Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-01


and around so solitary a place as LAX,
Galilee2 There is only one city of am
size on its beach, and both the western
and eastern shores are a solitude, brok
EN- only by the sounds coming from til,
mud novels of the degraded Why die
not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty
at Athens the learned at Cairo the his
toric, at Thebes the hundred gated, al
Rome the triumphant Ii Christ was
going to save the world, why not 60
where the worlds people dwell2 Would
man, wishing to revolutionize for
good the American continent, pass his
time amid the fishing huts on the shores
of Newfoundland
My friends, Galilee was the hub OF
the wheel of civilization and art and
the center of population that stag
gers realization. On the shore of the
lake we sail today stood nine great cities
-Scythopolis, Tarich, Hippos, Gam
ala, ChOrazin, Capernaum, Bethsaida.
Magdala, TTberias-and many villages,
the smallest of which had Is, 600 inhab-
itants, according to Josephus, and
reaching from the beach back into the
country in all directions. Palaces, TEN
pies, coliseums, gymnasiums, amphithe
atres, towers, gardens terraced on the
hillsides, fountains bewildering with
sunlight, baths upon whose mosaic
floors kings trod; while this lake, from
where the Jordan enters it to where
the Jordan leaves it, was beautiful
with all styles of shallop or dreadful
with ali kinds of war galley -Four
thousand ships, history says were at
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 Jud@a 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 foated to
the beach they could not soon enough
be intombed, and a 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 hundsed years that
almost continuous city encircling Lake
Galllee was the metropolis of our planet.
1t was to the very heart of the world
that Jesus came to soothe its sorrows,
and pardon its sins, and heal its sick.
and emancipate its ensIaved, and re-
animate its dead
STRIKE FOR THE GREAT CITIES.
And let the church and the world
take the suggestion While the soil.
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.
ers purify your printing presses! Asy-
lulns of mercy enlarge your plans OF
endeavorl And instead of this absurd
and belittling and wicked rivalry
among our cities as to which happens
to have the most linen and women and
children, not realizing that the more
useless and bad people a city has the
worse it is off, and that a city which
has ten thousand good people is more
to be admired than city with one
hundred thousand bad people, let us
take a 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 didst
put thy hand on the white name of the
foaming pillows of Gennesaret and
make them lie down at thy feet, hush
all the raging passions of the world
oh, thou blessed Christ, who on the
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 of
thy foot hardened into crystal, meet
all our shipping, whether on placid or
stormy seas, and say to all thy people
now by whatever style of tempest tossed
or driven us thou didst to the drenched
disciples in the cyclone: "Be of good
cheer 1t is |. Be not alraidw
THANK GOD!
Thank God that have seen this lake
of Christly memories, and | can say
with Robert McCheyne, tho assembled
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
empties into the ''sea of glass mingled
with fire." these sweet words fit to be
played 10y human fingers on strung