rose up with Isaac his son, and returned to Isaac's mother, satisfied with God's favour, and full of the blessing of the Lord.

Isaac bound and laid upon the altar, was to show forth God's only and beloved Son, bound and laid upon the cross. God would not suffer Isaac to be slain; but God did not spare His own beloved Son, but offered Him up for us all.

Would it make you happy to think that you, like holy Abraham, could be the friend of the Lord God Almighty, even of that gentle Lord and Saviour, who took little children up in His arms, and blessed them? If so, I will tell you that, young as you are, you may be the friend of Abraham's God, for He has said, that every one who does whatever He commands shall be His friend. Ask your Saviour to give you His Holy Spirit, that you may learn to know, and love, and do His holy will, and then you will not only be His child, but He will call you His friend.

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.-JOHN XV. 14.

X.-JACOB'S BLESSING.

ISAAC lived with his father and his mother. And when Isaac was nearly forty years old, his mother died; his father mourned and wept for her, and laid her in the grave. The grave in which he laid her was a cave, in a piece of ground which Abraham bought for a buryingplace; for Abraham dwelt as a stranger in the land to which God had called him. Abraham had no home in that land, he lived in tents which he moved from one place to another: but God had promised to give the whole of that land to him and to his children. Abraham believed God, and dwelt as a stranger in the land of Canaan, which, in years to come, his children would possess as their own land.

And

When Isaac was sixty years old, God gave him two sons. Esau was the name of the