ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.


 FATHER and son are walking along together: the
father is Abraham, called the friend of God," because the
Lord so often talked with him.
 When he was one hundred years old, God sent him
a son, and he named him Isaac.
 When Isaac was almost a man grown, God said to
Abraham, "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom
thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah."
 The next morning Abraham rose very early, put his
heavy sandals on his feet, saddled his ass to carry some
food for them, took two of his servants and a great bundle
of wood, and started for the mountain. The third morn-
ing of the journey they could see the place. Abraham
said to the servants, Stay here with the ass, and we will
go and worship, and come again to you."
 That was what Abraham went to the mountain for,
to worship, and he was doing exactly as God told him to
do. He took the bundle of wood and laid it on Isaac's
shoulder; in that vessel in Abraham's hand was all he
needed to make a fire, and a knife was in his belt. That
was the way to worship God then; to build an altar and