Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: strued as implying that her husband is her inferior. Though in this enlightened Christian land a conventional superiority is acceded to woman, she is far from arrogating to herself that superiority. When Rebekah dismounted, her attendants doubtless dismounted too, and walked in procession till she was presented to her husband. Isaac conducted Rebekah to his late mother’s tent, and, as Deborah raised the veil, he would look for the first time on the face of his bride. Rebekah possessed personal charms of a very high character, and the respect and admiration which the report of Eliezer had elicited, as we have supposed, now culminated in love. The sacred historian exhibits the conjugal happiness of the newly-married pair in an equally pleasing and impressive manner by the following words:
He loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. CHAPTER III. THE BIRTH OF ESAU?HE SELLS HIS BIRTHRIGHT. ?HE happiness ot parents should always be increased by the addition to their families of sons or daughters-in-law. New relations do not release us from our obligations to those already existing. It is both sadand surprising that when men become husbands and women wives they sometimes act as though they thought themselves freed from filial duty. If they do not say,
It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, they virtually declare that all their attention, time, and money are needed for their own families. It is indeed true that, If any man provide not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel. But parents are always included in a man’s
house, however remote their dwelling from his own. These thoughts have been suggested by reflecting on the change which would be made by Rebekah’…
