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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Man Who Did Not Die, by J. H. Willard
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+Title: The Man Who Did Not Die
+       The Story of Elijah
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+Author: J. H. Willard
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+Release Date: January 9, 2010 [EBook #30899]
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+Language: English
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+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE
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+ALTEMUS' BEAUTIFUL STORIES SERIES
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+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE
+
+THE STORY OF ELIJAH
+
+BY
+
+J. H. WILLARD.
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+FIVE KINGS IN A CAVE.
+         The Story of a Great Battle
+THE WISEST MAN.
+         The Story of Solomon
+A FARMER'S WIFE.
+         The Story of Ruth
+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE.
+         The Story of Elijah
+WHEN IRON DID SWIM.
+         The Story of Elisha
+WHAT IS SWEETER THAN HONEY.
+         The Story of Samson
+
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+By Henry Altemus
+
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+
+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE.
+
+AFTER the death of King Solomon, his son Rehoboam became ruler
+of the Israelites. The prodigality and magnificence of
+Solomon's court, and his lavish way of living had been met by
+heavy taxation. Seeing the vast revenues of the kingdom
+employed in this way, the people had grown discontented, and
+then disloyal.
+
+After Rehoboam had become king, the Israelites appealed to him
+to lighten the taxes and other heavy burdens which oppressed
+the poor. Instead of following the advice of his older
+counsellors, and releasing the people from some of their
+burdens, the new king hearkened to the counsel of the younger
+men who had grown up with him and scornfully rejected the
+petition of his subjects.
+
+[Image: THE KING SCORNFULLY REJECTED THEIR PETITION.]
+
+A very ambitious man named Jeroboam presented the petition to
+Rehoboam, and upon its rejection, ten tribes revolted and made
+Jeroboam their ruler under the title of King of Israel.
+
+The remainder of the Israelitish nation from this time were
+known as the Kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem remained its capital,
+and God was worshipped in the magnificent temple built by King
+Solomon. It also maintained the regular priesthood, its
+officers descending as formerly from father to son.
+
+Among the twenty sovereigns of Judah, there were a few who
+served God sincerely. The best four of the kings were Asa,
+Jehosaphat, Hezekiah and Josiah. Asa fought against the
+worship of idols which had corrupted the people, yet he made
+an alliance with the King of Syria, who was an idolater.
+Jehosaphat, his son, ruled the kingdom of Judah for
+twenty-five years, and, although he did not always do right,
+his reign was a quiet one.
+
+[Image: ASA READ THE LAW OF GOD TO THE PEOPLE.]
+
+Hezekiah waged a vigorous war against the worship of idols,
+and, as far as he was able, restored the worship of God in the
+temple. The Bible says of everything he undertook for the
+glory of God that _"he did it with all his heart, and
+prospered."_
+
+[Image: HEZEKIAH DESTROYED THE IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE.]
+
+Hezekiah was a very brave man, and when Sennacherib, the King
+of Assyria, sent an army against Jerusalem, his speech to the
+people, telling them to be strong and courageous, for God
+would help them and fight for them, was not unlike that of
+Joshua when he exhorted the Israelites to trust in God, at the
+time when they were about to enter the land of Canaan.
+
+[Image: SENNACHERIB, KING OF ASSYRIA.]
+
+The prophet Isaiah lived during the reign of Hezekiah. At one
+time when the king was very sick he prayed to God that his
+life might be spared. God told Isaiah to tell him that He had
+heard his prayer, and that He would heal him, and prolong his
+life for fifteen years.
+
+When Isaiah had delivered God's message, Hezekiah asked for a
+sign that these things should be done, and Isaiah said that he
+might decide whether the shadow upon the sundial should go
+forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees.
+
+Hezekiah replied that it was an easy thing for the shadow to
+go forward ten degrees, and asked that it might go backwards.
+God moved the shadow as the king had asked, and he accepted it
+as a sign that his life was to be spared and his days
+lengthened.
+
+[Image: GOD MOVED THE SHADOW BACKWARDS.]
+
+Josiah was only eight years old when he came to the throne of
+Judah. He served God while yet a child, and devoted his life
+to His service. He reigned for more than thirty years, and was
+killed at last by an arrow while defending his kingdom against
+Necho, King of Egypt.
+
+[Image: "JOSIAH WAS ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD."]
+
+[Image: JOSIAH WAS KILLED BY AN ARROW.]
+
+In spite of the repeated warnings of God's prophets, the
+people continued to worship idols, until as a punishment the
+kingdom was entirely broken up. After a siege lasting sixteen
+months, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, took the city of
+Jerusalem, burned the Temple, and carried away as prisoners
+all the inhabitants who had survived the horrors of the siege.
+This was the end of the Kingdom of Judah, and the beginning of
+the period known as "the captivity."
+
+For some time after the separation of Israel from Judah, there
+was war between the two kingdoms, but later they formed an
+alliance to prevent the King of Syria from encroaching upon
+them. Still later the old enmity broke out again. There were
+nineteen Kings of Israel in all, and city after city became
+the capital of the kingdom, until in the time of its sixth
+king Samaria became the seat of government.
+
+Omri was the King who built Samaria, The monarchs who preceded
+him were conspicuous for evil doing, but Omri exceeded them in
+wickedness. The reign of his son Ahab was still worse, and of
+this King of Israel the Bible says, _"Ahab did more to provoke
+the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the Kings of Israel
+that were before him."_
+
+[Image: RUINS OF SAMARIA. From a photograph.]
+
+Ahab married Jezebel, a Phœnician princess, and this was the
+crowning point of his sinful career. Jezebel was unprincipled
+and intolerant, and as Ahab was a weak man, he became little
+more than a tool in her hands. She introduced at once the
+worship of Baal and Ashtoroth, the male and female gods of her
+own country. She caused a great temple to be built on the brow
+of a hill, and there the worship of these idols was carried
+on. Four hundred and fifty priests and attendants administered
+the services of Baal, and four hundred those of Ashtoroth.
+
+Not content with introducing this heathen worship, Jezebel
+persecuted the few among the nation who remained faithful to
+the worship of God. She caused their altars to be destroyed,
+and to save their lives they fled to the wildest solitudes,
+and hid in caves, as their forefathers had done in the days of
+the Judges.
+
+While all this was taking place, and while Ahab was occupying
+himself with the building of a splendid palace at Jezreel, a
+new and startling figure appeared upon the scene. None knew
+whence the mysterious stranger came, as, wrapped in a rough
+cape, or mantle, of sheepskin, he confronted the astonished
+king.
+
+The name of this strange visitor was Elijah, a man of whom it
+has been said that he was "the grandest and most romantic
+character that Israel ever produced." His long, thick hair
+indicated remarkable powers of endurance, and in addition to
+his sheepskin mantle he wore a girdle made from the skin of
+some animal, which in the fashion of the day he tightened when
+about to move quickly.
+
+[Image: THE NAME OF THIS STRANGE VISITOR WAS ELIJAH.]
+
+Elijah was one of God's prophets, and his mission was to
+announce to Ahab that a judgment was about to fall upon the
+land, because the people had forsaken the worship of God, and
+bowed down to idols instead. This punishment was to be in the
+shape of a drought, at all times a terrible infliction, but
+especially so in Eastern countries where all vegetation
+quickly dries up when there is a scarcity of water.
+
+[Image: RESULT OF DROUGHT IN PALESTINE. From a photograph.]
+
+Elijah's message was very brief, and before the king had
+recovered from his astonishment, the prophet had departed as
+abruptly as he had appeared.
+
+We have no record that Elijah had any settled home. The wild
+paths of the wilderness and the mountains were familiar to
+him, and he dwelt where some spreading tree would afford him a
+leafy shelter. He moved from place to place, according to
+God's commands. Now, as he left the presence of Ahab, God's
+word came to him, directing him to turn to the eastward, and
+hide by the brook Cherith.
+
+Elijah stayed in this retreat as long as the falling stream
+afforded water to quench his thirst, and during this time he
+was fed by ravens, who, twice each day, brought him bread and
+meat. After a while the brook dried up, and the leaves which
+had protected him from the fierce sun shriveled and fell to
+the ground, for the promised drought was upon the land.
+
+[Image: "ELIJAH WAS FED TWICE EACH DAY BY RAVENS."]
