Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03

one time upon these waters. Battles were fought there which shocked all nations with their consequences. Here, mingling blood with pure and sparkling
 foam. In her last throes Judea fought with Rome.
 Upon those sea fights looked Yes pasian and Titus and Trajan and whole empires. From one of these naval en- counters so many of the dead f1oated to the beach they could not soon enough be intombed, and plague was threat ened. Twelve hundred soldiers escap- ing from these vessels of war were one day massacred in the amphitheatre at Tiberias. For three hundred years that almost continuous city encircling Lake Galilee was the metropolis of our planet. It was to the very heart of the world that Jesus came to soothe its sorrows, and pardon it's sins, and heal its sick, and emancipate its enslaved, and re- animate it's dead.
 STRIKE FOR THE GREAT CITIES
 And let the church and the world take the suggestion. While the soli- tary places are not to be neglected we must strike for the great cities if this world is ever to be taken for Christ. Evangelize all the earth except the cities and in one year the cities would corrupt the earth. But bring the cities and all the world will come. Bring London and England will come. Bring Paris and France will come. Bring Berlin and Germany will come. Bring St. Petersburg and Russia will come Bring Vienna and Austria will come Bring Cairo and Egypt will come Bring the near three million people in this cluster of cities on the Atlantic coast and all America will soon see the salvation of God.
 Ministers of religion let us intensity our evangelism Editors and publish CTS! purify your printing presses Asy- lu1ns of mercy! enlarge your plans of endeavor! And instead of this absurd and belittling and wicked rivalry among OUT cities as to which happens to have the most men and women and children, not realizing that the more useless and bad people a city has the worse it is of, and that city which has ten thousand good people is more to be admired than city with one hundred thousand bad people, let us take moral census and see how many good men and good women are leading forth how large a generation of good children who will consecrate themselves and consecrate the round world to holi- ness and to God.
 Oh, thou blessed Christ, who didst come to the mighty cities encircling Lake Galileel come in mercy to all our great cities of today. Thou who ddst put thy hand on the white mane of the ! foaming pillows of Gennesaret and
 make them lie down at thy feet, hush l all the raging passions of the world Oh, thou blessed Christ, who on the l night when the disciples were trying to
 cross this lake and ''the wind was con
 trary," after nine hours of rowing had
 made only three miles. didst come stepping on water that at the touch o1
 thy foot hardened into crystal, meet
 all our shipping, whether on placid oi
 stormy seas, and say to all thy people
 now by whatever style of tempest tossed
 or driven as thou didst to the drenched
 disciples in the cyclone: "Be of good l cheer It is l. Be not afraidr' l THANK GOD!
 l Thank God that have seen this lake
 of Christly memories, and I can say
 with Robert McCheyne, the ascended
 minister of Scotland, who, seated on
 the banks of this lake, wrote in his last
 sick days and just before he crossed
 the Jordan, not the Jordan that emp
 ties into Galilee, but the Jordan that
 enpties into the s'sea of glass mingled
 with fire," these sweet words fit to be
 played by human fingers on strung
 strings of earthly lute, or by angelic
 fingers on seraphic harps:
 It is not that the wild gazelle
 | Comes down to drink thy tide, But he that was pierced to save from hell Oft wandered by thy side.
 Graceful around thee the mountains meet, l Thou calm, reposing sea;
 But ahl far more, the beautiful feet Of Jesus walked OCT thee.
 1 o Saviour gone to Gods right hand, l Yet the same Saviour still,
 Graved on thy heart is this lovely strand 1 And every fragrant hill.
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