The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-05


the sides were too steep for Herod's
army to descend, and the attempt to
climb in the face of armed men would
have called down ex termination So
HerOd had great cages of wood. iron
bound made and flied them with SOL
diors and let them down from the top
OF the pree pices until they gave signal
that they were level with tho caYerns
and then from these cages they stepped
out to the mouth of the caverns and
having set enough grass and wood on
bro to I'LL the caverns with smoke and
strangulat-On. the dden people would
come forth to die; and IL not coming
forth voluntarily, Herod's men would
pull them out with long iron hooks, and
Josephus says that one father rather
than submit TO the attacking army,
flung his wife and seven children down
the Precipice and then leaped after
them to is own death.
Now, Ye Arab oarsmen, row on, for
we want before noon to land at Caper-
naum, the three years homo OF Jesus
But before arrival there We are to have
new experience. Tho lake that had
been a smooth surface begins to break
up into roughness- The air which all
the morning made our sail almost use
less, suddenly takes hold of our boat
with grip aston ishing, and our poor
craft begins to roll and pitch and tum-
bic, and in five minutes we pass from a
"a III IL hAOAGlGG- OL Iu1E AAhG an al
nospheric 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 sl5iIlfully man
aged, when the tempest struck t. and
the wild impOrtuEate cry went up:
Lord save us or we perish!' If the
winds and the waves had continued to
| increase in violence the following If
teen minutes in the Same ratio, as in
| the first five, and we had been still at
their mercy our bones would have been
| bleaching in the bottom of Lake GEN
nesaret instead of our being here to tell
the story!
But the same power that rescued the
| fishermen of Cd, to-day safely landed
our party. What a Christ for rough
weather. All the sailor boys ought TO
| fly to him as did those Galilean mari
ners All you in the forecastIe, and all
you who run up and down the slippery
/ ratlines, take to sea with you Him who
with quiet word sent the winds back
through the mountain gorges-
-stsr OF peacci beam Ger thc pillow
Bless tic soul that signs Tor thesi
Bless tue sailors lonely pf low.
Far. far at sea-"
Here at Capernaum, 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 lie preached
again and again, the synagogue, whose
r-ch sculpturing lay there, not as when
| others see it in springtime covered with
weeds, and loatEsome W tn reptiles,
| but in that December weather COM
| pletely uncovered to our agi Ia ted and
! intense gaze. On one stone of that
| synagogue is the sculpturing of q not
of mama, an artistic commemoration of
the time when the IsraelItes were fed
by mama in the wilderness, and to
which sculpturing no doubt, Christ
! pointed upward, while He was preach
ing that sermon on this very spot in
which ne said: Not as your fathers
dill eat mama and are dead; he that
eateth of this bread shall live forever"
These Arab tents which on this De-
cember day find in Palestine disappear
and see Capernaum as il was when
Jesus was pastor of the church here
Look at that wealthy home, the archi-
lecture, the marble front, the up
holstery, the slaves in uniform at the
doorway. It is the res idence of court
Ter of Herod, probably CT uza by name,
his wife, Joanna, Christian disciple
But some thing i the matter. The
slaves are in great excitement and the
courtier living tboro runs down the
front steps and takes horse and puts
him at full run across the country The
boy of that nobIeman is dying of ty-
phoid fever. All the doctors have failed
TO give relief But about five IN les up
the country, at Cana, there is Divine
Doctor, Jesus by namc, and the agonized
father has gone for him, and with what
earnestness those can understand who
have had dying child in the house.
This court er cr.es to Christ: Come
down ere my child diei'
While the father is absent and at
o'cl ocl1 in the afternoon the people
watch ng the dying boy see change
in the countenanee and Joanna, the
mother, on one side of his couch says:
why this darling is getting we'll; the
fever has broken; see the Precipitation
on his forehead; did any of you give
him any new kind of medicine?" No"
is the answer. The boy turns on his
pillow, his delirium gone, and asks for
something to cat and says: where's
father?" Oh, he has gone up to Cana
to get young doctor of about 81 years
OF age But no doctor is needed now in
this house at Capernaum- The people
look at the sun dial to End what time
of the day it is and see it is lust past
noon and 1 o'clock. Then they start
out and meet the returning father and
as soon as they come within speaking
distance they shout at the top of their
voices: Your boy is getting we'll" rs
it possible?' says the father; when
did the change for the better take
place. one O'c' ock, " is the answer.
why" says the courtier that is just
the hour that Jesus said to me: Thy
son liveth.' One o'clock!"
Do not mix up this case with the angry
discussion about Christian science but
accept the doctrine. as old as the Bible,
that God does answer prayer for the
sick. That Capernaum boy was not the
only illustration OF the fact that prayer
is m gh tier than typhoid fever And
there is not a doctor OF large practice
but has come into the OK room of some
hopeless case and, in a cheerful manner,
If be were a Christian, or with be-
wildered manner If be were a skeptic
said: well, what have you been doing
with this patent? What have you been
giving him? The pulse IS better The
crisis is past After all, think ne will
get we'll" Prayer will yet be acknowl-
edged in the worlds materia mcdica
and the cry is just as appropriate now
as when Chuzs, the courier from Caper-
naum uttered in Christs hearing:
Come down ere my child dieI" II the
prayer be not answered in the way we
wish it is because God has something
bRGfeF for the rt1 Id than 1r-r