32 THE LORD WILL PROVIDE.

 They named the place after the very words Abraham
used when Isaac asked him that question. It is a hard
name, but your little rosy lips can say it if you try, and
your young heart must try to keep the meaning. How
hard it was for Isaac to be bound, how hard for Abraham
to do it, but they both believed God, and knew how to
obey. They named the place .e-hio-vak/z i-reh," and it
means, The Lord will provide." It was a picture of
what God himself did, providing a sacrifice.
 To that very place, long 'ifter, another only and be-
loved Son was led; on his shoulder were two great beams
of wood, and a crowd hooted and mocked him as they
went. On that spot they did not build the same altar as
Abraham's; the larger piece of wood was driven in the
ground, the other crossed it, and on them the Son was
nailed and there he died.
 It was the Holy Child, the Father's well-beloved Son,
who had spent his life going about doing good, had shown
the whole world how to live, and then on the cross he
died. He was the offering for sin once and for ever:
there is now no need of altars or of burnt offerings, for
every one who will believe and obey, may know that for
forgiveness and every mercy we need and go to Him for,
tlie Lord will provide.