The Brooklyn vines Sunday Sermon. 1801." Texr: * til ye be entlued h Luke xxiv. 40. For a few months, in the bave two pulpits, one in Brookl n the other in New York, and through the ness of the ing opportunity. To all such hearers eadors 1 come with an e ial message, ® time has arrived for a forward move suent such as the church and the world have Dever seed. That there is a need for such a ous movement is evident from the fact od and determined effort to over- erp el eB obsolete anc whole a derigion. Meanwhile ; down ite 8 by the hundreds of thou- iq political parties get down an h and hair otically saying: “© thou al: Se jug! we bow down before thee | Give us he offices —city, State and national. The Christian Sabbath meanwhile, ap tad for physical, mental and spiritgal is being secular; and abolished. Aj ® bad publishing houses dt our own ry bad exhausted their literary flith, the French ussian sewers have been invited Bru scurrility and moral slush inte h where our American swine ary Bow wallowing, Muinphile there are enough of Mfamy in all our cities, open and unmolested of the law, #0 invoke the omni ent wrath which buried Sodom under'a de- @ of brimstone. The pandem world, think, has massed its tr they ar« this moment plying their batferiés upos ly circles, churclf circles, social circ as, tical circles and nationafelrsies. Apollyon the saddle, and riding af head of his myrmidons would capture this world for ass and wae, t t is one side of the conflict now raging. On the other side we havo the mdst maghifi t gospel machinery that the world ever W Or. laven ever invented. In the first ince there are in tais country more than Sgaty thousand ministers of religion and, “0 thom as a class, Wore consscrated, Her, more consistent, more self de nying, ore faithful men never Hved. ¥ know them the thousands. I have met tiem in avery Qily. Iam told, not by them, but by people de of our profession, people engaged in stian and reformator: work, that the clergy of Awmerica are at the head of all good @nterprises, and whoaver else fail they may De depended on, The truth of this is demon. ated by the fact that when a minister of gion does fall Vy so exceptional that the WEpapers report #6 as somo starting, ¥hile a hundred men in other cai a) down without the matter being considersd agpecially worth mentioning, In addition totheir equipment in moral ter the clergy of this cotintry have all tthe schools can give. Al archwologl. rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, lite ent. So much for the Christian istry of all denominations, Ig the next on our side of the conflict wi have the dest churches of all time. and higher style of membership and mors of them, and & host without number of splendid mien a Touen Who are doing their beet to hive world purified, elevated, gospblised. we all feel that somethi is wanting. hearty songs ave . and ; earnest sermons preached wi tHe six months to save all of Arrier- and sa the cities you sgveths world, they overflow all the land either with r religion or their infamy. But lock at some of the startling facts. It is nearly nineteen hundred. years since Jesus Christ came by the way of hem Sravansary to save this world, yet the of ea world has ne mord Wuchéd by this most stupendous fact of all ty than if on the first Christmas night the beasts of the stall, amid the bieat- ings of their own young, had not heard the bleating of the Lamb that was to be slain. of the eighteen hundred million of the race fourteen hundred million ary hout God and without hope in the world, | &he camel driver of Arabia, Mahomet, with, nine wives, as our blessed and m us are engdyed in Ch work—L spesk for mysell aa well as others—are toils ing up to our full Capacity of boar, mind and soul, harnessed up to the last bu mble to draw a md more than we are drawing or lift ah ounce more than we ats lifting. What is the matter? My text lots out the xcret. Weall need more of the power from on high. Not Mmiioniar power, not logical power, no power, not social power, not Si tific not brain Te but Power from ont high. With piish more in one weak 8 hundred years, And] St, if in answer to prayer, earnest and cag continued, God will grant it to me, His