy of his homecoming, however, was destroyed by the remem-\\nbrance of the wrong which he had done to his brother, Esau, who\\nwas the father of the Edomites, and was become a great military\\nchief. Jacob sent messengers before him to tell Esau of his ar-\\nrival from his Uncle Laban s and that he had grown rich and\\nwished to find grace in the eyes of his brother.\\nAnd the messengers returned and said they had met Esau, and\\nhe was coming to meet Jacob with four hundred men. This greatly\\nfrightened Jacob, and he divided his company into bands, and\\nprayed earnestly to God that He would deliver him. Reminding\\nHim of His promise, Jacob said, With my staff I passed over this\\nJordan; and now I become two bands.\\nAnd he lodged there that same night, and took of that which\\ncame to his hand a present for Esau, his brother.\\nWe get an idea of what a great pastoral chief Jacob had be-\\ncome by the size of this present which he sent to his brother.\\nNearly six hundred animals, goats, sheep, camels, cows and\\nasses. He divided them into droves with a space between each\\ndrove and instructed each servant, as he was met by his brother,\\nto say, It is a present to my lord Esau; from our master Jacob;\\nand behold also he is behind us.\\nA man s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before\\ngreat men.\\nThen Jacob said, I will appease him w T ith the present that\\ngoeth before, and afterward I will see his face, peradventure he\\nwill accept of me.\\nSo he lodged in the company that night and while it was yet\\ndark he arose up and took his two wives and his two women ser-\\nvants, and his eleven sons, and all that he had, and sent them\\nover the ford Jabbok.\\nThis brook Jabbok was the border of that portion of the land\\nof Canaan which was given, years afterward, to the tribes descend-\\ned from two of Leah s sons the Reubenites and the Gadites,\\nAfter Jacob had seen all his loved ones safely over the ford of\\nthe river, he remained behind for a season of prayer, and as he", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "140 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nprayed alone in this extremity, there wrestled a man with him\\nuntil the breaking of the day.\\nThis man with whom Jacob wrestled was God the Son, for\\nJesus has told us that no man hath seen God the Father at any\\ntime.\\nThis experience of Jacob s is very hard to understand, unless\\nwe look upon this physical encounter as symbolical of that wrest-\\nling in which we must all take part, if we would be delivered from\\nthe power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of His dear\\nSon.\\nFor we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against prin-\\ncipalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this\\nworld, against spiritual wickedness in high places.\\nWith Jacob it was the wrestling of mental fervor to obtain\\na blessing.\\nThis test of the strength of Jacob s earnest desire for the bless-\\ning was similar to that to which his grandfather Abraham had\\nbeen exposed, in the trial of his faith.\\nLet us tread softly and speak low, for we are on holy ground,\\nand only as the divine spirit is given to us can we hope to under-\\nstand this wonderful revelation of the Son, as revealed to Jacob.\\nAnd when Christ, using only human strength as matched with\\nJacob s, saw that He prevailed not, He touched the hollow of Ja-\\ncob s thigh and it was out of joint. The spirit, indeed, is willing,\\nbut the flesh is weak. Yet by his strength of purpose, still wrest-\\nling, and making supplication, Jacob had power with God and pre-\\nvailed.\\nAnd he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And Jacob an-\\nswered, I will not let thee go except thou bless me. Then unto\\nJacob, who had overcome, was given this new name Israel, a\\nprince of God; for as a prince thou hast power with God and with\\nmen, and hast prevailed.\\nAnd Jacob said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said,\\nWherefore, is it that thou askest after my name? Seeing it is\\nsecret (or wonderful) And he blessed him there.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "g i. ri n i M l l ii\\nv:^.^:/v\\nmqmMwwmMM\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Hill\\nMEETING OF ESAU AND JACOB.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF THE SHEPHERD. 143\\nTo you and to me, dear reader, if we overcome shall be given a\\nmore wonderful name than Israel.\\nAnd they (the pure in heart) shall see his face; and his name\\nshall be in their foreheads.\\nAnd I will write upon him my new name.\\nAnd Jacob called the name of this place Peniel; for I have\\nseen God face to face, and my life is preserved.\\nYou see this was Christ the Son, for God the Father said to\\nMoses: Thou canst not see my face and live, for there shall no\\nman see me and live.\\nYou remember when St. John saw God the Son in his vision, he\\nsaid, His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And\\nwhen I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.\\nThe sun rose just as Jacob went on his way, halting upon his\\nthigh.\\nThis hollow of the thigh, where the sinew shrank, is sacred unto\\nthe children of Israel unto this day; Therefore they eat not of it.\\nAnd as Jacob joined his family, where they were encamped, he\\nsaw Esau coming towards him, with four hundred men; and he\\nsupposed that they had come to fulfill Esau s threat of over twenty\\nyears before. And he put the hand-maids and their children fore-\\nmost and Leah and her children after, and Eachel and Joseph\\nhindermost.\\nAnd he went just ahead of them, and bowed himself to the\\nground seven times.\\nAnd Esau ran to meet him, and kissed him and welcomed him\\nback to Canaan.\\nGenerous hearted Esau had long since gotten over his anger,\\nand was truly glad that his brother was no longer a fugitive from\\nhome, through fear of him.\\nAnd he said, Who are these with thee? And Jacob answered,\\nMy wives and children, which God hath graciously given me.\\nThen the hand-maidens and their children came near and\\nbowed, then came Leah and her children, and last of all came beau-\\ntiful Rachel, with her dearly loved Joseph, now six years old.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "144 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nAnd as Esau asked after the drove which he had met Jacob told\\nthem, These are to find grace in the eyes of my Lord.\\nAnd Esau said I have enough, my brother; keep that thou\\nhast unto thyself.\\nBut Jacob urged him, saying, I have seen thy face as though\\nI had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.\\nTake, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because\\nGod hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have all things.\\nThus urged, Esau accepted the present and Jacob s heart was\\nvery light, as he felt himself reconciled to the brother he had so\\nwronged, whose anger had been like a nightmare between him\\nand his father s house for twenty years.\\nNow Esau desired that they should journey on together, but\\nJacob said that the little children were tender, and the flocks and\\nherds would die if overdriven one day, so that he thought best for\\nEsau not to wait for him.\\nThen Esau desired to leave some of his company with Jacob\\nto help him on his way, but Jacob said he did not need them, he\\nwished only to find grace in Esau s sight, so Esau returned that\\nday, on his way unto Seir.\\nWe can form a more correct idea of Esau s generous spirit when\\nwe know that it was about this time he moved from his old home at\\nBeer-sheba, where he was born, and where he had lived nearly a\\nhundred years, to Mount Seir. He thus relinquished all claim to\\nthe birthright, leaving his father s home, and all of Isaac s posses-\\nsions to Jacob, the rightful heir.\\nAnd Esau took his wives, and his sons and his daughters, and\\nall the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and\\nall his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan and went\\ninto the country from the face of his brother Jacob.\\nFor their riches were more than they might dwell together.