How Shall We Look Back?

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it, Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” – 1 Samuel 7:12 Whether it is the Vietnam War memorial in Washington DC, or the memorial of the Civil War in Arlington, VA, or even that of tombstones of our loved ones who have gone to glory, we human beings have a habit of using stones as memorials. Such was the case also with Samuel, who on the occasion of a wonderful victory given to them by Jehovah,...