un. worthy servant. Men and women who know to pray, whén you pray for yourself aed for me that [ ;pay berendusd wilh power 1 on high. 1 would rather hava {t than all tho diamond flelds of Goleonda, and all the pearis of the sea, aud all the gold of the mountaivs. Many of the mightiest intellects asver had a touch of it, and many of the less un ordinary intellects have been surcharged with it. And every man and woman on earth besa right to aspire to it. a t to pray for it, and, properly perwistent, will obtain it, Power from on the leval such power as I may give ve me, by encoun ower frow on the leve in Power from on are in accord wi Ievel when the level is not forward our Ch Rover om on the is what we of us. Power power, Not . more the than without it am going to git when we stand by any Christian undertaking. level when other pulpits ours. Power from on the ous and secular undertak] from ans. i 1 i { { i | i in England and America, w alr mark. William of these days, Except a few th Eli's spirit bi Hophnl and Phitieas Ap rib TR reat, The infidel writings of Shaftesbury an Hobbes and Chubb haa done their work, ower from on high came upon both ‘esleys and Lady Huntington on th side the Atlantic, and upon William Tennant and Gilbert Tennant and David Brainerd on this side the Atlantic, and both hemispheres felt the tread of a pardoning God. Coming to later date, thers may ba here and thers in this audisnce an man, or woman who can remember New York in 1831, when this power from on high de It came upon pastors apd congregations and theatres and’ commercial establishments. Chatham eighteenth century, religion was at a bo Cowper, writing of tho said: A committee of Christian gentlemen called upon the lessee of the theatre, and said they would Uke to buy the lease of the theatre. He said, ‘What do you want it fort” od, ‘For a church.” ‘For wha-at the owner. ‘For a church,” was the reply. The owner said, ‘You 7 have it, and I will give you a thousand to help Al Tappas, a man mightily persecuted in his time, but a ofan, as.I saw him in his last days, as honest and good as an un 1 ever kuew, tham Theatryg as the actors were cloging their morning rehearsal and said, “There will be preaching here to-night on this stage,” and then vd out and sang with such'people as were therd the old hymn: The volce of free grace cries, escape to the mount. For ail that belteve Christ has opened a fountain The barroom of the theatre was turned in- 0 a prayer room, aud eizht hundred per- sons were present at the first meeting Sor eveuty successive nights religious sarvices were held in that theatre, and such scenes of ! mercy apd salvation as will be subjects of conversation and congratulation among the | ransomed in glory as long as heaven lasts. But 1 come to a later timo ~1857—remem- | bared by many who are here. I remember } it especially, as I had just entered the offen | of the miihistry. It was a year of hard times, A gront phuic had flung hundreds of thou- | sands of people penniless. Starvation en- | tered habitations that had nev be known a want, Domestic He in many cass became a tragedy Suictde, burglary, assassination were rapa an awial day that was whan ti ank down! There has been not ng like it thirty years, andl pray God there may not be anything Hike it In the next thirty cen turies. Talk about your Black Fridays! was Black Saturday, Black Sunday, Black Monday, Black Tuesday, Black W esday, Black Thursday as woll as Black #'i ar are . aut $1 Ww h before the Lord and cried for pardon and peace, and upon nunisters and laymen the | hd from on high descended. Engine otises, warercoms, hotel parlors, museums, factories, trom 12 to 1 o'clock, whiisthe oper. atives were ng, wers opened for prayers sermiops and inquiry rooms and Burton's old theatre on Chambers street, where our ancestors used to assemble to Streets, ul out oi tiie docks and on thd of ships lying at the whari people ! *All hail the power of Jesus's name " whi others cried for merfy. A great misss meet- ing of Christians ona week day, in Jayne's J, Philadelphia, telegraphed to Fulton t Prayer Meoting in New York, saying, , t hath God wrought? and « x went back saying, “I'wo hundred souls saved at our m today.” A