+
+Again the word of God came upon Elijah, telling him what road
+to take to his next shelter. Across the mountains of Lebanon,
+where the brooks were as dry as that of Cherith, the prophet
+made his way. Descending their further slopes, he crossed the
+plains at their feet, and with his face still towards the sea,
+approached the village or town of Zarephath. The modern
+village of Sura-flud is supposed to occupy its site, and the
+ruins of the ancient town are to be seen there.
+
+[Image: THE SITE OF ZAREPHATH. From a photograph.]
+
+Elijah was now in Phœnicia, the native country of Jezebel, the
+wife of King Ahab. It would seem to be the last place in which
+an enemy of Baal would seek refuge, but Elijah knew that God
+had a purpose in sending him there. Ethbaal, the father of
+Jezebel, was the King of Phœnicia, and the famine which
+followed the drought had reached that country, and was causing
+terrible suffering.
+
+Just outside Zarephath, Elijah found a woman gathering sticks
+for firewood. She was a widow, and in such poverty that all
+the food she had in the world was a handful of meal and a
+little oil in a bottle or jar. Consumed with thirst, Elijah
+asked her for water, and, as she turned to bring it, he asked
+her also for a piece of bread.
+
+Sadly the woman told him she had no bread. She was gathering
+sticks to make a fire over which she would cook the handful of
+meal and the little oil remaining in the bottle. When she and
+her son had eaten this, they would have no more food, and in
+consequence would die of hunger.
+
+[Image: "A WOMAN GATHERING STICKS FOR FIREWOOD."]
+
+It is probable that this woman was an Israelite, and not a
+worshipper of Baal, for, when Elijah told her to mix the meal
+and oil into a cake and bake it for him, adding, _"For thus
+saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not
+waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that
+the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth,"_ the woman did as she
+was told, evidently recognizing him as a prophet of God. She
+fed him before she and her son tasted of food, and gave him
+the shelter of her house as well; and during all the time of
+drought and famine, the supply of meal and oil never failed.
+
+After a while, trouble came upon the little household. The
+widow's son suddenly became very sick and then died. The
+heart-broken mother demanded of Elijah why he had come to them
+only to slay her son. The prophet replied, _"Give me thy
+son,"_ and taking the boy from his mother's arms, carried him
+into his own chamber and laid him on the bed.
+
+Then Elijah called upon God, and prayed that the child might
+be made alive again, and God heard his prayer, for the boy sat
+up alive and well. Taking him in his arms, the prophet carried
+the child to his mother, who was so happy that she exclaimed,
+_"Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the
+word of the Lord is in thy mouth."_
+
+[Image: "ELIJAH CARRIED THE CHILD TO HIS MOTHER."]
+
+The drought continued, and the horrors of famine caused by the
+failure of all crops, was felt in Samaria. Ahab was in
+despair. Everywhere horses and other animals were dying, for
+there was not the scantiest grass or herbage of any kind for
+them to eat, and everywhere the streams were dry.
+
+The chief officer of Ahab's household was a man named Obadiah.
+He was a faithful servant of God, and during the bitter
+persecutions of Jezebel, had hidden an hundred persons who
+worshipped God, in a cave and fed them there. Ahab now took
+Obadiah, and set out on a desperate search for pasturage and
+water for the animals, the king going one way and his servant
+the other, on what seemed a hopeless errand.
+
+Before Obadiah had gone very far, Elijah suddenly stood before
+him. Quickly the prophet told him to go to Ahab and tell him
+_"Elijah is here."_ Obadiah feared that Elijah would disappear
+before he could bring the king to him, but, reassured by
+Elijah, he set forth to find Ahab.
+
+[Image: A FIELD IN PALESTINE TO-DAY. From a photograph.]
+
+Now Ahab had been searching throughout his kingdom for the
+mysterious stranger who had warned him of the coming drought,
+three years before; so, as soon as he learned from Obadiah
+that the stranger had reappeared, he went to meet him. When he
+saw the prophet, he asked him, _"Art thou he that troubleth
+Israel?"_ Elijah answered that he had not troubled Israel, but
+that Ahab's evil reign, and that of his father before him, had
+been the cause of the drought.
+
+Then Elijah denounced the idolatry of Ahab, and followed this
+with a command to assemble his people on Mount Carmel, and
+bring also all the priests and attendants of Baal and
+Ashtoroth. Ahab did not dare to disobey, and a great, weary,
+listless crowd assembled on the sun-burned slopes of the
+mountain. The priests were there in gorgeous vestments, and
+the king, himself, all eager and expectant. A spring of water,
+apparently undiscovered before, flowed not far away.
+
+Elijah appeared with only one attendant, and soon his voice
+rang out. _"How long halt you between two opinions? If the
+Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him."_
+
+The amazed people stood speechless. Then Elijah spoke again,
+saying he was hut one prophet, while before him were four
+hundred and fifty of Baal's prophets. Then he proposed a test
+of powers.
+
+[Image: CULTIVATING THE LAND IN PALESTINE TO-DAY. From a
+photograph.]
+
+He asked that two bullocks might be provided. The priests of
+Baal should take one, and prepare it for sacrifice by laying
+it on the wood upon the altar to their god, but they were to
+put no fire tinder it. The other bullock he would prepare in
+the same way.
+
+Then the priests of Baal were to call upon their god, and he
+would call upon his God, and the God, that answered by sending
+fire to consume the sacrifice offered to him, was to be the
+God of the people. The answer of the people, dejected with
+long endurance of misery, was ready, and as one man they
+shouted, "It is well spoken."
+
+The altar to Baal was prepared, with the sacrifice arranged
+upon it in proper form. Only fire was lacking. Loudly the
+priests of Baal prayed. Wildly they leaped around the altar,
+crying again and again, _"O Baal, hear us."_ The morning wore
+away, and there was no response; no fire appeared to consume
+the sacrifice.
+
+About noon, Elijah mocked the frantic priests, saying to them,
+_"Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is
+pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth,
+and must be awakened."_
+
+The priests of Baal accepted this advice in earnest. They
+supplicated and raved more wildly, and wounded themselves in
+their frenzy, continually calling on Baal to hear them. And so
+the afternoon passed.
+
+[Image: SUMMIT OF MOUNT CARMEL TO-DAY. From a photograph.]
+
+As the sun was sinking, Elijah came near the altar which he
+had built with twelve stones--one for each of the tribes of
+Israel. The sacrifice, carefully prepared, lay upon the wood.
+All around the altar a trench had been dug, and it was now
+filled with the water which had been poured upon the
+sacrifice.
+
+Then Elijah prayed to God, asking him to let the people know
+that day that He was the God of Israel, and that it was by His
+command that he had done these things. At the close of his
+prayer, fire unkindled by mortal hands broke out. Unchecked by
+the water, it wrapped sacrifice and altar in flames and
+consumed them, even licking up the water in the trench with
+its heated breath. At this sight the people prostrated
+themselves as they cried out, _"The Lord, he is the God, the
+Lord, he is the God."_
+
+[Image: ELIJAH'S SACRIFICE ON MOUNT CARMEL.]
+
+The priests of Baal, who were largely responsible for the
+idolatry of the nation, stood trembling and confounded.
+Quickly Elijah ordered them to be destroyed, and this was
+done. Next he turned to Ahab, and told him to eat and drink in
+haste, for the long deferred rain was at hand, although no
+sign of its approach was in sight.
+
+Attended only by his servant, Elijah then went to the top of
+Mount Carmel, and crouched upon the ground in the position of
+meditation commonly assumed in Eastern countries. He sent his
+servant to a spot which commanded a view of the Mediterranean
+Sea, bade him look around, and bring him word of what he saw.
+
+Six times the servant returned with the word that he saw
+nothing. The seventh time his report was that he could see a
+little cloud, not larger than a man's hand, coming out of the
+sea. Sending the man to warn Ahab that the rain was fast
+approaching, and that he must start at once for home, Elijah
+then hastened down the mountain to meet the king at its foot.
+
+[Image: A LITTLE CLOUD COMING OUT OF THE SEA.]
+
+With all the speed he could command, Ahab barely reached his
+palace at Jezreel in time to escape the fury of the storm.
+Elijah ran before the royal chariot the entire distance of
+sixteen miles, but he did not enter the palace.
+
+Thus far the triumph was with Elijah. The people were
+convinced, the priests of Baal were dead, the king was
+awe-struck. But Jezebel was relentless in her hatred of the
+prophet. So furious was she when Ahab told her what had been
+done that day, that she sent a message to Elijah, telling him
+that before another day had passed she would have his life.
+Prophet though he was, Elijah quailed before the threat of the
+idolatrous queen, and fled for his life.
