THE NEGRO

ISBN: 9780243286805 Géneros: VSPM Sinópsis: Excerpt from The Negro His Rights and Wrongs the Forces for Him and Against HimThis wail of despair is again heard at the Mount Of God And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree behold then an angel touched him and said unto him Arise and eat And he looked and behold there was a cake baked on the coals and a cruse of water at his head And he did eat and drink and laid him down again And the angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched him and said Arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the Mount of God And he came thither into a cave and lodged there And behold the word of the Ldrd came unto him and said unto him what doest thou here Elijah And he said I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts for the children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant thrown down thine altars and slain thy prophets with the sword and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away Elijah felt that if the three years and a half of famine and the extraordinary and overpowering scenes which had been so recently witnessed at Carmel did not soften the hearts of the people and the rulers and lead them to repent of their sms and do better nothing would and therefore that it was vain to continue the struggle longer It is enough 0 Lord It is enough That is there is no use of trying any longer The picture presented herebecomes still more striking when we remember the sturdy character of the man of whom we are speaking He was no reed shaken by the wind no weakling but a man of great strength or character and of remarkable courage He was not afraid to confront Ahab though he knew he had been in search of him everywhere with the murderous intent of putting him to death Nor was he afraid when he met him to speak plainly and in terms to rebuke I have not troubled Israel but thou an