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(1 Kln«a IT'1-U; Memory Verese, M. It) L An J E!Uab the TUhblte. who «aa ol the tnhabUnnu of OUrtuJ, aald unto Ahab. A* the X^rd Ood of Israel Uveth. before whom 1 stand, there shall hot be dew nor rain thsse years, but according to my word X And the word of the taord came unto

him. eaylna.

X tlet 'tt.ee hence, and turn thee eastward. and hide thyself by the brook Cbe-

rlth. that Is befote Jordan.

i And It shall t>« that thou shall drink ef the brook; and 1 have commanded the

ravens to feed thee there.

V Bo he Kent and did according unto the word of the Lord; tor be went and dwelt by UK brook Cherlth. that Is before Jordan. < And the ravens brought him bread and neeti In the morclng. and bread and Oe*h In the evening; and M drank of the

brook

T And It came to pass after awhile that the brook dried up. because there bad been o« rain in the land And the word of the Lord came unto V Arise. k et thee to Zaruphalji. which beXangeih lo Aldoh. and dwell there; behold, l^have cominanded a widow woman to sua10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks; and he called to her. and said, Fetch me, 1 pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that 1 may drink 11- And as she was going to fetch U. he called to her. and said. Bring m*. 1 pray thee, a morsel of bread In thine hand. IX And she said. Aa the Lord thy God Uveth. I have not a cake, but an handful of meal In a barrel, and a little oil In a cruse; 'and. behold. 1 am gathering two sticks, that 1 may go In and dress It for me and my son. mat we may eat It. and die. IX And Elijah said unto her. Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake Bret, and brtng It unto me, and after make lor thee and for thy son. U. For tkue salth the Lord God of Israel. The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fall, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the

earth.

IX And she went and did according to the say ing of Elijah, and she and he, and her house, did eat many day s. K And the barrel of meal wasted not. neither did the cruse of oil fall, according in the word of the Lord, which he spake by

Elijah.

THE LESSON Includes all of the seventeenth chapter, giving the closing incidents In the life of the widow and her son. Toe re U no parallel In Chronicles. GOLDEN TEXT:——He careth for you."

—1 Peter 6:7.

TIME —Ahab reigned from 918 to 897 B C., and Elijah. In the opinion of Sir George Grove, began his mission In Israel In the tenth year of Ahab. ajid continued to prophesy for a period -of M to 18 years PLACES —Samaria. Ahab * capital, the brook Chertth. a small stream emptying Into the Jordan from the east. Zarephath. a town between Tyse and Sldon. INTRODUCTORY NOTE-The wicked Queen Jtrebel had gained complete ascendency over Ahab. and Phoenician idolatry was rapidly displacing the worship of the true God. when -Elijah makes hie public (molest and pronounces the Divine Judgment of a long drought. rv..opsring Scripture with Scripture. A FAITHFUL WITNESS—“Elijah war <H A Mao of^rayer (Jaa. 6:17-18). airf hence A Prepared Man. He learned God's will and be received God's naeeage and the answer to hl« prayer. Q John 6:14-16.) Jesus' remarkable ministry was marMad by much prayer, wboba nights being that spent One reason why Christiana-are often so Illy prepared to deliver OoflM message Is because they have failed to wait before Ood In prayer to learn His will and His message. .<2) a Man Full of Faith.—“Aecordin* to my word:” <hat is God’s word as revealed by God to Elijah —Matt. 17:». (8) A Fearless Man.—He faced the wicked king boldly, and spoke his ‘unwelcome message.—Acts 4:0; Matt.

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(4) A Plain-Spoken Man —Without drcumlocutlen or flowery Introduction. Elijah went right to the heart of hia! im imp- and Me declared “fbe whole, ‘ counsel of Ood.” (Acta 10:87.) As

witnesses for Oeg there la

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aad food depended upon prompt obedience. Had Elijah delayed departure (or the brook CberttX. he might have per* iahed with the prophets slain by JesebeL Had he tailed to go promptly to Zarephath be might have missed the widow at tfce gala. Do yan realise bow much oar safety and welfare depend upon prompt obedience to God?—Jer. 41:6. A FAITHFUL GOD —(i) In penlsbeMot of sin. Drought was tbs promised punfshmeut for nattoaal Idototsy.—6ee Deat 11:16-17: thO. 'These years.” Lake 4:16 mud James 6:17. OxasdeABltoly the du ratioci of this drought (1) la Care of Hie Servants.—What a

haty** esede of God's servant. Fstth. i Kya to the Dteiae wm.' - teach as to receive at God’s 1 provlatoa Cor us. whatever U The Brook Dried Up."— encouragement to faith, tn that I saw that God’s word was being fuifl aad also a fresh fast of faith la

