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The Faith and Labor of Abraham

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 39.

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The Faith and Labor of Abraham

HE who has faith in God will worship and labor for him. This is true of every child of God. He not only will worship and labor, but he must labor. Here is a feature of Abraham’s life. When he reached the plain of Moreh, he builded an altar to the Lord. When he removed from there to between Bethel and Ai he again builded an altar, and there “he preacheth in the name of Jehovah.” (Young’s translation.) See Gen. 12:7, 8. He evidently pursued this course wherever he went. See also chapter 13:4, where Young renders, “And there doth Abraham preach in the name of Jehovah.” His preaching was not without its results. When he left Haran for Canaan, he took with him, besides his relatives, “the souls that they had gotten in Haran,” who left their idolatrous practices and joined themselves to the pilgrim, the friend of God. Those who are the children of faith will do even as did faithful Abraham.