The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-27
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Copyright, Davis W. Clarl.) OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

by. He waitedf and he learned that force such as seemed triumphant in apostate Israel was doomed to fail, for 1t was not of God. And in the whis- per. whose vivid contrast typified the seeming impotence of right in tho strife with might. he knew that his God was near" By this allegory Elijah was taught that his further work was to be gradual. After that fiery mani- festation which made Carmel the ri- val of Sinai. there was to be silent, continuous, and powerful operation, the final and aggregate results of which would be greater and more enduring than those of any moral cataclysm.
 The Teachers Lantern.
 History does not yield finer in- stance of patriotism than Elijah run ming before Ahabs chariot The prophet honored of God-the reformer prophets-utterly oblivious of self, in full view of court and people, takes his place as the herald of his sovereign, and as he runs he cries. Prepare ye the way of the king" Though he has had occasion to rebuke the monarch, on his repentance and reformation, Elijah throws the full weight of his personal and official character on, Ahab's side.
 From this page three thousand years old there comes a lesson for our own day. In the spirit of Elijah one may run before the chief magistrate of his nation. Not truculently. but in the sense of casting the full weight of his moral influence in support of the office and officer.
 It is psychologically true that a na- tion can not be reformed in a day. Savonarola and many others have learned the truth to their sorrow. Things are ever doing, never done. Life is Aux, not crystal. Men are only contributors to the fiow-some good, some evil. some larger. some smaller. The best one can do 1t to cast the larg- est possible saline influence into the stream. So did Elijah.
 If Elijah had stood the shock of dis covery that his reformation was thus incomplete, we should be inclined to accept the Jewish legend that he real ly was an angel and not man. His despondency proves his humanity. He was a man of our nature as St. James says. As Shakespeare once thought himself no poet. and Raphael thought | himself no painter, so now Elijah thought himself no prophet: and in the | bitterness of his grief cried, T am not better than my fathers
 It would have been cowardly for Elijah to have staid and died at the | hand of Jeebel. It is cowardly to put
 down the extinguisher upon tn clamp | of life to feel the last grand rush Of darkness on the spirit
 This incident is a foregleam of the
 Messianic way of dealing with minds distressed. The broom tree. most wei come bush of the desert. was the proph- cts shelter The two angel served | meals with the nap intervening, was | the preparation for his ordeal. So | Jesus Himself made men comfortable | In their bodies first That Is the ap- | proved current method.
 There are times when looking up q | Colorado canon Is more religious than going to q prayer meeting. Byron un derstood the sanitary influence of na
 ture when he said:
 There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea and music in its roar