ship came through the Narrows {nto our harbor, the captain reporting that himself and all the crew had converted to God between Now Orleans and New York. In the busiest arts of our busiest Amer ican cities, where the worshipers of Mam. mon had been counting their pre: rn] raen to ta, “What shall it fit a man if he gain whole world and his soul? The walférs in restgurants after the closing of their day's work koelt among the tables where they had ssrved. Police mien asked consent of the Commissioner of Folige to be permitted to attend religious msetin At Albany members of ths Now York lature asseinbled in the room of the Court of A at half-past eight o'clock in the morning for prayer and praie Printed invitations were sent out to fire: men of New York saying, “Come as suits your convenience , Whether in fire or citizens’ dress, but come! come™ Quarry men koelt among the rocks. FY en knelt in their boats. Weavers knelt among ths looms. Sailors knelt among the ham. mocks, Schoolmasters knelt among their A joatisman traveling said therq of prayer msstings rom Om to Washington City, and he might bave added a line gf meetings from the Atlantic to tho Pacific coast, and from the Bt. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, In those days what songs, what sermons what turnings to God, what recital of thrill experiences, what prodigals brought home, what burning sidings of souls saved | emancipated, whe | wild rottof the forces of darkness what victories for the truth! What millions on ehrth und in heaven are now thanking God for 1857, which, though the year of wore: financial calamity, was the year of Amer. ica’s most glorious blessing. How do you account for 1857, its spiritual triumphs on the heels of its worldly misfortune! af Seas what my text calls the power from on t was thirty-thres years ago, ant though there have been in various parts o! the land many stirrings of the Holy Ghost, bas been fio general awakening. 5 that we ought tu scenes of power in the scenes of power in 15011 are somewhat similar. | had national panic an! | gntveran) Ajon 44 in 1857, there ha | a ngedcy 6 money market tha: | has put many of the families of the earth to | their wits’ end. Large : which you need help, and bereavaments in which you want solace, and persecutions in which you ought to have defense, and per. plexitios in which you nsed gaidance, and with a profound thoughtfulness you stand by the grave of thoold year, and the cradles of the young year, wondering where you will be nd what you will be when ‘rolling years shall cease to move.” Power from on high \escend upon them! Men of New York and Brooklyn, I offer you God and heaven! From ths day you came to these cities what a struggle you have had! I can tell from your careworn counte. nances, and the tears in Jou eyes, and the deep sigh you have just breathed that you want re-enforcement, and here it is, ioater than Blucher when ho re-enforced Welling.- ton; greater than the Bank of England when last month it re-enforced the Barings—name. ly, the who through Jesus Christ is ready to pardon all your gin, comfort all your sarrows, scatter all your doubts, and swing all the shining gates of heaven wide open before your redesmed spirit. Come into the kingdom of God! Without a half second of delay come in! world calls, and what I would call splendid fellows, and they seem happy enough, and are jolly and obliging, pect, it I were in trouble I would go to them with as much confidence as [ would to my father, if he were yet alive. But when they go to their rooms at night, or when the excitements of content, and they want something better than this world can offer. I them so well I would, without any fear of baing thought rough, put my right hand on their one shoulder and my loft hand on their other shoulder and push them into the kingdom of God. But I cannot. Power from on high, lay hold of them! At the first communion after the dedica< tweaty-sight souls stood up in the aisles and publicly espoused the cause of Christ. At another time four hundred. souls; at another time five hundred: and our f thousand five hundred membership werobut a mauall themselves the vows of the What turned them? What savidl them? Power from