. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . ars after Solomon died, began Grandpa, as hesettled himself in his easy-chair, there lived in Canaan a grand oldprophet named Elijah. At that time there was a great famine inthe land. Rain had not fallen for over three years. This penalty wasbecause of the terrible wickedness of Ahab, King of Israel, and ofhis people. Everything was dried up and dead. But God took careof His prophet, and sent him to dwell in a wild place where a little brookflowed the whole year. His food was brought in a very strange man-ner by ravens, which u
. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . ars after Solomon died, began Grandpa, as hesettled himself in his easy-chair, there lived in Canaan a grand oldprophet named Elijah. At that time there was a great famine inthe land. Rain had not fallen for over three years. This penalty wasbecause of the terrible wickedness of Ahab, King of Israel, and ofhis people. Everything was dried up and dead. But God took careof His prophet, and sent him to dwell in a wild place where a little brookflowed the whole year. His food was brought in a very strange man-ner by ravens, which usually eat anything and everything they canfind. The idea of ravens—black, ugly things that eat garbage—feed-ing a good man! Why, I never heard of such a thing, was the rat-tling, rambling answer Mary put in at this point. But they did it. Bread and flesh were brought him twice a day,till at last the brook dried up and Elijah could get no water. Godthen sent him to a little city called Zarephath, where a widow womanwas to be prepared to supply him with SUPPLIED IN THE WILDERNESS.
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