F. B. Meyer
1847–1929
English Baptist pastor and Keswick speaker whose devotional biographies of Old Testament figures were read on both sides of the Atlantic.
In his own words
It was only when those lessons had been completely learned, that mankind was able to appreciate the love of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. Critics — who insensibly have caught their conceptions of infinite love from the Gospels which they affect to despise — find fault with the Old Testament because of its austere tones and its severe enactments; they point out many things inconsistent with the gentler spirit of our times. There is nothing surprising here. It could not have been otherwise. ELIJAH: AhID . in a gradual unfolding of the nature and character of God. The holy men who lived in those days had never heard the gentle voice of the Son of Man speaking the Sermon on the Mount. They had, however, very definite conceptions of the righteousness and holiness of God, and His swift indignation on sin. This inspired many of the Psalms in the hymnal of the Old Testament saints. This stimulated them to do deeds from which our gentler nature shrinks. But for this, Levi had never slain his brethren, or Joshua the Canaanites; Samuel had never hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord; and Elijah had never presumed to slay the priests of Baal, or call down fire from heaven to destroy the captains and their men.
Quoted verbatim from the library, as an answer would quote it.
What we hold of him
Elijah, and the Secret of His Power
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The Secret of Guidance
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