Canaan they came.'




THE MAN OF FAITH


'And Abram passed through the land unto the place of
Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was
then in the land. And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and
said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there
builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto
him.'--GENESIS xii. 6, 7.

Great epoch and man. Steps of Abram's training. First he was simply
called to go--no promise of inheritance--obeyed--came to Canaan-found
a thickly peopled land with advanced social order, and received no
divine vision till he was face to face with the Canaanite.

1. _God's bit-by-bit leading of us._

How slowly the divine purpose was revealed--the trial before the
promise--did not know where, nor that Canaan was land, but only told
enough for his first march.

So with us--our ignorance of future is meant to have the effect of
keeping us near God and training us to live a day at a time.

God's finger on the page points to a word at a time. Each day's