the level? No Power from on high. But greater things are to . be seen if ever i 1 over this world is to be taken 0 is one class of men and we assemblages in whom 1 t, and that is those who t x, but they £8 are or- id, bat took upon for God. 1 women in all $1 sil § “EEN ies of Wemay be 40, 50, 80 years « > to £0 Las r were alive we had son { ld go! Now I would like to ask if you at all their prayers in your behalf op answered WN you say, “‘but s too late; the old folks are gono now.” aly contradict you. not too late. haven friend in the minds who was attending the last hours of an agod Christian, and my friend sald to the oid Christian, “Is no trothle on yx guind? The old man turned his face to the wall for a few moments and then sad: “Only one thing. |! hope for the salvation of my ten children, but not one of them is yot paved. Yet 1 am sure they will be. God means to walt ustil I amgone.” 80 he died. ‘When my friend told of the circumstances eight of the ten had found the Lord and I have no doubt the other two bafore this have found Him. Oh, that the long postponad answers to prayer for you, my brother, for Jou, my sister might this hour descend io power from on hb. Oh, unansw prayers of father and mother, where are you! In what room of the old homestead have ! Oh, unanswered prayers, rise in a mist of many tears into a cloud, and thenbreak in a shower which shall soften the beart of that man who is #0 hard he cannot cry, or that women who is ashamed to pray! the aged, now empty and in the the Tabbish, phe po Oh, grim who bas ended his w Journey, tell of the parental anxieties that Dent over thes! Ob, family Bible, with story of births and deaths, rustie some of thy time worn loaves, and let us know of the wrinkled bands that once turned thy pages, and explain that spot where a tear fell upon the sage: “Ob, Absalom, my son, my son, would God I had died for thee.” hE. must courts there ur amon of us, if after having had such 8 devout and praying ee Wa never pr for our- selves! fe willpray. We will in now, Oh, for the power from on high, powet to move this asssmblage, power to save Brock lyn and New York, power of evangelism that all sweep across this continent like az. ccsan surge, power to girdle the round earth with 8 red girdle dipped in the blood of the cree! If this forward movement is to begin at ail there must be some place for it to begin, end why not this place? And there must be sors time for it to | and why not this time? And so I sound for your ears a rhythmic in- vitation, which, until a few days ago, nover cams under my eye, but it is so sweet, 80 sob. bing with pathos, so triumphant with jor. that whoever chigsed it, instead of being Wnonymous, ought W be immortal: Thy sins I bore on Calvary's tree; The stripes, thy doe, wera laid ou me, That peace and pardon might be free OQ wretched sinner, come! Bardensd with guilt, wouldet thou be blest? Trust not the world: If gives no reat; 1 bring relief 15 hearts OPPreNt OQ weary sinner, come’ Come, leave thy burden at the cross: Count all thy gene but empty dross, My grace rapays all eatrthiy i089 O needy minoer, come’ Come, hither bring thy boding fears, Thy aching heart, thy bursting tears, "Tis mercy 's voloe salutes thine ears. O trembling sioner, come! How Crocodiles Trap Birds. I have watched upon many occasions the stealthy advance of a crocodile to capture small birds, when in flights of many {thousands they have settled upon yielding branches of dwarf willows, writes Sir Samuel Baker in “Wild Beasts and Their Ways.” The elastic boughs beat down beneath the weight of the in- numerable flock, and the ~rocodile’s head appeared above the surface at a distance, sank below, and quickly reapeared (the andl crown alone above the water) ithin ten yards of the , all of ‘whom were b ks in the water when twigs permitted them to drink. few moments after the disappearance of the wary eyes : tremendous splash was which swept the occupants of he ri branches into the greedy throat, ine world, Fila the ha a way usuall g Sugigonty to the 0 1ike yous Sunday coat t most have its foundation in the heart, or 1t will be a flimsy sham that will deceive nobody. RAN, KN 18553530 RH. Bunrpzxs grow we are willing