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34 was good enough for him. So he chased game, and companied with his heathen neighbors, and was the favorite of his father. For Isaac did love Esau, because he did eat of his venison. There are fathers yet to be met with who have a marked tenderness for the successful son, who, with a weakness for venison or courage or handsomeness, ignore a plodding Jacob in favor of a brilliant and dashing Esau. But Rebekah loved Jacob, who was a plain man dwelling in tents, who cared for lentiles in the garden, the ailing lambs of the flock; a mother's pet, with domestic tastes; a timid nature, averse to rough sports and dangerous enterprises. And this partiality in the family was the beginning of the sore troubles and unhappy strife that broke up this home, filled Esau's heart with rage against Jacob, and sent Jacob fleeing for his life from his father's house. A curse rests on partiality in the family. It is the cause of much alienation and domestic