Not in Noise or Show, but in Power.
The false prophets of Baal seemed to believe that prolonged violent exercise, leaping, shouting, cutting themselves, would induce their God—the fire-god, the sun-god—to answer them; but the lurid heavens gave no sign. The pitiless sun which had dried up the brooks and parched all vegetation burned on, but the sacrificial wood remained unlighted, and the evening brought the worshipers no result. The turn of the prophet of God comes, and he calmly builds the altar of God, lays upon it the wood and the sacrifice, causes it to be deluged three times with water, and in a few simple words asks Jehovah, the covenant God, to remember His promise; and God replies by fire, consuming both sacrifice and water. God is as ready to hear to-day as ever of yore; and simple humility and faith will bring the promised blessing.