HISTORICAL SETTING. The historic incident out of which the name Jehovah- jireh rises is one of the most moving and significant in the Word of God. The story is found in Genesis 22. It is the story of the last and greatest crisis in the life of Xxxxxxx. Every event in his life has led up to this supreme hour from the time of his call to a high destiny, through every vicissitude, through every joy, through every trial or failure, through every measure of success and blessing, through every hope and promise and assurance. All had been in preparation for this event. The great promise had been fulfilled, the supreme hope of his life realized. He had settled down to live the rest of his life in peace and in joyous anticipation of the larger fulfillment of the promise through the centuries, and its final spiritual fulfillment. The rationalistic critics have long been silenced who denied or doubted the reality of the Patriarchs as actual persons, but interpreted them merely as ideal and imaginary figures around which ancient Hebrew tradition cast its national origins and early history. For apart from our faith in the Bible as the inspired revelation of God, and its Old and New Testament testimony, to the reality of Xxxxxxx as a historic person, abundant evidence has been brought to light in recent years and decades as to the historicity of the persons and the veracity of the events to dispel all doubts and invalidate all objections. In this incident Xxxxxx appears to Xxxxxxx with the astounding command to offer up as a sacrifice, a burnt offering, his only and well-beloved son Xxxxx. Xxxxxxx, apparently, is not aware that this is a testing. His feelings can scarcely be imagined. His tremendous faith, in view of all the circumstances, is, perhaps, not sufficiently appreciated. The record reveals not a word of objection or remonstrance on his part. But if he laughed in his heart with joyful hope, even though perhaps mingled with a little doubt, when this son was promised to him, how deep his anguish and perplexity must have been at this amazing request from the God who had been so good to him. Yet the faith which enabled him to believe such a staggering promise in the first place is now sufficient for an even more staggering demand. This incident, then, reveals Xxxxxxx'x obedience and faith, Xxxxx'x willing submission, and Xxxxxxx'x gracious provision of a substitute in his place. THE MEANING OF THE NAME Before we discuss the derivation and meaning of this name, it will be well to brie...
HISTORICAL SETTING. In the 1890’s, J.R. Booth built a railway from Ottawa to Depot Harbour. Built as the Ottawa, Arnprior, and Parry Sound Railway, it became part of the Canada Atlantic Railway when the first full train ran in 1898. The Canada Atlantic Railway ran from Depot Harbour on Georgian Bay to Swanton, Vermont; US lines connected it to New York and Boston. A 6.5 km section of the rail bed became the Rose Point Recreational Trail. Many small communities were established along the rail line and many are still inhabited today; others are just reminders of a once prosperous past. Scotia, Sprucedale, Bear Lake, Whitehall, Maple Lake, Rose Point, and Depot Harbour are all examples of communities that owed their existence to the building of the Railway and their demise to its closure. The Village of Xxxxxxxxxx is another place that was prominent in the area.. In 1886, Xxxxxxxxxx became known as Xxxxx Xxxxxx when the Town of Parry Sound acquired property on the south side of the Seguin River. Parry Harbour boasted a population of 200 and had services such as a sawmill operated by the Guelph Lumber Company, planning mill, shingle mill, two hotels, a church, two blacksmith shops, a wagon shop, a post office and a telegraph office. Rose Point once boasted a popular summer resort/hotel operated by X.X. Xxxxxxxx, and later by his son Xxx. The hotel was accessible by rail or by boat from Parry Sound. Activity boomed in the summer when many events and regattas were held. Tourists would take the steamer to Rose Point, catch the train at the Rose Point Station to Swords (nee Maple Lake), take the stagecoach to Rosseau then paddle canoes down to Gravenhurst where they would catch the train home again. Many of these tourists came from the United States for the pristine wilderness experience and fabulous fishing opportunities. In 1902 the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway (CNoR) built an 8 km section of track from Parry Sound to the Canada Atlantic Railway. The intersection of the two lines was named Xxxxx Bay Junction for the proposed line from Parry Sound through North Bay to Xxxxx Bay. The line was surveyed north of Parry Sound but never constructed. Xxxxx Bay Junction boasted a store and a post office as well as a mill on the Boyne River Operated by Xxx Xxxxx. In 1923 CNR (both the Canada Atlantic Railway and CNoR became part of Canadian National) constructed a roundhouse, station, water tank, coal chute, office and bunkhouse called Royal York at South Parry. South Parry never grew b...
