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Elijah the Tishbite
ELIJAH’S FIRST APPEARANCE.
It is a brilliant description, my friends, which the Lord gives us of his true church here on earth, when, in the Song of Solomon, IV, 4. He says, "Thy neck is like the tower of David, builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men."He compares it to that strong hold of the Jebusites, ond the hill of Zion, which David took. It rests upond the poer and word of God; the eternal triune Jehovah bears it in his hands, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
The towr of David was builde for an armoury, whereon hung the shields of his heroes by thousands. And when was ever the fortress of the churc of Jesus Christ unprotectev? For