After Elijah the prophet had proved on Mount Carmel that God was the one true God, and had caused the destruction of the false prophets of Baal, he fled from the wrath of Jezebel and "went a day's journey into the wilderness," and there, discouraged over what seemed the hopelessness of his cause, he prayed that he might die. He had yet to prove the omnipotence, the goodness, the all-embracing love of God. Then an angel touched him and said, "Arise and eat;" and we read that he "did eat and drink;" and when this had occurred a second time, he "went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God."
Then, as he stood "upon the mount before the Lord," there came the great wind which rent the mountain and broke the rocks in pieces; then the earthquake; then the fire; yet God was not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire. Then came "a still small voice."
Proclaiming the unreality and powerlessness of the false claim of physical power, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 192): "Erring power is a material belief, a blind miscalled force, the offspring of will and not of wisdom, of the mortal mind and not of the immortal. It is the headlong cataract, the devouring flame, the tempest's breath. It is lightning and hurricane, all that is selfish, wicked, dishonest, and impure." Then she adds, "Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds the 'wind in His fists; ' and this teaching accords with Science and harmony." In Hymn No. 74 of the Christian Science Hymnal, we find the following lines:
