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Say! down in Maine I paid a dollar one 'time to hear a big singer, forgit her name, but she was 'lowed to be the dangdest singer in all them parts. But, Gol dang my cats to cinders! she ain't any more like that there teacher of yours than my old Tom cat's like the angel that leads the choir in Abram's bosom!" "That is very interesting, Mr. Young.
On Abram's way back with the spoils one of the strangest scenes of history occurs. Whom should he meet but Melchizedek, who brought out bread and wine; and the priestly king blessed the Father of the Faithful.
"Lord! but I'll be glad to see the old gun-barrel gleamin' safe t'other side o' it." There was a thin puff of smoke, and a screaming echo went rolling and reverberating down the Wabash. Abram's eyes widened, and a curious whiteness settled on his lips. He stood as if incapable of moving. "Clang! Clang!" came Maria's second warning. The trembling slid from him, and his muscles hardened.
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. GENESIS xii. 6, 7. Great epoch and man. Steps of Abram's training.
"Clip, clip," came the sound of the planter, as Abram's dear old figure trudged up the hill. "Chip! Chip!" came the warning of the Cardinal, as he flew to his mate. He gave her some food, stroked her wing, and flying to the dogwood, sang of the love that encompassed him. As he trilled forth his tender caressing strain, the heart of the listening woman translated as did that of the brooding bird.
"He came to Haran and dwelt there," or to give the record in full, "And Terah took Abraham, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran and dwelt there."
To find Him in everything, and everything in Him, is to be at rest. This is what He promises Not a life of outward success and ease much nobler than if He did. Take Abram's as a type. In war He will be our Defence. In absence of other joys He will be Enough. Sphered and included in Him is all sweetness. He sustains all relations, and does for us what these other joys and goods partially do.
"Where were you yesterday?" demanded Aunt Euphemia sharply. Louise at once thought she knew what was coming. She smiled as she replied: "Out fishing." "And with whom, may I ask?" "With Betty Gallup, Uncle Abram's housekeeper." "But the man?" "Oh! Mr. Tapp, you mean? A very pleasant young man, auntie." "That is what I was told, Louise," her aunt said mournfully. "With young Tapp.
At any rate, if the Most High God of Jerusalem were really Salim, the God of Peace, we should have an explanation of the blessing pronounced by Melchizedek upon the patriarch. Abram's victory had restored peace to Canaan; he had brought back the captives, and had himself returned in peace.
The name bestowed is taken to mean 'Father of a Multitude. It was the condensation into a word, of the divine promise. What a trial of Abram's faith it was to bid him take a name which would sound in men's ears liker irony than promise! He, close on a hundred years old, with but one child, who was known not to be the heir, to be called the father of many!
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