While riding from one camping place to another we passed very large grain fields which were beautifully green. In one of those fields I remember having seen three persons—man, woman and baby—and they were one family. The mother was working hard pulling weeds out of the grain and the father—lazy man that he was—rocked the baby; for it was in a little homemade hammock. Two sticks had been pounded in the ground; to them the baby’s cradle had been fastened, and it took but a slight movement to send the little one back and forth,—a very easy task for one so strong. And we thought the man would feel ashamed to have strangers see him sitting there employed in that kind of work. But—do you know?—instead of being ashamed he seemed pleased. Fences are not seen in Palestine, but the limit of each man’s land is known by what is called a landmark. It usually consists of a heap of stones placed at the corner of the owner’s land. Persons passing through fields are not always aware whose land they are passing over. Especially is it so if you are a stranger in the country. You know Ruth was a stranger in and around Bethlehem; and when she had permission from Naomi to go and gather ears of corn she happened to get “on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz.” There are dishonest people all over the world. In the Bible we read of such characters, and we come to a passage like this: “Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.” You see the heap of stones is taken away and nothing is left to mark the boundary line. At noon we lunched in the ruins of an old church in Bethel. There is where Abram and Lot stopped after leaving Mesopotamia. “And there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.” “And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.” To get away from the angry brother, Jacob fled from home. After traveling until tired and weary, he found a resting place. The sun was set, so Jacob concluded to remain where he was during the night. He had no bed, or pillow either; but “he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows, and lay down in this place to sleep.” He had a wonderful dream; and possibly you may call it to mind. Then Jacob was afraid; so he “rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and he called the name of that place Bethel.”