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PLEASANT FIELDS OF HOLY WRIT
Save for my daily Tange
the pleasant fields of Holy Writ.
—Tennyson
Amon
I might despair
THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON.
Third Quarter. Lesson VII. 1 Kings XVII, 1-16.
Sunday, August 14th, 1904.
OBADIAH AND ELIJAH.
For sheer courage Elijah is unsurpassed.
Among the ever-living heroes he stands
the peer of any for interpidity. ‘‘Go!”
‘‘And he went !’’ is the brief record, but
how much must be read between the lines.
He was commanded to go into the teeth
of a raging lion. Ahab felt that the
prestige of his kingship had been discount-
ed by Elijah’s opposition. He had been
humiliated in the eyes of his subjects and
neighboring monarchs. His wife, infla-
med with religious zeal, goaded him on to
revenge. Every circumstance, personal,
domestic, and national, conspired to make
him the implacable foe of the prophet
who had brought this withering woe upon
the nation. Under circumstances like
these the peremptory command came. ‘‘Go.
show thyself to Ahab!” Without remon-
strance or hesitation, taking his very life
in his hand, the prophet started. The
annals of war, exploration, or rescue do
not contain an instance which surpasses
this in cool and dauntless courage.
| _ The abject terror of Obadiah at sight of
{ Elijah presents a marked contrast to the
| fearlessness of the latter. Ahab’s lord
: high chamberlain is, at the king’s com-
mand, searching the drought-stricken
i land for the last hit of pasture for the
royal horses and mules, when he meets
the swarthy, sheepskin-clad prophet in the
highway. After the salutations are ex-
changed, Elijah commands him, ‘‘Tell
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thy lord, ‘‘Behold, Elijah !’”” Obadiah’s
answer not only reveals his apprehension
of personal harm, but also the, assidunity
with which the king had sought the
prophet in every kingdom and nation.
Obadiab’s plea is pitiful. He depre-
cates the danger in which the prophet
places him. If Elijah does not make good
his promise to appear at court, then the
king, in the rage of his disappointment,
will kill Obadiah. He feels that he does
not deserve such a cruel fate. He even
recites the things which he hasdone which
would indicate that be ought not to su fier
so ignominiounsly. Prominent among these
services was the biding of the hundred
prophets. When that first systematic
religious persecution of history broke out,
Obadiah, as mayor of the palace, knowing
it was impending, hurried all the mem-
bers of the prophetic fraternity he could
gather up to a couple of caverns in the hill
country, and secretly provided for their
sustenance—of course at peril of his own
life. For this deed be felt that he should
not now be put again in jeopardy. i
With a solemn oath Elijah assures Oba-
diah thas he will not disappoint him. ‘‘As
the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I
stand, I will Lurely show myself unto Him
to-day !’
This is one 10 a series of ‘moving pic-
tores’’ made three millenniums before the |
the modern mechanical device was dream- |
ed of. Nothing in literature surpasses in |
pictorialness this ancient record. The;
characters live and move and have a heing |
before one’s very eyes. Their black and |
hideous vices, their radiant virtues, their
hopes and fears—all are expansed.
That is a crude and basty judgment |
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which relegates this incident to the cate- |
gory of mere Old Testament story—and to
a far-away land. It really is a cross-sec-
tion af human life. It shows its motives
—fair and foul, its sufferings and successes,
and possibilities. Elijah and Obadiah,
Ahab and Jezebel, are alive to-day, and |
will reappear in every age. They are
human types, and as such are ‘‘the chief .
study of mankind.’’
THE TEACHER’S LANTERN.
Three distinct types of character appear.
Ahab had abjectly surrendered to idolatry |
and to his idolatrous queen. He may once |
have had amiable impulses, but these were |
rapidly exchanged for cruel purposes. He |
became an opostate and a persecutor. He
was obdurate and unreformed. He was a |
blusterer, shouting to the prophet on first |
sight of him, ‘Art thou be that troubleth |
Israel I’ As might have been expected he |
met a violent death, killed in battle at!
Ramoth by a certain man who drew a bow |
at a venture, and the dogs licked up his
blood as a servent washed his chariot.
Abab is a type of the positive evil. i
* * * * :
*
Obadiah’s position. if not his character, |
was equivocal. He was outwardly com- |!
placent under the dominance of idolatry, |
but inwardly protesting. He accepted
service under a wicked sovereign. He did
not reform Ahab. Ahab did not corrupt
him. With wickedness on every side, he
‘still feared Jehovah greatly.” In a
clandestine manner he was willing to hide
prophets. but he was afraid to openly an-
nounce the approach of a prophet. Obha-
diah is a type of the opportunist.
* * *
* *
Elijah is the outspoken advocate of truth
and righteonsness. He is a synonym of
courage. Prompt obedience to God, re-
gardless of all risks, is his characteristic.
He undertook without hesitation as peri-
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lous a mission as was ever given toanyv one.
It was bard for Obadiah to believe that
Elijah intended to meet his mortal foe face
to face until the prophet had reassured
him by a solemn oath.
* * *
Obadiah in Abab’s employ illustrates
the fact that religion can be maintained in
spite of an unfriendly environment. There
were also saints in Ceesar’s household.
* * * * *
Elijah was awe-inspiring in his very
person. At sight of him Obadiah fell upon
his facz before him, and addressed him in
* *
. regal form. He was the representative of
the Eternaland the wielder of His power.
* * * *
Waiting is a form of service. Elijah
waited three years in the seclusion of a
mountain tavern and a widow's but. He
bided God’s time and order. For one of
his temperament it is more exciting than
active service.
*
*
* * * *
It is just as imperative to come out of
seclusion when time is ripe, as to go into
seclusion before. In neither instance did
Elijah hesitate.
* * *
* *
Punisbment is not designed to destroy,
but to reform. The famine was not a day
longer than it wae needed to be.
* * * * *
The *‘prophets of the Lord’’ here men-
tioned formed probably a species of lay
fraternity. They were not of necessity
foretellers of events, but were holy youths
attached to the schools over which the
prophets presided, and were in training for
a life of preaching and teaching.
Beavers in Montana.
The beaver is not shy where he is no
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friendly watcher sooner than any other
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like dogs, they can apparently identify an
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The beaver’s sense of smell is very acute,
for he is able toescenta man 200 yards
away, and his eyesight is also most keen;
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each other of danger is by slapping or
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The Russian retreat from Tatchekiao
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, except for the railway the only means of
passing through it is on the wretched
‘Imperial’ road. Five track lead toward
the town from the east, msst of them con-
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Tatchekiao by forcing their way across the
open country to the south, but instead ad-
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