Eleventh chapter read... Tower of Babel... Confounding of the language...Number of the languages produced...New argu- ment for authenticity of the Bible...Moral Reflection. p. 141 Indication of a return to one language...Antediluvian progeni- Twelfth and fourteenth chapters read...Description of promised Record of first battle...Abraham's confederacy... Meeting with Abraham's faith... Belief of what promised counted to him for righteousness... Chief excellence of Abraham's faith. p. 181 Sixteenth chapter read... How Hagar became the servant of Chapters seventeen and eighteen read... Covenant of circumci- sion...Meaning of seals... Five points of comparison. p. 206 Chapter seventeenth read...The sign of circumcision... How a Twentieth and twenty-first chapters read... Abraham's depar- ture to Gerar... Its inhabitants... Banishment of Hagar and her son...The Jewish and Christian churches.......................p. 232 Twenty-second chapter read... Abraham's temptation...Land of Moriah... Allusion in New Testament to Mount Moriah... First chapter in Luke read... Why this Evangelist selected... Gabriel... The meaning of El, the termination of his name... His mission... Jesus... His inheritance... Mary's eulogy... Gabriel and Michael's offices... Decree of Cæsar......p. 263 Two Bethlehems... What sort of place Jesus was born in.....His brothers and sisters... His baptism in Jordan.........p. 272 "Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise, thou hast survived the fall! BETHEL; OR, THE CHRISTIAN'S HOUSE. THE superabundance of grace displayed in the Christian system is not likely to be appreciated, much less exaggerated, in this cold and selfish and sensual age. It would sometimes seem to me as though not one of a thousand in the whole army of the church militant did realize the amount of privilege, of wealth and honour guarantied to those in covenant with the Lord Messiah. The state and estate are, it would seem, alike unknown and unknowable, to the plodding votaries of man-made systems of devotion-seekers of religion-apprenticed converts the speculative catechumenoi of sectarian schools. The religion of the Lord Messiah is indeed a personal affair- —a spiritual concern-a soul-absorbing, subduing, ennobling institution. The subject and the object are persons, not things-not doctrines, not theories, not forms; but living, thinking, talking, acting agents. The elements of this celestial invention are one person believing, trusting in, loving, admiring, rejoicing in, and obeying another person. It is the intercourse, the commerce, the converse, the intimacies, the communings and communications of two kindred minds of very unequal standing-of very dissimilar rank and dignity. It is a sinful creature pardoned, B |