Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-06

the precipice and then leaped after them to
bis own death.
Now, ye Arab oarsmen, row on with swift
er stroke, for we want before noon to land
! at Capernaum, the three years home of
Jesus. But before arrival there we are to
have a new experience The lake that had
been smooth surface begins to break up in
to roughness. The air, which all the morn
ing made our sail almost useless, suddenly
takes hold OF our boat with grip astonish-
ing. AMI our poor craft begins to roll and
pitch and tumble, and in five minutes we
pass from calm to violence. The contour
of this lake among the hills is an invitation to
hurricanes. / used to wonder why it was
| that on so limited sheet of water a be-
storrned boat in Christ's time did not put
back to shore when hurricane was coming
l wonder no more.
On that lake an atmospheric fury gives no
warning, and the change we saw in five
minutes made me feel that the boat in which
Christ sailed may have been siilfully man
aged when the tempest sttucxit aud the wild,
inlportunate cry went up, Lord save us or
we perish" hal all along that morning
been reading from the New Testament the
story of occurrences on and around that Lake
But our Bible was closed now, and it was as
much as We coul1 do to hold fast and wish
for the land. If the wind and tho waves had
continued to increase in violence the follow
ing fifteen minutes in the same ratio as in the
first five and We had been still at thsir mercy,
our bones would have bean bleaching ia the
bottom of Lake Gennssaret instead OF our
being here to tell the story.
But tae sane power that rescued the fish
ermen of old to-day safely landed our party.
What a Christ for rougn weather. All the
sailor boys ought 10 ay to Him as did those
Galileau mariners. All you in the forecastle
and all you VINO run u } and down the slip
perry ratlnes, take TO sea with you Him VINO
with quiet word sent the winds back
through the mountain gorges. Some of you
Jack lars TO whom these words will come
need to tack SHIP AMI change your course
if you are going to get across this sea of life
safely and gain the heavenly harbor. Delay
therei Ready about Helms a-leei Main
sail haul
Star of peacel beam DER the biIIow.
Bless the soul that signs for thee;
Bless the sailors lonely pillow,
Far, far OF sea.
Here at Capernaun, the Arabs having in
their arms carried US ashore to the only
place where our Lord ever had pastorate
and we stepped amid the ruins of the church
where He preached again and again and
again-the synagogue whose rich sculptur-
ing lay there not as when Others see it in
springtime covered with weeds and loath-
some with reptiles but in that December
weather co npletely uncovered to our agi-
tated and intense gaze? On one stone of that
synagogue is the sculpturing of pot of
mamma an artistic COMMUNICATION of the
time when the Israeiites were fed by mama
in the wilderness, and TO which scuipturing
no doubt Christ pointed upward while he
was preaching that sermon on this very spot
in which He said: mot as our fathers did eat
mama and are dead; he that eateta of this
bread shall live forever" Wonderful Ca
psrnaumi Scene OF mora miracles than any
place in all the earth! Blind eyes hndling
with the mornng. Withered arms made to
pu,sate. Lapers blooming into health. The
dead girl terminated.
These Arab tents which on this December
day find in Palestine disappear, and 1 see
Capernaum as it was when Jesus was pastor
of the church here. Look at that wealthy
home the architecture, the marble front,
the upholstery, the slaves in uniform at the
doorway. 1t is the residence of courtier of
Heroi, probably ChuZl by name, his wife
Joanna, a Christian disciple But something
is the matter The slaves are in great ex-
element and the c1urtier living there runs
down the front steps and takes a horse and
puts him at full ruu 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 agonize1 father has gone Tor
( Him, and with what oarnestness those can
understand VINO have had dying child in
tha horse This courtier G. es to Christ
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and l,nael down and make surrender Ia tha
! almighty love that came to the rsscuee
| The mighbes5 agency in the universe is
PRAYER, and it turns even the Almighty II
| decides the destinies of individuals, families
and nations During cur sad civil war a
| gentleman was guest at the White House
in Washington, and he gives this incident
he says: II had been spending three wees
III the White House with Mr.. Lincoln as his
guest. One night-it was lust after the bat
tie of Bull RUM was restless and could not
sleep. | was repeating the part which was
to take in public performance. The hour
was past midnight. Indeed. it was coming
near to the dawn when | heard low tones
proceeding from a privats room waere the
,es.ueut slepV. me !onr was partly open.
-. maiAe H. ana there saw
o.: /" li.Gu slaii never Iof5eG' IL was the
ON it. HalleellnS before an open Bible.
III. - u9 guy .l was lurheu low In the room.
! ltIs o"IA was turned toward me- For mo-
aleno was siiehb as ssood looking in
q. .l am WONDER. Ihan he cried out
~ ~ oo.es 80 ilsi,ul ana sorroWiui! Oh, Thou
~, . o,its jeaIa solomon IN the night when
this nation without Thy ~, -, 49,, y,
ell - ~, -. S'p' l diu poor ana