vision are you making for it? Where will you be in it? Here, centuries after the finishing of their earthly course, we find Moses and Elijah in such circumstances as warrant us to believe that they were happy in the presence of their God. In a short time each of us shall be as they, with the mystery of death behind us; but shall we be as they also, joyful in the heavenly inheritance? The first moment after deaththat will settle it all. What will that be? Nay, I am wrong. We are settling even now what that first moment shall be. How are you settling it, my hearer? If you are living in sin, you are settling that, when you leave the body, the first and continued experience of your soul shall be that of perdition: if you are living in Christ, you are settling that, when your spirit leaves its fleshly tabernacle, you shall have a building of God; a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Which is it?

Now the God of Peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

INDEX.

ABEL-MEHOLAH, situation of, 133; plowing at, described, 134.

Adams, Rev. Dr. William, 188.

Ahab, character of, 7, 8; guilt of, as distinguished from that of Jerobo-
am, 8, 9; motive of, for the introduction of Baal-worship into Israel,
10, 11; Elijah's first interview with, 12-18; searches for Elijah, 24;
meeting of, with Elijah, 71-74; selfishness of, 80; on Mount Carmel,
90; ride of, from Carmel to Jezreel, 112; in the vineyard of Naboth,
147; story of his covetousness, 148; sick from disappointment, 149;
acquiesces in Jezebel's policy, 151; confronted by Elijah, 151; partial
repentance of, 152; death of, 152.

Ahaziah, sickness of, 164, 166; sends his servants to Ekron, 166; orders
the apprehension of Elijah, 167; visited by Elijah in his death-cham-
ber, 169.

Alliances, unholy, evil of, 156.

Answers to prayer to be expected, 106, 108; come through the ordinary
operation of the laws of nature, 109; should be recognized when they
do come, 108-112; are not mere coincidences, 110.

Ashtaroth and Baal, their worship characterized, 10, 11; inconsistency
of their worship with that of Jehovah, 91.

Atonement, great day of, services on, 205.

Authoress of the "Chronicles of the Schonberg-cotta Family," quoted
from, 49.

BAAL and Ashtaroth, their worship characterized, 10; manner in which
Elijah met the worship of, 17; relation of, to present controversies,
18; priests of, on Carmel, 90, 93, 101, 103.

Banquet given by Elisha, 137.

Benevolence, principles of, 83.

Bernard and others, position of, in Church of Rome, 77.

"Bible Lands," by Dr. Van-Lennep, quoted from, 93.

Blindness of ungodliness, 84.

Bonar's, Dr. H., "Sinai," quoted from, 118.

Botanist, story of a, 79, 80.

CALVARY, sacrifice on, related to that on Carmel, 97; and to the trans-
figuration, 200.

Carmel, Mount, described, 87; modern name of ridge, 89; historical
associations connected with, 88; gathering of the people to, 90;
appearance of Elijah on, 90; sacrifice on, 93; relation of, to Cal-
vary, 97.

Chalmers, Dr. Thomas, anecdote of, 131.

Cherith, probable situation of, 24, 25; brook failed, 38.

Children, death of, 56.

Christ, miracles of, greater than those of Elijah, 60, 61; transfiguration
of, 197; death of, 200, 202; the only ruler in the Gospel dispensation,
206.

Circumstances no excuse for declining to serve Christ, 78.

Colleges, importance of sustaining, 185–187.

Companion, value of a faithful, 121.

Cowper's "Task," quotation from, 52, 53.

Curse attending ill-gotten gains, 160.

DEATH of children, 56.

Decision for God, urgency of, 98.

Definiteness in prayer enforced, 105.

Dervishes, modern, cut themselves, like the ancient priests of Baal, 93.

Despondency often due to merely physical causes, 119.

Diversity of gifts in different servants of God, 143.

Double portion of Elijah's spirit, meaning of, 183.

EADIE'S "Cyclopædia," quoted from, 32.

Ease more dangerous to piety than difficulty, 79, 80.

Effects of physical exhaustion on spiritual experience, 119.
Eleanor, Queen, story of, 122.

Elijah, first appearance of, 12; meaning of his name, 14; character of,
15, 32, 54; first utterance of, 16; sent to Cherith, 24; search for by
Ahab, 24; fed by ravens, 29; faith of, tried at Cherith, 38; sent to
Zarephath, 40; meeting of, with the widow, 44; how occupied at Zar-
ephath, 53, 54; tenderness of, 55; raises the widow's son to life, 58,
59; miracles of, contrasted with those of Christ, 60, 61; training of,
for Carmel, 66, 67; re-appearance of, 69; feelings of, on return to Is-
rael, 70, 71; meeting of, with Obadiah, 71, 72; with Ahab, 74; ap-
pearance of, on Carmel, 90, 91; proposal of, to the people at Car-
mel, 91; preparation for sacrifice by, 93; prayer of, 103–115; run-
ning before Ahab, 112-115; flight of, from Jezebel, 117; causes of
despondency of, 119-124; vision of, at Horeb, 129, 130; visit of, to
Abel-meholah, 135; contrast between, and Elisha, 144; confronts
Ahab in Naboth's vineyard, 151; mission of, not so much political as
religious, 165; intercepts the messengers of Ahaziah, 166; calls for
fire from heaven upon his adversaries, 168; visits Ahaziah upon his

death-bed, 169; relation of, to the sons of the prophets, 180; visits
Bethel, Gilgal, and Jericho, 180-182; ascension of, 184; presence of,
on the Mount of Transfiguration, 202, 203.

Elisha at the plow, 134; called by Elijah, 135; feast given by, 137;
training of, under Elijah, 142; contrast between, and Elijah, 144;
last request of, to Elijah, 183; lifts the mantle of Elijah, and divides
the Jordan with it, 184.

El Muhrakah, description of, 88.

Emerson's "Letters from the Ægean" quoted from, 109.
Emotion, exhaustion caused by, 120.

Esdraelon, plain of, historical associations connected with, 88.
Exaggerated expectations, evil of, 123–125.

FAIRBAIRN'S "Imperial Bible Dictionary" quoted from, 117.
Faith, manifested by waiting obedience, 39.

Famine, description of, 24, 71.

Fénélon, position of, in Church of Rome, 77.

Friendship, value of, 122.

Future life, reality of, 208.

GENTLENESS to be combined with sternness in dealing with men, 85.
Gilead described, 15.

Giving increases getting, 49.

God's care of the widow, 51.

care of his church, in maintaining a succession of teachers, 138,
193.

claim on men established in connection with sacrifice, 96-98.

delay to help, reason of, 50.

God served by patience in retirement as well as by activity in public life,

26, 27.

God's training of his servants, manner of, 14, 20, 21, 66–68.

Growth of sin insidious, 19, 20.

Good man, value of, to his country, 192.

Good men sometimes found in unexpected places, 75-77.

HALL, Bishop, quoted from, 45, 167.

Hamilton, Bishop, referred to, 104.

Happiness consists not in getting, but in being, 154.

Havelock, General, and his son, anecdote of, 39, 40.

Heart, the, chooses its own God, 94, 95.

Holy Spirit, relation of the work of, to that of Christ, 113, 114.

Homeless poor, the lines on, by Miss Procter, 81.

Honor put by God on industry in daily life, 139.

Horeb, Elijah's vision at, 129.

Hymn by George Neumarck, story of, 36.

Hyslop's "Cameronian's Dream," quotation from, 184.