Christianity Between Sundays Author:George Hodges Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DRY BROOK. "AND it came to pass, after awhile, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land." This is a part of the story of the educ... more »ation of Elijah. Elijah had come over out of Gilead upon an errand from the Lord God Almighty. The people of Israel had fallen into base idolatry. They had made a spiritual rebellion. They had dethroned God. And Elijah came to bring them back into allegiance. "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years but according to my word." That was Elijah's message. That was the beginning of his mission. And when he had said that, when he had brought that word from the living God to the rebellious king, he went away and hid himself beside this brook. And then God began to make him ready for the next part of his great work. God went on educating Elijah. It is not likely that Elijah, was ever graduated from any school, or ever read a book in all his life, not even the Bible. God is all the time educating messengers, missionaries, men and women who are to do his work in the world. That is how God does his work, by setting us to do it, and, first of all, by educating us so that we may be able to do it. Everybody has some work of God to do, and is under the education of God. And God educates us in many ways; sometimes out of the pages of books; but most of all, and always, out of that open book which is written in the universal language, to be read of all, and in which we have a lesson every day—the book of life, the book of human experience. God was teaching Elijah his lessons, not out of a dry book, but out of a dry brook. All the land over, God was teaching terrible lessons out of the dry bro...« less