+
+Leaving his servant at Beer-sheba, Elijah went a day's journey
+into the wilderness, threw himself down under a solitary bush,
+and in a fit of despair, prayed that he might die. Worn out
+with excitement and fatigue, he fell asleep, but woke to find
+food and water beside him, and an angel who told him to
+refresh himself with the provisions God had sent him.
+
+[Image: ELIJAH WOKE TO FIND AN ANGEL BESIDE HIM.]
+
+Twice Elijah ate and drank of the miraculous food, and then in
+its strength traveled forty days and forty nights until he
+came to Mount Horeb, the place where Moses received the divine
+command to rescue the Israelites from Pharaoh.
+
+Elijah found shelter in a cave, and there he heard the voice
+of God, asking, _"What doest thou here, Elijah?"_ The answer
+of the prophet was one of bitterness and depression, but his
+complaints were cut short by a command to come out of the
+cave, and behold the wonderful works of God. Drawing his
+mantle about him, Elijah went out on the mountain side to
+watch.
+
+As he stood there, a mighty wind roared among the rocks and
+rent them to pieces. Then an earthquake shook the desert,
+until the mountain itself trembled under the shock. Then fire
+as mysterious as that which illuminated the bush in the days
+of Moses, played about the lonely heights. After a pause, _"a
+still, small voice"_ whispered in the ear of the solitary
+watcher a revelation conveying comfort, and pointing out
+further duty. Strengthened and comforted, Elijah left the
+lonely mountain behind him, and shortly came across the man
+who was to cheer him as a companion, and succeed him as a
+prophet.
+
+[Image: A STORM IN PALESTINE. From a photograph.]
+
+This man was Elisha, the son of Shaphat. He was ploughing the
+fields around his home with twelve yoke of oxen. As he passed
+him, Elijah cast his well-known mantle upon Elisha, who
+recognized in the action that from that time he was to be the
+attendant and friend of the prophet. Bidding his father and
+mother goodbye, Elisha followed Elijah, thus beginning a long
+period of service and intercourse with him.
+
+[Image: ELISHA WAS PLOUGHING HIS FIELDS.]
+
+The disappearance of Elijah after his triumph over the priests
+of Baal, probably caused Ahab and Jezebel to believe that they
+had seen the last of the prophet. They certainly went on in
+their wicked ways, for soon we read that Ahab coveted the
+vineyard of a man named Naboth. This vineyard was quite near
+the walls of Ahab's palace, and he wished to turn it into a
+garden.
+
+But Naboth would not sell his vineyard or exchange it for
+another, because it had belonged to his family for a very long
+time. His refusal made Ahab so angry and disappointed that he
+threw himself upon his bed, and refused to eat or even to
+speak. In this state Jezebel found him, and at once began to
+comfort him, telling him he should have his vineyard.
+
+The first thing this wicked woman did was to bribe witnesses
+to say that Naboth had spoken evil of God and also of the
+king. Naboth was condemned and stoned to death. Ahab then
+took possession of the vineyard, and as he was walking in it
+one day, he saw Elijah coming towards him. Tremblingly the
+wicked king exclaimed, _"Hast thou found me, O my enemy?"_
+Elijah replied that he had sought him, not because he was his
+enemy, but to tell him he was to be punished, because all his
+life he had done wrong.
+
+[Image: FALSE WITNESSES TESTIFIED AGAINST NABOTH.]
+
+Ahab was killed in battle three years afterwards, and later,
+Jezebel met with a terrible death, for she was thrown from a
+window by her own servants, and crushed to death on the stones
+below.
+
+[Image: THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL.]
+
+When the time came for Elijah's work on earth to cease, he
+took Elisha with him to a place called Gilgal. They crossed
+the River Jordan in a manner as wonderful as that of the
+passage of the Israelites into Canaan, many years before.
+Elijah struck the waters with his mantle and they parted,
+leaving; a pathway over which the two walked in safety.
+
+[Image: "ELIJAH STRUCK THE WATERS WITH HIS MANTLE."]
+
+There, while these two men of God were talking together, a
+chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared, and parted them.
+Elijah was swept up into the chariot, and was carried away
+into heaven. But before he disappeared, his mantle fell from
+him. Elisha took it up, and with it received the power of
+performing miracles which God had given to Elijah, the man who
+did not die.
+
+[Image: "ELIJAH WAS SWEPT UP INTO THE CHARIOT."]
+
+
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+Title: The Man Who Did Not Die
+       The Story of Elijah
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+
+<p align="center">THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/1.jpg" alt="Elijah denounces Ahab and Jezebel"></p>
+<table border="1" align="center">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p align="center">ALTEMUS' BEAUTIFUL STORIES SERIES</p>
+<hr>
+<hr>
+<h1>THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE</h1>
+<h2>THE STORY OF ELIJAH</h2>
+<p align="center">BY</p>
+<h2>J. H. WILLARD.</h2>
+<hr>
+<hr>
+<p align="center">ILLUSTRATED
+<hr>
+<hr>
+<p align="center">
+PHILADELPHIA<br>
+HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY
+</p>
+</table>
+<br><br>
+
+
+<table border="1" align="center">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<h1>Altemus'</h1>
+<p align="center">Illustrated</p>
+<h1>Beautiful Stories Series</h1>
+<hr>
+<hr>
+<p>THE FIRST CHRISTMAS.<br>
+THE FIRST EASTER.<br>
+ONCE IN SEVEN YEARS.<br>
+<span class="indent">The Story of the Jubilee</span><br>
+WITH HAMMER AND NAIL.<br>
+<span class="indent">The Story of Jael and Sisera</span><br>
+FIVE KINGS IN A CAVE.<br>
+<span class="indent">The Story of a Great Battle</span><br>
+THE WISEST MAN.<br>
+<span class="indent">The Story of Solomon</span><br>
+A FARMER'S WIFE.<br>
+<span class="indent">The Story of Ruth</span><br>
+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE.<br>
+<span class="indent">The Story of Elijah</span><br>
+WHEN IRON DID SWIM.<br>
+<span class="indent">The Story of Elisha</span><br>
+WHAT IS SWEETER THAN HONEY.<br>
+<span class="indent">The Story of Samson</span></p>
+<hr><hr>
+<p align="center">Twenty-five Cents Each</p>
+<hr><hr>
+<p align="center">Copyright, 1906</p>
+<h2>By Henry Altemus</h2>
+</table>
+<br><br>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/2.jpg" alt="Elijah ponders">
+<h1>THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE.</h1>
+
+<p><font size="+3">A</font>FTER the death of King Solomon, his son Rehoboam became ruler
+of the Israelites. The prodigality and magnificence of
+Solomon's court, and his lavish way of living had been met by
+heavy taxation. Seeing the vast revenues of the kingdom
+employed in this way, the people had grown discontented, and
+then disloyal.
+</p><p>
+After Rehoboam had become king, the Israelites appealed to him
+to lighten the taxes and other heavy burdens which oppressed
+the poor. Instead of following the advice of his older
+counsellors, and releasing the people from some of their
+burdens, the new king hearkened to the counsel of the younger
+men who had grown up with him and scornfully rejected the
+petition of his subjects.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/3.jpg" alt="The king scornfull rejected their petition">
+<br>THE KING SCORNFULLY REJECTED THEIR PETITION.</p><p>
+
+A very ambitious man named Jeroboam presented the petition to
+Rehoboam, and upon its rejection, ten tribes revolted and made
+Jeroboam their ruler under the title of King of Israel.
+</p><p>
+The remainder of the Israelitish nation from this time were
+known as the Kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem remained its capital,
+and God was worshipped in the magnificent temple built by King
+Solomon. It also maintained the regular priesthood, its
+officers descending as formerly from father to son.
+</p><p>
+Among the twenty sovereigns of Judah, there were a few who
+served God sincerely. The best four of the kings were Asa,
+Jehosaphat, Hezekiah and Josiah. Asa fought against the
+worship of idols which had corrupted the people, yet he made
+an alliance with the King of Syria, who was an idolater.
