Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-08-18
Comment. by William T. Ella.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ifitEFdliv. re KNEW ho" tie yc"io "a
affected the attitude of Israel, II then.
too. he knew himself. for he had not
been a dull scholar In Gods school OF
waiting. So there was a ring of as
surance in his voice as he replied as
regally as ever Ahab could have done,
G tell thy lord. behold. Elijah IS
here" What n transformation ms
tersc sentence reveals! Here IS inns
poor preacher. just back from exiie,
giving peremptory orders to n kings
high officer for the king himself to
obey! Positions had changed since
Elijah fled to Che-ith. He now was
master of the situation and Ahab was
the n to quicken his footsteps at
command. Elijah understood his high
calling like Samuel and Nathan and
Jehu before him and Knox and Luther
since. He believed himself to hold n
title grander THAI any sovereign's. A
minister IN the middle west was asked
by the dominant political party TO ac-
cept a nomination for the senate His
. reply was erief and sufficient. mo. I
thank you gentlemen. Al a preacher
of the gospel ! am already holding the
highest office possible for a man to oc-
cupy."
a coon MAN IN A RAD PLACE.
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,eaa u .tat svn nau ; NY "pui dnaad.
nes.i..s '.iS lmos. la,hen,'. nv ~ 49,
su p..sun ~ d. isiaeI' !a.'at ~ a ILL.,
so elusive tnat J.. appeared 10 opauiai
!~ncIealp'e nat ne shouid seek ah ~
.erVlew WIN Ahap. SO ne reclteo 70
me the exlsting situa.ion. ne
made for i him IN in israel and md the neigh
boring nations. First the hunt had
been m~alignnntlv hostile hNt afterward
eagerly suppliant.
Whatever the motive. II has been
futile: the kinp's p,rpose has been
baffied. Now FOR Obadiah to return
and report this he could
not conceive that Elijah really meant
to face Ahab-would he to revoke the
kings wrath and death for himself.
So he recited his w claims upon
Elijah. He had hidden a ndr fol-
overs of Jehovah from the wrath of
Jezebel. He had feared Jehovah from
his youth: therefore would not Elijah
have mercy upon him.
to God in this difficult and bloody time.
and n Ia tr,lv tn his credit that he had
remained loyal through every trial. Yet
he was a faint heart and the very
antithesis of Elijah. He could not un-
derstand such omen courage as that of
the prophet who could face Ahab with
out finching. The two men represent
ed two types of disciples. One follows
truth He hears Gods com
mands only to obey them. Sacrifice.
suffering. death mean nothing to him:
loyalty is ali. The other has the per-
. ception to see truth and the heart to
love II. vet not the couraee to adhere
to 1t at all costs.
u..,en ......
WIEN TnOrHe! ANU N'N1
CLASH.
Thc fearful Obadi was treasured
!by Elijah. who In his exile seems to
nave learned the lesson OF patience
with X vessels.
l. SO the nigh minister OF state went
Off on Elitah's errand and the latter
waited. with what feelings we can
scarce conjecture. though we may be
sure that fear was not n of them.
The stern and arbitrary message
which Obadiah carried could not have
pleased the king. He was too much of
a king to enjoy being ordered about by
the exile nan of the wilderness. But