...certain period every morning and evening. Likewise, during a famine which he himself had foretold, a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, which belonged to a poor widow with whom he was lodging, never wasted away, but continued to supply...

...the poor widow woman told him that she had not a single cake of bread in her house, — nothing but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse : — she was, therefore, just going to gather two sticks, that she might dress this last mouthful...

...upon his also asking her for a morsel of bread to eat, she told him she had nothing in the world but a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruise, and that she was gathering a few stricks, to dress it for herself and her son, that they might...

...Wish you examples? In the ease of the widow of Zarrphath, you have a striking one.* She having only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise, for herself and son, though in the midst of famine, yet she generously divided this, her last...

...shall eat and not be satisfied. Le. xxvi. 26. At the Lord thy God liveth (said the widme of Zarephath) t thereof be consumed. It shall brin^ forth new fruit according to his month cnue : and beST. MATTHEW 21 mained twelve baskets full. And they that had oaten were about 22 five...

...dried up, God sent him to a woman of Sarepta, near Sidon, to be maintained by her, when she had only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse ; but God wonderfully increased the oil and the meal, so that the barrel of meal wasted not, neither...

...morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise ; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that...

...was too much. Still her answer was respectful : " As the Lord thy God liveth I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a...it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die." She was driven now to the dregs of her scanty stock of provisions, and without the least hope of a...

...extremity of want and deprivation through the famine ; for she said, As Jehovah, thy God liveth, I haver not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and...sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my sun, that we may cat it, and die. But Elijah said to her, Fear not ; go, and do as thou hast said :...

...that she was herself on the eve of starvation, for that her entire worldly sub«tance_ consisted of a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise, " of which she intended that very day to make a cake that she and her son might eat it and...