[Songs in the Night - July 7]
And he [Abraham] removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, ...and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord. Genesis 12:8
IT WAS doubtless to be free from the immoral influences
of the Canaanites, and to have his people
separated from these, that Abraham removed subsequently
to the mountainous country near Bethel.
There
he established his home, there he reared an altar to
the Lord and prayed.
Would that each head of a family
were thus careful to look out for the interests of those
under his charge, that these interests should be advantageous
to their welfare everywhere!
Would that
more could realize how indispensable it is to have an
altar to the Lord in their home, where the prayer incense
would ascend to the Father through the merit
of the Redeemer. Z'07-42 R3936:3 (Hymn 153)