between a personal human being and a personal God. Your work, your
obedience, your sacrifice, your right place and your allotted duty,
will all follow in due time. The next sacrifice to be made by the
Christian priest, is that of testimony and thanksgiving. "By Him,
therefore," says the author of the Hebrews, "let us offer the sacrifice
of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving
thanks to His Name."

And the next priestly offering of the Christian is a holy life, for the
inspired author goes on in the next verse, "But to do good, and to
communicate forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased."
Offer, then, beloved, the body, with the soul and spirit; offer the
fruit of the lips and offer the fruit of the life, and you will walk
worthily of your priesthood. Glory!

The patriarch Jacob had two distinct and well-defined experiences about
twenty years apart. The first of these was at Bethel, when, in
loneliness and anguish of mind, he was plodding on his way toward
Mesopotamia to escape the vengeance of his brother Esau. This vengeance
was not causeless, and Jacob lay down upon the ground with a stone for
a pillow, not only distressed in mind from fear and anxiety, but also,
we may well suppose, not altogether free from the condemnation of a
guilty conscience. But Jacob was a man who had faith in God's promises,
even if he did not always obey His commands. And when he lay down to
sleep under the open sky, in a state of mind, sad, forlorn, fearful and
contrite, God was watching over him, and when he awoke from the
wondrous vision there vouchsafed to him, he perceived that God was in
the place, and he found that he himself, also, was a new man. Now he
could not only believe intellectually what God had said, but he could
and did enter into covenant with Him, taking Jehovah for his God, and