To be near unto God - pagina 50

a response and it did not come, how often has it turned courage into dismay. To get no hearing! What restlessness it brings when fear is harbored whether it is well with child, or brother far off, and one writes and writes again, and no reply follows, and a telegram is sent with prepayment for an answer and no answer comes. To get no hearing! It makes the heart faint when a beloved member of the household is seriously ill and we approach the bedside and call the beloved by name, in a whisper first, and then louder, till we find that the patient does not hear us. To get no hearing! It is overwhelming in cases of accident in mines or with a landslide in digging trenches, when victims are, as it were, buried alive, and one calls and calls again, and listens with bated breath for some sound or answering sign of life and silence continues unbroken. To get no hearing! It caused such anxious forebodings when, not many years ago, Martinique was overturned by an earthquake and telegrams were sent to the place of disaster to enquire after conditions of things there and

no telegraphic signal was returned. The prophets of Baal experienced this tense anxiety on Mount Carmel when, "from morning even until noon" they cried: 0, Baal, hear us. And they leaped upon the Altar * * * and cut themselves * * * with knives and lancets * * but lo! there was no voice, nor any that answered. (I. Ki. 18:26). And greater anxiety still filled the hearts of the prophets of Baal

when

Elijah,

from

his side, cried out: 42

"Hear

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