\\nThus dwelt Esau in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom And he being\\na warlike chieftain, and possessing himself of the land, his sons\\nwere called Dukes.\\nAnd God honored Esau, and never allowed the children of", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF THE SHEPHERD. 145\\nIsrael to disturb him or his descendants in their possession of\\nMount Seir, except once, when Isaac s prophecy was fulfilled.\\nYears afterward, when the Israelites returned from Egypt, the\\nLord said to them, As ye pass through the coast of your brethren,\\nthe children of Esau, which dwell in Seir, take ye good\\nheed unto yourselves therefore; meddle not with them, for I will\\nnot give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; be-\\ncause I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.\\nAnd Jacob journeyed to Suecoth and built him an house and\\nmade booths for his cattle.\\nAnd Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, and he pitched\\nhis tent before the city. And he bought this parcel of ground from\\nHamor, Shechem s father, for an hundred pieces of money and he\\nerected there an altar, or rather, rebuilt the altar which his father\\nAbraham had built there. This first altar built in Canaan was\\nnearly two hundred years old.\\nThere are many precious associations connected with Shechern.\\nMany years afterward it was at this well of Jacob s that Jesus,\\nbeing weary, sat down, and while waiting for His disciples told\\nthe woman of Samaria about the living water. And the woman\\nsaid, Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the\\nwell, and drank thereof himself, and his children and his cattle?\\nIt was here also that John baptized, near to Shalem, Because\\nthere was much water there.\\nWhen Jacob had been at Shechem seven years, a young prince\\nof the country offered a great indignity to Leah s daughter Dinah,\\nthen a girl about fourteen years old. He afterward desired her\\nhand in marriage, and offered, being very rich, to give whatever\\nthey might ask as a dowry. And her brothers pretended to accede\\nto this proposal, saying that if all the males in Shechem would\\nconsent to be circumcised, they would dwell with them as one\\npeople. On the third day after their circumcision, Simeon and\\nLevi took their swords and went boldly into the city and slew all\\nthe males, also Prince Shechem and his father Hamor, and took\\ntheir sister Dinah out of their house.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "146\\nBIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nThey spoiled the city, taking their sheep, and oxen, and asses,\\nand making captives of their wives and little ones.\\nJacob was greatly troubled by all this, and felt deeply the dis-\\ngrace into which these sons had brought him.\\nIt is only by remembering this conduct of Simeon s and Levi s\\nthat we can understand Jacob s words to them on his death-bed.\\nSimeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in\\ntheir habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto\\ntheir assembly, mine honour, be not thou united; for in their anger\\nthey slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a, wall.\\nCursed be their anger for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it\\nwas cruel; I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.\\nAbout this time, God spoke again to Jacob and told him to go\\nup to Bethel, where he had made his vow, when he fled from the\\nface of Esau.\\nSo Jacob commanded his household to put away the strange\\ngods that were among them, probably the images which Rachel\\nhad stolen from her father, and to change their garments and be\\nclean; and they would go up to Bethel and worship God, Who an-\\nswered him in his distress.\\nAnd Jacob hid the gods, and some of their jewels, under an oak,\\nwhich is in Shechem. This was the same oak where, years after-\\nward, Joshua made a covenant with the people.\\nAnd as they moved from Shechem the terror of God was upon\\nthe cities around, so that they did not take vengeance on them for\\nthe dreadful deeds of Simeon and Levi.\\nSo Jacob came to the city of Luz, and built there an Altar-El-\\nBethel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the God of Bethel.\\nAnd they found there Deborah, Rebekah s old nurse, who had\\nleft Haran with her one hundred and twenty-five years before.\\nWe suppose, from this, that Rebekah must have died some\\nyears before, as we have no other way of accounting for Deborah s\\nabsence from her mistress old homestead, Beer-sheba. At any\\nrate Deborah died here at Bethel, and Jacob buried her under an\\noak, which they called Allon-bachuth, the oak of weeping; from\\nwhich we know that Jacob felt sad at the death of this old-time", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF THE SHEPHERD. 117\\nfriend, who bad known and Loved his mother, and who reminded\\nhim of his early home and his boyhood s days.\\nNow God appeared nnto Jacob again and blessed him, and\\nreminded him of his new name, Israel, which He had given him\\nseven years before; He also renewed His promises to him.\\nThey lived at Bethel two years. Joseph was now fifteen years\\nold, and Jacob was getting very anxious to see his old father Isaac,\\nso they left Bethel, and when they were but a little way from\\nBethlehem, Rachel bore Jacob another son, whom she called\\nBen-oni, the son of my sorrow, but his father called him Benjamin,\\nthe son of the right hand.\\nAnd Rachel died and was buried at Bethlehem.\\nAnd Jacob set a pillar upon her grave; that is the pillar of\\nRachel s grave unto this day. Hundreds of years afterward this\\npillar was still called Rachel s sepulchre.\\nForty years after Rachel s death, Jacob tells his son Joseph of\\nthis day of grief, a And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel\\ndied by me in the land of Canaan and I buried her in the\\nway of Ephrath, the same is Bethlehem. Jacob, with his great\\nlove for Rachel, and his faithful heart, would have asked for no\\ngreater blessing than to have had one home-queen, one love, one\\nmother for his children; however, this was denied him, and God\\nmade the covetousness of Laban and the envy of Rachel to redound\\nto His own honor and glory. But Jacob never made any secret of\\nthe fact that his heart was Rachel s; he always spoke of her as his\\nwife, and accorded to her the first honor everywhere. Back of his\\nextreme love and partiality for Joseph and Benjamin was the fact\\nthat they were Rachel s children, the offspring of the one supreme\\nhuman love of his life, and these children, born in this true wedlock,\\nwere of more spiritual and beautiful natures.\\nAnd Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower\\nof Edar.\\nAnd thou, O tower of Edar, the stronghold of the daughter of\\nZion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the king-\\ndom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.\\nIt happened at this place that Reuben, Jacob s oldest son, now", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "148 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nabout twenty-three years old, disgraced himself with his father s\\nconcubine, Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. It was because of this\\nthat Jacob, on his death-bed, said of Reuben: Unstable as water,\\nthou shalt not excel.\\nAnd his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph.\\nAnd the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.\\nAfter an absence of thirty years, Jacob came to his father at\\nMamre, eleven miles north of the old homestead, Beer-sheba. I\\nhave no doubt that the old home, where Isaac was born and had\\nlived almost his whole life, became too lonely after Rebekah s\\ndeath and was probably broken up, for you remember that De-\\nborah, Rebekah s old nurse, had also left it.\\nThink what an eventful home it had been; there Isaac s father,\\nAbraham, had lived for seventy-five years, there his two boys were\\nborn, and his wife and his father had died. Jacob had lived there\\nseventy-six years and Esau a hundred; in sight of the groves and\\nthe wells and the altar.\\nTo Isaac all these familiar objects were thronging with precious\\nmemories.\\nWhat wonder, then, that after Esau had moved to Mount Seir\\nto make room for his brother Jacob, Isaac s soul longed for the\\nheights of Mamre, and the fresh breath of the sea.\\nIt was a great day in the life of Isaac when Jacob and Leah and\\nhis twelve grandsons arrived at Mamre, with all their flocks and\\nherds, and men servants and maid servants, and camels and asses.\\nTruly the God of his father had been faithful; to Isaac it was\\ngranted to see verified the beginning of the fulfillment of the oft-\\nrepeated promise. And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after\\nthee, the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession; and I will\\nbe their God.\\nIt is pleasant to know that Isaac lived thirteen years after this\\ngreat day of the home-coming. That he felt the chubby fingers of\\nRachel s baby Benjamin upon his dim old eyes, and that the hearty\\nvoices and cheerful presence of his stalwart grandsons brought\\nstrength and cheer to his closing years.\\nAfter their arrival at Mamre, and while in the vale of Hebron,", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH SOLD BY HIS BRETHREN.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF THE SHEPHERD. 151\\ntwo or three circumstances occurred which give us a great insight\\ninto the character of Joseph, and the family life of Jacob and his\\nsons.\\nAt one time Joseph, feeding the flock with four of his brothers,\\nDan, Naphtali, Gad and Asher, brought unto his father their evil\\nreport. This is the only thing which we ever hear against Joseph.\\nI have no doubt that it was right that his father should know what\\nhis boys were doing, still none of us likes tale-bearing, and of course\\nthis, incensed his brothers against him. Now Jacob loved Joseph\\nmore than all his children, because he was the son of his old age.\\nThis partiality was wrong, and when it became so marked that\\nJoseph was the recipient of a coat of many colors as a token of this\\npreference, his brothers hated him and could not speak peaceably\\nunto him.\\nXow T we all know how dreadful it is for any discord to creep\\ninto the home, and how easy it is to increase it, so it was in this\\ncase; the brothers were banded together against Joseph, and dis-\\ntorted every action into a cause of offense.\\nHe dreamed that they were binding sheaves in the field, and\\nhis sheaf stood upright, and the sheaves of his brothers stood\\naround and made obeisance to his sheaf. And when he told this\\ndream to his brethren, they hated him yet the more for his\\ndream.\\nAnd they said, Shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? As\\nyou think of this dream, remember Isaac s blessing to Jacob, Be\\nlord over thy brethren and let thy mother s sons bow down to\\nthee.\\nAfter this he dreamed again and told it to his father and to his\\nbrethren. It is probable that these dreams made such a strong\\nimpression upon Joseph that he could not refrain from telling\\nthem.\\nBehold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made\\nabeisance to me and his father rebuked him and said\\nunto him, T\\\\ nat is this dream? Shall I and thy mother\\nand thy brethren indeed come to bow T down ourselves to thee to", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "152 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nthe earth.? And his brethren envied him, but his father observed\\nthe saying.\\nThis reminds us how Mary the mother of Jesus kept these\\nthings, and pondered them in her heart.\\nNow, long after this, Joseph s brethren went back to Shechem\\nto feed their father s flock; and as they were gone some time, Jacob\\nbegan to get anxious about them, and said to Joseph, Come and\\nI will send thee unto them to see if all be well with them and with\\nthe flocks. Now this was a long, toilsome journey for a boy of\\nseventeen years to make alone. Yet Joseph, in his respectful way,\\nsaid Here am I. So Jacob sent him out of the vale of Hebron\\nand he came to Shechem, their old home.\\nHere Joseph wandered around in the fields in search of his\\nbrothers until he was met by some man who asked him what he\\nwas seeking.\\nAnd when Joseph told him that he sought his brothers and\\ntheir flock, the man told him that he had overheard them say that\\nthey were going to Dothan. Now Joseph had already journeyed\\nover sixty miles and was weary and footsore, but instead of giving\\nup the search and going home to his father, he plodded on to\\nDothan, a good ten miles further north.\\nAnd as his brothers were in the field with their flock, they lifted\\nup their eyes and saw Joseph in his bright coat coining toward\\nthem, and they said in mocking tones, Behold this dreamer\\ncometh.\\nCome now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into\\nsome pit, and we will say Some evil beast hath devoured him; and\\nwe shall see what will become of his dreams.\\nBut Reuben, the oldest son, heard them and said, Let us not\\nkill him, but cast him into this pit in the wilderness, for he\\nthought only of saving him from their malice, to deliver him to\\nhis father again.\\nAs soon as Joseph was come up to them, they stript him of his\\nbeautiful coat and cast him into an empty cistern. And without a\\nthought of pity for the tired boy, they sat down to eat their lunch.\\nWoe to them that are at ease in Zion That drink", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF TEE SHEPHERD. 155\\nwine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief ointments, but\\nthey are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.\\nIt seems that Reuben must have gone to another part of the\\nfield, for he appears to have been ignorant of the following cir-\\ncumstance. While they were eating Behold a company of Ish-\\nmaelites from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm\\nand myrrh, going to carry it down into Egypt.\\nAnd Judah said, Come, let us sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites\\nand let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our\\nflesh. And his brethren were content.\\nThen, as the merchant men passed by, they lifted Joseph out\\nof the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of sil-\\nver. How like to the betrayal of Jesus.\\nJudas Iscariot said unto them, what will ye give me and I will\\ndeliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty\\npieces of silver.\\nShortly after this Reuben, returning by way of the pit, thought\\nto deliver Joseph, but, behold, he was not there; And he rent his\\nclothes. And he returned unto his brethren and said, The child is\\nnot; and I, whither shall I go?\\nThen they took pains to cover up their evil doing, by dipping\\nthe manv colored coat in the blood of a kid. And thev brought it\\nto their father. They took care, however, not to say what had hap-\\npened. They waited for their father to form his own conclusions.\\nAnd when they said, This have we found; know now whether\\nit be thy son s coat or no? Jacob immediately fell into the trap\\nwhich they had prepared for him. He said, It is my son s coat; an\\nevil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in\\npieces.\\nAnd Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins\\nand mourned for his son many days.\\nAnd all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him;\\nbut he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down\\nunto the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for\\nhim.\\nA voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "156 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nRachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted\\nbecause they were not.\\nIt seems hardly possible that these sons who truly loved their\\nfather, and their old grandfather, Isaac, who was still living, could\\nhave brought such grief as this upon them; and all through envy.\\na And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; but\\nGod was with him.\\nIt was this same year that Judah, Jacob s fourth son, was mar-\\nried to Shuah, a Canaanite.\\nIn process of time this wife bore him three sons, and then she\\ndied.\\nTwo of these sons were wicked and the Lord slew them.