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ABRAHAM AND GOD. An Able fltiaisai by Rev. L. W. Mad

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PRINCETON, Ind., July 31—The Rev. I- W. Madden, pastor of tbeCnuiberland Presbylenan Church iu this place, preachetCxiving a historical stady of "Abraham, the Friend of God, and the Father of the Faithful" The text

James x: S3: “Abraham be-

lieved God, and it w

him for righleaamess; and be 1

the friend of God."’ Mr. Madden said

in the course of aa excellent sermon: Amid the eocnes and practices of idol-

atry Abraham wa« born and brought up to manhood in the Ur of Chaldees, in that portion of Mesopotamia which extends along the beaks of the Tigris and Euphrates horn Babylon to the Persian

From these early

fertile plains it pleased God to make choice of a family to fulfill the high office of preserving- pure and undefiled the true knowledge and worship of Himself. To this family should be committed preeminently the religious education of the woti4. _ > Abraham is choeen ufGod to be the "Father of the FsithfuT; thus the choice of Abraham was simply the choice of Q& To him, first, came the call ujiieb has ever since been whispered in the thundered in the conscience of the moltitades, “follow me." To him it came in these words: “Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show unto thee." and his answer is la then weeds; "So Abraham departed.”leaving the quietness of Ur of Chaldees, starting epos a journey to aa unknown eoantry, but not led by an

aa angel or a dream, but eauese him to be throat out of the country. Bow often

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lt\requires ^ heavy blow before our con- “ are'awakened and our hearts hnmftlul The change from the luxury and sjfiendor of the Egyptian court to the wild country of Canaan, must have been a very great one. But how much sweeter to Sarah was the simple pastoral life she led under the spreading oak than the false end perilous one she Dved in the gorgeous palace of the Egyptian lonarch! \ - Th ; s is very marvelous 1 Judging as _ien. we might have thought that be would never recover from that sad mistake, that disastrous failure and sin. Sure he will reap as he has sowp 1 He will never see his faithful wife again, but must bear forever-on bis conscience the brand ef coward treachery! Or if, indeed, abe is given to him again, wiD'Bever extricate himself from the meshes into which he has thrown himself! Irritated and deceived. Pharaoh will mxrriy find some method ot avenging the -wrong with which the foreigner bas repaid his generous hospitality! But oo. Contrary to all human i ticipatton, Jehovah appears on the behalf of Jus must unworthy servant. In after years the psalmist gives us the very few words, which be altered in the heart of the king, “Touch not mine anointed,and do my prophets no barm." TTbat a marvel of tenderness! God doesbot cast us away for one ain. “He hath wot dealt with us after oor sins; nor rewarded us according to oor imqoities.” “For aa the heaven is high above the earth, so great is hia mercy toward them that feai him." And notwithstanding repeated falls and inga. He lovingly pursues His Divine

purpose with th« a

“rost of the matter” is found, until He sets It free from its dinging eriis, and lifts it into the life of faith aad pow. and familiar friendship with Himself. We come now to a point in Abram’s life where the light begias to shine very perceptibly, reflecting the divine glory. He is 80 or 90 yean old. it it nigh time, and beneath the undooded Armament, studded thickly with storm, looking upward tilille'Gbd is talking with tom. That starry toy, shrays an otdsat of so ft

sky, sod st last sunk beneath the ho-

rizon.

