...but confidently depends upon that uncouth provision. And, accordingly, those unlikely purveyors bring him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening. Not one of those hungry ravens could swallow one morsel of those viands which were sent by them to...

...forty years. But we have another example of God's providing for one who was especially a favourite of Heaven. The prophet Elijah was for a considerable...occasion, when an angel brought him food, " a cake baken on the coals and a cruise of water " was the provision. Here, Mr. Jordan might say that the "...

...suppression of monasteries, for to them they were as " GOD'S ravens in the wilderness supplying them with bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening ; they had been inns for the wayfaring man, who heard from afar the sound of the vesper-bell, at once...

...if it was not in the Bible, that he would send the ravens to carry food to 7* him. Yet so it was : " the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning,...flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook." It is supposed that he was fed in this way for as much as a year. It was a long time to stay there...

...word of the LORD : for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the javens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread...flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no ram in the...

...feed thee there. So he went and did according to the word of the Lord ; and the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook." How unlimited is the sway which God exercises over all his creatures ! He has a thousand ways of ministering...

...unto the word of the LORD : for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And ' thy servant Isaac ; and thereby • shall I know that thou hast 7 And it came to pass * after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the...

...?" If such a question had been proposed to the prophet Elijah, he would have told you that God sent him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening ; and that when one brook was dried up the Lord directed him to another. And as the Lord made the handful...

...courses fought against i Kings Sisera. He commanded the ravens to feed Elias, and they brought - 4, him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening ; and so one Prophet lived merely upon the obedience Jonah ii. of jhe fowls of the air. He spake to the devouring...

...streams burst forth at their feet. If Elijah is bidden to hide in the wilderness, the ravens bring him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening. If for duty's sake he is driven out into the desert, where faint and weary he is ready to die, an angel...