common in the pages of his book; yet listen to this:

="Thus the Lord God showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts
in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth ...
and ... when they made an end of eating the grass of the
land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: how
shall Jacob stand? for he is small."=

There speaks the shepherd pleading for his little sheep--"How can
Jacob stand, for he is small?"


THE RESULTS OF AMOS' WORDS

Amos' mission to the northern kingdom seemed to be a failure. He had
come up from his sheep tending, in his home in Tekoa, in Judah,
because he felt burning within him a message for his people. But he
soon went home. The chief priest at Bethel drove him out. And
apparently the people did not care. No doubt even the poor people in
whose cause Amos had so eloquently spoken were shocked by his words.
"What, are not our sacrifices holy and pleasing to Jehovah? Would he
have us stop offering up burnt-offerings? That is almost blasphemous."

=Bread upon the waters.=--Yet there were some who listened. And the
proof is found in the existence of the book of Amos in the Bible. Some
one cared enough to preserve and copy the first manuscript of Amos'
sermons and to make still other copies. Another proof is the fact that
within that same century three other supremely great religious
teachers caught up his great idea of a new kind of religion and
repeated it in new and wonderfully convincing ways. Of these other