IN the thirty-first and following chapters of Genesis we read of Jacob's journey back to his father's house. He had been a long time in the home of Laban, had married his two daughters, Leah and Rachel, had become the father of a number of children, and had accumulated much goods. But he was longing for his father's house, and decided to return to his own land.
All of his household set out upon the journey with him; but Rachel was not ready to leave all behind her for the fuller, freer life in the land of Canaan. There were certain household gods to which she had bowed down since childhood, and she was loath to give them up. Perhaps she was doubtful concerning the land of Jacob's father; perhaps she feared giving up the old for the new. At any rate, she stole her father's images and took them with her.
How many of us to-day in our journey into the promised land of Christian Science are loath to part with some old belief to which we have bowed down all our lives?
