Practical Reflections on the Life and Times of Elijah

From: The Prospect By: William Kelly

• 1 min. read • grade level: 9

THE TISHBITE.

THE LORD OUR SHEPHERD. Substance of a Lecture on Luke 15:1-7¹Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. ²And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. ³And he spake this parable unto them, saying, ⁴What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? ⁵And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. ⁷I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. (Luke 15:1‑7).

THE latter of these works is a Gospel tract of that class which is very suitable, not so much to the unawakened, as to those who, although believing, do not enjoy peace, from the lack of knowing adequately the grace of the Lord, or the perfectness of His work.

The former is by far the larger and more important work, to which attention is called. There are weighty principles insisted on throughout, and pleasingly interwoven into the tale, of the raptured prophet; all is applied in a plain, wholesome, and earnest way. The closing observations, as to the special commission and apostolate of Paul, in illustration of the grand truth of the Church so fully revealed in his epistles, are striking, and many of them valuable, so far as could be judged from a hasty glance at the manuscript kindly sent by the author and the printer. Want of space forbids us a longer notice, at least for the present; but the Christian will find the book itself worthy of attentive perusal.

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