. The training of the Chosen people. esting proofs of this. One is his magnanimous attitude toward hisnephew, Lot. There are men who, without any greatnatural capacity, become very prosperous, becausethey happen to be associated by blood relationshipor by marriage with really able men. It was prob-ably because Lot went with Abram that he hadflocks, and herds, and tents (Gen. 13 : 5). Such menare apt to be quite insistent on their rights. The quar-rel of the shepherds put Abraham in a delicate posi-tion. If he surrendered the best of the country toLot, it looked as if he were subjecting the pro
. The training of the Chosen people. esting proofs of this. One is his magnanimous attitude toward hisnephew, Lot. There are men who, without any greatnatural capacity, become very prosperous, becausethey happen to be associated by blood relationshipor by marriage with really able men. It was prob-ably because Lot went with Abram that he hadflocks, and herds, and tents (Gen. 13 : 5). Such menare apt to be quite insistent on their rights. The quar-rel of the shepherds put Abraham in a delicate posi-tion. If he surrendered the best of the country toLot, it looked as if he were subjecting the promise ofGod that he should inherit the land to a long post-ponement. But Abraham believed in_God so thor-oughly that he did not take that view of the case atall. To his mind the fulfilment of Gods promisesdid not depend upon his sharpness in a bargain, or aclose insistence onjiis rights, at the cost of a believed in God so much that he could cheerfullyadopt the most magnanimous course, certain that 14 Old Testament History. Gods promise would not fail in the evolution of events. A more striking proof of the same faith is given in the story of his conduct after the death of Sarah. Among the Orientals the desire to be buried with their kin is verystrong. The sonsof Jacob broughtthe body of theirfather back fromEgypt to Pales-tine. The hosts ofthe exodus broughtback the bones ofJoseph to the fa-therland. Abouthalf a century hadpassed since Abra-ham first enteredthe country thatGod promised dans, who will allow no (Jnristians to see it. lne l ij r i • An Aabove cut is from a stereograph copyrighted by SnOUia De mS. AnUUnderwood & Underwood, N. f. yet he djd noy^ sess a foot of ground in it. The long delay mighTwell awaken distrust of the promise. In thesecircumstances the natural thing would be to carrythe body of Sarah back to Chaldea—the land oftheir common kin. But Abraham believed God. Hedid not possess the land yet, but he believed that itwould be his—the home
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