4. _Building for God lasts, for selves perishes._

A tent is stricken, and no trace remains but embers. The stones of
Jacob's altar may be standing yet. The Parthenon of Athens remains:
where are the hovels of the people? 'He that doeth the will of God
abideth for ever.' Permanent results of transitory deeds.




THE IMPORTANCE OF A CHOICE


'And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and
all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And
Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el,
unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,
between Beth-el and Hal; Unto the place of the altar,
which he had made there at the first: and there Abram
called on the name of the Lord. And Lot also, which went
with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the
land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
together: for their substance was great, so that they
could not dwell together. And there was a strife between
the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's
cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then
in the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no
strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my