The Rough Speech of a Tender Love

An aged father in the land of Canaan sat in the doorway of his tent. His mortal frame revealed how heavily the burden of his one hundred and thirty years, as a pilgrim and stranger here below, had weighed down upon him. The fleshly tent or tabernacle in which his soul dwelt (II Corinthians 5:1) showed definite signs of wear and tear; and he knew that it was but a matter of time, and then that tent would no longer be a fit abode for the soul, and, as Solomon declared, the spirit would return to...