1929 Young Mens Corner - page 194

YOUNG MEN’S CORNER.

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4. 19). The woman he seeks must have the law of kindness in her heart.  Such is the little contract the servant made with God --

" I shall say, Let down thy pitcher I pray thee, that I may

drink ; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. "

This was a test, and she on her part knew nothing of it, but hers was the substance of the picture on the man’s mind.  Surely a woman who would act thus would be a fitting companion for his master’s son.

Many have spoken of Eliezer as being typical of the Holy Spirit,, quite a lawful interpretation in type, but may we not think of Eliezer being typical of the servant the Lord may use, the tool in the hand of the Holy Spirit in reaching a soul and espousing such as a pure virgin to Christ ? How truly the leading of the Holy Spirit can be traced in the whole narrative !  He breathes in the whole chapter and this servant is borne along in all his actions and words by His power and influence until at last the meeting takes place and the empty tent of Sarah and the empty heart of Isaac are filled, filled by a gem of womankind and well may the inspired writer record, " And he loved h e r : and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. "

While our spirits have been lifted up and wafted heavenward by the story of God’s choice of a wife for Isaac, we cannot but be other-wise than stunned and startled by what follows --" And Abraham took another wife. " The one story is and ever will be a gem in sacred history, but somehow we seem to wish we read only of Abraham and Sarah.  But there it is-- Keturah and her children.  We do not wish to pry into when and why Abraham took Keturah, but mighty man of

faith though he was we see how truly human he was --a man of like passions with ourselves.

Abraham died at the age of 175 and of his death we are told : --

(1) And Abraham gave up the ghost (the human spirit) ; (2) And died . . . and was gathered to his people ; (3) And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah. Here we have what happened to Abraham, spirit, soul and body ; the body went to the cave, the soul

(Abraham himself) was gathered to his people in upper Sheol, Paradise, and his spirit returned to God who gave it.  Thus ended the life of one of the most remarkable men that ever lived, and whose greatness consisted in the fact that he believed God.  May we follow in the steps

of the faith of Abraham!

J. M.

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