Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-06

day massacred ia the amphitheatre at Tibe-
rias. For three hundred years that almost
continuous city encircling Lake 5aiiles 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 emaucipate its enslaved and
reanimate its dead
And let the church and the world take the
suggestion. While the .olitary places are
not to be neglected, we must strike for the
great cities, if this world Is ever to be taken
for Christ Eyangeiz. all the earth except
the cities and in one year the cities would
corrupt the earth But bring the cities and
England will come. Bring Berlin and Ger
many will come. Bring Paris and France
will come. Bring St. Petersburg and Russia
will come Bring visnna 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 aud all
America wild soon see the salvation of God.
Ministers of religion. let us intensity our
evangelism. Editors aud publishers purify
your printing pressesl Asylums 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 men and
women and children, not realizing that the
more useless and bad psoo.e a city has tine
worse it is off, and city wnica has ten thou
sand good people is mora to be admired than
city with ons hundred thousand bad peo
pie let us take a moral census and see how
many good men AMI good women are lead.
ing forth, how large generation OF good
children who will consecrate Ia amselves AMI
coasecrate the round world to holiness an
to Col On thou blessed Christ, who didst
come t, the mighty cities encircling Lake
Galilee. come in mercy to all our great cities
of to-day.
Thou wno didst put Thy hsnl ON the whits
name OF the foamiDg pillows of Gannesaret
and make them lie down at Thy feet, hush all
the raging passions of the world On, Thou
blessed Christ, who on the night when the
disciples were trying to cross this lake and
1.-THE wind was contrary after nine hours
of rowing had made only threa miles, didst
come stepping on water tnat at the touch OF
Thy foot hardened info 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, as Thou
didst to the drenched disciples in the cyclone:
"Be of good cheer 1t is |. Be not afraidr'
Thank God that l have seen this lake of
Christly memories and | can say with
Robert McCheyne, the assembled ministsr OF
Scotland, who seated on the banks OF this
lake, wrote in his last sick days, and just be-
fore he crossed the Jordan, not the Jordan
that empties into Galiee, but the Jordan
that empties into the 'sea of glass mingled
with fire, 4" these sweet words. fit to be plavei
by human fingers. on strung strings Of
earthly lutte, Or by angel, fingers on seraphic
harps:
1t is not that the wild gazsle
Comes down 10 drink lhy tide.
But He that was pierced to save from hell
OFT wandered by thy side
Graceful 70 md thee the mountains meet
Thou CAIN. rerosing sea;
But ali! far more, the beautiful feet
Or Jesus walked DER thee.
o Sayiourl gone to Gods rixht hand,
Yet the same Saviour still.
Graved on Thy hesrt is this lovely strand
Aud every fragrant hi.