Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-24
THE PROPHETS OF BAAL.
LESSON w, FIRST QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, JAN. rs.

u. NJ. stearns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by pc;
mission Of a. S. Hoffman, publisher, Phladel
pha,
Is. "And Elijah said unto the prophets o
Baal, Choose you one bullock for your
selves, and dress it first, for We are many
and call on the name Of your God, but pu
no fire under"
At Cherith (cutting) and Zarephath Qe
fning) Elijah had been cut Off from al
human resources, and refined in the schoo
of poverty and close communion with God
and thus qualified for the contest now be
fore him. He who had been so much alone
with God had no fear of King Ahab MOI
of the hundreds of prophets of Baal
26. "Oh, Baal, hear us, But there was
no voice nor any that answered "
Baal signifies lord or master, and i.
found in Mum. xxi, Al, us the god OF
the Moabites. Israel ,worshiped Baal
| peor, and $4,000 were slain by plague
Mum, XIV 3, 81 In the days of the Judges
| they again and again forsook the Lord and
worshiped Baal (Judg. ii, II, 10; iii, Z; vi,
81; viii, 33; X, 6, 10); but this King Ahat
had led them more astray than they had
ever been before Il Kings xvi 3O-33).
r. And it came to pass that at noon
Elijah Knocked them and said, Cry aloud,
for he is Il God"
Is And they cried aloud, and cut them
selves, after their manner till the
| blood gushed out upon them"
Fancy hundreds of men leaping up and
| down Verse rs, margin), and shouting and
cutting their bodies till the blood streamed
from them, and all to make the god whom
they worshiped hear them. Central Africa
could not produce anything worse.
20, 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 cOmmuning with his God but
now the decisive moment had come: 45O
men had failed-what could this one man
do? He was one of those of whom it is
written, zone shall chase thousand, and
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 laad of Canaan (Gen. viii, 20; xii
3. From the days of Adam and Abel the
altar and the sacrifice were typical of Him
who was to come as the great sinbearer.
81 and Elijah took twelve stones, ac-
cording to the number of the tribes of the
sons Of Jacob"
See twelve stones in the same connection
al in TX; XNiV' ~ NAVill' u; Josh. w, 3, 8, 0,
~. Although the twelve tribes were dj-
Vlded into ten and two, making two ma.
S'0l,S ~ Tne} were only one nation before
"ou, anu lie mas ever before HIM the time
"heh Ihey sll"lI DE reunited under one
~ ~ li'1GN' ANVIL ~ ~ All lsrael mad
-. ~ 'li'' '''iIo 'eeoile i'oiaIerS' ana hence
,''G necessary % testimony TO the Twelve
''a az Von lI inc true Goa.
o. Aiu WIN Olle stones ne Dullt IN
"'1ar Ia 1he hume OIL lhe LORD.
90, anu ne pun the WOOD III order, and
cuO 'no p'liIocN III pieces, ana lad him on
''e "oU"'
"a ouiiocN was ''Seu ooIh as a SIN otter
NY an" as burnt oHerlhg (Lev. and
~ ana III Inese chapters lutl lnstruc-
t'o'iS are louhu as 10 inc manner OF otler-
ihS, ne SIN offering was type OF Christ
pea'IhS our SINS tne ournt Offering was a
O9Pe u NIISo olletlhS hlhlSet without
az ~ IN ,,,,4,,. -, ......., -,-..,-
olta,. o,,1 ha Gi"1 t '"i lo.'iit 'pou1 cne
49,. W. - ''Ae ''e'ieh "'so MIN
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, ',,e Nv 'oo' ''!i 'o9 was V'g SacrliIGe' ana
',,,, "''y Ti '',i' .i9 "l'"l GIe"cieo WIN
80, ~ was W oG iio oeGeptloh mere
,J ~ "l''''on aol'io" mere ABOUT Whlch
u'lshC pe SecreIly USED
r. "o i 40 ''ou VI Norana'l, isaac ana Oh
lSt"G'' ieO ~ NC Nno"n 1hlS uay tnat thou
arI God III lsfaei anu that am thy serv'
ant