to When on my day of light the night is falling, And in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far volees out of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown, Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant, Leave not [ts tenant when 1s walls deeay: 0 love divine, O Helper ever presept, Je Thou my help and stay, Be near me when all else is from Earth, sky, home's picture, shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting The love which answers mine, 1 have but Thee, O Father! Let thy spirit Be with me, then, to comfort and uphold ; No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit, Nor street of shining gold. me drifting. day of shade and { Buffice 1t Jf, my good and 111 unreckoned. And both forgiven through Thy "bounding | grace, { I find myself by hands familiar beckoned { Untomy fitting place | Bame humble door among Thy many mansions, Bome sheltering shade where sin and striving Cease, | And flows forever through heaven's green ex. pansions The river of Thy peace, f healing, —————————— Margie’'s Charm. “What 1s it makes everybody love Margie Fitch so?" said Jennie Howard, | half petulantly, as she turned away from | the window after having seen the ele- tgant Mrs. Dayton, with her little | danghter by her side, gracefully rein in her horse, take Maggie in her hand some carriage, and dash off again down street. ‘‘She isn't pretty nor stylish. Now what is 1t do you suppose?” i “J think I know the charm. Perhaps you would better set yourself the task this week to discover it,” spswered her mother, busily putting the sitting-room to nights, The next day at school Jennie {oll ed her like a The WES Margio's detective, thing she noticed ness to A who stood ly at the others at their gay Margie went over and made quaintance, and after a little he girl joined the merry group and WAS soon running deer a: laughing with the rest. When school was called, Margie laid arose on the tescher's desk as passed, and smiled a cheery morning,” and received an appreciative | smile in return. i About an hour later, while busily | studying, a smothered sob caught her lear. Looking about, she saw the new scholar sitting with head bent forward regarding her slate with a hopeless ex- pression. Up went Margie's hand for permission to leave her seat, which was granted, as were all like requests, for they were rare, and the teacher knew they were nerer of a trifling na- ture. “What is the matter, Alice?” Margie, sitting down beside her. “Pont do one of these ex amples,” | she replied, dashing Away a tears Matgle took the siate, read over an : example, and soon had it dewn correct- | ly. with a little help at the right | place the others were conquered, and | the girl lifted a grateful face to hers | as oho thanked her. On their way home a troop of girls i were working off their animal gpirits in a wila game of tag. Margie in whirl- ing suddenly came in collision with a | gentleman, knocking his cane from his | band. | “Oh, I beg your pardon, sir,” said Margie, covered with confusion as she { returned the cane to him. “I'm afraid | I have hurt you, sir,” and she looked up with frank solicitude in her eyes. “Not at all, my dear,” he responded Leartily, pleased by her courteous man- ner. ‘“Go on with your play and be! happy. 1am proud to dott my hat to | 80 polite a young lady,” which he did | with a stately bow and passed on. i “How did you dare? Ishonld have | been too much frightoned to have said i o thing,” exclaimed one of the pirls. ‘So should 1,” chorused the others. i There was a social in the church par- | {lors that week. Jennie still hovered | near Margie, learning a sweet lesson | every day from her. As they sat turn- | ing the leaves of a hymn book, finding ! { their favorite songs, a lady paused to i speak to them. Margie instantly arose | | and proflered her chair, which was se | cepted with a pleased smile after Mar- | i gie had insisted upon it. The two girls started for the other room where the young people were! preparing for games. Just then Mar- | | gle espied a solitary figure sitting in | the corner. This was the deacon’s wife, | | who was somewhat deaf. Aftera hand- | | shake and a sentence through the ear | trumpet