ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author begins with an article, which is described as a special Biblical annexe to his Gallery of Borderlanders. There are many reasons why Elijah should come first in the Gallery of Borderlanders of the Bible. He was the most conspicuous and the most interesting of all the prophets who spoke, as distinguished from the prophets who wrote. In dealing with the story of Elijah, we are confined almost exclusively to the narrative in the book of Kings, but there are one or two allusions to the story of Elijah in the New Testament, the first of which gives us a little earlier information than anything that is contained in the Old Testament. Elijah, however, having persuaded Obadiah that he would not avail himself of this abnormal faculty of disappearance, Ahab came to Elijah, and they agreed to put the question of the supernatural power of Jehovah and Baal to a test of the most practical kind.
