American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-08-08


that we find the angel of the Lord afterwards
called 1t "the JMO,ut Of God" Il was however
destined for third baptism. When Elijah,
hunted by Jezebel, fled for his life, he wander
ed across the desert TO this mountain. His
prayer had brought rain upon the parched and
desolate earth, but his sword had also drank the
blood of the prophets of Baal, and Jezebel had
sent HIM word that she would do 10 him as he
had done to her prophets, and so he fled into
the wilderness and sat down under juniper
tree and prayed for death. Weary and dis
couraged, the hunted fugitive lay down and
slept, when the angel of the Lord touched him
and babe him arise and 60 to Mount HoIeb,-
Elijah started for the desert; and after travell-
| ing for more than month"; he at length, worn
and exhausted, came to the mountain, and
took up his solitary lodgings III cave. How
many desolate days and lonely nights he passed
there we knew not, but at length a voice from
heaven said, $50 forth and stand upon the
mount" Jehovah was about to reveal himself
But before he reached the entrance of his cave
he heard roar louder than the sea, that arrest
ed his footsteps and sent the blood back to his
heart. The next moment there came a blast
Of wind as if the last chain that bound it had
suddenly been thrown off and it had burst
forth in all its unrestained and limitess energy.
In the twinklng of an eye the sun was blotted
out by the cloud Of dust, and the fragments that
filed the air were whirled in fierce eddies on
ward. 1t Shrieked and howled around the
mouth Of the cave, while the fierce Kissing
sound OF its steady pressure against the heart
OF the mountain was more terrible than its
ocean like roar, Before its fury and strength
rocks were loosened from their beds and hurled
through the air-the earth rent where it passed,
md hafOrn itc fi1rty tHa Of alv
ened to lift from its base and be carried away.
Amid this deafening uproar and confusion and
darkness and terror, the stunned end awe struck
Elijah expected TO see the form Of Jehovah
moving; but that 'esstless blast, strewing the
sides of Horeb with wreck and chaos was not
God in motion:
&c Twas but the whirlwind of his breath,
Announcing danger, wreck and death"
The hurricane passed by, and that wild
strife of the elements ceased; but before the
darkened heavens could clear themselves Elijah
heard a rumblng sound in the bowels of the
mountain, and the next moment an earthquake
was on the march. Stern Horeb rocked to and
fro like vessel in storm, and its bosom part
ed with the sound Of thunder before the convul-
sive throbs that seemed rendng the very heart
Of nature, Fathomless abysses opened on eve
ry side, and huge precipices, topping over the
chasms at their base, went laundering through
the darkness. The fallen prophet lay on the
floor of his cavern and listened to the grinding
crushing sound around and beneath him, and
the steady shocks that seemed to reach the very
seat of ature, thinking that Jehovah at least
stood there. Surely it was his mighty hand
that lay on that trembling, tottering mountain,
and his strong arm that rocked it so wildly on
its base. No, "God was not in the earth
quake"
"'Twas but the laundering of his car,
The trampling of his steeds from taI.'
The commotion ceased, and Nature stood
Sand calmed her ruff1ed frome;" but in the sud
den ominous silence that followed, there SEEM
ed foreshadowing of some new terror, and 10
the heavens were suddenly on fire, and sheet
Of flame descended Its lurid light pierced to
the depths of Eiah's cavern till it glowed like
an oven, and from base TO summit of Mount
Horeb there went up vast cloud Of smoke,
fast and furious, while the entire sides flowed
with torrents OF FIRE. The mountain glowed
with red heat, and stood like a huge burning
furnace under burning heaven, and groaned
on its ancient seat as If in torture. But God
was not in the fiery storm.
'''Fwas but the lightning of his eye"
that had kindled that mountain into blaze,
and filled the air with fame
But this too passed by, and what new scene
of terror could rise worthy to herald the foot
steps Of God-what greater outward grandeur
could surround his presence? The astonished
prophet still lay upon his face wrapped in won
der, aud filled with fear at these exhibitions Of
Almighty power, waiting for the next scene in
this great drama, when suddenly through the
deep quiet and breathless hush that had sue.
ceeded the earthquake and the storm, there
arose "a still small voice. the like of which
had never met his ear before. 1t was "small
and stl," but it thrilled the prophets frame
with electric power, and rose so sweet and
clear,
''That all in heaven and earth might hear;
/. spoke of peace-it spoke oflove,
| spoke as angels speak above"
And God was in the voice. The prophet knew
that He was nigh, and rising up, wrapped his
mantle about his face, and went to the mouth
of the cave, and reverently stood and listened.
Oh, who can tell the depth and sweetness of
the tones of that voice which the Lord of love
deemed worthy to announce his coming. A
ransomed spirits harp-an angels lute-a SER
aphs song, could not have moved the prophet
so. But while his whole being, soul and body,
trembled TO its music, Steiner voice met his
ear, saying, "What doest thou here, Eljah?"
The prophet poured the tale of his woes and of
lsrael's sin into the Infinite bosom. His wrongs
were promised redress and Israel deliverance,
and the hunted exile went boldly back to his
people, and Horeb again stood silent and alone
in the desert.
"The Mount of God" needs no other title to
make it the fourth Sacred Mountain on the
earth.
The ETHIOPIAN SERENADERs IN EUROPE.
A letter from London, in the New York Herald,
has the following notice of the Ethiopian Sere-
naders:
Dumbleton is here with his Ethiopians, and
has made prodgous hit. He has been high