The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-01

the house. This cOurtler cries 70 Christ
Come down ere my child DIE
Wnils the father is aoseat, and at 1
O'CLOCK in the afternoon, the people watch
ing the dying boy see a change IL the c1u1-
tena1ce, and Joanna. the mother, on one
side Of his couch. saws: why, this daring
is getting we'll. the fever has broken. Sc
the pc SEPARATION on MS forehead; did any OF
you give him any new kind Of neilcl e Z!
NO. Is the answer. The boy turns on his
pillow, his deliFium gone, and ass Tor
netting TO eat AID -sTs: ~ nere's
fatherE Q, be has 20 g up 70 Cana . Ee- a
young doctor OF about 81 years Of age
But no dOcC T is needed now II tuls house at
Capernaum. The people LOOK at the sun
dial 10 find what time Of day IL Is, and see it
IS just past noon. and DC. ock / en- they
start on and meet ths returning father, ami
as soon as they are within speak, distance
they shout at the TOD OF their voices: $ y our
boy is CITING we'll as it possible p says
tie fat r. Nv zen did he change for the
better take place r. Zone O'Clock. Is TIE
answer why says the c urtier, that is
Just the ur tnaU Jesus said 70 me. Thy
son liveta. One o'clock
As they gather at tie evening meal what
gladuess on all the countenances in that
home sc Ceperneuml the mother, Joanna,
hes not had sleep for many nights. and she
now falls Of into deli b fol slumber. The
father. Chuza, the Herodan cour lie, wurn
out with anxiety as well as by the RAPID
| Journey 10 a from Cana is soon ia restful
inconsistencies. Joanna was a Christian
before. but warrant she was more of a
/ christian after = ard. Did tle father, Chuza,
accept the Christ who had cured bis bow Is
| there in all the earth parent so ungrateful
! for toe conveiescencs or restoration of an
| imperiled child as not 20 go into a room
and kDeel down and make surrender TO the
almighty love that came 20 the rescue,
discussions about christian science, but &C.
cept the doctrine. as cd as the B bic, that
God does answer prayer for the sex. That
Capernsufn boy was not the only lllustra-
ton Of the fact that prayer is mightisr than
a typhoid fever. And there Is not doct1r
OF large practice but has come into the SICK
room II some hopele-s case and, in q cheer
full manner IL be were christian, or with
bewildered manner II he were 8 skepac,
sad: well, what have you been doing
with this patient! What haze you teen
giving himl The pulse is be ter. The crisis
is past. After ali, think be viii get well ."
Prayer will yet De acknowledged il the
worlds maseria medica, and the cry Is Just
as appropriate now as when CnuLs. the
coIrter from Cepernaum, uttered IN
Chrlst's hearing Come down ere my child
dep II the prayer be not a sEered
IN tue way We wish, it is because Col mas
some hing better for the child than earthly
recovery, and there are III ussuds Of men
and women now alive in answer to fathers
and mothers prayers, my elf one of the
mutt. ude. For l have heard my parents
tell how when at 3 years of age scarlet
fever seemed 20 have done its full W TX on
me. and the physicians bad said there as
no more use of heir coming. AMI they had
left few simple directions 70 make the re-
manning hours peaceful, and according 70
the custom in IN So times in country places,
the neighb rs mad alre DIV come in and
made the shroud, the forlorn case suddenly
frightened and the prayer, Come down,
ere my child dieln was answered in a recov-
cry that has not been folio we'd by a mo
ment's sickness from that time to this.
The mightiest age CT in the un verse is
PRAYER, ana 1t turns even the Almighty. 1t
decides the destlnies of indlvid Ials, families
and nat.Ous. During our sad civil war a
gentleman was a gues- at the white house
in Washington, aud ne gives this incident.
He says: Il had been spending three weeks
III tue white house with Mr.. Lincoln as his
guest. One night-it was just after the
bat lie Of Bull Rum was restless and
could not sleep. l was repeating the part
which | was TO take in a public
performance. The hour was past mid
night Indeed, it was coming near
to the dawn when heard low tones
proceeding from private room where the
L
| instincdyely walked IN and tuere | saw a
sight which shall never forget. 1t was the
President kueeling before an open Bible.
The llgnt was turned low in the room. His
back was turned toward me: for moment
| was silent as l stood looking in amaze
ment and wonder. Then he cried out in
tones so pitiful and sorrowful: "Oh, thou
God that heard solomon in the night when
ne prayed for wisdom, hear met / cannot
lead this people, l cannot guide the affairs
Of this nation without thy help. am poor
and weak and sinful. Oh. God who didst
hear Solomon when ne cried for wisdom,
hear me and save the aationm You see we
doa't need 70 60 back to Bible times for
evidence that prayer is heard and an
swered
But some one may say that Christ at Ca
pernaum healed that counters child. yet
he would not have done it for one in
humble life. Why, in that very Capernaum
he did the same thing for a dying slave,
belonging to the man who hal made a
present to the town of the church Of which
Jesus was pastor, the synagogue am ong
whose ruins to-day leap from fragment to
fragment. This was the cure of Roman
soldiers slave. whose only acknowledged
rights were the wishes of his owner. And
none are now so epslaved or So humble OF SICK
or SO sinful, but the all-sympat natic Christ
is ready to help them, ready % cure trem,
ready 10 emancipate them. Hear it, Par-
don for all. Mercy for all. Help for ell.
Comfort for all Heaven fo- all. Oh, this
Lake Galileei What a refreshment for
Christ it must have been after sympathizing
with the sick. and raising the dead, ana
preaching to the multitudes all day long t.
come down on these banks in the night lme
and feel the cool air of tue sea on his hot
face. and look up to tbs stars, the lighted
lamps around the heavenly palaces from
which he had descended.
All heaven and earth were still: from the high
post
OF stars to the billed Lake and mountain coast.
All heaven and earth were still-tnough not in
sleep,
But breatnless as we grow when feeling most
But" says some one, why was it that
Christ coming to save the world should
spend so niue of his time on and around so
solitary a place as Lake Galilee! There is
only one city Of any size ON its beach, and
| both the western and eastern shores are q
solitude, broken only by the sounds com. ny
from the mud novels Of the degraded. Why
did not Christ begin al Babl Ion the mighty,
at Athens the learned, at Ca 70 the historic,
at Thebes the hundred-gated at Rome the
triumphant IL Curist was ing to save
the world, why not go where he worlds
people dwell. Would man, wishing to
revolutionize for good the America c1n.i-
mem. pass his time amid the fish ng-
huts on the shores Of Newfoundland p
Ny friends. Galilee was the hub If the