The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-31

it is well known that this strong
winged bird carries large supplies of
food to Its nest. And in Gods we'll
ordered plans his messengers always
serve one another. Both the prophet
and the birds were about their Mas
ter's business. There are ways be-
You'd mans reckoning whereby God
cares for his own when they are In
need. and beyond all apparent means
of help. A multitude Of witnesses a
testify that today Gods ravens are
still about his errands
The First Foreign Missionary.
When water failed at Cherith the
prophet was sent up to the northwest,
to Zarepaah, near Sidon, in Phoenicia
It has been said that this expedition
makes Elijah the first foreign mission
airy. PhOenicia was one of the great
heather kations Of antiquity. today it
is known only for its ruins. The oc-
casional tourist buys tear bottles"
exhumed from the graves of these dis
cOVererS Of the art OF making glass.
Other antiquities of great value have
been dug from the tombs Of this now
arid land: and it seems as the princi-
pal feature of the landscape Of
Phoenicia at present is empty tombs.
The glory Of Tyre and Sidon has de-
parted, though n ma still see the
heaps Of murex shells from which the
ciAAoo5 i q Poi ~ dc ~ oAtVt-
Z~arepath is pointed out as a mere
bare ~promontOry OF land.
Strange as it nay appear. the King
Of kings trafiics more with the I'M
mon people than with the rulers of
earth Thus hen there was need
that the Lords messenger should be
cared for he was not sent to one Of
royal court Of wealthy Phoenicia. but
to a poor widow. The poor have
ever been the best friends OF God. IN
encountered by this worlds goods. they
take on the precious SOui-cargO Of
spiritual trust. The bitter poverty Of
the East is unknown in any Christian
land, although there is more abject
misery in London than in any other
city in the world. The problem of
living there is quite as elemental as
it is represented in tbs case Of the
widow. There was no home mission
airy society to lend assistance, no
city board Of charity; nothing at ali
except an occasional bit of neighbor-
illness. When h widows store Of
meal failed, there was only starvation
ahead.
Only q few minutes ago / saw a
Woman going along the road in the
tattered single garment Of Syria's
poor. On her hip she carried a child,
and on her head a great bundle of
thorns. which she had gathered for
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peasant women gather the fuel eva
as the widow III this story is repre-.
scented.
The Shared Crust.
The widow perceived tina this
hairy. StrOng-featured man from TSral.i
was religious. She had the East's
tolerance, Or superstitious respect for,
all things marked religious. and she
consented to share her last handful Of
m "a 0p6 hAr ioCt 0Ynpc Of al u;{ I,
the stranger who came appealing to
her hospitality. She did not know
that God never lets the giving hand
get empty: or, as the Book of Prov
cribs has it, The liberal soul shall
be made fat" Some of the careful"
or thrifty folk who are grumbling
about hard times need to give away
THAT are struggling along under fnan-
cial loads and an arid spiritual life,
need first of all to deal justly by their
pastor, in the matter Of his salary.
The prospects Of a revival throughout
the land are not good so long as the
prophets Of God are lying awake
nights, wondering how the grocer is
to be paid. The call IS less one for
more faith on the part Of the preacher
thln one for great works on the
part of his people. The tithes must
be brought into the storehouse ere
the windows of heaven can be opened.
The widow share with Elijah. and.
10. God gave her not only food for
| herself in abundance, but He also
through the prophet. restored TO life
| her son when he died. The God
whom she had in ignorant reverence
honored, proved to be q greater than
sh had dreamed, the Very Lord Of
life and death. God always shows
| himself to the truStful as lnightier
/ @lo~ nx.np faith had - a uinnG ND
that is the lesson Of this lesson
that God is great and sufficient. and
so%licitous for all who dare to do or
endure at His word. Elijah's sermon
TODAY is Have faith in God
SEVEN SENTENCE SEE Mons.