Expository & Devotional Study of the Life of Elisha
Alexander Stewart’s study of the life of Elisha reminds me very much of A.W. Pink’s book on Elijah which was published 30 years or so later. My thanks to Book Aid’s London Bookshop for providing me with a copy to digitise. This title is in the public domain.
Alexander Stewart [1870-1937], A Prophet of Grace. An Expository & Devotional Study of the Life of Elisha. Edinburgh: W.F. Henderson, [1925]. Hbk. pp.268. [Click to download complete book in PDF]
Contents
- Introduction
- The Call to Office
- The Equipment for the Work
- The Quest of the Strong Men
- The Healing of the Waters
- The Judgment of Bethel
- Elisha and the Kings
- The Widow’s Cruse
- The Raising of the Shunammite’s Son
- The Poisoned Pottage
- The Man from Baal-Shalisha
- Naaman and the Jewish Maid
- Naaman and Elisha
- Elisha and Gehazi
- The Iron that Swam
- Elisha in Dothan
- The Scoffer’s Doom
- The Lamb Take the Prey
- The Restored Inheritance
- Carrying om Elijah’s Work
- Thr Arrow of the Lord’s Deliverance
- The Final Victory
Preface
The following pages deal with a portion of the Old Testament Scriptures which can scarcely be supposed to offer any special attraction to the modern mind, and which therefore, as a matter of fact, is to a great extent neglected alike by preachers and by. writers on Bible themes. It is indeed not too much to say. that in many quarters to-day the claim that the recorded events of the life of Elisha should be regarded as serious history would be dismissed with a derisive smile as the survival of a discredited doctrine of Scripture. This attitude is of course due to the miraculous element which occupies so large a place in the narrative. In an age when a daring challenge is being offered to the miracles of Jesus Christ Himself, it is hardly to be expected that the marvels associated with a shadowy figure which looms out from the mists of a much more distant past should be accepted as literal historical happenings. [Continue reading]
