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(EirEAL STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,
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PLEASANT FIELDS OF HOLY WRIT
Save for my daily range
Among the pleasant fields of Holy Writ.
I might despair —Tennyson
THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON.
Third Quarter. Lesson VIII. 1 Kin s XVIII, 30-46.
Sunday, August 21st, 1904.
ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL.
Carmel has heen called the Park of Pal-
estine. It is fragrant and lovely. Its
foliage is luxuriant. It commandsa su-
perb view of mountain, sea, and plain.
The battlefield of the Holy Land is at the
foot of it. It ie as if the names of Deborah,
Barak, Gideon and Saul were graven with
an iron pen on the rocky side of the moun-
tain. But a greater battle was to be fought
on the height than was ever waged upon
the plain. It was a duel of gods—Jehovah
and Baal.
Jezebel had paganized Israel. The very
multitude of her priests proves it. Four
hundred and fifty to the male god Baal
and four hundred to the female Astarte.
All Jehovah’s priests had gone into exile
and his prophets into the caves of the
mountains. The lascivious Zidonian wor-
ship, like a poisonous weed, covered the
whole land. It had the prestige of the
court. The sensualism of its pompous
ritual appealed to the Oriental mind. The
chains of a hideous and polluted worship
seemed riveted forever upon an apostate
nation.
One heroic sonl stood against the ap-
parently irresistible stream. As Antony
denounced the prefect of Alexandria,
Athanasius seized the bridle of Constan-
tine, Knox rebuked Mary, so Elijah, as if
consciously under the shield of divinity,
fearlessly rebuked king, queen, courtiers,
and people. A sharp sword proceeded out
of his mouth. The grandeunr of his soli-
tude is indescribably impressive. .
wasting srs
:
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:
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All against his will Ahab issues a royal |
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proclamation for the assembly of all Israel.
As if designed for the very purpose Carmel
afforded a stage for a fascinating and aw-
ful drama, a trial of gods by fire. The
dread scene is described in a magnificent
narrative in every way worthy of it. It}
fairly lives again before the eyes of the
reader.
The priests of Baal were devil-possessed.
They did not sham. In their extremity |
the darkest sorceries of blood and self-
mutilation were resorted to. As modern |
fakers eat glass and bite living snakes, so’
these devil-dancers went through every !
conceivable contortion fantastic gesture.
No more vivid description of idolatrous
customs exists in literature.
With the proverbial stoical patience of
the Arab the people had been sitting hour
after hour looking on as these spirited
scenes were enacted. The denouement is |
at hand. The climax is reached. The!
conduct of Elijah is the hest comment on !
that Scripture, ‘‘The righteous is as hold
as a lion.”” With that absolute assurance
which inspiration never fails to give,
Elijah stepped to the fore. There is large
significance in his smallest act or word.
He mocked the prophets of Baal. It is
one of the few examples of irony in the
Bible. He isnot frivolous in this. His
object is to make idolatry contemptible.
His sarcasm is pitying and withering.
His words are addressed to the people rath-
er than to the priests. He ‘cries, ‘‘Make
him attend! for be is the supreme god.
He may happen to be given an audience to
some one. Make him know thas every-
thing is now at stake. If he has gone
away call him back.’”” A coarse meaning
attaches to the phrase, ‘‘He is pursuing.’
The reference is to an act of the toilet, and
would not be tolerated in Western speech, |
bus indicates vividly the lowest degree of
contempt.
Just at the hour of the evening sacrifice
under the Mosaic ritual, Elijah repairs the
old altar of Jehovah—previously existing
on that spot. That marks him as the
Restorer. He takes twelve stones. That
is his protest against schism. The twelve
tribes should be in one state and in one
nation. Then comes that Divine bugle-
call, “How long halt ye!’’ The awe-struck
people maintain the silence of guilt to this
lofty challenge. An ideal prayer follows,
with its rine invocation of Jehovah's
name and its seven rythmic lines.
The assembly of the nation is convinced
beyond all cavil both of the impotence of
Baa! and the omnipotence of Jehovah.
Allegiance to God is renewed by popular
and unanimous voice. A death-blow is
struck to foreign superstitions. The re-
covery from apostasy showed itself in the
mind, affection, and conduct of the people.
The winding Kishon runs red with the
blood of the fanatical priests, who joined
to their idols miserably perish with them
that very day. The self-indalgent nature
of the king shows . itself in that he gives
himseif up to the pleasures of a banquet.
