Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04
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and again--rhe synagogue whose rich
sculpturing lay there, not as when Others
see it in springtime covered with weeds
and loathsome with reptiles, but in that
December weather completely uncovered
to our agitated and intense gaze On one
stone OF that synagogue is the sculpturing
Of pot of mamma, an artistic commemora-
tion of the time when the lsraelites were
fed by mamma in the wilderness, and to
which sculpturing no doubt Christ pointed
upward while he was preaching that ser
mon on this very spot in which he said,
Mot rs your fathers did eat mamma and
are dead; he that eateth OF this bread shall
live forever" Wonderful Capernauml
Scene OF more miracles than any place in
all the earthl Blind eyes kindling with
the morning Withered arms made to
pulsate. Lepers blooming into health The
dead girl reahimated.
These Arab tents which on this Decem-
Der day find in Palestine disappear, and
| see Capernaum as il was when Jesus was
pastor of the church here Look at that
wealthy home, the architecture, the mar
BILE 'front.' the upholstery, the slaves in uni
form at the doorway 1t is the residence
of a courtier of Herod, probably Chuza by
name his wife Joanna, a Christian disci-
pie. But something is the matter. The
! slaves are in great excitement, and the
| eourtier living there runs down the front
steps and takes horse and puts him at
full run across the country. The boy of
] that nobleman is dying of typhoid fever.
All the doctors have failed to give relief
But about five miles up the country, at
! Cana, there Is divine doctor. Jesus by
name, and the agonized father has gone
! for him, and with what earnestness those
can understand who have had dying
child ia the house. This courtier cries 70
: Christ, Come down ere my child die"
I While the father is absent, and at /
o'clock in the afternoon, the people watch
I ing the dying boy see change in the
countenance, and Joanna, the mother, on
one side of his couch, says "Why. this dar-
/ ling is getting wells The fever has broken.
See the Precipitation on his forehead. Did
any of you give him any new kind of medi-
cineS' NO" is the answer The boy
turns on his pillow. his delirium gone, and
asks for something 10 eat and says:
where's father" Oh, he has gone up
to Cana to get young doctor Of about 81
years of age. But no doctor is needed now
in this house at Capernaum. The people
look at the sun dial TO see what time il is
and see it is just past noon and o'clock
Theu they start out and meet the return
ing father and as soon rs they come within
speaking distance they shout at the top Of
their voices Your boy is getting we'll .
is it possibleyn says the father. when
did the change for The better take placer"
"One O'Clock is the answer. why, says
the courtier, that Is just the hour that
Jesus said to me Thy son liveth' One
o'clock"
GLADNEss on THEIR coUNTENANcE.
As they gather at the evening meal what
gladness on all the countenances in that
home at Capernaum The mother, Joan
ma, has not had sleep for many nights, and
she now falls OIL into delightful slumber
The father, Chuza, the Herodian courtier,
worn out with anxiety as well as by the
rapid journey TO and from Cana, is soon IL
restful Inconsistencies. Joanna was
Christian before, but | warrant she was
more Of a Christian afterward Did the
father Chuza accept the Christ who had
cured his boys Is there in all the earth
parent SO ungrateful for the convalescence
or restoration Of an imperiled child as not
TO 90 into room and kneel down and
make surrender TO the almighty love that
came to the rescnes
Do not mix up this case with the angry
discussions about Christian science, but
accept the doctrine, as old as the Bible,
that God does answer prayer for the sick
That Capernaum boy was not the only
illustration of the fact that prayer is
mightier than a typhoid fever. And there
is not a doctor OF large practice but has
come into the sick room Of some hopeless !
case aud, in cheerful manner if he were
Christian, or with bewildered manner
II he were a skeptie, said: well, what
have you been doing with this PATIENT
What have you been giving him? The |
pulse is better. The crisis is past. After |
all, think he will get well" Prayer will |
yet be acknowledged in the world materia |
medica, and the cry is just as appropriate |
now as when Chuza, the courter from
Capernaum, uttered in Christ's hearing, /
Come down ere my child diel'
If the prayer be not answered in the way |
we wish, il is because God has something 1
better for the child than earthly recovery, |
and there are thousands of men and |
women now alive in answer TO fathers and ,
mothers prayers, myself one OF the multi
tude For have heard my parents tell |
how when at three years Of age scarlet
fever seemed TO have done its full work on
no more use of their coming and they had
left a few simple directions to make the
remaining hours peaceful, and according
TO the custom in those times in country
places the neighbors had already come in
and made the shroud, the forlorn case sud
denly frightened and the prayer Come
down ere my child diel' was answered in a
recovery that has not been followed by
sickness from that time to this.
PRAYER THE MIGHTIEsT AGENCY.
The mightiest agency in the universe is
prayer, and it turns even the Almighty. 1t
decides the destinies of individuals. FAM
lies aud nations During our sad civil war
a gentleman was guest at the White
House in Washington, and he gives this in
cident He says: Il had been spending
three weeks in the White House with Mr..
Lincoln as his guest One night-it was
Just after the battle of Bull Rum was
restless and could not sleep. was repeat
ng the part which was to take in pub
lie performance. The hour was past mid
night. Indeed, it was coming near to the
lawn when | heard low tones proceeding
rom private room where the president