Emphasis Preaching Journal

After the people of Elijah the Tishbite had turned to the worship of Baal, he, still faithful to the Lord God of Israel, climaxed his prophetic career. "There shall not," he said, "be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." No grass or planted grain grew in the country. The brooks all dried up. [This description of Elijah's story comes from the late J. Frank Dobie. The history professor at the University of Texas wrote many books on life in rural Texas during the early 1900s.