Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-12

Him, and with what earneStness those -du
understand who have had dying child in
the house. This courtier G. .es to Christ
"Come down ere my child dien'
While the father is absent and at o'clock
in the afternoon, the people watching the
dying boy see change in the countenanca,
and Joanna, the mother, on one side of his
couch, says: 'Why, this darling is getting
well; the fever has broken. See the prespira-
ton 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
eat and says: Where's father? Oh, he has
gone up to Cana to get young doctor Of
about thirty-one years of age. But no doctor
is needed now in this house at Capernaum
The people look at the sun dial to see what
time it is, and see it is just past noon and
O'Clock. Then they start out and meet the
retul ming father and as soon ss they come
within speaking distance they shout at the
; top of their voices: Your boy is getting
we'll" SIS It possible" says the father,
''Wnen did the change for the better taxa
place. "One o'clock" is the answer. Why"
says the courtier. that is just the hour that
Jesus said TO Thy son hveth.' One
o'clock.
As they gather at the evening meal what
gladness on all the cOuntenances in that
home at Capernaum The mother, Joanna,
has not had sleep for many nights, and she
now falls off into delightful slumber. The
father Chuza, the Herodian courtier, worn
out with anxiety well as by the rapid
Journey to and from Cana, is soon IL restful
unconsclousness. Joanna was Christian
before, but warrant she was more or
Christian afterward. Did the father Chuza
accept the Christ who had cured his boy?
Is there in all the earth a parent so migrate
1uI Tor the cOnvaleScence or restoration of
an 1nFerlled child as not to go into room
and kneel down and make surrender to the
almighty love that came to the rescues
The mlghtlest agency in the universe is
prayer, and it turns even the Almighty It
decides the destinies Of individuals families
and nations. During our sad civil war a
gentleman was guest at the White House
in Washington, and he gives this incident
he says: " had been spending three weeks
in the White House with Mr.. Lincoln as his
guest. One night-it was just after the bat
tie of Bull Rum was restless and could not
sleep. L was repeating the part which I was
to take In a public performance. The hour
was past midnight. Indeed, it was coming
near to the dawn when / heard low tones
proceeding from a private room where the
President slept. The door was partly OPEN
1nst1ncuveIy walked in, and there [ saw
sight which l shall never forget. 1t was the
President kneeIing before an open Bible.
The light was turned low in the room
his back was turned toward me. For a mo-
ment [ was silent as | stood looking in
amazement and wonder Then he cried out
IN tones so pitful and sOrrOwful: oh, Thou
God that heard Solomon in the night when
l
lead this people, cannot guide the affairs Of
this nation without Thy help. I am poor and
weak and sinful. On, God, who didst hear
solomon when ne cr1dd Tor VISION, near ME
and save the nation?" You see we don't need
to go back to Bible times for evidence that
prayer is heard and answered.
But some may say that Christ at Ca
pernaum healed that courtiers child vet
would not have done it for one in humble
life. Why, in that very Capernaum He did
the same thing for dying slave belonging
to the man who had made a present to the
town of the church of which Jesus was pas
tor, the synagogue among whose ruins | to-
day leap from fragment to fragment. This
was the cure of a Roman soldiers slave
whose only acknowledged rights were the
wishes Of his owner. And none are now SO
enslaved or so humble or so sick or so sinful
but the all-sympathetic Christ is ready to
help them, ready to cure them, ready to
en1ancinata than Haar iti Pardon for all
Mercy Tor all. neIp Tor all comfort for
all. Heaven for all. Oh, this lake Galileel
What refreshment for Christ it must have
been after sympathzing with the sick, and
raising the dead, and preaching to the multi
tudes all day long TO come down on these
banks in the night time 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 htlled lake and mountain coast.
All heaven and earth were gtlll-thoagh not in
sleep.
But breathess, we grow when feeling most.
But" says some one ''why was it that
Christ, coming to save the world should
spend so much of His time on and around SO
solitary a place as Lake Gailee? There is
only one city of any size on it's beach, and
both the western and eastern shores are
solitude broken only by the sounds coming
from the mud novels of the degraded. Why
did not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty,
at Athens the learned, at Cairo the historic
triumphant? If Christ was going to save
the world, why not go where the worlds
people dwell? Would man wishing to
revolutionlze for good the American con-
tnent, 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 staggers realization. On
the shore of the lake we sail to-day stood
Hippos, Gamala, Chorazin, Capernaum
Bethsaida, Magdal6, Tiberias--and many
villages the smallest of which had 15 600 in
habitants, according to Josephus, and reach
ing from the beach back into the country in
all directions. Palaces, temples, coliseumns,
gymnaslumS, amphitheatres, towers, gardens
terraced on the hillsides, fountains bewilder-
ing 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 all kinds of war gal
ley. 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 aud sparkling foam,
Ju6fRa fOupht with