Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-01-23
THE PROPHETS OF BAAL.
LESSON W, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 25.


Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per.
mission Of II. s. Hoffman, publisher, Phiadcl-
phia
% "And Elijah said unto the prophets of
! Baal, Choose you one bullock for your
selves, and dress i. first, for ye are many,
and call on the name OF your God, but put
no fire UNDER
At Chcrith (cutting) and Zarephath IRE
| fining) Elijah had been cut 81 from all
| human resources, and refined in the school
| of poverty and close communion with God,
| and thus qualified for the contest now be-
| fore him. He who had been 30 much alone
| with God had no fear of King Ahab nor
of the hundreds Of prophets Of }aa
&c. "Oh, Baal, hear us. But there was
no voice nor any that answered"
Baal signifies lord or master, and is
! found in Num-. xii Al, as the god OF
! the Moabites Israel worshippd Baal-
| peor, and $4,000 were slain by Il plague
| (Num. XIV, 3, g. In the days of the Judges
they again and again forsooll the Lord and
| worshiped Baal (IudU. ii, il, l3; iii, Z; Vi,
/ 81; viii, 80; X, e, l0); but this King Ahab
/ had led them more astray than they had
ever been before Il Kings xvi, 3O-3SJ.
-. and it came to pass that at noon
Elijah Knocked them and said, Cry aloud
| for he Is "a Cod
%. and they cried aloud, and cut them
selves, after their manner till the
! blood gushCd out upon them
| Fancy hundreds of men leaping up and
| down (versC &c, marEinl, and shouting and
cutting their bodies till the blood streamed
| from them, and all to make the god whom
they worshipcd hear them. Central Africa
could not produce anything worse.
80 "There was neither voice nor any to
answer nor any that regarded
30 "And Elijah said unto all the people,
Come near unto me. And all the people
! came near unto him"
In calmness he had waited, his soul
| doubtless commuuiug with his God, but
now the decisive moment had come; 450
men had f,ilcd-What could this one man
do? He was one OF those OF whom it is
written. cone shall chase thousand, aud
two put ten thousand to flight"
"And he repaired the altar of the Lord
that was broken down.
one OF the first acts Of Noah on leaving
the ark was to build an altar unto the
Lord, and so also did Abram when he en-
tered the land of Canaan Gen. viii, 20; xii
s.. From the day, of Adam and Abel the
altar and the sacrifice were typical of Him
who WAS to come Us the great asubearer
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