File:Christian herald (1913) (14741946126).jpg

Identifier: christianherald36unse (find matches)
Title: Christian herald
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects:
Publisher:
Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
kill the child through whom alone Gods promiseof posterity could \n- fulfilled, but he was to seeman imitator of idolaters whom he abhorred, andwhose religiou.- customs he had never in any othercaM! adopted. 2. He rose early to obey, and kepthii purjwuc secret from the wife and mother who might have argued against obedience. 3. He per-sisted in his heart-breaking journey for the threedays required for the journey. 4. At the base ofthe mountain he left all his companions save Isaac,lest some objection might be interposed to his obe-dience. 5. Upon Isaac he bound the wood, and didnot even give up his resolution to obey when hisboy said on the mountain top, Behold the fire andthe wood, but where is the lamb? The questionmust have cut his own heart like a knife, but he an-!-wered, God will provide, believing, as the New-Testament tells us (Heb. 11: 17-19), that God wouldraise Isaac from the dead. 6. At last the timecame when Isaac must be told, and must himself IJCTBEBaaSlX: jHH ■v ^wo
Text Appearing After Image:
the 1 I for theLeiicai m W »r lioni«for 1Stic fre • t- Th. I>uml i>ITc(iitt(- xr SciKMit. LtMiON fur March 16. 1913.r.: 1-I1». r,»u>KN Tr.XT: l dmlmJuntj the knowMici- uf (jod more than6: 6. THE TEST OF ABRAHAMS FAITHFrom the painting by R. C. W. Bunny. U.li.A. trust and obey, for a young man of twenty-fivecould not have been bound unwillingly by an oldman of one hundred and twenty-five. This is a lessonfor boys and girls as well as men and women, andthe les.son for all is: When God speaks, tru.st andobey. 7. The climax of the wonderful story comeswhen Abraham raises the knife he would have pre-ferred to drive into his own heart to slay his son,and then, when faith and obedience had been fullyl>roved, God interposed and substituted for Isaac aram caught in a thicket close at hand. The whole story is an acted parable, such ashave always been much u.sed in Oriental teaching.The uplifted serpent, the .sacrifice of Isaac, all be-long with spoken prophecies and tabernacle

Note About Images