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Hunter TINSMITHS and Valspar Varnish Valspar Enamels Carmote Finishes 85.87 PRINCESS ST. 5 HERI | | A DUEL ON A MOUNTAIN TOP The International Sunday School Lesson for April 13th Is: "Elijah and the Struggle With Baal"'--I. Kings 16: 29--19:21; Chap 21; , Il. Kings 1:1--2:12. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS © Crowded with personal memories | Jericho, which he was 'fed by the { is Mt. Carmel, which rises {from the Mediterranean Sea, at the | northern end of Palestine's {Plain of Esdraelon. versed its brigand-infested by night: It is twelve miles long, | and is called locally "The mountain | of a thousand valleys." | - Last summer, after spending & | night on. .the northern end of Mt. Carmel, I awoke to find all the roads leading to the top crowded with all bent on a holiday. Crude merry- go-rounds had been erected during the night, and other catch-penny devices; and booths for the saie of refreshments. It was all like eir< cus time in America. Some fami- lies had come very early and had pre-empted the shade of trees for picnic parties, As t} morning grew on the throngs increased, and the gendarmes had 6 great difficulty in controlling thé traffic on the nar- row roads. Everybody was in a good humor;. for it was a festival crowd. : I had stumbled upon the Feast of Elijah, which is kept annually as a high holiday by the people dwell- ing on or near the mountain that is associated with the great prophet's name. For it was on Carmel's crest that the spectacular duel was staged between Elijah and four hundred and fifty priests of Baal, to determine religious supremacy in Israel. The story is one of the most familiar, and dramatic, in all liter- ature.- No one appreciates it fully, however, who does not know the lo- cal geography; and how the south- ern end of Mt, Carmel juts out upon the plain through which runs the Brook Kishan, It is a noble stage for a sublime drama, / Memories of a Mountain. Travellers in the Holy Land usually visit Haifa,. which nestles under the northern end of Mt. Car- mel. The prospect from the heights is beautiful, commanding city, sea, strand and plain, with such memor- fals as the' castle which was the last stronghold of the crusaders. One stands by the huge gun which the Germans had planted on the crest to drive' off British ships. Be- low in the city. which is scheduled to be the great seaport of Palestine, to Jerusalem and Egypt in one di- rection, and to Damascus and northern Syria in the other. The famous old mountain is still the scene of decisive polifical and eco- nomic struggles: It is one of the continuously strategic spots of his- tory. Few travellers ever visit what is called "The Place of Burning," on the southern end of the mountain, actual site of the duel between the prophet, of Jehovah and the priests of Baal. The hospitable Carmelite monks there -- my heart warms to them as brethren and as friends, even as I write--have a hard time getting along in their meager mon- astery and school. What théy lack of tourist gold, however, they make up in golden-hearted devotion to the place of their task. From the top of their monastery I once saw rising out of the Mediterranean a cloud the size of a man's hand. There, a short distance down slope, flows a perennial spring that never dries up in even the severest drought. Below, like a vast audi- torium, stretches the plain with the brook flowing through it, all as told In ie Old Testament narra- tive. This man Elijah was a mountain man. I treasure a vivid memory, as well as a successful photograph of the green spot in a cup-valley on Mt. Sinal, where he is traditionally reported to have dwelt in a cave. swhile a fugitive at Mt. Horeb. Re- peated experiences on the majestic Cherith, bétween Jerusalmen and sheer | ravens, ories: great | Once I tra-| hundreds of feet below, while I was heights, | musin® upon puff the locomotives that go daily] thed crags looking down into the Brook' are also lively Elijah mem- Once, my horse nearly threw me down into the rocky ravine, Elijah and the scen- the obligations of horsemanship. © Stern, rugged, un- shakable, steadfast--Elijah was a man naturally associated with the austerities and sublimitied of nature. A fierce defender of the faith, un- ery, heedless of afraid of the face of man, was this . lonely hero Soul. 'Why Idolatry Is Popular. We are covering a long period of the history of the northern kingdom of Israel in this quarter's Sunday School Lessons: Last week we stud- led the division of the .nation. Now, seventy-five years later, with King Ahab on the throne, we.get a glimpse of national and religious conditions through this experience of Elijah. Like so many of the northern kings, Ahab was a bad egg. His heathen wife, Jezebel--whose name is a by- word to this day -- was a large fac- tor in his undoing, as-heathen wives had peen in the .failure of Solomon. Then; as now, the spiritual and soc- ial level of a man was usually de- termined by his wife. Ahab and Jezebel had been fear- lessly faced by this brave old wild- erness prophet, Elijah, and they had pufsued him into exile, seeking his lite. But the primitive drought and famine which Elijah had prophesied lay sore upon the land. Baal, the Phoenician sun god, whom this Sid- onian princess, Jezebel, had intro- duced into, Israel, could. not help. Everybody has wondered, at some time or other, why the old Jews were continuously turning from the wor- ship of Jehovah to the idolatry of the . surrounding nations. The real answer is not often given. It is simply that the sensual rites and ex- cesses