+Jehosaphat, his son, ruled the kingdom of Judah for twenty-
+five years, and, although he did not always do right, his
+reign was a quiet one.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/4.jpg" alt="Asa read the Law of God to the people">
+<br>ASA READ THE LAW OF GOD TO THE PEOPLE.</p><p>
+
+Hezekiah waged a vigorous war against the worship of idols,
+and, as far as he was able, restored the worship of God in the
+temple. The Bible says of everything he undertook for the
+glory of God that <i>"he did it with all his heart, and
+prospered."</i>
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/5.jpg" alt="Hezekiah destroyed the idols in the temple">
+<br>HEZEKIAH DESTROYED THE IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE.</p><p>
+
+Hezekiah was a very brave man, and when Sennacherib, the King
+of Assyria, sent an army against Jerusalem, his speech to the
+people, telling them to be strong and courageous, for God
+would help them and fight for them, was not unlike that of
+Joshua when he exhorted the Israelites to trust in God, at the
+time when they were about to enter the land of Canaan.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/6.jpg" alt="Sennacherib, King of Assyria">
+<br>SENNACHERIB, KING OF ASSYRIA.</p><p>
+
+The prophet Isaiah lived during the reign of Hezekiah. At one
+time when the king was very sick he prayed to God that his
+life might be spared. God told Isaiah to tell him that He had
+heard his prayer, and that He would heal him, and prolong his
+life for fifteen years.
+</p><p>
+When Isaiah had delivered God's message, Hezekiah asked for a
+sign that these things should be done, and Isaiah said that he
+might decide whether the shadow upon the sundial should go
+forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees.
+</p><p>
+Hezekiah replied that it was an easy thing for the shadow to
+go forward ten degrees, and asked that it might go backwards.
+God moved the shadow as the king had asked, and he accepted it
+as a sign that his life was to be spared and his days
+lengthened.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/8.jpg" alt="God moved the shadow backwards">
+<br>GOD MOVED THE SHADOW BACKWARDS.</p><p>
+
+Josiah was only eight years old when he came to the throne of
+Judah. He served God while yet a child, and devoted his life
+to His service. He reigned for more than thirty years, and was
+killed at last by an arrow while defending his kingdom against
+Necho, King of Egypt.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/7.jpg" alt="Josiah was only eight years old">
+<br>"JOSIAH WAS ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD."</p><p>
+
+<p align="center"><img src="images/9.jpg" alt="Josiah was killed by an arrow">
+<br>JOSIAH WAS KILLED BY AN ARROW.</p><p>
+
+In spite of the repeated warnings of God's prophets, the
+people continued to worship idols, until as a punishment the
+kingdom was entirely broken up. After a siege lasting sixteen
+months, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, took the city of
+Jerusalem, burned the Temple, and carried away as prisoners
+all the inhabitants who had survived the horrors of the siege.
+This was the end of the Kingdom of Judah, and the beginning of
+the period known as "the captivity."
+</p><p>
+For some time after the separation of Israel from Judah, there
+was war between the two kingdoms, but later they formed an
+alliance to prevent the King of Syria from encroaching upon
+them. Still later the old enmity broke out again. There were
+nineteen Kings of Israel in all, and city after city became
+the capital of the kingdom, until in the time of its sixth
+king Samaria became the seat of government.
+</p><p>
+Omri was the King who built Samaria, The monarchs who preceded
+him were conspicuous for evil doing, but Omri exceeded them in
+wickedness. The reign of his son Ahab was still worse, and of
+this King of Israel the Bible says, <i>"Ahab did more to provoke
+the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the Kings of Israel
+that were before him."</i></p>
+
+<p align="center"><img src="images/10.jpg" alt="Ruins of Samaria">
+<br>RUINS OF SAMARIA.<br>From a photograph.</p><p>
+
+Ahab married Jezebel, a Ph&oelig;nician princess, and this was the
+crowning point of his sinful career. Jezebel was unprincipled
+and intolerant, and as Ahab was a weak man, he became little
+more than a tool in her hands. She introduced at once the
+worship of Baal and Ashtoroth, the male and female gods of her
+own country. She caused a great temple to be built on the brow
+of a hill, and there the worship of these idols was carried
+on. Four hundred and fifty priests and attendants administered
+the services of Baal, and four hundred those of Ashtoroth.
+</p><p>
+Not content with introducing this heathen worship, Jezebel
+persecuted the few among the nation who remained faithful to
+the worship of God. She caused their altars to be destroyed,
+and to save their lives they fled to the wildest solitudes,
+and hid in caves, as their forefathers had done in the days of
+the Judges.
+</p><p>
+While all this was taking place, and while Ahab was occupying
+himself with the building of a splendid palace at Jezreel, a
+new and startling figure appeared upon the scene. None knew
+whence the mysterious stranger came, as, wrapped in a rough
+cape, or mantle, of sheepskin, he confronted the astonished
+king.
+</p><p>
+The name of this strange visitor was Elijah, a man of whom it
+has been said that he was "the grandest and most romantic
+character that Israel ever produced." His long, thick hair
+indicated remarkable powers of endurance, and in addition to
+his sheepskin mantle he wore a girdle made from the skin of
+some animal, which in the fashion of the day he tightened when
+about to move quickly.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/11.jpg" alt="The name of the strange visitor was Elijah">
+<br>THE NAME OF THIS STRANGE VISITOR WAS ELIJAH.
+</p><p>
+Elijah was one of God's prophets, and his mission was to
+announce to Ahab that a judgment was about to fall upon the
+land, because the people had forsaken the worship of God, and
+bowed down to idols instead. This punishment was to be in the
+shape of a drought, at all times a terrible infliction, but
+especially so in Eastern countries where all vegetation
+quickly dries up when there is a scarcity of water.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/13.jpg" alt="The result of a drought in Palestine">
+<br>RESULT OF DROUGHT IN PALESTINE.<br>From a photograph.</p><p>
+
+Elijah's message was very brief, and before the king had
+recovered from his astonishment, the prophet had departed as
+abruptly as he had appeared.
+</p><p>
+We have no record that Elijah had any settled home. The wild
+paths of the wilderness and the mountains were familiar to
+him, and he dwelt where some spreading tree would afford him a
+leafy shelter. He moved from place to place, according to
+God's commands. Now, as he left the presence of Ahab, God's
+word came to him, directing him to turn to the eastward, and
+hide by the brook Cherith.
+</p><p>
+Elijah stayed in this retreat as long as the falling stream
+afforded water to quench his thirst, and during this time he
+was fed by ravens, who, twice each day, brought him bread and
+meat. After a while the brook dried up, and the leaves which
+had protected him from the fierce sun shriveled and fell to
+the ground, for the promised drought was upon the land.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/12.jpg" alt="Elijiah was fed twice each day by ravens">
+<br>"ELIJAH WAS FED TWICE EACH DAY BY RAVENS."</p><p>
+
+Again the word of God came upon Elijah, telling him what road
+to take to his next shelter. Across the mountains of Lebanon,
+where the brooks were as dry as that of Cherith, the prophet
+made his way. Descending their further slopes, he crossed the
+plains at their feet, and with his face still towards the sea,
+approached the village or town of Zarephath. The modern
+village of Sura-flud is supposed to occupy its site, and the
+ruins of the ancient town are to be seen there.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/15.jpg" alt="The site of Zarephath">
+<br>THE SITE OF ZAREPHATH.<br>From a photograph.</p><p>
+
+Elijah was now in Ph&oelig;nicia, the native country of Jezebel, the
+wife of King Ahab. It would seem to be the last place in which
+an enemy of Baal would seek refuge, but Elijah knew that God
+had a purpose in sending him there. Ethbaal, the father of
+Jezebel, was the King of Ph&oelig;nicia, and the famine which
+followed the drought had reached that country, and was causing
+terrible suffering.
+</p><p>
+Just outside Zarephath, Elijah found a woman gathering sticks
+for firewood. She was a widow, and in such poverty that all
+the food she had in the world was a handful of meal and a
+little oil in a bottle or jar. Consumed with thirst, Elijah
+asked her for water, and, as she turned to bring it, he asked
+her also for a piece of bread.
+</p><p>
+Sadly the woman told him she had no bread. She was gathering
+sticks to make a fire over which she would cook the handful of
+meal and the little oil remaining in the bottle. When she and
+her son had eaten this, they would have no more food, and in
+consequence would die of hunger.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/14.jpg" alt="A woman gathering sticks for firewood">
+<br>"A WOMAN GATHERING STICKS FOR FIREWOOD."</p><p>
+
+It is probable that this woman was an Israelite, and not a
+worshipper of Baal, for, when Elijah told her to mix the meal
+and oil into a cake and bake it for him, adding, <i>"For thus
+saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not
+waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that
+the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth,"</i> the woman did as she
+was told, evidently recognizing him as a prophet of God. She
+fed him before she and her son tasted of food, and gave him
+the shelter of her house as well; and during all the time of
+drought and famine, the supply of meal and oil never failed.