\\nAfterward Tamar bore twin sons to Judah, whose names were\\nPharez and Zareh.\\nThis little account of Judah seems inopportune, until we re-\\nmember that it was through Pharez, one of these sons of Judah,\\nthat God s promise to Abraham was fulfilled. In thee shall all\\nthe families of the earth be blessed.\\nAs we think of this, we also understand Jacob s deathbed bless-\\ning to Judah.\\nThe Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from\\nbetween his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gather-\\ning of the people be.\\nAnd now about twelve years after Joseph was so cruelly taken\\nfrom his father occurs the death of Isaac, at the extreme age of\\none hundred and eighty years.\\nAt Mamre, near Hebron, in sight of the blue waves of the Medi-\\nterranean, Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was gathered\\nunto his people, being old and full of days; and his sons Esau and\\nJacob buried him.\\nGentle, home-loving and home-abiding Isaac was the only one\\nof the patriarchs who was born, lived his whole life and died in\\nCanaan.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Zhe Ibome in Bo^pt.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\ntlfye Borne in (Egypt.\\nVE WILL now turn back about twelve years to Joseph, whom\\nwe left in the hands of the merchant men. They were Ish-\\nmaelites, who were really related to Joseph, being, like\\nhimself, descended from faithful Abraham.\\nYet they knew him not, and cared not to know one whom they\\nhad bought for the small sum of fifteen dollars.\\nAs King David tells us, years afterward, Goa sent a man be-\\nfore them (the wicked brothers), even Joseph who was sold for a\\nservant.\\nAs the caravan went southward it must have passed not far\\nfrom Joseph s home Hebron and, although his heart yearned\\nfor the dear father and grandfather and baby brother, who were\\nsheltered there, yet he was in custody, and could not make himself\\nknown to them.\\nSo they traveled on, leaving in the dim distance his boyhood s\\ndays of freedom, and the shelter of that home which was never his\\nagain. And the land of Canaan was to this heir of the promises\\nforever afterward as a strange country.\\nI have no doubt that when Joseph recovered from his first grief\\nand terror, there were many things to interest this lad of seventeen\\nyears.\\nThe merchants would, of course, treat him kindly, for he was\\na beautiful boy, and it would suit their purpose much better to\\nhave him well and happy.\\nAfter a long journey of about three hundred miles from Dothan\\nto beautiful Memphis, the city of the Pharaohs in Egypt, Joseph\\nwas sold to Potiphar, an officer of the king, and marshal of the\\nguard.\\nYou see Potiphar was really like our chief of police, and he\\nwas a rich and influential man.\\n159", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "160 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nAnd the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous\\nman.\\nAs it was with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so it was now with\\nJoseph, who is, as you will see, the heir to the birthright, with this\\nexception, that it was not through Joseph that all the families of\\nthe earth were blessed/ for Christ came of the tribe of Judah.\\nNow, as Joseph served his master day by day, he found grace\\nin Potiphar s eyes, and he made him overseer of all that he had\\nin the house and in the field. And the Lord blessed the Egyptian\\nfor Joseph s sake.\\nHis master had such confidence in him that he trusted every-\\nthing into Joseph s hands, but he did not long enjoy this honor,\\nfor Potiphar s wife brought a false charge against Joseph, and as\\nhe could not prove his innocence, his master put him into a prison,\\nwhich was in his own white castle or citadel, where all the king s\\nprisoners were bound.\\nFor this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God\\nendure grief, suffering wrongfully.\\nBut even in the prison the Lord was with Joseph, and ex-\\ntended kindness toward him.\\nThe highway of the upright is to depart from evil, he that\\nkeepeth His way preserveth his soul. In time all the prisoners\\nwere committed to Joseph s care, and he was made responsible\\nfor all that went on in the prison.\\nAnd the keeper of the prison trusted him, for the Lord made\\nthat which he did to prosper. Now, while Joseph was in charge\\nof the prison, the king s butler and baker offended him, and he\\ncast them both into this same prison with Joseph, who was given\\nthe special care of them by Potiphar, who, you see, still trusted\\nJoseph.\\nAfter they had been there a short time, one night each of them\\nhad a dream. Now, in Egypt great importance is attached to\\ndreams, and when Joseph saw them in the morning, they were\\nfeeling particularly sad, because they could not consult a priest\\nto obtain the interpretation.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN EGYPT. 161\\nThey must have been surprised when Joseph said to them, Do\\nnot interpretations belong to God? Tell me them, I pray you.\\nAnd the chief butler told his dream to Joseph. Behold a vine\\nwas before me; and in the vine were three branches; and it was as\\nthough it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters\\nthereof brought forth ripe grapes; and Pharaoh s cup was in my\\nhand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh s cup,\\nand I gave the cup into Pharaoh s hand.\\nJoseph told him that in three days Pharaoh would restore him\\nto his position as butler, and Joseph added these words to the in-\\nterpretation, But think on me when it shall be well with thee.\\nand make mention of me unto Pharaoh for indeed I was stolen\\naway out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done\\nnothing that they should put me into the dungeon.\\nYou see how careful Joseph was not to bring any reproach\\nupon his brethren, and how well it was that he did nothing to turn\\nPharaoh against them.\\nNow it was the baker s turn, and he, being rejoiced at the\\ngood news which came to the butler, hastened to tell his own\\ndream, as follows: Behold, I had three white baskets on my\\nhead; and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of\\nbakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the\\nbasket upon my head.\\nAnd Joseph said, In three days Pharaoh shall hang thee on a\\ntree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.\\nOn Pharaoh s birthday, the third day from this, the butler\\nwas restored, and the baker hanged, just as Joseph had said. Yet,\\nfor a time, Joseph seemed to be like the poor wise man of whom\\nSolomon speaks. Who by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no\\nman remembered that same poor man.\\nTavo years after this, Pharaoh dreamed that he stood by a river,\\nand there came up out of it seven fat, healthy cows and fed in a\\nmeadow. And soon after seven lean ill-favored cows came up\\nand stood by them on the brink of the river, and ate them up.\\nSo Pharaoh awoke, and he slept and dreamed again; and behold,\\nseven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. And", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "162 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nbehold, seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind, sprung\\nup after them.\\nAnd the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full\\nears.\\nNow these dreams troubled the king greatly, and he sent for\\nthe magicians and wise men, but none of them could interpret\\nthem.\\nThen the chief butler remembered Joseph, and told the king all\\nthings that he had done for him.\\nSo Joseph was called, and they brought him hastily out of\\nthe dungeon; and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment,\\nand came in unto Pharaoh.\\nHe raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the beg-\\ngar out of the dunghill, to set them among princes and to make\\nthem inherit the throne of glory; for the pillars of the earth are\\nthe Lord s and he hath set the world upon them.\\nAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and\\nI understand that when thou nearest a dream thou canst interpret\\nit. And Joseph said, It is not in me; God shall give Pharaoh an\\nanswer of peace.