256 BATTLES OF THE BIBLE.

ELISHA.

“* He seems a being who hath known
Communion with his God alone ;
On earth by nought but Ppity’s tie,
Detain’d a moment from on high ;
One to sublimer worlds allied,
One from all passions purified ;
Ev’n now half mingled with the sky,
And all prepared, oh! not to die ;
But, like the prophet, to aspire
In heaven’s triumphal car of fire.”

Mrs HEemans.

Te day that followed was the day of rest. The rain
still continued. While we sat at breakfast George said,
“ We shall not be going to church to-day, gandfather ;
what shall we do?”

“ Why do you think that we shall not go to church ?”
grandfather asked. .

“ Because it is a wet day.”

“ And is that a reason for staying away from church,
George? If a week day happened to be wet and you
had no meat in the house for dinner, would you do with-
out any rather than send the servant out in the rain ?
And no longer ago than yesterday evening, it was your-