IN Genesis, Psalms and the Gospel of Matthew we have read of God's care for His own. The Psalm declares that "The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth ... he considereth all their works ... He is our help and our shield"... Well might Jacob feel that he was not only far from his father, but far from his father's God. Filled with desolate and lonely thoughts, Jacob took of the stones of the place, made a rough and comfortless pillow, and fell asleep. He dreamed that he saw a ladder reaching from earth to heaven with the angels of God ascending and descending upon it, and the Lord stood at the top and spoke to the sleeper. Angels have no need of ladders, this vision was for the son of man who lay at its foot," The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth the sons of men." And beholding this one who was an instrument in the redemption of the world, God comforted him and strengthened him for his work. The voice and the vision taught him that he was no further from his father's God than if he were at home among his people. God's presence was independent of time and space. He was here on this stony hillside as well as in the tent of Isaac. Day and night were alike to him. "From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth."

C. A. LADSON, Guided by the Star, pages 154-155