+</p><p>
+After a while, trouble came upon the little household. The
+widow's son suddenly became very sick and then died. The
+heart-broken mother demanded of Elijah why he had come to them
+only to slay her son. The prophet replied, <i>"Give me thy
+son,"</i> and taking the boy from his mother's arms, carried him
+into his own chamber and laid him on the bed.
+</p><p>
+Then Elijah called upon God, and prayed that the child might
+be made alive again, and God heard his prayer, for the boy sat
+up alive and well. Taking him in his arms, the prophet carried
+the child to his mother, who was so happy that she exclaimed,
+<i>"Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the
+word of the Lord is in thy mouth."</i>
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/16.jpg" alt="Elijiah carried the child to his mother">
+<br>"ELIJAH CARRIED THE CHILD TO HIS MOTHER."</p><p>
+
+The drought continued, and the horrors of famine caused by the
+failure of all crops, was felt in Samaria. Ahab was in
+despair. Everywhere horses and other animals were dying, for
+there was not the scantiest grass or herbage of any kind for
+them to eat, and everywhere the streams were dry.
+</p><p>
+The chief officer of Ahab's household was a man named Obadiah.
+He was a faithful servant of God, and during the bitter
+persecutions of Jezebel, had hidden an hundred persons who
+worshipped God, in a cave and fed them there. Ahab now took
+Obadiah, and set out on a desperate search for pasturage and
+water for the animals, the king going one way and his servant
+the other, on what seemed a hopeless errand.
+</p><p>
+Before Obadiah had gone very far, Elijah suddenly stood before
+him. Quickly the prophet told him to go to Ahab and tell him
+<i>"Elijah is here."</i> Obadiah feared that Elijah would disappear
+before he could bring the king to him, but, reassured by
+Elijah, he set forth to find Ahab.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/17.jpg" alt="A field in Palestine to-day">
+<br>A FIELD IN PALESTINE TO-DAY.<br>From a photograph.</p><p>
+
+Now Ahab had been searching throughout his kingdom for the
+mysterious stranger who had warned him of the coming drought,
+three years before; so, as soon as he learned from Obadiah
+that the stranger had reappeared, he went to meet him. When he
+saw the prophet, he asked him, <i>"Art thou he that troubleth
+Israel?"</i> Elijah answered that he had not troubled Israel, but
+that Ahab's evil reign, and that of his father before him, had
+been the cause of the drought.
+</p><p>
+Then Elijah denounced the idolatry of Ahab, and followed this
+with a command to assemble his people on Mount Carmel, and
+bring also all the priests and attendants of Baal and
+Ashtoroth. Ahab did not dare to disobey, and a great, weary,
+listless crowd assembled on the sun-burned slopes of the
+mountain. The priests were there in gorgeous vestments, and
+the king, himself, all eager and expectant. A spring of water,
+apparently undiscovered before, flowed not far away.
+</p><p>
+Elijah appeared with only one attendant, and soon his voice
+rang out. <i>"How long halt you between two opinions? If the
+Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him."</i>
+</p><p>
+The amazed people stood speechless. Then Elijah spoke again,
+saying he was hut one prophet, while before him were four
+hundred and fifty of Baal's prophets. Then he proposed a test
+of powers.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/18.jpg" alt="Cultivating the land in Palestine to-day">
+<br>CULTIVATING THE LAND IN PALESTINE TO-DAY.<br>From a
+photograph.</p><p>
+
+He asked that two bullocks might be provided. The priests of
+Baal should take one, and prepare it for sacrifice by laying
+it on the wood upon the altar to their god, but they were to
+put no fire tinder it. The other bullock he would prepare in
+the same way.
+</p><p>
+Then the priests of Baal were to call upon their god, and he
+would call upon his God, and the God, that answered by sending
+fire to consume the sacrifice offered to him, was to be the
+God of the people. The answer of the people, dejected with
+long endurance of misery, was ready, and as one man they
+shouted, "It is well spoken."
+</p><p>
+The altar to Baal was prepared, with the sacrifice arranged
+upon it in proper form. Only fire was lacking. Loudly the
+priests of Baal prayed. Wildly they leaped around the altar,
+crying again and again, <i>"O Baal, hear us."</i> The morning wore
+away, and there was no response; no fire appeared to consume
+the sacrifice.
+</p><p>
+About noon, Elijah mocked the frantic priests, saying to them,
+<i>"Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is
+pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth,
+and must be awakened."</i>
+</p><p>
+The priests of Baal accepted this advice in earnest. They
+supplicated and raved more wildly, and wounded themselves in
+their frenzy, continually calling on Baal to hear them. And so
+the afternoon passed.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/19.jpg" alt="Summit of Mount Carmel to-day">
+<br>SUMMIT OF MOUNT CARMEL TO-DAY.<br>From a photograph.</p><p>
+
+As the sun was sinking, Elijah came near the altar which he
+had built with twelve stones&mdash;one for each of the tribes of
+Israel. The sacrifice, carefully prepared, lay upon the wood.
+All around the altar a trench had been dug, and it was now
+filled with the water which had been poured upon the
+sacrifice.
+</p><p>
+Then Elijah prayed to God, asking him to let the people know
+that day that He was the God of Israel, and that it was by His
+command that he had done these things. At the close of his
+prayer, fire unkindled by mortal hands broke out. Unchecked by
+the water, it wrapped sacrifice and altar in flames and
+consumed them, even licking up the water in the trench with
+its heated breath. At this sight the people prostrated
+themselves as they cried out, <i>"The Lord, he is the God, the
+Lord, he is the God."</i>
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/20.jpg" alt="Elijah's sacrifice on Mount Carmel">
+<br>ELIJAH'S SACRIFICE ON MOUNT CARMEL.</p><p>
+
+The priests of Baal, who were largely responsible for the
+idolatry of the nation, stood trembling and confounded.
+Quickly Elijah ordered them to be destroyed, and this was
+done. Next he turned to Ahab, and told him to eat and drink in
+haste, for the long deferred rain was at hand, although no
+sign of its approach was in sight.
+</p><p>
+Attended only by his servant, Elijah then went to the top of
+Mount Carmel, and crouched upon the ground in the position of
+meditation commonly assumed in Eastern countries. He sent his
+servant to a spot which commanded a view of the Mediterranean
+Sea, bade him look around, and bring him word of what he saw.
+</p><p>
+Six times the servant returned with the word that he saw
+nothing. The seventh time his report was that he could see a
+little cloud, not larger than a man's hand, coming out of the
+sea. Sending the man to warn Ahab that the rain was fast
+approaching, and that he must start at once for home, Elijah
+then hastened down the mountain to meet the king at its foot.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/21.jpg" alt="A little cloud coming out of the sea">
+<br>A LITTLE CLOUD COMING OUT OF THE SEA.</p><p>
+
+With all the speed he could command, Ahab barely reached his
+palace at Jezreel in time to escape the fury of the storm.
+Elijah ran before the royal chariot the entire distance of
+sixteen miles, but he did not enter the palace.
+</p><p>
+Thus far the triumph was with Elijah. The people were
+convinced, the priests of Baal were dead, the king was awe-
+struck. But Jezebel was relentless in her hatred of the
+prophet. So furious was she when Ahab told her what had been
+done that day, that she sent a message to Elijah, telling him
+that before another day had passed she would have his life.
+Prophet though he was, Elijah quailed before the threat of the
+idolatrous queen, and fled for his life.
+</p><p>
+Leaving his servant at Beer-sheba, Elijah went a day's journey
+into the wilderness, threw himself down under a solitary bush,
+and in a fit of despair, prayed that he might die. Worn out
+with excitement and fatigue, he fell asleep, but woke to find
+food and water beside him, and an angel who told him to
+refresh himself with the provisions God had sent him.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/23.jpg" alt="Elijah woke to find an angel beside him">
+<br>ELIJAH WOKE TO FIND AN ANGEL BESIDE HIM.</p><p>
+
+Twice Elijah ate and drank of the miraculous food, and then in
+its strength traveled forty days and forty nights until he
+came to Mount Horeb, the place where Moses received the divine
+command to rescue the Israelites from Pharaoh.
+</p><p>
+Elijah found shelter in a cave, and there he heard the voice
+of God, asking, <i>"What doest thou here, Elijah?"</i> The answer
+of the prophet was one of bitterness and depression, but his
+complaints were cut short by a command to come out of the
+cave, and behold the wonderful works of God. Drawing his
+mantle about him, Elijah went out on the mountain side to
+watch.
