So a trusty old servant was sent into Mesopotamia to find a wife for Isaac,—a woman who should be beautiful and good, and whose faith was like that of Abraham.
REBEKAH AT THE WELL. (Goodall.)
REBEKAH.
His house she enters, there to be a light,
Shining within, when all without is right.
It was just upon the edge of the village, and just as the sun was sinking, that the servant came to the well from which the village folk drew water. And there, with a pitcher in her hand, stood a maiden, as beautiful as ever maiden could be.
"Whose daughter art thou?" the servant asked.
And the maiden answered, "I am Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, of the house of Abraham."
Then the servant was glad; for he knew now that the maiden was as good, and her religion as pure, as she was beautiful. So he went to the home of Bethuel, and told his errand into Mesopotamia. He told Bethuel of the godly life Abraham had led, and of the noble youth, Isaac. And he asked that he might choose Rebekah for Isaac's wife and carry her back with him to Canaan.