T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S watched, for we know we put water on fire to put it out. Now listen and see how different Elijah’s prayer was from the other people’s. “Hear me, O Lord, so that this people may know thou art the true God, and that thou dost call them from serving idols to serve thee again.” Then the fire of the Lord fell from heaven, and burnt up the bullock and the wood, and the stones of which the altar was made, and licked up the wa ter that was in the trench. When all the people saw it they fell on their faces, and said, “ The Lord. He is God! The Lord, He is God!” That is our memory verse and we want always to remembr-r that He is the only true God. At last the people had turned to God, and soon after they rose from their knees, the sky became full of black clouds. After all those months the rain was coming. The prayer Elijah had made so many years ago was an swered. God had taught the people to pray to Him. dosing Prayer.—Dear Heavenly Fa ther, we thank thee for the Lord Jesus,' the true God, who loves us and hears us when we pray. m m BLACKBOARD SKETCHES. By Em Hansell. Elijah’s challenge of Baal Worship. I Kings 18:20-24. 30, 36-39. 1. The challenge, vs. 20-24. Explain, drawing the two altars and the bul locks. Explain how the prophets of Baal called on their gods (draw) but received no answer. 2. The Answer, vs. 30, 36-39. Ex plain, (draw) Elijah calling on God, and the answer. CONCLUSION, (draw) “How long halt ye between two opinions?”
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INSIPID INFIDELITY Thomas Paine, in his low, ribald language, once said: “ I have gone up and down through the Christian Gar den of Eden, and with my simple axe I have cut' down one after another of its trees till I have scarcely left a sap ling standing.” But where is the rroud boaster today? His memory and his name are gone, and his vaunted “ Age of Reason,” like himself, is bur ied beneath the shades of oblivion. But the trees of the Christian Garden of Eden still flourish in immortal bloom; not so much as one of their leaves has withered, neither do the trees cease from yielding their fruit in their sea son. Gibbon, in his celebrated “ History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” has left us an imperishable memorial of his enmity to the Word of God. But it is a fact, stranger than fiction, that the rich estate he pur chased in Switzerland, with the profits of his works, has descended to a gen tleman, who, out of its rents, expends a large sum annually in the promulga tion of that very gospel which his predecessor insidiously endeavored to undermine, but had not the courage openly to assail. Voltaire boasted that “ with one hand he would overthrow the edifice of Christianity which required the hands of twelve apostles to build up.” But the very press which he employed at Fernay to print his blasphemies has actually been employed for years past at Geneva in printing Bibles. Thus God makes even the wrath of man to praise Him. “ It is the Lord’s doings and is wondrous in our eyes.”
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