Connecticut western news., 1890-12-03

child as not to go into a room and kneel down and make surrender to the almighty love that came to the rescue?
 ACCEPT THE DOCTRINE.
 Do not mix up this case with the an Hy discussions 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 mightier than a typhoid fever. And there is not a doctor of large prac- ice but has come into the sick room of some hopeless case and, in a cheerful manner if he were a Christian, or with a bewildered manner if he were skeptic, said: Well, what have you been doing with this patients What have you been giving him? The pulse is better The crisis is past. After all, I think he will get we'll" Prayer will yet be acknowledged in the worlds ma- teria medica, and the cry is just as ap- propriate now as when Chuza the
 
 Christ's hearing, Come down ere my child diew If the prayer be not an swered in the way we wish, it is because God has something better for the child than earthly recovery, and there are thousands of men and women now alive in answer to fathers and mothers prayers, myself one of the multitude
 For I have heard my parents tell how, when at three years of age scarlet fever seemed to have done its full work on me, and the physicians had said there was no more use of their coming and they had left few simple direc- tions to make the remaining hours peaceful. and according to the custom in those times in country places, the neighbors had already come in and made the shroud, the forlorn case sud denly heightened and the prayer Come down ere my child die!'' was answered in recovery that has not been followed by moments sickness from that time to this.
 The mightiest agency in the universe is prayer, and it turns even the Al mighty It decides the destinies of in dividuals, families and nations Dur ing our sad civil war a gentleman was guest at the White House in Wash ington, and he gives this incident. He says: ''I had been spending three weeks in the White House with Mr. Lincoln as his guest. One night-it was just after the battle of Bull Run I was restless and could not sleep. 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 1 heard low tones proceeding from a pri- vate room where the president slept. The door was partly open. l instinct ively walked in, and there I saw sight which shall never forget It was the president kneeling before an open Bible.
 'The light was turned low in the room. His back was turned toward me; for moment I was silent as l stood looking in amazement and won I der. Then he cried out in tones so l pitifm and sorrowful: "Oh, thou God | he prayed for wisdom, hear me! l cannot lead this people, 1 cannot guide the affairs of this nation without thy help. am poor and weak and sinful Oh, God, who didst hear Solomon when he cried for wisdom, hear me and save the nationp You see we don't need to go back to Bible times for evidence that prayer is heard and answered.
 CHRIST WAS EVERY MANS FRIEND.
 But some one may say that Christ at Capernaum healed that courtier's child, yet he would not have done it for one in humble life. Why, in that very Ca pernaum he did the same thing for a dying slave, belonging to the man who had made present to the town of the church of which Jesus was pastor, the synagogue among whose ruins today 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 enslaved or so humble or sick or so sinful but the all sympathetic Christ is ready to help them, ready to cure them, ready to emancipate them. Hear it! Pardon for all Mercy fo1 all Help for all. Comfort for all. Heaven for all. Oh, this Lake Galilee What a rcfreshment for Christ it must have been after sympathizing with the tick, and raising the dead, and preach ing to the multitudes all day long to come down on these banks in the night time and feel the cool air of the sea on bis hot face and look up to the stars, the lighted lamps around the heavenly palaces from which he had descended! 1! All heaven and earth still; from the high | post
 Of stars to the hilled lake and mountain coast.
 All heaven and earth were still-though not In
 sleep,
 But breathless as we grow when feeling most. l "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 Galilee2 There is only one city of any size on it's beach, and both the western and eastern shores are solitude, brok- en 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 his toric, at Thebes the hundred gated, at Rome the triumphant2 If Christ was going to save the world, why not go where the worlds people dwell9 Would man, wishing to revolutionize for good the American continent, pass his time amid the fishing huts on the shores of Newfoundland" .-. l My friends, Galilee was the hub of the wheel of civilization and art, and l H.. ao-4o. n %bof <r