\\nBut as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wis-\\ndom that I have more than any living, but that the interpretation\\nmay be made known to the king.\\nHe revealeth the deep and secret things; he knoweth what is\\nin the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.\\nAfter Pharaoh had told his dreams Joseph said, The two\\ndreams are one. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty\\nthroughout all the land of Egypt; and there shall arise after them\\nseven years of famine and the plenty shall not be known in\\nthe land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very\\ngrievous. And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh\\ntwice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will\\nshortly bring it to pass.\\nWhat God is about to do he sheweth to Pharaoh. Then Jo-\\nseph advised Pharaoh to appoint a man of discretion over the land,", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH S DREAMS.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN EGYPT. 165\\nand to store up a fifth part of the food of the seven plenteous\\nyears against the seven years of famine.\\nAnd Pharaoh appointed Joseph himself, for he perceived that\\nthe spirit of God was in him. These words of the king s seem to\\nindicate that he was a believer in the true God; this is also\\nstrengthened by the just life of this Pharaoh.\\nThe knowledge of the true God may have come to him through\\nAbraham, who we remember spent several years in Egypt.\\nSo God delivered Joseph out of all his afflictions, and gave\\nhim favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt;\\nand he made him governor over Egypt and over all his house.\\nPharaoh conferred upon Joseph every honor; he placed his own\\nring upon Joseph s hand and arrayed him in silk vestures, and put\\na gold chain about his neck.\\nWhen the king went out Joseph rode in the second chariot,\\nand all the people cried before him, Bow the knee. Only in the\\nthrone was Pharaoh greater than Joseph.\\nThis experience of Joseph s was wonderfully like unto Dan-\\niel s. Daniel was preferred above presidents and princes, be-\\ncause an excellent spirit was found in him, and the king thought to\\nset him over the whole realm. Yet neither of these young men\\never failed to give the glory to God. Joseph said, God shall give\\nPharaoh an answer of peace. And Daniel said, I thank thee and\\npraise thee, O thou God of my fathers for thou hast now\\nmade known to us the king s matters.\\nJoseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh,\\nking of Egypt. And Pharaoh called him Zaphnath-Paaneah\\nthat is, a revealer of secrets. And Joseph married Asenath, the\\ndaughter of the Prince of On. This was the hour of Joseph s\\ntemptation; so young to be raised to such a height of glory and\\npower; for the king had said, I am Pharaoh, and without thee\\nshall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.\\nBut all this did not harm Joseph in the least; he went sys-\\ntematically to work, gathering up the corn, which was as the sand\\nof the sea, and storing it in the cities, for the years of famine\\nwhich were before them.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "166 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nWhen his first-born son was laid in his arms he called him\\nManasseh Forgetting For God said he hath made me forget\\nall my toil, and all my father s house. His second son he called\\nEphraim Fruitful For God hath caused me to be fruitful in\\nthe land of my affliction. Joseph is a fruitful bough; even a\\nfruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall.\\nJoseph s faith in God is shown forth in every circumstance of\\nhis life; neither prosperity nor affliction could weaken it.\\nNow the seven years of plenty were ended and the famine be-\\ngan to come upon the land, as Joseph had said, and the people be-\\ngan to cry to Pharaoh for bread. Then the king sent them to Jo-\\nseph, saying, What he saith to you, do.\\nNow you will get a better idea of Joseph s wonderful execu-\\ntive ability by knowing that he had arranged his storehouses in\\nthe cities, along both banks of the Nile, which formed the public\\nhighway of the kingdom. And Joseph sold the food to the people\\nhimself, traveling from one storehouse to the next, keeping them\\nopen in rotation.\\nAnd the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. And all\\ncountries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn.\\nAnd there Jacob sent his ten sons for that same purpose, that,\\nas he said, they might live and not die; but Benjamin he kept at\\nhome, lest peradventure mischief befall him.\\nThe brothers had not forgotten that the Ishmaelites, who\\nbought Joseph, were going down into Egypt, so that they had a\\ndread of that place, and heartily wished that there was anywhere\\nelse that they might go to buy food.\\nAnd Joseph was the governor over all the land, and he it was\\nthat sold to all the people.\\nAnd as his brethren came and bowed down themselves before\\nhim, with their faces to the earth, Joseph knew them, and remem-\\nbered his dreams.\\nAnd he spoke roughly to them, and accused them of being\\nspies.\\nThis they denied, saying, Thy servants are twelve brethren", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "JACOB S SONS IMPRISONED BY JOSEPH AS SPIES.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN EGYPT. 169\\nand, behold, the youngest is this day with his father and\\none is not.\\nWe cannot but admire this beautiful custom of counting the\\ndead always with the living still twelve brothers though one\\nwas not.\\nNow Joseph, still disguising himself, pretends to doubt them,\\nand says, Hereby ye shall be proved; By the life of Pharaoh ye\\nshall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hith-\\ner.\\nJoseph was determined to know if his brothers were still the\\nsame cruel-hearted men that he had known; so he tells them that\\nhe will send one of them to fetch their brother, and they shall be\\nkept in prison until their words are proved.\\nAfter saying this, He put them all together into ward for\\nthree davs.\\nAnd the third day Joseph said, This do and live, for I fear\\nGod. Let one of your brethren be bound and go ye and\\ncarry corn for the famine of your houses; but bring your youngest\\nbrother unto me. Xow it seems that the Spirit of God had been\\nat work in their hearts all these years, for, as soon as this trouble\\ncame upon them, they were overwhelmed with remorse, and con-\\nfessed their guilt one to another.\\nWe are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw\\nthe anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not\\nhear; therefore, is this distress come upon us. Whoso stoppeth\\nhis ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall\\nnot be heard.\\nIn this case Eeuben was the fortunate one, for he could\\ntruthfully say, Spake I not unto you, saying, do not sin against\\nthe child; and ye would not hear? Therefore, behold, also his\\nblood is required. How beautiful to see the hand of God in our\\nafflictions.\\nAs Joseph spoke to them by an interpreter, they did not know\\nthat he could understand them, but he was so much moved, at what\\nthey said, that he turned away and wept.\\nThen he took Simeon from them and bound him before their", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "170 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\neyes. It may have been that he remembered something of Sime-\\non s cruel nature, and thought that he needed the lesson as well as\\nthey.\\nThen Joseph gave orders that their sacks should be filled with\\ncorn, and every man s money be returned to his sack; and after\\nthey were given provisions for the way, they laded their asses\\nand departed.\\nBut their hearts failed them when one of them, at the inn,\\nopened his sack to give his ass provender, and espied his money,\\nand, when each one found his money restored, they were still more\\nafraid, and said, What is this that God hath done unto us?\\nYou may imagine how Jacob was distressed when they told\\nhim all this, and he saw that Simeon was not with them.