The saints of God, in every age, have delighted to dwell on these memorable spots and experiences in their past pilgrimage. _Abraham_ had _his_ "hill Mizar" between Bethel and Hai. "_There,_" we read, "_he builded an altar, and called upon the name of the Lord._"[65] On his return from Egypt he retraced his steps to the _same_ locality. Why? Because it was doubly hallowed to him now, with these former experiences of God's presence and love. It is specially noted that "he went on his journeys from the south _even to Bethel_, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; _unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first_: and THERE he called on the name of the Lord."[66]
_Jacob's_ "Mizar" would doubtless be his ladder-steps at Bethel, where the fugitive wanderer was gladdened with a vision of angels, and the voice of a reconciled God. _Moses_ would think of _his_ "Mizar" either in connexion with the burning bush or the cleft of the rock, or the Mount of Prayer at Rephidim. _Isaiah's_ "Mizar" would be the vision of the Seraphim, when his faithlessness was rebuked, and confidence in God restored. _Jeremiah_ tells us specially of _his_--some memorable spot where he had a peculiar manifestation of God's presence and grace. "_The Lord hath appeared of_ OLD _unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee._"[67]
Or shall we look to the New Testament? The _Roman Centurion_ would remember as his Mizar-height, the spot at Capernaum where mingled Omnipotence and Love uttered the healing word. The _Magdalene_ would remember as hers, the Pharisee's banquet-hall, where she bathed the feet of her Lord with a flood of penitential tears. The _Maniac of Gadara_ would recall as his, the heights around Tiberias, where the demon-throng were expelled, and where he sat calm and peaceful at the feet of the Great Restorer. The _Woman of Samaria_ would remember as hers, the well of Sychar, where her Pilgrim Lord led her from the earthly to the eternal fountain. _Peter_ would remember as his, the early morn, and the solitary figure on Gennesaret's shore. The _Sisters of Lazarus_, go where they might, would recall as their hallowed memorial-spot, the home and the graveyard of _Bethany_. _Paul of Tarsus_ would ever remember as his, the burning plain near Damascus, where a light, brighter than the mid-day sun, brought him helpless to the ground, and a voice of mingled severity and gentleness changed the persecutor into a believer--the lion into a lamb. _John_, the beloved disciple, as he trod the solitary isle of his banishment, or with the trembling footsteps of age lingered in his last home at Ephesus--John would recall as the most sacred and hallowed "_Mizar_" of all, the gentle bosom on which he leant at supper!