The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-02-16
FLIGHT OF
ELIJAH
Sunday School Lesson for Feb. 10, 1911
Specially Arranged for This Paper

memory verses lib.
GOLDEN TGXT-'"rhey that walt up
on the Lord shall renew their strength
fsa 40:31
TIME--The day after the scene
Mount Carmel b. c 9O9 (or S56-O, in the
wilderness. and 40 yeards later on Horeb.
PLACE-1. Jezreel one OF the roval
residences. 20 miles northeast OF Sa-
maria 2 The wilderness beyond Beer
sheba 10 miles southwest OF Jerusalem.
100 miles from Jezreel. g. Horeb. one OF
the mountains OF Sinai.
In our last lesson we left Elijah
running before Ahab's cf lot from
Carmel to Jezreel one OF the royal
residences, while the blessed rain was
refreshing the whole country, an em-
blem of what God would do spiritual.
" for the nation Elijah was too wise
TO enter the lair Of tie tigress but
Ahab told Jezebel. We can imagine
the bitter objurgstions which she
poured upon her covering husband
for having stood quietly by while her.
prophets and Baal's prophets we're be-
ing massacred by rebellious people.
Then Jezebel scornfully ignoring
her husband, and undefeated. what
ever may have happened to her proph-
cts. In TIE intesity OF her rage, bound
harself by an oath like that OF the
forty Jews who bound themselves
that they would not eat or drink till
they had slain Paul and sent mes
senger unto Elijah. She felt that
Elijah was in her power He fed
and his servant went with him.
Elijah was brave man II ever
there was one but he was not brag-
gadocio He was brave enough to let
the ignorant think he was a coward
His going was not a sign Of cowar-
dice. bu, OF wisdom and common
sense. Christ himself bsde his dis
ciples. when ye are prosecuted in
one city fee We to another" kind'e
the divine fires elsewhere. and there
shall be two flames instead OF one.
Elijah flies only when he has done
the mighty work of God. and onlv
when the life is in deadly peril which
he would fain cave for future emer-
gencies OF service"
re went a dav's tourney into the
wilderness. He would be alone. with
ont even his servant IN this Gethsern.
ane. as Christ when he went In his
agony to pray alone He requested fo~
himself that he might die He had
honed to accomplieh the delivera 100
OF the people. but he was terribly dis.
anpointed Jezebel still had power.
Heethenism would still flourish All
HE efforts had been but irving TO dam
Niagara with bulrushes. "All thv bill.
lows have gone over me-" He Law
down and slept. utterly worn out. and
exhausted.
God gave his beloved sleep. and
who knows what dreams and vieions
shone In the darkness. Rest for mind
and body. God sent him n fr,end
Behold, then an angel touched h'~1.
Gods messenger human or angelic.
More probably the latter one ~ the
"r"inistering sDlr'ts sent forth 10
minister for them who shall be Natrs
ot salvation" EIliah's loneliness
was broken He was not forgotten.
The outward visible manifestations
OF mower. whether in the natural or
snir'tual world while necessary in
their time and place. are but the
smaller results ~ the mower that
produced them For instance. In the
natural world the storms however
great, express but the SLIGHTEST e~eots
OF the air. which gives life to all Nv.
Ing beings men beasts. trees. THIS
world without air would be as dead
as the moon.
How feeble the liehtnlng compared
with the silent invisible work OF cleo.
tricity lighting our cities and homes
driving our machinery. CARRYING orr
messages over the wires. II used "a
be thought that the upheaval OF the
continents and the rearing OF the
great mountains was due TO cata.
clysms and conAagrations and vast ex
plosions OF volcanic force. II has
long been known that they are due
only In part to these but chiefly IA
the inconceivab'v slow notifications
produced by water and air and heat
So long as all real progress in re-
liBion. In reform, IN the coming OF
the kingdom OF God lies always in a
change OF will Of character SO lonr
the change must be made by motives
and moral Influences not by force
"The lion shall lie down with tho
lamb" but only when the lions ma.
ture Is SO changed that II loves Ia
eat grass like the OK. and does not
want to eat the lamb.
Elijah was to return, not yet Ia
Israel, but around It to the wilder
ness Of Damascus Damascus was on
the borders of the desert. Here he
would be beyond the dominions OF
Ahab. He was not for the present ia
enter into the scene OF danger, but
to do his work from without Gradu.
ally better times came; and we find
him in the kingdom. and tho schools
OF the prophets hourishing Anoint
II was customary to set apart. BY
anointing kings and prophets. It oft.
en- means merely to set apart for
some special service OF God.
Hazael was known as the conn.
Dental oficer OF Benhadad, kina