ple usually left her to her- i sell, as the majority of people mumble | or speak too rapidly to be readily un- derstood through the trumpet. i Margie crossed the room to her, and | taking the Sipe} in her hand, being | eareful to artienlate so as not to make | her affliction more conspicuous, she sat and chatted an hour away, amusing the dear ads by repeating the pleasantries and jo were Bis from lip to lip of those around “You have been a great comfort to me, my bonnie lass,” said the old lady, the hand that held the trumpet. ‘Now go and play with the rest. I thank you, my dear, for your thought- Sultiss MH an old Woman vg ol gie went away quite Ppy. As soon as she appeared several Ad exclaimed: “Oh, here comes her be Rath, Come, Of K mE, & BOY, NCW quite alone, look i Tid 2 Re a “200d. asked ! ! ¥ : i Margie Fitch! Let e, and be nto every- “f think I have found out 's charm,” said Jennie to her mother the next morning. *‘It is because she is so " Bo so aay heady. UNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, i991 Cod’s Care of Elijah. 8 LESSON TEXT, (Kings 17 : 1.18, Momory voriss: 2.5. LEBBON PLAN, Toric ov THR QUARTER: and Serving. Goroex Texr ror Tue Godliness 1s profitable unto 120m, 4:8 Sinning all things, Lussox Toric: God's Servants Fed. 1. Divine Revelations, vs. 1-4, 7-8, 14. Lessox Ovrrixg:{ > Frist 1.0bedience, vs, 3. Gracious Supply, vs. 6, 156 .e.18 Goroex Texr: They that seek ths Lork shall not want any good thiug, — Psa, 84 : 10, Day Howe ReApixas : M.—1 King 17 : 1-16. vants fed, T.——Gen. 21 : 1-21. supphed. Ww. Exod. 16: 1-21, supplied, T.—1 Kings 19:1 supplied, F.—Mark gind fed. Mark 8: 1-0, fod, S.—John 6 : 26-50. life. God's ser- Hagar's wants Israel's wants 6 : 80-44. 3 Four thousand The bread of LESSON ANALYSIS, GOD'S BERVANTS FED, I. Need: 2 be dew n ks 7). There shall not »r The Lrook dried ny : Hay ent 17:12 4 1 ” B he famine was + ings 18 : 9), find grass and 1 Kinga IR iy i Get thee to Zar phath Yo shall obey serve him (DD Obey his slat # tT ‘ HOE 1 30 iB VOIoe, alld vo his + it. IR : 4). ites, which I commu 3 10). commanded thee? (Josh. 1:0). wi hast commanded us we will do (Josh 1 : 18). IH. Promise: Thou shalt drink of the have commanded 9 brook to sustain thee (4 As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee (Josh, 1: 5). The righteous shall inberit the (Psa. 87: 20), 1: 19. All these things sha'l be added You { Matt. 6: 33) 1. “There shall not be dew nor rain.” (1; Au angry God; 2 A unto prophet; (3) A fearful penalty. 2. “1 have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.” (1) The appoint- (3) The obedient (4 The sare supply. « “I have commanded a widow man there fo sustain thee.” (1 new emergency: ‘2y A new vision. 1) God, the controlling power; (2) The widow, the submis- sive instrument; (3) Elijah, the honored beneficiary, Ii. TRUSTFUL OBEDIENCE, Il. Well-Crounded Obedience: He went. . . .according unto the word of the Lord (BL. All that the Lord hath spoken will we do «Exod. 24: 7). According to all that the Lord com- manded him, so did he (Exod 18). Whatsoever he smith unto you, do it John 2: messengers, Wi A ~y oY (Heb, 11: 8). 11. Enduring Obedience: So he arose and went to Zarepath (10:, Teach me:. ..I shall keep it unto the end (Psa. 119: 33), I. ...perform thy statutes, . ...even unto the end (Psa. 119: 112), He that endureth to the end, the sane shall be saved (Matt, 10: 22), He that keepeth my works unto the end (Rev. 2: 26). Il. Faith=Filled Obedience: She said,....I have not a cake. ... She went and did (12, 15, By faith Noah... .prepared an ark (Heb. 11: Ty. By faith Abraham ....went ont, not knowing whither he went (Heb, 11: 8). By faith Abraham... .offered up Isaac (Heb. 11: 17). By faith he forsook Egypt (Heb, 11: 27). 1. ‘He went and did according unto the word of the Lord.” (1) An obedient man; (2) A guiding Lord, «~{1) The Lords word; (2) The 's nse, bp dahold, 3 widow woman eu here ng sticks.” (1) The Lord's command; (2) The prophet's obedience; (3) The widow's pres- ance. 3 1) Eilbs anthortte: or ion (1) E 's an yi snponnosment; 3) Elijah's infla. ence. 111. GRACIOUS SUPPLY. Ravens brought him bread;....and he drank of the brook (6). Foed me with the food that is needful for me (Prov. 80: Bh y bread (Matt, we shall be t i {Heb. 18: 5). 