ALL little girls like to watch mother on baking day. Very often they are allowed to make little cakes for themselves. Here in our picture the little girl is watching the pies and cakes being taken out of this large oven. In Switzerland there are ovens like this. The people of the village bring their bread, cake and pies to the family bakery to have them baked. A woman is in charge and attends to all who come and go. This little girl watched her mother preparing the good things, and now is waiting to see them taken out of the oven, and will hasten home to mother with them. Another woman stands patiently by, awaiting her turn.
An oven is a very warm place. The fire makes it hot. The Scripture says in the fourth chapter of Malachi, first verse, “For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud, yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts.” None of our readers need realize’ this wrath of God upon the unjust if they put their trust in the Lord Jesus.
In 1 Kings 19:4-4, we have about a cake baked on the coals, not in any oven. God’s faithful servant Elijah had gone a day’s journey into the wilderness. He requested the Lord to let him die. He slept until an angel told him to “Arise and eat.” He looked and there was a cake baked on the coals and a cruse of water. He ate and drank and laid himself down again. The angel came the second time. He ate and drank again and in the strength of that meat went forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God. This is how God can feed and care for His own.
ML 11/28/1909