\\nHe said, Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take\\nBenjamin away; all these things are against me.\\nAnd Reuben said, Slay my two sons if I bring him not to thee;\\ndeliver him unto my hand and I will bring him to thee again.\\nBut Jacob persisted that Benjamin should not go down, say-\\ning, He is all I have left of his mother, and if anything happens\\nto him, Then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to.\\nthe grave.\\nO how they dreaded to see their store of corn growing smaller,\\nand yet, even had they an abundance of corn, how could they\\nleave Simeon in bondage? They were sorely perplexed, yet they\\nwaited until their father said, Go again; buy us a little corn, be-\\nfore they broached the subject which was uppermost in their\\nminds.\\nThen Judah said, It will be useless for us to go down without\\nBenjamin, for the man said unto us, most solemnly, that we\\nshould not see his face again unless our youngest brother was\\nwith us.\\nSend the lad with me I will be surety for him; if I\\nbring him not unto thee and set him before thee, then let me bear\\nthe blame forever.\\nAnd Jacob unwillingly consented, and he sent a present to\\nthis harsh man; the best fruits of the land, with a little honey;", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN EGYPT. 171\\nalso balm, spices, myrrh, nuts and almonds, besides the money\\nthey had found in their sacks. And God Almighty give you mercy\\nbefore the man, that he may send your other brother and Benja-\\nmin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.\\nNow when Joseph saw Benjamin with them he was greatly\\npleased, and commanded the steward of his house to bring the men\\nto his home, for they should dine with him at noon.\\nThe brothers were afraid when they were brought to Joseph s\\nhouse, thinking it was because of the money they had found in\\ntheir sacks, but, as they spoke to the steward at the door of this,\\nhe reassured them; telling them that their God and the God of\\ntheir father had given them treasure in their sacks, for he had\\ntheir money.\\nI have no doubt that they were somewhat overawed at the\\nmagnificence of Joseph s home, the home of the man who was as\\ngreat as Pharaoh everywhere, save in the throne. They were met\\nat the door, where water was given them to wash their feet. Their\\nasses also were given provender; and they made ready their pres-\\nent.\\nAt noon, when Joseph came, he invited them into the house,\\nand received their present from them, saying, Is your father well?\\nthe old man of whom ye spake. And as they answered they\\nbowed down their heads and made obeisance.\\nAnd he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his mother s\\nson, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom ye spake\\nunto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. And\\nhe went into his chamber and wept there, for his soul yearned\\nover the dear boy whom he had last seen as a toddling baby. The\\nfeast was spread in the beautiful dining room, with its gay color-\\ning and costly furniture. There were many slaves in attendance,\\nand the air was heavy with the perfume of the roses and the lotus\\nflowers.\\nEvery delicacy was handed them, and the musicians made\\nsweet music upon their harps and small drums. But none of this\\ncaused the brothers so much wonder, as the fact that when they", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "172 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nwere seated at the table, they found themselves arranged accord-\\ning to their ages.\\nJoseph being so mighty in the land, ate alone, and the Egyp-\\ntians had a separate table, as they never ate with foreigners.\\nWhile the feast was in progress, Joseph sent portions from\\nhis table to his brothers, but he always sent five times as much to\\nBenjamin.\\nAnd they drank with him and were merry. And they spent\\nthat night in Joseph s home, and early in the morning, at the\\nbreak of day, Joseph sent them to their father with light hearts\\nand plenty of corn for their families in Canaan. And best of all,\\nSimeon was with them. But, alas, they had not gone far when\\nJoseph s steward overtook them, and said, Wherefore have ye\\nrewarded evil for good, in thus stealing my lord s silver cup?\\nThis they indignantly denied, saying, With whomsoever of thy\\nservants it be found, both let him die, and we will also be my\\nlord s bondsmen.\\nBut the steward said the innocent should not suffer with the\\nguilty, only the one with whom it was found should be his ser-\\nvant. So they speedily unloaded their asses, and each one of them\\nopened his sack, ready for the search.\\nThe steward began with Reuben s, and, as the search pro-\\ngressed and nothing was found, their hearts grew light with con-\\nscious innocence.\\nThe last sack was almost empty when lo, the beautiful, costly\\ncup was discovered, aud in Benjamin s sack.\\nAnd they rent their clothes and laded every man his ass, and\\nreturned to the city. There was no thought now of deserting the\\nbaby brother; every man among them would be sacrificed, rather\\nthan go home to their father without Benjamin. It was to learn\\nthis that Joseph was submitting them to such a trial.\\nThey went straight to Joseph s home, for he was still there; the\\nhome which they had left so short a time before in such gay spir-\\nits, and they fell before him on the ground.\\nAnd Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have\\ndone? W T ot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN EGYPT. 173\\nAnd Judah became spokesman for his brothers, and said,\\nWhat shall we say unto my lord? or how shall we clear\\nourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants; be-\\nhold, we are my lord s servants, both we, and he also with whom\\nthe cup is found\\nAnd Joseph said, God forbid that I should do so; but the\\nman in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant.\\nHe that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the\\njust, even they both are abomination to the Lord.\\nAnd as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.\\nThen cruel Judah, who in time past had been so ready to barter\\naway that innocent brother; guilty Judah, whose two sons had\\nbeen so wicked that the Lord slew them; licentious Judah came\\nforth from this trying ordeal, A man whom his brethren should\\npraise. He it was, who came near to Joseph, and made this fol-\\nlowing most touching plea, which for manly simplicity, filial love\\nand generosity is unequaled in history: Oh my lord, let thy ser-\\nvant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord s ears, and let not\\nthine answer burn against thv servant; for thou art even as\\nPharaoh.\\nMy lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a\\nbrother?\\nAnd we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and\\na child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he\\nalone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. And thou\\nsaidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may\\nset mine eyes upon him.\\nAnd we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father;\\nfor if he should leave his father, his father would die.\\nAnd thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest\\nbrother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. And\\nit came to pass when we came up to thy servant, my father, we\\ntold him the words of my lord.\\nAnd our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food. And\\nwe said, W T e cannot go down; if our youngest brother be with us,", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "174 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nthen will we go down; for we may not see the man s face, except\\nour youngest brother be with us,\\nAnd thy servant, my father, said unto us, Ye know that my\\nwife bare me two sons; and the one went out from me and I said,\\nSurely he is torn to pieces; and I saw him not since.\\nAnd if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye\\nshall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.