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of horses were hitched abreast; from the hubs hooked blades extended. Im- agine such a deadly engine. driven at full speed into the ranks of an enemy! No wonder in ancient times some trusted in chariots." 'Cadeioqtniayih; ;5i,e mfwy fwy wyp V Such a chariot was Elijah. With ir- resistible power he had hurled him. self into the ranks of idolatry. The merciless blades of his wheels dyed the Kishon with the blood of four hundred bestial priests. The track of this aw- full chariot left no trace of two blas- phemous captains and their hfties. Yet. more thorough that immaterial some- thing called the spirit of the times." he rode without fear or favor. The timorous guards at the doors of the ivory palace at Jezreel lowered their weapons as this chariot of wrath swept into the very throne-room to announce to guilty royalty Gods righteous judg- ments. On Carmels top. in Naboth's vineyard, in Ahaziah's sick-chamber- everywhere and always-Elijah was the dread. implaoabief Nemesis of idolatry.
 The Teachers Lantern.
 "Footfalls on the Boundary of An- other World' was the winning title of book which apeared thirty years ago. It proved a somewhat delft collection of popularly known conditions. The Bible better deserves that title. Among the many incidents 1t contains. perhaps there Is not one which leads us closer to the boundary of another world than the translation of Elijah. It has been described as the most glorious, signi- ficant joyful event which the world before the time of Christ had seen.
 How often the dying. out of con- sideration for their loving watchers, entreat them to leave them a while for the sake of rest and as often do the watchers respond in terms like Elisha's strong observation, "As the Lord liveth and as the soul liveth will not leave thee." and to the very boundary of another world the living go with the dying.
 The human heart craves certain evil dence of a world beyond this fitful ex- istence. It is quick to detect the ana logies of nature. But these are in- sufficient on the death of friends or ones own approaching dissolution. Cicero reasoned we'll of immortality,
 but his reasoning was powerless to assuage his grief when his loved daughter Tullia died. "Mournful mar bles!" is the natural exclamation after one has walked the length of the gal lery of inscription in the Vatican, lock- ing only at the side upon which the Roman sepulchral inscriptions are set up. It is an authentic reproduction of the blank despair of the human mind without revelation.
 The ascension of Elijah breaks in ,tu superinduced by the greatest mystery and sorrow of human experience-a
 vivid. irresistible argument fok the ex- tstence of another world,
 This ascension accentuates the value Of the human body. The modern ten-
 dency to depreciate the physical frame Is germane to that figment of ancient philosophy which asserts that evil in- heres in material substances. The
 inference is that the spirits separation
 from the body is emancipation. The tendency now Is to assert the imme- diate reclothing of the pirit with a body
 suited to its new sphere.
 
 Over against the morbid deprecation | of the human body which marked an
 earlier theology, there Is a late and
 healthful tendency to assert the whole | ness of man. and to appreciate the
 body as an integral part of that whole
 ness. The reciprocal influence of mind
 is better understood. Physical culture, l Delsarte. calisthenics. dietetics. sanity
 in ventilation. sleep. and recreation.
 The tabooing disease and kindred mat
 ters as subjects of conversation, the
 refusal to morbidly consider symptoms
 and petty ailments-all this tends to
 the reductions of disease and the pro-
 motion of longevity and happiness. The
 Bible, when 1t pictures Moses, Elijah.
 ana Jesus entering heaven in their
 bodies gives us the apotheosis of the | human body.