36. Elijah cries, as Moses did, to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. Who was happiest and nearest the Lord? It is not in the worst times, at any rate, we are always farthest from God. The people took no heed when the question was on their faith in the God of Abraham; on the proposition of a sign they say “It is good." This shows their state—it was a sad but a misled one; the rulers of this people caused them to err—a pitiable one, but what a sign of the power of Satan.