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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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D time, even as when before she fledfrom her mistress, was Hagar saved bydivine intervention, in the midst of her de-sj^air. God had promised that her son Ishmael shouldbe the father of a wild and powerful race. So nowHe sent His angel. And God opened her eyes, andshe saw a well of water, and she went, and filled thebottle with water, and gave the lad drink. And God was with the lad; and he grew, anddwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and hismother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. Such is the brief closing of the tale in Holy Writ.Such is the last picture of the devoted mother, Hagar.Later, however, the Book returns to Ishmael thearcher, to tell us that he lived a hundred and thirtyand seven years, and ruled over the deserts, and be-came cliief ancestor of the race of the Arabs. Thesehave dwelt in Ishmaels deserts ever since, and haverepeatedly proven tliemselves to be among thegreatest, if the wildest, peoples of the earth.
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atiraljam €limh^ iHount JWoriafi FROM THE SCHIRMER SERIES. And he said. Take now thy son, thine only sonIsaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land ofMoriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering.—Gen., 22, 2. GOD MEANT evidently to test Abrahamsobedience in every possible way. Af-ter compelling him to part with Ish-mael his first born^ the Lord appeared to himwith the command to slay Isaac, his younger son, as asacrifice to prove his devotion to God. MoreoverAbraham was given time to think of all that he waslosing. The offering was to be made on Mount Mo-riah, at the end of a three days journey from Abra-hams southern home. INIount ISIoriah is supposed to have been on thesite of Jerusalem, the very spot where Solomon af-terward built his temple, where Jesus preached, andwhere the Jews worship to this day—the chief altarof the world. In the picture, the artist endeavors toreconstruct the holy hillside as it may have appearedin those old days, before Jerusalem existed.

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