THE LIFE OF ELISHA, IN ELEVEN PLAIN PRACTICAL DISCOURSES. BY GEORGE L. GLYN, BART., VICAR OF EWELL, SURREY. LONDON: WERTHEIM AND MACINTOSH, 1857. 100.3.178. PREFACE. THE following Discourses were delivered to a Village Congregation, and the spiritual interests of a Parochial Minister's own charge are, under God, primarily intended in their publication. G. L. G. Ewell, Surrey, Dec. 18, 1856. A 2 THE LIFE OF ELISHA. No. I. THE CALL OF ELISHA. 1 KINGS XIX. 19-21. "So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. B |