THE YOUTHS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. BIBLIO II. ISHMAEL BY THE REV. THORNLEY SMITH. "It was God's hand that shaped the world, And laid it in the sunbeams; and that God ALEXANDER SMITH. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY J. MASON, 14, CITY-ROAD; 266. ISHMAEL. "A mother's love Is an undying feeling. Earth may chill In blest communion with her child, and fill Even heaven itself with prayers and hymns of love." PATTERSON. I. THE WILDERNESS OF BEERSHEBA. Ar the southern extremity of Palestine there is an extensive wilderness, called, from the town of that name, "the wilderness of Beersheba," and presenting to the eye a perfect contrast to the beauty and fertility of the country north of it. A modern traveller, after having crossed it, says, "We now felt that the Descending gradually, desert was at an end. we came upon an open undulating country; |