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The leprosy runs through us all, according to the diagnosis of Christianity, and our Elisha deals with Naaman as he deals with the poorest footboy in Naaman's cavalcade who is afflicted with the same disease. Now that rubs against our self-importance; a great many of us would be quite willing to go to heaven, but we do not like to go in a common caravan.
We are told that Elisha "took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him." Many interesting stories are told in the Bible, few of which are more touching than that of Elisha the prophet, and the Shunammite woman.
When Elisha saw it, he cried, "My father, my father! the chariots and the horsemen of Israel!" And he saw Elijah no more, but he took hold of his own robes and tore them in two. Then he took up the mantle that had fallen from Elijah. One day Elisha went over to Shunem where a rich woman lived, and she asked him to be her guest. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.
The intention certainly was to accommodate Elisha in a manner expressive of reverence and esteem. The original term, unhappily rendered stool in our English version, signifies one of the most honourable kind of seats usually placed in an apartment, and is sometimes translated throne.
GEFRESSEN Aug. 20, 1877 That explains itself. The well-born one was eaten by a beast, and presumably by a bear, an animal that has a bad reputation since the days of Elisha. The bear was coming on; he had, in fact, come on. I judged that he could see the whites of my eyes. All my subsequent reflections were confused. I raised the gun, covered the bear's breast with the sight, and let drive.
There! I think that is plain enough!" He leaned back, grimly satisfied with the effect of his statement. Captain Elisha stared straight before him, unseeingly, the color fading from his cheeks. Then he put both elbows on the table and covered his face with his hands. "You see, Captain," said Sylvester, gently, "how very serious the situation is.
The creditor, according to the Mosaic law, had the right, which he was about to put in practice, of taking the children to be bondmen. And so the penniless, helpless woman comes to Elisha, as a kind of deliverer- general from all sorts of distresses, and tells him her pitiful tale. He asks her what she wants him to do, and she has no counsel to give. Then the thing to do strikes him.
"Ho! ho!" chuckled Captain Elisha, rolling in his chair, like a ship in a cross sea. "Ho! ho! You remind me of Abbie, Caroline. That's what she said. 'I never heard of such a crazy cruise, she says. 'Startin' off to visit folks when you haven't the least idea where they live! 'Oh, yes, I have, I says, 'I know where they live; they live in New York. Well, you ought to have seen her face.
He had seen front runners before and knew that they had a habit of fading in the final quarter. Beside him was Elisha, matching him, stride for stride. Down the stretch they came, Ted Mitchell gradually increasing the pace. Jockey Jones heard the crowd cheering as he passed the grand stand and his lip curled.
He leaned back in his chair and laughed aloud. Caroline smiled faintly. Stephen threw down his napkin and sprang to his feet. "Sis," he cried, "I'm going to my room. By gad! I can't " Catching a warning glance from his sister, he did not finish his sentence, but stood sulkily beside his chair. Captain Elisha looked at him, then at the girl, and stopped laughing.
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