1. Sufficient Provision: He maketh me to lie down in green pasiures { Pea, 23: 2), Thou openest thine band, they are satisfied with good (Psa, 104: 28), Thou... .satisfiest the desire of every living thing (Psa. 145: 18). God shall fulfill every peed of yours (Phil, 4: 19). : Ii, Continuous Supply: The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the eruss of oil fail (16, Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life (Psa. 23: 61, They that seek the Lord shall not want nuy good thing (Psa, 84: 10). He will be our guide even unto death Pra, 48: 14... Your heavenly (Matt, 6: 265, 1. “The ravens brought him bread and flesh; and he drank of the brook.” 1) Constant neede; (2; Continuous supply; Btrange means; (4) Sure supervi-ion, . “She, and he, and her house, did ! eat wany days” (1) Many bene- ficiaries; (2) Many days; (3) Much prov.sion.—1) Man's ever-reeur- ring wants; (2; God's ever-abound- ing supply. 3. “The barrel of meal wasted not, according to the word of the Lord.” (1) The word of promise } (2) The deed of fulfilment.—(1) | Sufficiency assured; (2) Sufficiency bestowed. Father feedeih them : (8) i ———— —————— LESSON BIBLE READING. i VAMINES OF BIBLE HISTORY. # i Abraham’s days (Gen. 12 : 10), days (Gen, 206 : 1. Joseph's days Gen. 41 : 58.57). of the judges (Rath 1: 2 Bam 21 : 1 i i Isanc’s the d iY 3 y Dav ii 8 das 8 y Ehjah's days (1 Kings 17 $a] JH rr who ORT GS assinated and reigned only seven days); Omri, the general of srmy (who Overcome fa ris named Tibni); and Ahab, his son. The lesson belongs to i the time of Jehoshaphat and Ahab. Jeroboam received several prophetic warnings about his idolatry, and the i destruction of his race was predicted. | War with Judah continued during the {entire reign of Jerobosm. Asa, the | contemporary of six kings of Israel, in- | duced Benbadad, king of Syria, to at- the iad | tack the northern kingdom, but was re- { buked for this by a seer (2 Chron. 16 : | 7-19). Abtab married Jezebel, a heathen princess, and introduced the worship of nal. He is described (I Kings 16 : ng more to provoke Jehovah | to anger than ali the preceding kings. Incidentally, mention is made of the indgments upon Hiel, who rebuilt Jer- icho in the days of Ahab (1 Kings 16 : 534 Praces,—The margin of the Revised { Version names “Tishbeb,” probably | the home of Elijah; but it cannot be | identified. It is uncertain whether the | prophet spoke to Abab in Samaria, the | new capital of Israel (1 Kings 16 : 24; { or in Jezreel, which was farther north. The brook Cherith (“‘gorge”) was somo stream flowing into the Jordan, suita- ble for hiding. Robinson favors Wady Kelt, near Jericho. This would bes good hiding-place, but was very remote | from the land of Sidon, to which Elijah { journeyed next. Zarepbath (Greek, | Barepta; now, Surafend) was in Sidonia, { on the coast, aboui seven miles south- | ward from Sidon. True. —About sixty-five years after the revolt under Jeroboam. Aeccord- ing to the nsuai chronology, about B, C. 910, Ahad took the throne about B.C. 918 or 919, and had certainly reigned a number of years when Elijah appeared. ’ Pcaont. Elijah the Tishbite, the greatest of the Old Testament prophets; Abab, the wicked king; a poor widow of Zarephath, Ixcroests. — Elijah appears before Ahab and predicts a long drought; the swophet is bidden by the Lord to hile Pon by the brook Cherith; there he is fed by the ravens; when the brook finally dries up, he is sent to Zarephath, with the promise that a widow there will sustain him; meeting her atthe sate of the city, he asks for water; as she oes to get it, he asks for bread also: Bo answer reveals her great poverty; a meal e Lord, the i andi BE GOS the prophet ads her pre for him, promising that t God of Israel, will keep her supplied as long as the drought lasts; this prom- ise is fulfilled, and Elijah is fed by the heathen widow, whose scanty sup- ply proves unfailing. : T re is no parallel in 2 Chronicles to the account of Elijjah’s ministry. — A Trade Mark Instead of a Name. pA BANS Italy is with pons eleo. ally controlled for er ae
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