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Title: Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Akron, Ohio (etc.) The Werner company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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where the sea and sky seem to meet—a small cloud,the size of a mans hand. And soon the sky wasblack with clouds, and the wind blew, and there wasa great storm of rain. Now A-hab had a bad wife, and when he told Elijah 199 her what E-li-jah had done, she made a vow to killhim. And E-li-jah had to flee for his life. He was soworn out that when he came to a lone place he satdown in the shade of atree and wished that hemight die. While heslept, an an-gel drew near,at whose touch E-li-jahwoke- And the an-gelsaid, Rise and eat. And E-li-jah foundfood and drink set out forhim. And he ate anddrank, and then lay downand slept. And the an-gel came once more, andbade E-li-jah eat, that hemight have strength to goon his way. And he satup, and ate the food theLord had sent, and it gavehim such strength that hewent with-out food for more than a month. Andat the end of that time he came to Mount Ho-reb.And he went to a cave and lay down and slept there. And the Lord spoke to him, and said, Why art
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E-U-JAH AND KING A-HAB. 200 History of the Old Testament. thou here, E-li-jah ? And E-li-jah said the chil-drenof Is-ra-el had not kept their word, but had gone back to their falsegods, and slain allthose who soughtto turn them fromtheir sins. And Ihave fled fromthem, said E-li-jah,for they seek mylife. The Lord said,Go forth, and standon the mount. Andthere came a greatwind that split thehigh hills, andbroke up the rocks.But the Lord wasnot in the wind. Then the earthshook, so that therewas no firm ground E-LI JAH IN THE WIL-DER-NESS. ^ ^^ fo ^Jfc . and smoke came up out of the great cracks that weremade. But the Lord was not in the earth-quake.Then there came a still, small voice. When E-li-

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