+</p><p>
+As he stood there, a mighty wind roared among the rocks and
+rent them to pieces. Then an earthquake shook the desert,
+until the mountain itself trembled under the shock. Then fire
+as mysterious as that which illuminated the bush in the days
+of Moses, played about the lonely heights. After a pause, <i>"a
+still, small voice"</i> whispered in the ear of the solitary
+watcher a revelation conveying comfort, and pointing out
+further duty. Strengthened and comforted, Elijah left the
+lonely mountain behind him, and shortly came across the man
+who was to cheer him as a companion, and succeed him as a
+prophet.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/22.jpg" alt="A storm in Palestine"><br>A STORM IN PALESTINE.<br>From a photograph.</p><p>
+
+This man was Elisha, the son of Shaphat. He was ploughing the
+fields around his home with twelve yoke of oxen. As he passed
+him, Elijah cast his well-known mantle upon Elisha, who
+recognized in the action that from that time he was to be the
+attendant and friend of the prophet. Bidding his father and
+mother goodbye, Elisha followed Elijah, thus beginning a long
+period of service and intercourse with him.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/24.jpg" alt="Elisha was ploughing his fields">
+<br>ELISHA WAS PLOUGHING HIS FIELDS.</p><p>
+
+The disappearance of Elijah after his triumph over the priests
+of Baal, probably caused Ahab and Jezebel to believe that they
+had seen the last of the prophet. They certainly went on in
+their wicked ways, for soon we read that Ahab coveted the
+vineyard of a man named Naboth. This vineyard was quite near
+the walls of Ahab's palace, and he wished to turn it into a
+garden.
+</p><p>
+But Naboth would not sell his vineyard or exchange it for
+another, because it had belonged to his family for a very long
+time. His refusal made Ahab so angry and disappointed that he
+threw himself upon his bed, and refused to eat or even to
+speak. In this state Jezebel found him, and at once began to
+comfort him, telling him he should have his vineyard.
+</p><p>
+The first thing this wicked woman did was to bribe witnesses
+to say that Naboth had spoken evil of God and also of the
+king. Naboth was condemned and stoned to death. Ahab then
+took possession of the vineyard, and as he was walking in it
+one day, he saw Elijah coming towards him. Tremblingly the
+wicked king exclaimed, <i>"Hast thou found me, O my enemy?"</i>
+Elijah replied that he had sought him, not because he was his
+enemy, but to tell him he was to be punished, because all his
+life he had done wrong.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/25.jpg" alt="False witnesses testified against Naboth">
+<br>FALSE WITNESSES TESTIFIED AGAINST NABOTH.</p><p>
+
+Ahab was killed in battle three years afterwards, and later,
+Jezebel met with a terrible death, for she was thrown from a
+window by her own servants, and crushed to death on the stones
+below.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/28.jpg" alt="The death of Jezebel">
+<br>THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL.</p><p>
+
+When the time came for Elijah's work on earth to cease, he
+took Elisha with him to a place called Gilgal. They crossed
+the River Jordan in a manner as wonderful as that of the
+passage of the Israelites into Canaan, many years before.
+Elijah struck the waters with his mantle and they parted,
+leaving; a pathway over which the two walked in safety.
+</p>
+<p align="center"><img src="images/26.jpg" alt="Elijah struck the waters with his mantle">
+<br>"ELIJAH STRUCK THE WATERS WITH HIS MANTLE."</p><p>
+
+There, while these two men of God were talking together, a
+chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared, and parted them.
+Elijah was swept up into the chariot, and was carried away
+into heaven. But before he disappeared, his mantle fell from
+him. Elisha took it up, and with it received the power of
+performing miracles which God had given to Elijah, the man who
+did not die.</p>
+
+<p align="center"><img src="images/27.jpg" alt="Elijah was swept up into the chariot">
+<br>"ELIJAH WAS SWEPT UP INTO THE CHARIOT."</p>
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Man Who Did Not Die, by J. H. Willard
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+Title: The Man Who Did Not Die
+       The Story of Elijah
+
+Author: J. H. Willard
+
+Release Date: January 9, 2010 [EBook #30899]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE ***
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+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE
+
+
+
+ALTEMUS' BEAUTIFUL STORIES SERIES
+
+
+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE
+
+THE STORY OF ELIJAH
+
+BY
+
+J. H. WILLARD.
+
+
+ILLUSTRATED
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+HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY
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+Altemus' Illustrated
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+         The Story of the Jubilee
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+          The Story of Jael and Sisera
+FIVE KINGS IN A CAVE.
+         The Story of a Great Battle
+THE WISEST MAN.
+         The Story of Solomon
+A FARMER'S WIFE.
+         The Story of Ruth
+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE.
+         The Story of Elijah
+WHEN IRON DID SWIM.
+         The Story of Elisha
+WHAT IS SWEETER THAN HONEY.
+         The Story of Samson
+
+Twenty-five Cents Each
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+By Henry Altemus
+
+
+
+THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE.
+
+AFTER the death of King Solomon, his son Rehoboam became ruler
+of the Israelites. The prodigality and magnificence of
+Solomon's court, and his lavish way of living had been met by
+heavy taxation. Seeing the vast revenues of the kingdom
+employed in this way, the people had grown discontented, and
+then disloyal.
+
+After Rehoboam had become king, the Israelites appealed to him
+to lighten the taxes and other heavy burdens which oppressed
+the poor. Instead of following the advice of his older
+counsellors, and releasing the people from some of their
+burdens, the new king hearkened to the counsel of the younger
+men who had grown up with him and scornfully rejected the
+petition of his subjects.
+
+[Image: THE KING SCORNFULLY REJECTED THEIR PETITION.]
+
+A very ambitious man named Jeroboam presented the petition to
+Rehoboam, and upon its rejection, ten tribes revolted and made
+Jeroboam their ruler under the title of King of Israel.
+
+The remainder of the Israelitish nation from this time were
+known as the Kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem remained its capital,
+and God was worshipped in the magnificent temple built by King
+Solomon. It also maintained the regular priesthood, its
+officers descending as formerly from father to son.
+
+Among the twenty sovereigns of Judah, there were a few who
+served God sincerely. The best four of the kings were Asa,
+Jehosaphat, Hezekiah and Josiah. Asa fought against the
+worship of idols which had corrupted the people, yet he made
+an alliance with the King of Syria, who was an idolater.
+Jehosaphat, his son, ruled the kingdom of Judah for
+twenty-five years, and, although he did not always do right,
+his reign was a quiet one.
+
+[Image: ASA READ THE LAW OF GOD TO THE PEOPLE.]
+
+Hezekiah waged a vigorous war against the worship of idols,
+and, as far as he was able, restored the worship of God in the
+temple. The Bible says of everything he undertook for the
+glory of God that _"he did it with all his heart, and
+prospered."_
+
+[Image: HEZEKIAH DESTROYED THE IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE.]
+
+Hezekiah was a very brave man, and when Sennacherib, the King
+of Assyria, sent an army against Jerusalem, his speech to the
+people, telling them to be strong and courageous, for God
+would help them and fight for them, was not unlike that of
+Joshua when he exhorted the Israelites to trust in God, at the
+time when they were about to enter the land of Canaan.
+
+[Image: SENNACHERIB, KING OF ASSYRIA.]
+
+The prophet Isaiah lived during the reign of Hezekiah. At one
+time when the king was very sick he prayed to God that his
+life might be spared. God told Isaiah to tell him that He had
+heard his prayer, and that He would heal him, and prolong his
+life for fifteen years.
+
+When Isaiah had delivered God's message, Hezekiah asked for a
+sign that these things should be done, and Isaiah said that he
+might decide whether the shadow upon the sundial should go
+forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees.
+
+Hezekiah replied that it was an easy thing for the shadow to
+go forward ten degrees, and asked that it might go backwards.
+God moved the shadow as the king had asked, and he accepted it
+as a sign that his life was to be spared and his days
+lengthened.
+
+[Image: GOD MOVED THE SHADOW BACKWARDS.]
+
+Josiah was only eight years old when he came to the throne of
+Judah. He served God while yet a child, and devoted his life
+to His service. He reigned for more than thirty years, and was
+killed at last by an arrow while defending his kingdom against
+Necho, King of Egypt.
+
+[Image: "JOSIAH WAS ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD."]
+
+[Image: JOSIAH WAS KILLED BY AN ARROW.]