Then suddenly the bright heavens were extinguished, stars do longer shone above him, and s "horror of great darkness fell upon him ” The sacrificial fragments disappeared and all was gloom. The next moment a smoking furnace blazed up in the blackneai, and then a burning lamp, self-moving, passed slowly and majestically along the lane "between tue pieces," accompanied by a voice from heaven ratifying the compact made between Jehovah and the man.' From this august vision Abram {oust have awaked to a new life. In completing this compact according to the divine directiou we see the last rite pfrformed which completes the church. There are three distinct steps taken by every one who enters the church, vi*., to make a choice, to establish the act of worship, aad the sealing of the covenant ( reiation between -the iiyli vidod and God, We have seen how Abraham made the free choice when he lefnhe Chaldean home for the “land of promise," then when he has reached the plain jjc established the altar, and now he has sealed the covenant relation establishing the complete relation, and the church of God is founded, henceforth th. Lord is to have a people upon the tarth, and it is launched on its great mission of turning the world to God. Great trials do not come single handed and atone.. Only a few years pass until the first death occurs in the immediate fam:lf of the old patriarch. It is the the death of bis beloved wife Sarah. One of the most pathetic rights we ever sufler in this aad world, is the parting of those who have long been loving companions. Abraham and Sarah had Used together for more tbau eighty yean. And during that time the noble woman whom be called, from the first, "My Princess” had had no rival to the afiections of her lord. Her kingdom was his heart, she was its

voice is saying to the man, “Like those stars fbr a mull so shell thy atod gF dfrtlfe Judean kills, alosfc with God and'ifie night, he listened and believed, and ft was coon ted onto him for righteousness. But the sublime scene is not yet ended. Be was told to prepare a sacrifice, an agreement was to be entered into between God and man, and to ditode the bodies set apart for this august < mony into two imrts, and place them in opposite rows so'at to leave space for the two contracting parties to pass between. filled with mysterious wonder, Abram laid the bleeding -fragments in their place and sailed for the next step is this fearful drama. Attracted by the smell of the fiseh, birds of prey, always of evil, began to darken the bee With

My boy!” as be did eighty years ago in his childhood. And now the swarthy son of the desert and the gentle child of the plain stand together betide the bed and gaxe upon the face of their father as the light flickers toward extinction. At length end arrives. The long, long

pilgrimage is over.

Whoever else may miss heaven, we know that Abraham is there. The rich man in hell saw him afar ofl, and Lazarus in his bosonj, and Jesus Christ said I say unto you that many shall come from the East apd the West, and sit down with Abraham. Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.” May we all reach that blissful shore, take pur it by his side, lean upon his bosom, and share his matchless crown.

And yet we cannot fail to see his faith in God and in His promises, whan he stands up before his Hittite neighbors ' my«, “I md a stranger and a soter with you, give me a possesion only a sojourner,“ he says, “I hsve asked.for nothing heretofore, and give me now only a sepulcher.” So he lays Seaway, where he expects himself, ere

>ng, to. slumber by her ride.

We come now to the dose of this rentful life. His character is well rounded out. fie has a finished life. It has had a beautiful beginning, remarkable development, and a serene maturity. When death begins to steal oyw him, Ishmael is eent for, although more than seventy yean hare pasaad since be

was sent from his htther’s homi

there has continued a feud between him and Isaac, yet with all possible haste be makes the long journey over the plains to the teat of bis old father, li stands in Ihe door, discern* faf down the »Allay, that Mimai-i is coming, and has t*iw lo MU tn, old ptutarafa, ud ]•••<"■•"

THE GOLDEN TEXT. •‘He careth for you.” (1) Forthestotul and disobedient? Yes. The faithful Shepherd is out on the mountainside of sin sasJrtng the lost sheep. God follows ua by affliction and seeks to draw us hack to Himself. By drought and famine God was taiing for Ahab and Israel. It was the care of disciplining lore. (8) For the obedient and falthfol? Ah. bow tender and faithful and constant la God’s care of HU obedient children. The Cherithi and the Zarephath* lie in the pathway where God leads. "He careth tor yon.” It .is the care of protecting — sff Seed Thoughts', Bin. like noxious weeds. Is a rapid grower and prolific seed producer. God sees' evil when man U blind to ft. Omni and Ahab may have been winning the approval and applause at their people. while they were Incurring the oonlemnation of God. A fair feoe may mask a wicked heart Many a man has been captivated by the Irst, only to find disaster and ruin through the influence of the second. A tad woman U always worse than a bad nan because woman is cast In a finer

Bar features may or may not be good, her complexion perhaps leave* something to be deetred. bat her swpet. true eyes and hfc Madly heart make tor friends fortot «ay physical-sbert-notBlags that abe may have, and wher-

s to in her fresh . She 1* sweet e togseif, and. being that, ‘ r the good that r abe always

of