The heart-search ing events of that memor-
able day seemed not to have touched the
quick of his sluggish nature, But while
the king ate, the prophet prayed. The
prophet’s servant, who may, as tradition
says, have heen the son of the Sareptan
widow and also the Prophet Jonah, kept
running to scan the horizon for signs of
rain, and back to report to his master.
The whole spirited scene closes appro-
priately. The king rides in his chariot at
top of speed to cross the water-brooks be-
fore they shall become foaming torrents.
The victorions prophet patriotically con-
descends to be the defeated king’s fore-
~ LAST
runner. As his herald heecries, ‘‘Prepare
the way of the king!” No doubt his
motive is the desire to strengthen Abab’s
good resolves.
THE TEACHER'S LANTERN.
The lessous of Carmel are as clear-cut
as the sky-line of the mountain itself.
* * * * *
Carmel matches Sinai. Elijah matches
Moses.
* ® * * *
The nonentity of an idol was never more
strikingly illustrated. The scene on Car-
mel is a striking commentary on Paul's
word, ‘‘An idol is nothingin the world.”
Not for six hours on the mountain
had Baal heen appealed to but probably
for the whole three vears of famine. Not
a whisper came 110 response.
* * * * -
The moral courage and grandeur of
Elijah challenges admiration. He was
oblivious of self. The honor of Jehovah,
the welfare of the people impelled him to
fearless action.
*
The base character of Ahab presents a
marked contrast. He was more concerned
for the royal stud (horses and mules) than
he was for the famine-stricken people.
He attemped to ‘‘bulldoze’’ Elijah when
he cried, hlusteringly, ‘‘Ah! at length I
have found. you, you troubler of Ierael!”
He complacently ate while his priests were
being backed to pieces. He went from the
fire-crowned mountain and the discredited
Baalism to be the truculent slave of his
Baalite queen.
* x gh eh
The lofty simplicity of Elijah’s prayer is
all the more marked when contrasted with
the frantio cries of the Baalites.
* * * * a
Jehovah gave a sare sign to His doubt
ing people, but He required a choice at
their hands. He gives light, but in the
ultimate analysis decision is with the
individual. :
* * * * *
It is still ‘‘do and know.” ‘If any
man will do His will he shall know of the
doctrine.” Many are guilty of the im-
piety of asking for truth and yet withhold-
ing choice, asking for more light and yet
not obedient to the light they already
have. Ithas been aptly said, ‘Obedience
will scatter more doubt ‘than volumes of
treatises.’
* * * * *
The killing of the four hundred and
fifty priests of Baal was a species of judi-
cial murder. No one need be at pains to
justify it. The deed must be judged by
the standards which then maintained. If
it was right, then the Inquisition finds in
it a Scriptural proof and warrant.
* * * * *
Jesus abrogated the lex falionis when he
says, ‘‘Ye have heard aneye for an eye,
but I say love!”
* * * * *
Crude and wild conditions then main-
tained. Laws were imperfect; penalties
unduly severe. They were times of ignor-
ance at which God winked. This bloody
deed must be measured by the standards
then current, not by the principles of
Christian ethics and modern humanities.
Violence then as now was ‘‘bateful to the
God of love.”
¥ * * *
Farrar compares the relation of Obadiah
to Ahab to that which maintained between
* * * *
Sebastian and’ Diocletian. Bat the analogy
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fails at an important point. Obadiah
avoided an issue with his royal master,
while Sebastian confronted the emperor,
reproached him for his impiety, and paid
forfeit with his life.
——Dr. Cook, the hotanist of the Agri-
cultural Department, who bas bad under
investigation the experiment of introducing
from Guatemala the ‘‘kelep’’ or vermin-
eating ant, with a view to staying she
1avages of the boil weevil in the Texas
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““The ant,’’ he says, ‘‘injures no form of
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on the leaves and floral envelopes. The
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cotton fields of Texas.” If it shall be
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numbers sufficient to exterminate the boil
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the service rendered will be worth many
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Czarina a Suffragist.
The Empress of Russia is a strong be-
liever in female suffrage, woman’s clubs,
the higher education of women and in her
right to enter any and all of the profes-
sions. ;
She holds that almost all of the great re-
forms of the world have been brought
about by women, and that they are just
becoming conscious -of their power and
possibilities. Under her imperial patron-
age socities for the education and develop-
ment of females are growing numerous in
St. Petersburg and even spreading through
the jealously-guarded realm of the Czar. .
‘I have great and abiding faith in my
own sex,’’ she said recently. ‘‘Women are
ever busy sowing the seed from which
good springs up all over the world.”
——My wife's going to make biscuits
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Thanks: I’m not trying for the Carnegie
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