Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-01
which shall never forget. II was the
president


The light was turned low in the room.
His back was turned toward me; for q
moment was silent as stood looking in
amazemeut and wonder. Then he cried
out in tones so pitiful and sorrowful:
HOh thou God that heard Solomon III the
night when he prayed for wisdom, hear
me! l cannot lead this people, I cannot
guide the affairs of this nation without
thy help. l am poor and weak and sim
full. oh God who didst hear Solomon
when he cried for wisdom, hear me and
save the nationi'' You see we don t
need to go back to the Bibls times for
evidence that prayer is heard and an
swered.
But some one may say that Christ at
Capernaum healed that courtier's child,
vet he would not have done il for one in
humble life. Why, in that very Caper-
nauu He did the same thing tor dying
slave belonging to the man who had
made present to the town of the church
of WI ich Jesus WAS pastor, the synagogue
among whose RUNS l 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 en-
shaved or so humble or sick or so sinful
but the all-sympathetio Christ is ready
TO help them, ready to cure them, ready
to emancip8te them. Hear it! Pardon
for all. Mercy for ali. Help for all.
Comfort for all. Heaven for all. Oh,
this Lake Gal!lee, What refresh
ment for Christ 1t must have
been after sympathizing with the sick,
and raising the dead, aud preaching to
the multitudes ali day long TO come down
on these banks in the nighttime and
feel the cool air of the sea on his hot
face, and look up TO the 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 hilled lake aud mountain coast.
ALI heaven and earth were stIll-though not in
But breathless, es we grow when feeling most.
"But,'' says some enc, "why was it
that Christ coming to save the world
should spend so much of his time on and
around so solitary place as Lake Cali
lee? 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 coming from the
m I'D novels of the degraded. Why did
not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty,
at Athens the learned. at Cairo the his
tore, at Thebes the hundred gated, at
Rome the triumphant? II Christ was
going to save the world, why not go
where the worlds people dwellf
Would man, wishing to revolu-
tionize for good the American continent,
pass his time amid the fishing huts on
the shores of Newfoundland My
friends, Galilee was the bub of the wheel
of civilization, and art, and the center
of population that staggers realiza-
ton. on the shore of the lake we sail
to-day, stood nine cities-Scythopolis,
Tarichp, Hippos, Canada, Chorazin,
Capernaum, Bethssida. Magdala, Ii
beras-aud many villages the smallest
of which had Is, goo inhabitants, accord
ing 10 Josephus, and reaching from the
beach back into the country in ell direc-
tions. Palaces, temples, coliseums,
amphi,heaters, towers,
gardens :erraced on the hillsides, foun-
tains bewildering with sunlight, baths on
whose mosaic floors kings trod; while the
lake from where the Jordan enters it to
where the Jordan leaves it, was beauti-
full with all styles of shaliop, or dreadful
with all kinds of war galleon. Four
tho usaud vessels, history says, were at
one time upon these waters. Battles
were fought there which shocked all ma
lions with their consequences.
Here mingling blood with pure and sparkling
foam,
IN her last throes Judea fought with Rome.
Upon those sea fights looked Vespa-
sian, 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 entombed. and plague was threat
ened. Twelve hundred soldiers, escap-
ing from these vessels of war, were Que
dew massacred in the amphitheatTe at
Liberals. For 800 years that almost con-
tiuuous city eucrcling Lake GGlilee
was the metropolis of cur planet. 1t
was TO the very heart of the world that
j esus came to soOthe its sorrows, and
pardon its sins, and heal its SICK, and
emsncipate its enslaved and reanimate
its dead.
And let the church and the world take
the suggestion. While the solitary
places are not to be neglected, we must
strike for the great cities, IL 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
En- gland will come. Bring Paris and
France Will come. Bring Berlin and
Germany will come, Bring ST. Peters,
burg and Russia will come. Bring Vienna
aud Austria will come. Bring Cairo and
Egypt will come. Bring the near 3.000.-
600 people in this cluster Of cities on the
Atlantic coast, and all America will soon
see the salvation of God. Ministers of
let us intensity our evangelism.
Editors aud publishers, purify your
printing presses. Asylums of mercy,
enlarge your plans of endeavor. And
instead of this absurd and belitting
and wicked rivalry among our cities
as to which happens to have the most
men and women and children, not real
izng that the more useless and bad peo-
pie a city has the worse il is off and that
q city which has 10 200 good people Is
more TO be admired than city with
100 200 bad people.
LET Us TAKE u MORAL CENSUS
and see how many good men and good
women are leading forth how large a
generation of good children who will
cousecrste themselves and consecrate
the round world to holiness and to God.
On, thou blessed Christ, who didst come
to the mighty cities encircling lake Cali