Utterly Despondent

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and, sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said: it is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for, I am not better than my fathers. 1 Kings 19:4 From Carmel to the juniper tree! From the glorious, heights of a victorious faith down into the lugubrious depths of utter despondency! Out of the consciousness of an exultant assurance that God's cause has the victory into the doleful...