Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21

makes show Of great things when be
tells Jezebel of the scehe on Carmel; but
be awaked the tigress. We do not know
the particulars Of the domestic scene, only
that Ahab came off second best. Ahab's
conversion rapidly dissolved.
If it bad not been night time, the rag
ing queen would have sought and seized
Elijah at once. AS it is, she will catch
him early on the morrow and send him
after Baal's prophets. Her silly wrath
lets out the secret. She cannot hold in
her desire to abuse the prophet. Her
imprudence warns Elijah. His hopes
are collapsed, and now we see the hero
prophet running for dear life to the hills
OF Samaria, through Benjamin and Ju-
dab, and never stopping till he gets to
Beersoeba, hundred miles away. What
a fight was his, when he would not ev en-
halt in good king Jehoshaphats domin-
ionsi lie seemed to feel that Jezebel and
all Israel were at bis heels. Beersheba
is on the end of tie desert, but he is not
safe there. He has tired his servant out
with two or three days running, and the
poor fellow cannot 60 any farther; but
bis master must get into the wilderness
some thirty miles before he can feel Sc
cure.
There he is at last, pretty thoroughly
tagged in body and mind. He sits down
under a broom bush. 1t is scanty
shade in the hot sand. Anybody who
has been in the desert knows how sand
aud rock help one another to make the
landscape dreary. There certainly was
not much to cheer Elijah in the typog-
raphy. From Jezebel to the Tih desert
was like going from Scyla to Charybdis.
"Ravattah!'' he cries, which is the He
brew for last gasp, This is too much
o Lord take away my life; for l am not
better than my fathers" | suppose he
meant the old Israelites who died in that
desert six hundred years before. Perhaps
there was little faint of self righteous
ness in his humility. However that NAV
be, the prophet, like little child, cried
himself to sleep. Such is the picture Of
human nature, when grace gives out in
a saint and prophet.
But now We have another picture.
Elijah is touched by some one. He
awakes. Is il Bedouin or hyena's
nose? He looks around and sees nobody.
But he surely heard the words, KUN
echol!" (arise, eatD Why, there at his
head is a cake and jar of water. There
isn't much more of Elijah just then than
the physical man. He eats aud drinks
and goes to sleep again. Perhaps he
didn't trouble himself about the "hoy" or
''who" of the cake and water. But in
the morning he is nudged again. He
now awakens fully. A breakfast is
ready for him. More than that. The
Lord speaks to him, (perhaps in human
form) and journey to Sinai is ordered /;
another hundred miles of bleak desert,
and this breakfast is to suffice for the
whole way, as well as for bis temporary
residence on that Mosaic spot.
The prophet is reassured. The Lord
has not forgotten him. 1t was be who
had forgotten the Lord. Under that
broom bush he has learned how very,
very good God is.
When we are cast down because our
hopes are blasted, let US, with Eljah,s
story before us, remember that God never
wished US to confide in our air castles,
but in him. We had no business to
build those castles. The Lord is our
dwelling place Rev. DIR, Crosby, IN
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