Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-09-15
Take Care of the Body.
+. /. II. HARVEY.

Rev. Robert Collver recently preached
a sermon at Hollis Street Church. Boston.
of which We find in the Boston Journal the
following abstract:
His text was chosen from Kings. 10: {.
" But he himself (Elii,h) went a day's
journey into The wilderness and came and
sat down under Il juniper tree: and he re-
quested for himself tha, he mirht die; and
said, 1t is enough; O. Lord,take AWAY nv
life; for am not better than nv flthers.''
This man, sad Mr.. Collver. had lust come
VIGOROUSLY through Il lony fight ,inrl,-
handed against a wicked king, a backslid
ny and ido olatropS nation. and a false
priesthood, determined, rs such n priest
hood always is, 10 prove At all risks that
it is ne only true one under the heaven.
He lad won the victory over these in the
sigIt of Israel and the sun. He ourht to
have asked to live. instead of wishing to
die. His depression WAS not caused by the
belief that God cared very little for what
he did. He is the one man of all time
who seems 10 have heaven ALWAYS on his
side
lie had prcmonition of the wears
drouth. and went to the brook Cherilh.
where he was fed by heaven The trans
lators say by ravens, but brave old Adam
Clarke. the Methodist commentator vho
loves to slip in Il bit of hercSv now and
then. for the truth sake, SUGGESTS that the
word translated ravens may Just rs proba
bly, mean the inhabitants of a neighborino
village In this DIR. Clarke agrees with
st Jerome. lhe one would have been as
! truly an lntcrposltiOn ofheaven rs the 9th
er, and there is no need to believe a miracle
when natural causes will explain the result
equally well. He faced the wicked Ahab
and later the four hundred and fifty priests
of Baa! undismayedly and v'ctoriou,ly
and then-ran away from woman and
sat down under Il juniper tree and said
"now let me die"
Perhaps there is nothing SO very VIC nder-
ful alter all III 1t, that after facing four
hundred and fifty men he should run from
a false woman. If after he had done all
this SO nobly, bravely and manfullv,it was
to be that he should fall before the race of
i face-painted woman. then iIe might well
think that ii had been all Il sham tirht after
all. and that he might rs well die. having
wasted his life
Whatever his real motive was we shall
never know, bat there he WIS. the orc,t
brave leader of u mighty movement of re-
form. sitting down under "A iunper tree
asking to die. Probably the truth Of the
matter was that for all he was so ore,t q
man. he had a brain and 4 stomach to take
care of, and they had got out of order.
We don't know how long he lived at the
brooklct, but while there, he lived As y
young man in Chicago told the speaker he
did after the great fire. - ont of a basket -
1t was basket packed doubtless by the
woman Cf the village for their minister.
containing great many nice THINGS. Int
not much solid food. And so at l,st his
digestion became impaired.
| 1t is IN early story of Luther over ar,in
Luther was SO mastered by indigestion
that he grew gloomy and ut last saw the
devil In his gloom. He GOT a wife. how
ever, who made him eat his dinner whctb-
er he wanted to or not, and at the proner
time,and play on his fiddle for the children
and 60 out OF doors, now and then. whom
he hll enough Of theology for the dny
But Eli iah had no Catherine and no tiddlr
only oil and flour. and one lon,- dav On
Carmel. and ut last he got to be so wretch
ed and broken down that he wanted to die
There was second trouble with him
He WIS too much alone 1t was MOI
meant that he should have married fo,
there are some kinds of work which need +,
be done by single men, who have given M
hostage to fortune. and can be brave with
out feeling that they are as good as two
nor are two 50 good It's twelve. Societ,
and companionship are necessary to man
Jesus was alone when the devil tempte,
him. Then Elijah had the feeling that h,
was the only nun in Israel that could Il,
anything, and the only worker for Go |
He thought h. WAS about the only ma,
left of the good OH sort.
lie imagined that the whole wcybt O
things lay on his shoulders, and never ba,
got over the feeling that if he let 90 ther.
. was 70 one 10 take hold in his place. S,
at last the chords ofilis life grew to be lik,
sweet bells jangled, cut of tune an,
harsh" He must wait till heaven callc,