\\nNow, therefore when I come to thy servant, my father, and\\nthe lad be not with us; seeing that his lift is bound up in the lad s\\nlife; it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with\\nus, that he will die; and thy servants shall bring down the gray\\nhairs of thy servant, our father, with sorrow to the grave. For\\nthy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If\\nI bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my\\nfather forever.\\nNow, therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of\\nthe lad, a bondsman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his\\nbrethren.\\nFor how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with\\nme? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come upon my fa-\\nther.\\nThis speech of Judah s, which proved him so greatly changed,\\nmoved Joseph to tears, so that he sent every one from the room\\nwhile he made himself known to his brethren. And he wept so\\nloud that the house of Pharaoh heard him.\\nAnd when he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold\\ninto Egypt, his brothers were greatly terrified. He did his best\\nto comfort them, telling them that God had sent him thither to\\npreserve life. But it was a long time before they could realize the\\ntruth, and feel at ease with this great man. As he talked so kindly\\nto them, he told them how he longed to see his father, and what\\nplans he had made for them all. He told them he intended to\\nbring them all down to Egypt, and that he had already selected\\ntheir future home. As they gradually drew near to him, he called\\ntheir attention to his looks, as though there was some striking\\nlikeness between him and his brother Benjamin; probably they", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH BECOMING KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN EGYPT. 177\\nboth resembled their mother; it was natural that Benjamin should\\nbe attracted to him first. No doubt his heart went out to this\\nhandsome, kindly man, who had spoken so tenderly to him, and\\nwhom he had never wronged in any way.\\nThere was no constraint between them, and it was with un-\\nfeigned joy that they kissed each other and wept together, and\\ntalked of their old home and father. Then Joseph kissed his other\\nbrothers and wept over them, and they talked freely together.\\nAnd he told them to tell his father of all his glory in Egypt. And\\ngood, kind Pharaoh and his servants were so pleased, when they\\nheard of the arrival of Joseph s brethren, that Pharaoh invited\\nthem to make Egypt their home, and he said, I will give thee the\\ngood of the land.\\nSo Joseph sent wagons and asses, laden with everything that\\nthey could need, to bring his father and his brothers, with their\\nwives and little ones, unto him.\\nHe gave changes of raiment to all of his brethren, but to Ben-\\njamin he gave five changes of raiment and three hundred pieces\\nof silver. He gave them only one word of warning: See that\\nye fall not out by the way.\\nWhen they reached Canaan and told Jacob that Joseph was\\nyet alive, and was governor over all the land of Egypt, he could\\nnot believe them.\\nThen they told him all of Joseph s words, and how he looked\\nand how he wept over them; and when he saw the wagons loaded\\nwith good things, also the money and the beautiful clothes, all\\nevidences of wealth and power, the spirit of Jacob revived, and\\nhe said, It is enough; Joseph, my son, is yet alive; I will go and\\nsee him before I die.\\nIt was a great undertaking for Jacob, now one hundred and\\nthirty years of age, to leave Canaan, the land of promise, into\\nwhich God had called him from Haran; so as he took his journey\\nwith all that he had, he stopped at Beer-sheba, the old family\\nhomestead, where his grandfather, Abraham, had planted a grove,\\nand called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.\\nHere God gave Jacob the assurance which he desired, saying,", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "178 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nFear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a\\ngreat nation; I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also\\nsurely bring thee np again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon\\nthine eyes.\\nHe came up again in his posterity, and literally when his sons\\nbrought him up to bury him. As Jacob recalled the scenes of his\\nchildhood, and the way in which the Lord had led him and blessed\\nhim all his life long until now, his fears vanished and he continued\\nhis journey.\\nAnd Jacob sent Judah before him unto Joseph, that he might\\ndirect them to Goshen, where they arrived, in safety, a family of\\nabout seventy persons. And Joseph went up to Goshen in his\\nchariot to meet his father, and he wept on his neck a good while.\\nAnd Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen\\nthy face.\\nNow Goshen was a most suitable place for shepherds, being a\\ndelta between the Nile and the Mediterranean Sea. It was north-\\neast, and on the opposite side of the river from Memphis, where\\nJoseph lived. It was also nearer to their old home, as they could\\nreturn to Canaan without crossing the great river.\\nThen Joseph came and told Pharaoh that his father and breth-\\nren and their flocks and herds had come to live in Egypt. And he\\ntook five of his brethren and presented them unto Pharaoh, and\\nwhen he asked them their occupation, they answered, as Joseph\\nhad instructed them, Thy servants trade hath been about cattle\\nfrom our youth even until now, both we, and also our father.\\nPharaoh, in his usual kindly way, treated them with the great-\\nest hospitality.\\nHe told them to dwell in the best of the land, in Goshen if\\nthey desired, and also offered to make any one of them, whom Jo-\\nseph should appoint, his royal shepherd.\\nJoseph was wise in selecting Goshen as their home, where they\\ncould live much separated from the wicked Egyptians, to whom\\nshepherds were an abomination.\\nAfterwards Joseph brought his father down to Memphis to see\\nPharaoh, and Jacob blessed him. The Lord bless thee and keep", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN EGYPT. 179\\nthee; the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto\\nthee; the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee\\npeace.\\nAnd Pharaoh treated Jacob with great respect and asked him\\nhis age, and Jacob answered, The days of the years of my pilgrim-\\nage are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days\\nof the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days\\nof the years of the life of my fathers.\\nMan that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trou-\\nble.\\nHe cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also\\nas a shadow and continueth not.\\nThen Jacob blessed Pharaoh again and went out from before\\nhim.\\nThus Jacob and his sons were given a possession in the best\\nof the land, in Rameses, or Goshen, as Pharaoh had commanded.\\nAnd Joseph was much pleased to have them near him, and he\\nnourished them in the best manner possible, doing everything he\\ncould for their comfort. Even as Pharaoh had promised, they ate\\nthe fat of the land.\\nNow the famine grew more burdensome each day, and Joseph\\nworked diligently early and late, selling to the people from all\\nlands the corn which he had gathered up. And when money\\nfailed in the land of Egypt and Canaan, then Joseph gave them\\ncorn for their cattle, and when their cattle were all gone, Joseph\\nsold them corn for their land, until he had bought All the land of\\nEgypt for Pharaoh. Then he removed the people to the cities,\\nso that they were scattered from one end of Egypt to the other,\\nand were even as strangers in their own land. Joseph did this so,\\nthat in time to come, the people could not again claim the land\\nwhich he had bought.\\nThis was how matters stood when the seven years of grievous\\nfamine were ended, and Joseph said, Lo, here is seed for you and\\nye shall sow the land.\\nAnd they said, Thou hast saved our lives, let us find grace in\\nthe eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh s servants.