Wayside Pillars, by the Author of 'The Feast of Sacrifice and the Feast of Remembrance'. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... III. RETROSPECTION. "So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel; he and all the people that were with him. And he built there an altar, and called the place El bethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother "And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name.... And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; and the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon."--Gen. Xxxv. 6, 7, 9-14. RETROSPECTION. ETHEL again. After days and nights of wandering; after long years of exile; after journeyings often; after perils of waters and perils of robbers; after weariness and painfulness, and watcbings often, he whom the Lord had called by name stands once more on the spot whence his covenantcharter has its date. The unforgotten land-marks are scarcely needed to guide him to the spot. On this side stands the mount consecrated by the remembrance of Abraham's choice; to the far east, the Jordan valley with its running streams; further south, the land of the cities of the plain afterwards to be washed out from the earth which, even in its fallen estate, their presence too deeply denied; all around, the great stones of that place, in yet our day testifying to its identit...