+
+In spite of the repeated warnings of God's prophets, the
+people continued to worship idols, until as a punishment the
+kingdom was entirely broken up. After a siege lasting sixteen
+months, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, took the city of
+Jerusalem, burned the Temple, and carried away as prisoners
+all the inhabitants who had survived the horrors of the siege.
+This was the end of the Kingdom of Judah, and the beginning of
+the period known as "the captivity."
+
+For some time after the separation of Israel from Judah, there
+was war between the two kingdoms, but later they formed an
+alliance to prevent the King of Syria from encroaching upon
+them. Still later the old enmity broke out again. There were
+nineteen Kings of Israel in all, and city after city became
+the capital of the kingdom, until in the time of its sixth
+king Samaria became the seat of government.
+
+Omri was the King who built Samaria, The monarchs who preceded
+him were conspicuous for evil doing, but Omri exceeded them in
+wickedness. The reign of his son Ahab was still worse, and of
+this King of Israel the Bible says, _"Ahab did more to provoke
+the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the Kings of Israel
+that were before him."_
+
+[Image: RUINS OF SAMARIA. From a photograph.]
+
+Ahab married Jezebel, a Phoenician princess, and this was the
+crowning point of his sinful career. Jezebel was unprincipled
+and intolerant, and as Ahab was a weak man, he became little
+more than a tool in her hands. She introduced at once the
+worship of Baal and Ashtoroth, the male and female gods of her
+own country. She caused a great temple to be built on the brow
+of a hill, and there the worship of these idols was carried
+on. Four hundred and fifty priests and attendants administered
+the services of Baal, and four hundred those of Ashtoroth.
+
+Not content with introducing this heathen worship, Jezebel
+persecuted the few among the nation who remained faithful to
+the worship of God. She caused their altars to be destroyed,
+and to save their lives they fled to the wildest solitudes,
+and hid in caves, as their forefathers had done in the days of
+the Judges.
+
+While all this was taking place, and while Ahab was occupying
+himself with the building of a splendid palace at Jezreel, a
+new and startling figure appeared upon the scene. None knew
+whence the mysterious stranger came, as, wrapped in a rough
+cape, or mantle, of sheepskin, he confronted the astonished
+king.
+
+The name of this strange visitor was Elijah, a man of whom it
+has been said that he was "the grandest and most romantic
+character that Israel ever produced." His long, thick hair
+indicated remarkable powers of endurance, and in addition to
+his sheepskin mantle he wore a girdle made from the skin of
+some animal, which in the fashion of the day he tightened when
+about to move quickly.
+
+[Image: THE NAME OF THIS STRANGE VISITOR WAS ELIJAH.]
+
+Elijah was one of God's prophets, and his mission was to
+announce to Ahab that a judgment was about to fall upon the
+land, because the people had forsaken the worship of God, and
+bowed down to idols instead. This punishment was to be in the
+shape of a drought, at all times a terrible infliction, but
+especially so in Eastern countries where all vegetation
+quickly dries up when there is a scarcity of water.
+
+[Image: RESULT OF DROUGHT IN PALESTINE. From a photograph.]
+
+Elijah's message was very brief, and before the king had
+recovered from his astonishment, the prophet had departed as
+abruptly as he had appeared.
+
+We have no record that Elijah had any settled home. The wild
+paths of the wilderness and the mountains were familiar to
+him, and he dwelt where some spreading tree would afford him a
+leafy shelter. He moved from place to place, according to
+God's commands. Now, as he left the presence of Ahab, God's
+word came to him, directing him to turn to the eastward, and
+hide by the brook Cherith.
+
+Elijah stayed in this retreat as long as the falling stream
+afforded water to quench his thirst, and during this time he
+was fed by ravens, who, twice each day, brought him bread and
+meat. After a while the brook dried up, and the leaves which
+had protected him from the fierce sun shriveled and fell to
+the ground, for the promised drought was upon the land.
+
+[Image: "ELIJAH WAS FED TWICE EACH DAY BY RAVENS."]
+
+Again the word of God came upon Elijah, telling him what road
+to take to his next shelter. Across the mountains of Lebanon,
+where the brooks were as dry as that of Cherith, the prophet
+made his way. Descending their further slopes, he crossed the
+plains at their feet, and with his face still towards the sea,
+approached the village or town of Zarephath. The modern
+village of Sura-flud is supposed to occupy its site, and the
+ruins of the ancient town are to be seen there.
+
+[Image: THE SITE OF ZAREPHATH. From a photograph.]
+
+Elijah was now in Phoenicia, the native country of Jezebel, the
+wife of King Ahab. It would seem to be the last place in which
+an enemy of Baal would seek refuge, but Elijah knew that God
+had a purpose in sending him there. Ethbaal, the father of
+Jezebel, was the King of Phoenicia, and the famine which
+followed the drought had reached that country, and was causing
+terrible suffering.
+
+Just outside Zarephath, Elijah found a woman gathering sticks
+for firewood. She was a widow, and in such poverty that all
+the food she had in the world was a handful of meal and a
+little oil in a bottle or jar. Consumed with thirst, Elijah
+asked her for water, and, as she turned to bring it, he asked
+her also for a piece of bread.
+
+Sadly the woman told him she had no bread. She was gathering
+sticks to make a fire over which she would cook the handful of
+meal and the little oil remaining in the bottle. When she and
+her son had eaten this, they would have no more food, and in
+consequence would die of hunger.
+
+[Image: "A WOMAN GATHERING STICKS FOR FIREWOOD."]
+
+It is probable that this woman was an Israelite, and not a
+worshipper of Baal, for, when Elijah told her to mix the meal
+and oil into a cake and bake it for him, adding, _"For thus
+saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not
+waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that
+the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth,"_ the woman did as she
+was told, evidently recognizing him as a prophet of God. She
+fed him before she and her son tasted of food, and gave him
+the shelter of her house as well; and during all the time of
+drought and famine, the supply of meal and oil never failed.
+
+After a while, trouble came upon the little household. The
+widow's son suddenly became very sick and then died. The
+heart-broken mother demanded of Elijah why he had come to them
+only to slay her son. The prophet replied, _"Give me thy
+son,"_ and taking the boy from his mother's arms, carried him
+into his own chamber and laid him on the bed.
+
+Then Elijah called upon God, and prayed that the child might
+be made alive again, and God heard his prayer, for the boy sat
+up alive and well. Taking him in his arms, the prophet carried
+the child to his mother, who was so happy that she exclaimed,
+_"Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the
+word of the Lord is in thy mouth."_
+
+[Image: "ELIJAH CARRIED THE CHILD TO HIS MOTHER."]
+
+The drought continued, and the horrors of famine caused by the
+failure of all crops, was felt in Samaria. Ahab was in
+despair. Everywhere horses and other animals were dying, for
+there was not the scantiest grass or herbage of any kind for
+them to eat, and everywhere the streams were dry.
+
+The chief officer of Ahab's household was a man named Obadiah.
+He was a faithful servant of God, and during the bitter
+persecutions of Jezebel, had hidden an hundred persons who
+worshipped God, in a cave and fed them there. Ahab now took
+Obadiah, and set out on a desperate search for pasturage and
+water for the animals, the king going one way and his servant
+the other, on what seemed a hopeless errand.
+
+Before Obadiah had gone very far, Elijah suddenly stood before
+him. Quickly the prophet told him to go to Ahab and tell him
+_"Elijah is here."_ Obadiah feared that Elijah would disappear
+before he could bring the king to him, but, reassured by
+Elijah, he set forth to find Ahab.
+
+[Image: A FIELD IN PALESTINE TO-DAY. From a photograph.]
+
+Now Ahab had been searching throughout his kingdom for the
+mysterious stranger who had warned him of the coming drought,
+three years before; so, as soon as he learned from Obadiah
+that the stranger had reappeared, he went to meet him. When he
+saw the prophet, he asked him, _"Art thou he that troubleth
+Israel?"_ Elijah answered that he had not troubled Israel, but
+that Ahab's evil reign, and that of his father before him, had
+been the cause of the drought.
+
+Then Elijah denounced the idolatry of Ahab, and followed this
+with a command to assemble his people on Mount Carmel, and
+bring also all the priests and attendants of Baal and
+Ashtoroth. Ahab did not dare to disobey, and a great, weary,
+listless crowd assembled on the sun-burned slopes of the
+mountain. The priests were there in gorgeous vestments, and
+the king, himself, all eager and expectant. A spring of water,
+apparently undiscovered before, flowed not far away.