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "180 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nBut Joseph made it a law that only the fifth part of the in-\\ncrease should be given to Pharaoh; the remainder was to be re-\\nturned for their own use.\\nNow, as the years grew on apace, Israel had great possessions\\nin the country of Goshen, and as the Lord had promised, They\\ngrew and multiplied exceedingly.\\nAnd the time drew nigh that Israel must die Must go the\\nway of all the earth.\\nAnd he called Joseph unto him and made him swear that he\\nwould not bury him in Egypt. He desired to be buried in Canaan,\\nas a token of his firm faith in the promise that his children should\\neventually possess the whole land.\\nIt was not long after this that word was sent to Joseph that\\nhis father was sick, and he immediately took his two sons and went\\nup to Goshen. When Jacob heard that Joseph was coming, he\\nstrengthened himself and sat upon the bed, that he might talk\\nwith this dear son for the last time.\\nHe told Joseph of God s first appearance to him at Bethel, and\\nof His promise to make him a multitude of people, and to give him\\nCanaan for an everlasting possession.\\nThen he adopted Joseph s two sons as his own, saying, Even\\nas Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.\\nHe also tells him of his mother s death, and desired him to\\nbring his two sons near that he may bless them. By faith Jacob,\\nwhen he was a-dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph. And he\\nplaced his right hand upon the head of the younger, Ephraim, and\\nhis left hand upon the head of Manasseh, And he blessed Joseph,\\nand said, God, before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, did\\nwalk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the\\nangel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my\\nname be named on them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham\\nand Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the\\nearth.\\nAnd Joseph said, Not so, my father, for this is the first born;\\nput thy right hand upon his head, but Jacob refused, saying, I\\nknow it, my son, I know it; he shall also become a people, and he", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "JACOB BLESSING THE SONS OF JOSEPH.", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE HOME IN EGYPT. 183\\nalso shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater\\nthan he. In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee\\nas Ephraim and Manasseh.\\nWhen Moses blessed the tribes of Israel years after this, he said,\\nThey are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thou-\\nsands of Manasseh. Joshua descended from Ephraim, as did also\\nJeroboam.\\nJacob said to Joseph, I die; but God shall be with you, and\\nbring you again into Canaan.\\nThen he told him that he had given him one portion above his\\nbrethren; this was the ground which Jacob bought of the sons of\\nHamor, which became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.\\nJacob also gave to him a portion above his brethren which he took\\nwith his sword and his bow out of the hands of the Amorites.\\nThus it was that, although Judah prevailed above his breth-\\nren and of him came the chief ruler, the birthright was Joseph s.\\nAnd Jacob called unto his sons, and said, gather yourselves to-\\ngether, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last\\ndays.\\nThen, with great dignity and beauty of words, Jacob blessed his\\ntwelve sons according to what they had done, or what God per-\\nmitted him to see that they should do.\\nReuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the begin-\\nning of my strength, thou shalt not excel. An inher-\\nitance lost through sin.\\nTo Simeon and Levi, because of their cruelty at Sheehem, Jacob\\nsaid, I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.\\nSimeon had his inheritance within that of Judah, which limitation\\nwas in part offset by the heritage of the beautiful and historic fam-\\nily homestead of Beer-sheba.\\nThe children of Levi, being the priesthood, were scattered in\\nIsrael; they had cities among all the twelve tribes.\\nThe blessing conferred upon Judah is especially beautiful and\\nappropriate, a wonderful prophecy of Christ s coining.\\nJudah means praise; it was to this that Jacob referred when he\\nsaid: Thou art He whom thy brethren shall praise.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "184 BIBLE HOMES AND FAMILIES.\\nHe also foretells of the ascendency of the tribe of Jndah over\\nthe Canaanites, and over all the tribes of Israel.\\nThe whole race were eventually named from Judah Jews.\\nOf Leah s son, Zebulum, Jacob said: He shall dwell at the\\nhaven of the sea.\\nIt was over four hundred years before the children of Zeb-\\nulum came into their inheritance: their beautiful home Zidon\\n^on the shores of the marvelous Mediterranean. Yet, in God s\\nown good time, He brought them to that haven by the sea; and I\\ncannot but wonder if, in that day, they remembered Jacob s bless-\\ning to their forefather Zebulum, and gave God the praise.\\nAnd of Joseph he says The archers have sorely grieved him,\\nand hated him, and shot at him; but his bow abode in strength, and\\nthe arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty\\nGod of Jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel.)\\nWhen I think of Jacob s blessing to Benjamin, as enlarged upon\\nby Moses, standing in sight of both Canaans, I believe it was given\\nto him to look across the centuries, from this Benjamin to his most\\nillustrious descendant; our well-beloved brother Paul of the tribe\\nof Benjamin. Can you think of any other to whom these words\\nso fittingly apply? The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety\\nby Him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall\\ndwell between His shoulders.\\nAnd when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he\\ndied, And was gathered unto his people.\\nAnd Joseph fell upon his father s face and wept upon him\\nand kissed him.\\nAnd his servants, the physicians, embalmed his father.\\nAnd they mourned for him seventy days, after which a very\\ngreat company, with chariots and horsemen, when up with his sons\\nto bury him in the Cave of Machpelah, in Hebron.\\nWhen they returned into Egypt, Joseph s brethren feared, now\\nthat their father was dead, that Joseph would requite them for all\\nthe evil which they had done unto him.\\nSo they sent a messenger to him and begged his pardon, and\\nsaid that his father had told them before he died to confess their", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "TEE HOME IN EGYPT. 185\\nsin to him. And Joseph was greatly grieved that they should have\\nsuch doubts of his love for them, and said, Fear not, for am I in\\nthe place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me but\\nGod meant it unto good. And he comforteth them and\\nspake kindly unto them.\\nAnd Joseph was rich and prosperous, and lived to see his great-\\ngrandchildren upon his knees.\\nJoseph s life was much shorter than his ancestors, for he lived\\nto be only one hundred and ten years old.\\nBefore he died he told his brothers that God would surely\\nbring them to Canaan. And he made them promise that when that\\nday should come, they would carry up his bones with them from\\nEgypt. And they embalmed him and put him in a coffin.\\nSurely the blessing of his father had prevailed unto the ut-\\ntermost bound of the everlasting hills; they were on the head of\\nJoseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separate\\nfrom his brethren.\\nThank God that as we close our study of this wonderful Genesis,\\nwe can say, These all died in faith, not having received the prom-\\nises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them,\\nand embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and\\npilgrims on the earth.\\n(\u00c2\u00a3nb of $\\\\tst Series.", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "17 1900", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4266", "width": "3115", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4349", "width": "3274", "jp2-path": "biblehomesfamili00pier_0194.jp2"}}