practiced in connection with the worship of idols appealed to the people's lower natures. The reason is the same as that which explains why so many people today turn to fleshly worldliness Instead of to] Christianity. The stern code of the living God demands chastity and pu- rity and spirituality. The altars of Baal made their way even ifito the Temple of Jerusalem when réligion became corrupt. Isn't it strange that when the old, old heathen con- ception of self-indulgence, and of the exaltation of pleasure and ma- terialism, has been tried-out to the limit, times without number, so much of the world should today be undergoing a period of Baal-wor- ship? -------- : A Challenge; Odds and the Duel When Israel's plight of famine and distress was at its worst, Elijah au- daciously appeared and challenged NO MORE WEAK and DIZZY SPELLS Since She Used MILBURN"S Heart and Nervé Pills Miss Bertha Charrette, - Regina, Sask., writes: "lI have had a lot of trouble lately, with what I thought was heart trouble, and after any un- usual exertion I always felt sick. My doctor advised a complete rest and change, but this I was unable to take. I became interested in Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills, so started tak- ing them. 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The essential issues of life | are never settled by popular vote. | Right is right and God "is God, | though all the massed multitudes of mankind. should cast their bal- lots to the contrary. * God is not whatever the vote of the majority decides him to be; although this is a popular fallacy of the time. God is Himself, and~He will ultimately have His way, either through men or in spite of them. "One man of you shall chase a thousand," is the old promise fulfilled in the present les- Son. : Always,' the crowd 18ves a con- test. Natural instincts, re-enforced by, Israel's dire plight, led the peo- pfe to acclaim Elijah's plucky pro- posal. The decision was to be by fire; so the altars were built, be- fore the eyes of the assembled peo- ple, on the crest of Carmel. - The priests of Baal used all their incan- tations. They cried and cavorted and cut themselves -- while the grimly humorous prophet of God jibed at them. The tale is told tre- mendously in the Bible. After the failure of the Baal party Elijah's turn came. He laid his al- tar of twelve stones of remembrance, and he drenthed sacrifice and fuel with 'water, to demonstrate the ut- terness of Jehovah's power, Then he prayed a majestic prayer, invoking past providences, and pleading the glory of the g¥eat name of the true God. And the fire | fell! Picture the frenzy of the sceme; the awe-strick- en, penitent people; the Baalites aghast; the prophet of God sublime- ly triumphant; the signs of the end of the drought, and then the grim punishment of the idolaters, Many artists have attempted to transfer: that stupendous scene to canvas, but in vain. It remains one ,of the un- portrayable triumphs 40t the Al- mighty. Getting the One Big Idea. Instead of following out the many incidental homilies of the Lesson text--a failing of"all of us who deal with Scripture, with the results that our minds are scrappy, our religion disjointed, and our conceptions of God narrowed into favorite trivial cults or isms--let us get a firm grip on the big 1déa. This absorbing old story has one central, unmistakable meaning. It carries us out into the deeps of essential faith, and far be- yond the shallows of religious fads and fancifulness. What the duel on Carmel said to Israel is what the same overruling God is trying to say to our factious and pettifogging gen- eration. Here we havd the message of the mountain, which is the truth for the times: "Jehovah; He is God." That wag the decision of the duel. It con- veyed the cardinal message of Eli- jah, and of the Old Testament. In- stead of creating divisions abo whole host of minor matters, and bordinate teachings, we need to get a strong hold upon this one clear and basic truth, that Jehovah lives; that He is the one and only God; and that He is a moral Being, concerned about the conduct of mortals. Angels must. weep as they see good people squabbling over inmel- dental points of theology, while vi- tal religion languishes and hungry sheep are unfed and neglected. The Baal to a contest; one point, of paramount importance one and |. ued mustard he batit ie foen's SEAL BRAND JAPAN TEA Sold in % 1b. and CHASE & SAN BORN, Arann, kagdes. AON TREAL. is whether there really is a God; and whether He is such a one as cares about folks, Does He interest Himself in the affairs of men? Some persons, to 'whom a speculation means more than a realily, deny to God this moral quality, and, conse- quently, his Father-character. They cannot conceive of the Power that fed Elijah by the ravens, and that sent lightnings from heaven to con- sume his altar and give hinf victory over the false priests or Baal, as be- ing one and the same Dfety. Their intellectually-conceived God is. too great to pay any aitention to people. * This means, frankly, the scrap- ping of the experience and faith of the ages, as well as a complete repu- diation jof the last vestige of Secrip- ture. For if God has made any reve- lation of Himself at all, it is as the Friend of His friends; the powerful partner of Elijah and all other prophets of truth; the concerned Ruler of nations; the compassionate Father of His people in every one of their needs. He who stood with Eli- jah on Carmel still stands by every loyal follower in whatever tests and trials and needs arise. 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