+
+Elijah appeared with only one attendant, and soon his voice
+rang out. _"How long halt you between two opinions? If the
+Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him."_
+
+The amazed people stood speechless. Then Elijah spoke again,
+saying he was hut one prophet, while before him were four
+hundred and fifty of Baal's prophets. Then he proposed a test
+of powers.
+
+[Image: CULTIVATING THE LAND IN PALESTINE TO-DAY. From a
+photograph.]
+
+He asked that two bullocks might be provided. The priests of
+Baal should take one, and prepare it for sacrifice by laying
+it on the wood upon the altar to their god, but they were to
+put no fire tinder it. The other bullock he would prepare in
+the same way.
+
+Then the priests of Baal were to call upon their god, and he
+would call upon his God, and the God, that answered by sending
+fire to consume the sacrifice offered to him, was to be the
+God of the people. The answer of the people, dejected with
+long endurance of misery, was ready, and as one man they
+shouted, "It is well spoken."
+
+The altar to Baal was prepared, with the sacrifice arranged
+upon it in proper form. Only fire was lacking. Loudly the
+priests of Baal prayed. Wildly they leaped around the altar,
+crying again and again, _"O Baal, hear us."_ The morning wore
+away, and there was no response; no fire appeared to consume
+the sacrifice.
+
+About noon, Elijah mocked the frantic priests, saying to them,
+_"Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is
+pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth,
+and must be awakened."_
+
+The priests of Baal accepted this advice in earnest. They
+supplicated and raved more wildly, and wounded themselves in
+their frenzy, continually calling on Baal to hear them. And so
+the afternoon passed.
+
+[Image: SUMMIT OF MOUNT CARMEL TO-DAY. From a photograph.]
+
+As the sun was sinking, Elijah came near the altar which he
+had built with twelve stones--one for each of the tribes of
+Israel. The sacrifice, carefully prepared, lay upon the wood.
+All around the altar a trench had been dug, and it was now
+filled with the water which had been poured upon the
+sacrifice.
+
+Then Elijah prayed to God, asking him to let the people know
+that day that He was the God of Israel, and that it was by His
+command that he had done these things. At the close of his
+prayer, fire unkindled by mortal hands broke out. Unchecked by
+the water, it wrapped sacrifice and altar in flames and
+consumed them, even licking up the water in the trench with
+its heated breath. At this sight the people prostrated
+themselves as they cried out, _"The Lord, he is the God, the
+Lord, he is the God."_
+
+[Image: ELIJAH'S SACRIFICE ON MOUNT CARMEL.]
+
+The priests of Baal, who were largely responsible for the
+idolatry of the nation, stood trembling and confounded.
+Quickly Elijah ordered them to be destroyed, and this was
+done. Next he turned to Ahab, and told him to eat and drink in
+haste, for the long deferred rain was at hand, although no
+sign of its approach was in sight.
+
+Attended only by his servant, Elijah then went to the top of
+Mount Carmel, and crouched upon the ground in the position of
+meditation commonly assumed in Eastern countries. He sent his
+servant to a spot which commanded a view of the Mediterranean
+Sea, bade him look around, and bring him word of what he saw.
+
+Six times the servant returned with the word that he saw
+nothing. The seventh time his report was that he could see a
+little cloud, not larger than a man's hand, coming out of the
+sea. Sending the man to warn Ahab that the rain was fast
+approaching, and that he must start at once for home, Elijah
+then hastened down the mountain to meet the king at its foot.
+
+[Image: A LITTLE CLOUD COMING OUT OF THE SEA.]
+
+With all the speed he could command, Ahab barely reached his
+palace at Jezreel in time to escape the fury of the storm.
+Elijah ran before the royal chariot the entire distance of
+sixteen miles, but he did not enter the palace.
+
+Thus far the triumph was with Elijah. The people were
+convinced, the priests of Baal were dead, the king was
+awe-struck. But Jezebel was relentless in her hatred of the
+prophet. So furious was she when Ahab told her what had been
+done that day, that she sent a message to Elijah, telling him
+that before another day had passed she would have his life.
+Prophet though he was, Elijah quailed before the threat of the
+idolatrous queen, and fled for his life.
+
+Leaving his servant at Beer-sheba, Elijah went a day's journey
+into the wilderness, threw himself down under a solitary bush,
+and in a fit of despair, prayed that he might die. Worn out
+with excitement and fatigue, he fell asleep, but woke to find
+food and water beside him, and an angel who told him to
+refresh himself with the provisions God had sent him.
+
+[Image: ELIJAH WOKE TO FIND AN ANGEL BESIDE HIM.]
+
+Twice Elijah ate and drank of the miraculous food, and then in
+its strength traveled forty days and forty nights until he
+came to Mount Horeb, the place where Moses received the divine
+command to rescue the Israelites from Pharaoh.
+
+Elijah found shelter in a cave, and there he heard the voice
+of God, asking, _"What doest thou here, Elijah?"_ The answer
+of the prophet was one of bitterness and depression, but his
+complaints were cut short by a command to come out of the
+cave, and behold the wonderful works of God. Drawing his
+mantle about him, Elijah went out on the mountain side to
+watch.
+
+As he stood there, a mighty wind roared among the rocks and
+rent them to pieces. Then an earthquake shook the desert,
+until the mountain itself trembled under the shock. Then fire
+as mysterious as that which illuminated the bush in the days
+of Moses, played about the lonely heights. After a pause, _"a
+still, small voice"_ whispered in the ear of the solitary
+watcher a revelation conveying comfort, and pointing out
+further duty. Strengthened and comforted, Elijah left the
+lonely mountain behind him, and shortly came across the man
+who was to cheer him as a companion, and succeed him as a
+prophet.
+
+[Image: A STORM IN PALESTINE. From a photograph.]
+
+This man was Elisha, the son of Shaphat. He was ploughing the
+fields around his home with twelve yoke of oxen. As he passed
+him, Elijah cast his well-known mantle upon Elisha, who
+recognized in the action that from that time he was to be the
+attendant and friend of the prophet. Bidding his father and
+mother goodbye, Elisha followed Elijah, thus beginning a long
+period of service and intercourse with him.
+
+[Image: ELISHA WAS PLOUGHING HIS FIELDS.]
+
+The disappearance of Elijah after his triumph over the priests
+of Baal, probably caused Ahab and Jezebel to believe that they
+had seen the last of the prophet. They certainly went on in
+their wicked ways, for soon we read that Ahab coveted the
+vineyard of a man named Naboth. This vineyard was quite near
+the walls of Ahab's palace, and he wished to turn it into a
+garden.
+
+But Naboth would not sell his vineyard or exchange it for
+another, because it had belonged to his family for a very long
+time. His refusal made Ahab so angry and disappointed that he
+threw himself upon his bed, and refused to eat or even to
+speak. In this state Jezebel found him, and at once began to
+comfort him, telling him he should have his vineyard.
+
+The first thing this wicked woman did was to bribe witnesses
+to say that Naboth had spoken evil of God and also of the
+king. Naboth was condemned and stoned to death. Ahab then
+took possession of the vineyard, and as he was walking in it
+one day, he saw Elijah coming towards him. Tremblingly the
+wicked king exclaimed, _"Hast thou found me, O my enemy?"_
+Elijah replied that he had sought him, not because he was his
+enemy, but to tell him he was to be punished, because all his
+life he had done wrong.
+
+[Image: FALSE WITNESSES TESTIFIED AGAINST NABOTH.]
+
+Ahab was killed in battle three years afterwards, and later,
+Jezebel met with a terrible death, for she was thrown from a
+window by her own servants, and crushed to death on the stones
+below.
+
+[Image: THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL.]
+
+When the time came for Elijah's work on earth to cease, he
+took Elisha with him to a place called Gilgal. They crossed
+the River Jordan in a manner as wonderful as that of the
+passage of the Israelites into Canaan, many years before.
+Elijah struck the waters with his mantle and they parted,
+leaving; a pathway over which the two walked in safety.
+
+[Image: "ELIJAH STRUCK THE WATERS WITH HIS MANTLE."]
+
+There, while these two men of God were talking together, a
+chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared, and parted them.
+Elijah was swept up into the chariot, and was carried away
+into heaven. But before he disappeared, his mantle fell from
+him. Elisha took it up, and with it received the power of
+performing miracles which God had given to Elijah, the man who
+did not die.
+
+[Image: "ELIJAH WAS SWEPT UP INTO THE CHARIOT."]
+
+
+
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