Recall the lines about the Duke of Wellington and write them in your notebook. Find out if there is any man in your own state of whom that would be true. Find someone in politics or business or in one of the professions who has been more anxious to do his duty than for anything else and to whom reward has come. Write an account of it.
TWO PROPHETS
| [XXVIII.] | Elijah, the Champion of Pure Religion |
| [XXIX.] | Elijah, the Champion of Justice |
| [XXX.] | Elisha, the Healer and Counselor |
XXVIII. ELIJAH, THE CHAMPION OF PURE RELIGION
THE STORY
§81. Elijah and the Drought (I Kings 16:30-17:24)
A. THE STARTLING PROPHECY
Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him. And it came to pass, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab did yet more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.