Prof. David Gordon Lyon, Ph. D., of Harvard University, knows more about Abram than the Bible does. He says, in an article in the Biblical World for June: "Political changes at home and the prospect of bettering their fortunes in the West, may have led Abram and Lot to turn their faces toward Canaan." Again: "Abram is impelled still further to the West by sublime faith in the future, and into the land of Canaan he comes (Gen. 12). He comes, we may suppose, not into the region that was utterly unknown." I suppose that we may suppose that he had heard Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." What cares this Professor for the statements of the Bible, that Abram came into Canaan because God called [147] him thither, and that "by faith he obeyed, and went out, not knowing whither he went"?

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