...uniform was undisgraced, and who bore the banner yet unstained. Little did he know that the Lord had yet seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal. But, whether or not, his duty was plain, " Go, return ! " That was his duty ; to go back to the defiant...

...persecuted prophet complained to his God that he -alone was left ; and was answered that God had reserved seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal ; such was she also, as we have just seen, at the time of the dragon's three attacks under imperial...

...only was true and faithful ; bnt in this he was mistaken, for tho Almighty assures him that there were seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal. Two thoughts concerning the number of the good on earth. — I. As UNRNOWN EVEN то OOOD MEN. Even...

...darkest days of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy and coldness they were to be found, although like the seven thousand in Israel, who had not bowed the knee to Baal, they were often unnoticed and unknown. Religious societies, which lasted from the Restoration to the...

...separated themselves from the rest of the nation when the greater number were unfaithful, as when the seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal were the people of God. He also quoted the sayings of Christ : " Strait is the gate, and narrow is...

...one place, and a few in another — unknown to each other, perhaps, for the most part ; jnst as the seven thousand in Israel, who had not bowed the knee to Baal were unknown to Elijah when he thought that he was the only one left in Israel who served God (1 Kings...

...and abroad, in the Churches and outside them. So Elijah was cheered by the revelation that there were seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal, when he thought he alone was left to witness for Jehovah. Befer to the Lord's teaching about the secret...

...Shaphat, as his own successor. The Lord also comforted him with the knowledge that there were still seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal, and whose mouths had not kissed him. Elijah meets Elisha.—Elijah departed, and found Elisha ploughing...

...he is comforted with the assurance that, though he had believed himself alone, the Lord had left him seven thousand in Israel, who had not bowed the knee to Baal, whose mouths had not kissed his foul shrine. This manifestation must have been intended, first of all,...

...gone. But in a little synagogue on Mount Zion they were " welcoming the bride," l- — some of those seven thousand in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal. And through the royal lattice, in the sudden silence, came words and music — " For, behold, Thine...