AA fe 14 PAGES A mea YEAR 885. NO. eee ea RE A RUNAWAYS GLIMPSE OF GLORY. By William T. Ellis. *The International Sunday Behool Lesson for Nov. 17th, is "Jacob Fleeing From His Angry Brother."---Gen. 28:16-22, erm sent nnd Some persons need to be seared or smitten into reformation. There is plenty of precedent and warrant for the chastening of Germany in order to insure a change in her character, Jacob, son of Isaac, who had not a few points in common with the Kai- ser, had to be soundly frightened, and his ambitions schemes wrecked, before he gver found his better self When he became a fugitive from the vengeance of his outraged brother Esau, he had a pew standpoint from which to view himself. A lonely wanderer, affrighted at every sha- dow and every sound, with no servant to accompany: him, and. with no wealth' in his hand, Jacob was far removed from his former position as arch-conspirator In the household of his rich father Isane. Now there was no fond, shrewd and unserupu- lous mothbr to incite or abet him. He 'was on his own; and that is often the beginning of great things in #& young man's life, Jacob was on the run, with a guilty consclence for his only companion, He and his mother had presented to Isaac another reason for the flight-- the importance of securing for Jacob a wife from the old family stock up in Haran. Really, though, it was fear of Esau that quickened his foot- steps. Jacob might be a better business man than his brother, and able to outplay him In any game of guile, but in a stralghtout fight he was afraid of the halry hunter. So the successful schemer was fleeing from his own home, looking for a chance to begin lifé over again in safety. Al his trickery had been in vain. "I wish there were some 'wonderful place i Called the Land of Begining Aga, Where all our mistakes and all our heart aches And all our poor selfish grief Could be dropped like a shabby old coat, at the door, And pever put on again." Ett Where British Soldiers March. "An alr of security surrounds Bible cha and places for many persons; and It i gontinually worth while to Ramied. paar. that fhe route of Jacob's ugh 48 the presen ihn Bam. thay searisd from 'him, they star om heba, where they maintained headq 8 defeating the 'Turks at Suez and on the Sinai Pen. insula. From Beersheba, they, like north, and are still go- reach Haran, ur un- shall's Sroops from Bagdad pass th it a unite with the forces frofii Beersheba some- where in the neighborhood of Aleppo. At a point 'where the British lately routed the' -ealled Bethel, Ja- cob bad an ex) 6 that has meant more to human Ye than most great battles, or 'What some oné man thinks is of- ten a turning point in world history. Inner perso experiences are the real seeds of revolution. It is a great thing for the world when a man or a woman, and particularly a young man Or a young woman, gets a new conviction concerning the spiritual verities. It is not the places we have heen, the things we have seen beard and that matter we have that have come Jacob at Bethel momentous jours iran; he was on his ¢ For the first he was taking vital ou know your own fee 1 account of God, It is easiest to look up when we are down. Adversity has been the introduction of many a person to the things worth while. When fear and disaster are at our heels, we instine- tively ery out for help from some Power beyond ourselves. The mo- tive may not have been the most creditable, but the effect of fugtive Jacob's experience was to set him to thinking about Jehovah, the God of his father and of his grandfather On that lonely, hasty journey, he brooded upon the vast promises to his family line, promises which dwarfed into true proportions his mean and crafty devices for self-en richment The Dream and the Song. Night had fallen, The frighten- ed Jacob had kept going, fearful ever of hearing the shout of his avenging brother behind him, He knew the physical hardihood and endurance of Esau the hunter, who might even now be tracking him as game Not until darkness had come did he pause near the vilage of Luz. His prepa- rations for the night were of the simplest; a stone for a pillow, the earth for a couch, his cloak for a covering. It was not hardship for him to sleep so; he had often done it, as the people of the land do it to this very day. A stone is a hard pillow only to the person used to fea- thers. Ruling thoughts . usually shape dreams And Jacob dreamed of God and Heaven and safety and a sure inheritance In his dream it seemed as if a ladder reached from the very spot where he slept to hea- ven itself, and messengers ascended and descended, "And, behold, Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will 1 give it and to thy #eed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whitherso- ever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which 1 have spoken to thee of." On this experience of Jacob is based Sarah F. Adam's famous hymn: "Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over nie, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee, There let the way appear, Steps unto heaven; All that Thou send'st me In mercy given: Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! Theén, with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise, Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise; 80 by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! FE -- The Penitent's Vow. As the starving one dreams of food, as the wanderer thinks of -home, as the prodigal recalls his father's house, as the sinner longs for virtue, 80 Jacob, the schemer, saw in his dream that which was to him most desirable. And the dream tremen- dously influenced his life. It brought him back suddenly to a sense of God. He saw himself in the light of the presence of. Jehovah. There is traffic between heaven {and earth. Mortal experiences Have | jan immortal outreach. God is con- |cerned in the affairs of man. He {bas his messengers climbing unseen {ladders between the spiritual realms What Jacob foresaw in a dream, has {come to be the supreme reality of all existence. God has drawn near tol jus in the person of his own sent Son, jour Saviour. Through him we may have closer, surer contact with the eternal world than came to Jaeob at Bethel. In these days of long casualty lists, (of confusion, suffering, perplexity and war, we all need the reassurance that came to Jacob, that God is not uninterested. He is not a cold and distant Deity, standing apart and re- mote, indifferent in his ineffable ma- jesty. By all of his omuipotent re- sourcefulness, God is pressing him- self aud his comfort and his inspira- ton upon a sore-hearted world. He wants mankind to find Him in these days of darkness. If the war should be the occasion of a great spiritual awakening, of a turning to the Father, and of a read justment of life to Lis purposes, it will have been abundantly justified No price is too high 0 pay for the boon of find- ing God. The spot where we have had a unique spiritual experience is a soul- shrine. Oriental-wise, Jacob mark- ed the scene of his dream with a me- morial stone. His pillow became a pillar . That which had helped him sleep became a means to awaken re- membrance That spot, like every other where man meets his Maker, became a house of God, a gate of KINGSTON, ONTARIO, hegven. A Made-Over World.' This great experience did not make a gaint of Jacob. Hé had a long way yet to £0 on that journey. But)it did change his direction. His soul was searched God became a new factor in his life. He had learn- ed to-reckon with the infinite veri- ties. It would need some hard liv- ing, a further fright, and an ever more' intimate and personal experi- ence of God, to make over his char- acter completely y ~Jacob's vow, after his vision, seems pitifully inadequate. He had seen the heavens opened. He had heard the voice of Jehovah. A vista of benign providence had been spread before hin Still, all that he asked was merely safety for this jomrney, and food and clothes, His vow, or bargain, was not on a lofty plane; it had no spiritual implications. It God would take care of him physi- cally, he would serve God, and give him a tenth of his income! Nevertheless, Jacob was on the way to a pew character. In a world full of Jacobs, with sell-seeking and injustice - and oppression rampant, millions of persons are to-day won- dering how we are going to assure a new werld order. The fundamental problem is one affecting human na- ture. It is not enough to break Gtrman @rmament, if German aime abide. The 'motives of militarism and materialism are more of a men- ace than is mere might. We can- not create successfully a league of altruistic nations, if the | parties thereof gre the same scheming sort as we ised to know. The Jacob problem is really the world problem today. We have to change human nature, wer SA "It can't be done," says the man of the world. Ah, but it has been done, and it is being done, and it will be dene, on increasingly large scale, But only the goodness and grice of God can do it. Except the world first meet God, in a personal transaction and relationship, it can- not meet the needs of a new day. Converted men and women are the only sire route to a transformed hu- man society. General Foch recently said to an American visitor: "We cannot main- tain the ideals of liberty and justice, whether in war or in peace, without faith in Christ, for He was the great giver of freedom to men." 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