Article February 2, 1946 Issue

Finding Our Land of Promise

D. MURIEL SAVARY

Numbers of young people released from war service feel a desire to seek homes and more adventurous occupations in new lands. Having gained a broader outlook through achieving bold feats, having found a wider scope for their energies and greater fearlessness through the rigors of service life, they do not want to enter the somewhat restrictive spheres of their former civilian activity.

How are such eager adventurers and their relatives and friends at home to remain poised during this momentous period of adjustment? How can those going forth to fresh fields be sure of success? How can they know they will be led each step of the way in the right selection of a new environment and work? How are those who may be left behind to be relieved of a sense of bitterness, separation, and loss that such partings sometimes hold?

How helpful to all is that vivid word picture, found in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, of Abraham's journey into the land of promise! We read (Hebr. 11:8-10): "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."

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