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after hour they keptit up until the time OF
the evening sacrifice; for six hours at least
they had been crying unto the god they
worshiped, while in reality they had been
crying to no one. p. Y =
(, so. 7.Aud Elijah said unto an the people
Come near unto ,me.s And ali the people Z
came near unto him." In calmness he had
waited, his soul doubtless communing with
his God, but now the decisive moment had
come: $50 mon had failed--what coufd this
one man dor He was one Of those Of whom
it Is written, Zone shall chase thousand,
and two put ten thousand tofighta tDeut.
81. aAnd Elijah took twelve stones, ac.
cording to the number Of the tribes Of the
sons of Jacob" See swelve stones In the
same connection in Elk. xiv, 4; xviii, M;;
Josh. w., 3,s. 9, 20. Although the twelve
tribes were divided into ten and two, max
before God, and He hns ever before Him the
time when they shall be reunited UNDERGONE
king Ezek. xvii, 21. 2g. AN Israel had
at this time become idolaters, and hence the
necessity Of q testimony to the twelve tribes
concerning the true God.
"Unto whom the word Of the Lord came
saying, Israel shall be thy name" This re-
fers back to an event over 800 years before
(Gen. xxi, 2S), when Jacob in conscious
weakness clung to the angel and prevailed,
and received the name of Israel or prince
of God. Elijah in conscious weakness as to
himself Is now before the people IN the nama
of the Interchangeable. and Almighty God oi
Israel. .se..s 5...s..e.s 4..ss.s - 80
in thename of the Lord" )" The altar OF the;
false prophets was unto 'Baai and SIN his
name; this one was unto Jehovah and In HIS
name. Whatsoever we do In word or deed Is
to be done in the name Of the Lord Jesus
tCol. iii. III, ,-aud to the glory Of God q C5sir:
sI9. otbsFS Sise VIZ are guilty Of worship
ing some Baai, and there arc eight or ten !.
different ones mentioned in Scripture
= 49, "And he put thewood in order and cut
the bullock in pieces and laid him on the
wood.n A bullock was used both as o sin OF
feripg and cs burnt Offering Nev.1., and
iv) and in these chapters full instruction.
are found as to the manner Of Offering. Tha
sin Offering was type Of Christ bearing our
sins; the burnt Offering was type OF Christ
Offering Himself without spct to God. In
this case while the great point was TO SHOW
God as the only living and true God, tne nu.
lock was probably offered as sin Offering
for God could only reveal Himself as the
righteous one requiring q sacrifice TOR sin
81. 35. tpTne water ran around about tue
altar. and he filled the trench also with
water" Once, twice, thrice was the sacr1:
fice. and the wood and the altar drenched
with water. There was to be no deception
here, no fire hidden somewhere about wh1cn
might be secretly used. II any one had suca
suspicion these repeated drenchings Wouia
dispe1 such an idea, and seemingly make It
impossible to ever kindle fire with such
material. 10
So. "Lord God Of Abraham, Isaac and OF
Israel, letit be known this day that Thou art
God in Israel and that am Thy servant
By this title God revealed Himself to Moses
at the burning bush and said, 'This Is My
name forever, and this is My memorial unto
all generations" tEx. ILL.,, g IS, 49,. Observe
that the prophets whole aim is that God may
be magni6ed.
"And that Ihave done all these things at
Thy yword." Then tho altar and sacrifice aud
wood and water and answer by fire were no
mere thoughts Of Elijab, but simple conn
mands of God wfich be had only to- obey,
trusting God for all results. The path Of i'm
81. "Hear me, Lord. hear me; that this
people may know that Tnou art the Lord
God, and that Thou hast turned their heart
back again. "f we know that He hear Us
whatsoever we ask, we know that we have
the petitions that we desired Of Him" Il John
v, iS. So that Elijah's one desire now was
for God to hear him. "And this is the con-
fldence that we have in Him, that If we ask
anything according to His will he heareth
u.s."
3s. "Then the fire Of the Lord fell.n Pic
ture to yourself the multitude gazing On
this lone man as ho stands calmly before
them beside his drenched and dripping altar
and sacrifice and trench full Of water, con-
scious of the presence and favor Of the Lord
God of Israel He does not cry aloud nor
leap up and down, but quietly looks up to
heaven, and WITH his whole heart utters
these few words Uust thirtyefour in the He
brew unto his God in the hearing or all the
people, ,. ,.ou,s.. ~,
the wood, and the stones, and the dust, ana
licked I'D the water that was in the trench"
Inst as at the dedication Of the tabernacle
and the temple, and the offerings OF Gideon
and David, supernatural fire consumed tne
sacrifice LEV. tx, "a; II Chron. vii, l; Juog; :
vi, 81; Chron. xxi. 28, SO 1t happened
now. have no doubt but tne oherlns u
Abel was accepted in the same way.
10 "Aud when all the people saw it they
fell on their faces. And they said, The Lord
he is the God; the Lord He is the God" SO
we'll they might, for the God Of Moses and
Aaron, Of Gideon, and David and Solomon, !
God, who Is o consuming fire (Deut. ", 2i;
tx. 8. had again declared Himself by the nn-
failing but awful sign, telling them OF the
wrath that would f0ll on them unless tney
came to Him in true penite nee and BY way
of true sacrifice, as Hehad appointed: Words
are nothing apart from deeds Their lips now.
confess Him. II their lives shall prove their
sincerity it will be well with them, but If 9TH
erwise their words are only idle words
Matt. vii, 81; xiii, 3@.-Lesson Helper. ~
In his address to the sixtieth annual
meeting of the British Association for
the Advancement Of Science, the Presi-
dent, Sir F. A. Abel, reviewed the pro-
gress of science since the last meeting
IF the association OF the same place
lLeeds) in 1858. The subject to which
reference was made included the trans
mission of electric energy, the appli-.
cation of voltaic energy to the fusion
and welding of metals, the discovery Of
the use of aluminium in the production
of irou and steel castings, the meas.
urement and control OF the explosive
force of gunpqwder, the composition,
and value Of tho smokeless powders,
recent inventions of explosives for min
ing purposes, and the development Of
the petroleum and natural gas fields -
the United States.