When E-li-jah heard of it, he said, Give me thy son. And he took the child from her arms and bore him to his own room, and laid him on his bed. And E-li-jah cried to the Lord, and said, O Lord, I pray thee let this child's soul come back to him. And the Lord sent back the soul of the child, and E-li-jah took the boy and brought him to his moth-er. And she said to E-li-jah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth. For three years there had been no rain in the land, and at the end of that time the Lord said to E-li-jah, Go show thy-self to A-hab, and I will send rain on the land. So E-li-jah went, and on the way he met with one of A-hab's head men, who loved the Lord. He knew E-li-jah, and bade him turn back, for the king would be sure to put him to death. But E-li-jah said that he would show him-self to A-hab that day. So the man told the king that E-li-jah was near, and the king came out to meet him. And he found fault with E-li-jah, for he thought he was to blame for the lack of food, and for the long drouth. E-li-jah told the king to have all those he ruled meet in a mass at one place. And when they came there, E-li-jah cried out to them, How long will ye turn your hearts from God? And he told them to prove which was the true God, Ba-al or E-li-jah's God. And he told them to bring two young bulls, and to take the flesh of one and lay it on the wood in front of Ba-al, and he would lay the flesh of the oth-er young bull on the Lord's al-tar. And he said, Call ye on your gods and I will call on mine, and let the God that sends down fire be the God whom we all shall serve. And they said it was a good plan. So they cried out from sun-rise till noon, O Ba-al hear us! But there was no voice or sign that their god heard them. E-li-jah said, Cry with a loud voice for he is a god. He may be a-sleep, or lost in thought. [Illustration: THE LIT-TLE CLOUD.] And they cried, and made a great noise, and at last fought with their knives till they drew blood. And E-li-jah said, Come near me. And they all came near to him. And E-li-jah took twelve stones, and built an al-tar to the Lord. And he put the flesh and the wood on it, and the wood was wet through and through. Then he cried out, Hear me, O Lord, hear me, and let it be known that thou art the true God. Then fire came down from on high and burnt up the flesh, and the wood and the stones, and the dust; and the ground that had been made so wet was as dry as it could be. And when the crowd saw this they all bowed down to the ground, and said, The Lord he is God! The Lord he is God! And they broke up the false gods, and gave their hearts for a while to the Lord. Then E-li-jah told A-hab that he might eat and drink, for the rain would soon set in. And he went to the top of a high mount to pray for rain. Not a cloud was in the sky. The sea was calm. But E-li-jah knew that he must watch, and wait, and pray, and the sign would come.