The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-23
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON w, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JULY "a.

J Memory Verses, o-12-Golden Text, Pl
xxxvii. Parliamentary by the Rev. q
M. stearns.
copyright. 1898. by d. M. stearns.J
/. "And Ahab told Jezebel all that Eli
jah had done and withal how he had slail
all the prophets with the sword" Tha
was record that would stir all the devi
that was In her. But she was fast films
up the measure Of her iniquity, and hel
time would soon be over; then the outer
darkness 1t is good when husbands and
wives tell each other everything. Let Vi
| as believers be sure that we tell Jesus ey
erytbing, both what we do and what we
teach MARK vi, 800.
Q. $50 let the gods do to me, and more
also, If make not thy life as the life OF
| one Of them by tomorrow about this
| time" Vain threat Of q wicked woman
For did she not know that the God of ELI
| jah had SO securely hidden him for three
years that he could not be founds But she
was angry now and stopped to think of
nothing but the vengeance that was In her
heart against God and His servant.
8. "And when he saw that, he arose and
went for his life and came to Beersheba,
which belongeth to Judah, and left his
servant there. !" Desperate people are some
times permitted to do desperate things,
and 1t might have been very upwise to
have remained within reach of such q
one. When they prosecute you in one city,
1t is sometimes right to fee to another.
Yet In this case 1t looks as II Jezebel and
her threat came for the time between Eli
jah and his God.
4. lit Is enough. Now, o Lord, take
away my life, for / am not better than nv
fathers" This was his prayer to God, as
having gone days journey into the will
derness he sat down under a juniper tree
and wished he was dead. Yet this is the
same man who stood before all Israel ON
Carmel in the name of the Lord. Then he
stood with God and for God, and thought
not of himself, but now he considers
himself and sees that he is no better than
his fathers His mind Is not staid upon
God. He is considering feelings and cir
cumstances, and God is not ruling in him.
B. And Us no lay and slept under a
juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched
him and said unto him, Arise and eat. -
He was weary and needed rest and God
gave 1t to him. 1t is wonderful how diff
ferently things appear when we have been
refreshed by sleep. We are often like fret
ful children who do not know what ails
them, but mother knows that it is time
they were asleep. He giveth to His beloved
in sleep.
6. "And he looked, and, behold. there
was cake baken on the Goals and cruse
of water at his head. And he did eat and
drink and laid him down again" God
saw that His child was hungry as well as
weary. A little sleep quieted and prepared
the body to receive the food which an
angel had prepared, and without seeming
to count it at all strange to be thus pro-
yided for he eats and drinks and sleeps
again.
z. And the angel of the Lord came
again the second time and touched him
and said, Arise and eat, because the Jour-
ney is too great for thee.'' How wonder
fully ministered unto is this poor weak
child of God, who is SO discouraged and
wants to die, little thinking that he is
never to die, but be gloriously received up
when his work is done Every child of |
God is just as well cared for. Father. Son !
and Holy Spirit and the angels are all |
unto us.
8. And he arose and did eat and drink !
and went in the strength of that meat 40 |
days and 40 nights unto Horeb, the mount /!
Of God" The Lord Jehovah is our strength |
and song. Jesus Himself is the true bread |
from heaven. When it is our meat, as it |
was His to do the Fathers will we can 90 |
In that strength of that meat to our Jour
ney's end. We do not live by bread alone
but by every word of God.
o. What doest thou here, ElijahY" This
Is the word of the Lord to him as he lodges
IN cave at Horeb. 1t is good word of
The Lord to us at all times, and happy is
It for us If we are never found where He
has not sent us. Better still If we can say
Lord, am on Thy business,
or Thou didst send me-"
10. And he said, have been very jeal-
Jus for the Lord God of Hosts" Then he |,
ellis what the Lord well knew about Is
aels sins, but adds that he Is the only
prophet living, and his life is m danger.
What God would do If no should Be killed
10 does not dare to hint, but he evidently
kinks the Lords cause is in great peril.
II, IL. He is told to stand on the mount
'efore the Lord, and, behold, the Lord
,assed by. There was a mighty wind,
men an earthquake, then a fire. but the
.ord was not In either of them. Then
mere was still, small voice. How slow
We are to learn that God often works In
'o'e "HAAhoiy ways anu U0rOugn most /,
Unlikely people-the still, small voice
ather than the storm or earthquake or fire.
10, IA 10 the repeated question, "What
oest thou here, Elijahs" after all that
reat object lesson, he gives the same reply |
before, indicating that he was so pre-
coupled with himself and his champion I
hip for God that the lesson was lost upon
I'm. 1t is true that he did not know till
tod told him Verse 1S) that there were
200 still, small voices for God who had
OF bowed to Baal, but he did not know.
or Obadiah had told him (chapter xviii.
81 that there were 100 whom Obadiah
imself had cared for.
10, 10. He is told to return and anoint a '
ing over Syria and king over Israel. Z
nd the Lord adds, elisha, the SON Of e
haphat, of Abel Meholah, shalt tbou
noint to be prophet in thy room" When
ny worker with God gets so exalted in
IS own estimation that he thinks himself
ie only one capable of doing the work. IL c
then time to appoint his successor In q
nee. God viii use any vessel that is will. Z
q TO be used by Him and TO His GLORY d