The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1911-02-17
FLIGHT OF
ELIJAH
Sunday School Lesson for Feb. lo. 1911
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Memory Verses lib.
GOLDEN TEXT-"They that wal,
On the Lord shall rene~ their strengtA n
lisa 1921
TIME-The day after the scene
Mount Carmel. B. c. 900 Tor S56-0 i, n
wilderness, and 40 yeards later on Ho,I
PLACE-I Jezreel. one OF the rs,N
residences, 20 miles northeast Of y
maria ? The wilderness beyond r.
sheba 40 miles southwest of Jer,lsa..N
100 miles from Jezreel. B. Horeb. on.
the mountains of Sinai
In our last lesson we left Ellis
running before Ahab's chariot fr
Carmel to Jezreel, one of the ron
residences, while the blessed rain
refreshing the whole country, an a
blem of what God would do spiritn{
ly for the nation. Elijah was too vi
to enter the lair of the tigress. d
Ahab told JeZebel. We can imagSI
the bitter objurgations which q
poured upon her covering husbs
for having stood quietly by while
prophets and Baal's prophets were
ing massacred by a rebellious peov2
Then Jezebel, scornfully ignon
her husband, and undefeated, whI
ever may have happened to her prod
cts, in the intesity of her rage, bou
herself by an oath like that of |
forty Jews who bound themsel1I
that they would not eat or drink
haI foin vi
senger unto Elijah. She felt Il
Elijah was in her power He 4
and his servant went with him.
Elijah was brave man II e@
there was one, but he was not br1
gadocio. He was brave enough to-
the ignorant think he was a cows3
His going was not a sign of cow
dice. bu Of wisdom and conn
sense. Christ himself babe his
ciples, when ye are prosecuted
one city flee We to another" kin
the divine fires elsewhere, and It'd
shall be two flames instead OF 4
Elijah flies only when he has ID
ALc diiSHtt WI VI bOut anu VI
when the life is in deadly peril VII
he would fam save for future en-
geneies Of service"
He went DAYS Journey into
wilderness. He would be alone. wi
out even his servant, in this Gethsd
ane. as Christ when he went in
~ vr1u n H. II
himself that he might die. He \
hoped TO accomplish the delivered
OF the people, but he was terribly
appointed Jezebel still had pow
Heathenism would still flourish.
his efforts had been but trying to a
Niagara with bulrushes. "All thy
lows have gone over me" He
down and slept. utterly worn out, d
exhausted
God gave his beloved sleep. d
who knows what dreams and visid
shone IN the darkness. Rest for md
and body God sent him fried
Behold, then an angel touched hi
More probably the latter, one OF 4
"ministering spirits. sent forth
minister for them who shall be nd
OF salvation Elijah's lonellnj
was broken, He was not forgottel|
The outward visible manifestatd
of power. whether in the natural
spiritual world while necessary
their time and place. are but
smaller results of the power Il
produced them. For instance. in
natural world, the storms howel
great, express but the slightest efe|
OF the air which gives life to all
ing beings. men, beasts. trees. n
world without air would be as a
as the moon.
How feeble the lightning compa(
with the silent invisible work OF d
tricity lighting our cities and hon1
driving our machinery carrying
messages over the wires. It used
be thought that the upheaval OF
continents and the rearing OF
great mountains was due 10 q
clysms ard conflagrations and vast
plosions OF volcanic force. II
long been known that they are
only In part to these. but chleAy
the inconeeivably slow modiflcati3
produced by water, and air and N
SO long as all real progress In
llgion. in reform. In the COMING
the kingdom OF God. lies always
change OF will of character. so
the change must be made by mott
and moral influences. not by fo
THE lion shall lie down with
lamb" but only when the lions
ture Is so changed that It loves
eat grass like the OK. and does
want to eat the lamb.
Elijah was to return, not YET
Israel, but around It to the VIII
ness OF Damascus Damascus was
the borders of the desert. Here
would be beyond the domlnions
Ahab. He was not for the presen
enter into the scene of danger
to do his work from without. uis
ally better times came; and we
him in the kingdom, arr the sew
OF the prophets nourishing. AM