94 "HE GIVE THi HIS BELOVED SLELP."

a fretful child whose mother would sing him to sleep and
give him some food when he awoke. How tenderly the
wise Heavenly Father treated his tired and frightened
servant. You see in this picture how he lay under the
juniper-tree, and while he sept an angel came bringing
a cruse of water for his thirst and bread for his hunger.
He slept so soundly the angel had to touch him and say,
" Arise and eat." He looked, and there was a cake baked
on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. He ate and
was refreshed, and then lay down and slept again; after
a while the angel touched him again and said, Arise and
eat, the journey is too great for thee." He then went to
a mountain, and stayed forty days and nights in a cave
without any food, for God had given him strength to last
while he stayed there alone. God came and talked with
him in that cave, out of the reach of his enemies.
 It was this same Elijah who was fed in the famine
which lasted three years and a half. Six months he lived
alone by a little brook, and morning and evening ravens
came and brought him bread and meat, and he drank
water out of the brook. When that dried up, God told
him to go to a place many miles away across the country,
for He had commanded a widow woman to feed him there.
He went, and as he came into the gate of the city he met
the very woman gathering sticks. He spoke to her and
said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that
I may drink." As she was going for the water he asked