. The Bible and its . the domains ofAbimelech, the Philistine king, that Gods prom-ise was fulfilled to Sarah, in that her son wasborn. This lads name, Isaac (I laugh), expressednot only his parents doubt of God, but also their joyat possessing the child. And Abraham made a greatfeast the same day that Isaac was weaned. It was anunhappy day for the poor Egyptian servant saw Hagars son Ishmael playing and jestingwith little Isaac. Or perhaps he mocked and teasedthe child; for Sarah a second time flared into angeragainst Hagar, and demanded that she be driven outof the encamp
. The Bible and its . the domains ofAbimelech, the Philistine king, that Gods prom-ise was fulfilled to Sarah, in that her son wasborn. This lads name, Isaac (I laugh), expressednot only his parents doubt of God, but also their joyat possessing the child. And Abraham made a greatfeast the same day that Isaac was weaned. It was anunhappy day for the poor Egyptian servant saw Hagars son Ishmael playing and jestingwith little Isaac. Or perhaps he mocked and teasedthe child; for Sarah a second time flared into angeragainst Hagar, and demanded that she be driven outof the encampment. And the thing was very grievous in Abrahamssight. If he did not love Hagar, he did love Ish-mael, his first-born son. This time he was slow toyield to Sarahs harsh demand, until God Himselfspoke to Abraham and commanded that this sacrificealso should be made. And Abraham rose up earlyin the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water,and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,and the child, and sent her ii ^^^ 3!S{)mael Comes; iStgf) Beat!) BY THE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, M. DU MOND. And the water was spent 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 w
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