COVENANT RENEWE D WITH
JACOB.

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God had made great promises to Abraham, but it
was to be many years before they were to be fulfilled; so
the Lord came to him several times and repeated the
solemn covenant, that he might not be left in doubt.
When Abraham was dead, for fear his children and his
children’s children would be unbelieving, the Lord ap-
peared unto Jacob, his grandchild, and told him the same
thing he told his grandfather Abraham.

Our picture shows how it was. Jacob was journeying
through the country, and stopped to lodge for the night.
He took a stone for his pillow, and lay down to sleep.
In his sleep he saw a wonderful vision—a ladder reaching
up to heaven, and angels were passing over it. At the
top of the ladder he heard the voice of God repeating the
promise he made long before to his grandfather Abraham,
that he would bless him, and his children after him, and
go with them in all their journeys, and would give unto |
them the land of blessing.

When Jacob awoke, he was both glad and afraid.

He said, “Surely the Lord was in this place, and I knew -

it not.” No wonder he felt afraid at such a vision; I

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