. The Bible and its . nt in the bottle, and shecast the child under one of the shrubs.—Gen., 21, 15. ABRAHAMS greatest hesitation in drivingout Hagar must have been because thewilderness lay beyond them, barren, tree-less, almost a desert, the vast waste landwhich extends between Palestine and Egypt. Intothis wilderness Hagar plunged. Apparently shewas striving to find her way back to her own home ofEgypt with the child. She became lost, however, inthe wilderness of Beer-sheba. Soon her little sup-ply of water was exhausted. There was no moreanywhere to be found despite her frantic sea
. The Bible and its . nt in the bottle, and shecast the child under one of the shrubs.—Gen., 21, 15. ABRAHAMS greatest hesitation in drivingout Hagar must have been because thewilderness lay beyond them, barren, tree-less, almost a desert, the vast waste landwhich extends between Palestine and Egypt. Intothis wilderness Hagar plunged. Apparently shewas striving to find her way back to her own home ofEgypt with the child. She became lost, however, inthe wilderness of Beer-sheba. Soon her little sup-ply of water was exhausted. There was no moreanywhere to be found despite her frantic , who must by now have been a lad offourteen or more, faltered and fell fainting byher side. Imagine the scene of the mothers agony, alonethere, beyond human help, in the midst of that deaddesert, with her dying son. And she went, and sather down over against him a good way off, as it werea bowshot; for she said. Let me not see the deathof the child. And she sat over against him, and liftedup her voice, and 1 .TJxJtOf Cjje i^esicue of JIagat from the celebrated schirmer series of historical landscapes dealing with Abrahams life. •h And the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her. What aileth thee, Hagar? —Gen., 21, 17. A SECOND 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 is the last picture of the devoted mother, , however, the Book returns to Ishmael thearcher, to tell us th
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