The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-12-03

now alive In answer to fathers an
mothers prayers, myself ono OF tn
multitude. For I have heard my PAL
ents tell, when at three years OF age
scarlet fever seemed TO have done 1t
full work on me and the physicians ha
said there was no moro use Of their com
ing, and they had left few simple di
rections to make the remaining hour
peaceful, and according to the custom
In those times in country places, tn
neighbors had already come in an,
made the shroud, the forlorn case sud
denly frightened, and the prayer
Come down ere my child dio!' was an
swered in a recovery that has not beer
followed bya moments sickness from
that time to this.
The mightiost agency in the univers,
Is prayer and it turns even the Almighty
II decides the destinies OF individuals
families and nations. During our sac
civil war gentleman was a guest a
the White House in Washington and h'
gives this incident He says: II had
been spending three weeks in tho 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 tho part
which l was to take in a public per-
formance. Tho hour vas past midnight.
Indeed, 1t was coming near to the
dawn when heard low tones proceed
ing from private room whore the Presi-
dent slept The door was partly open.
instinctively walked in and there saw o
sight which I shall never forget 1t was
the President kneeling before an open
Bible. The light was turned low in the
room. His back was turned toward me;
for a moment | was silent as | stood
looking in amazement and wonder.
Then he criod out in tones so pitiful and
sorrowful: % thou God that heard Sol.
omon In the night when he prayed for
wisdom, hear me! can not lead this
people, l can NOT guide tho affairs OF
this nation without Thy help. am poor
and weak and s,aful o God who didst
boar Solomon when he cried for wisdom,
hear me and save the nationp" You
see we don't togo back to the Bible
times for evidence that prayer is heard
and answered.
But some one may say that Ch rist at
Capernaum healed that courtier's child.
yet IIo would not have done 1t, for one
in humble life Why, in that very
Capernaum, lie did tho same thing for a
dying slave, belongi ing to tie man, who
had made present to the town OF tho
church OF which jesus was pastor, the
synagogue among whose ruins ! 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 enslaved or so humble or sick or
30 sinful, but the all-sympathetic Christ
Is ready to holp them, ready to cure
them, ready to emancipate them.
Hear 1t! Pardon for all. Mercy
for all Help for all. Comfort
Tor all. Heaven for all. o, this Lake
Galilee What refreshment for Christ
It must have been after sympathizing
with the sick, and raising the dead, and
to the multitudes all day long,
10 come down on these banks in the
night time and feel the cool air OF tho
Iea on his hot face, and look up TO the
'tars, the lighted lamps around the
palaces from which he had de-
cended.
III Heaven and earth were STILL from the high
post
u stars to the hilled lake and mountain coast.
III Heaven and earth were still-though not in
sleep,
tut breathless as We grow when feeling most
But" says some one, "why was 1t
hat Christ, coming TO save the world,
hould spend so much OF His time on
nd around so solitary place as Lake
ialileo? There is only one city Of any
ize on its beach, and both the western
nd eastern shores are solitude,
roken only by the sounds coming from
he mud novels Of the degraded. Why
i'd not Christ begin at Babylon tho
,ighty at Athens tho learned, ct Cairo
he historic, at Thebes the hundred
atcd, at Rome tho triumphant? II
hrist was going to save tho world
Thy not go where the worlds people
well9 Would man, wishing TO rev.
lutionize for good the American Con-
nent, pass his time amid tho fishing
uts on the shores OF Newfoundland?"
ly friends, Galilee was the hub OF tho
heel OF civilization, and art. and the
'nter OF a population that staggcrs
,alization. On the shore OF the lake
Q sail to-day stood nine great cities,
cythopolis, Tsriche, lIippos, Gamala,
hora2in, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Mag
ala, Tiberias-and many villages, the
nallest Of which had Is, 600 inhabitants,
,cording to ,losephus, and reaching from
10 beach back into the country in all
rections. Palaces temples, coliseums,
amphitheaters, towers,
lrdens terraced on the hillsidos, foun-
'ins, bewilderlng with sunlight baths
pom whose mosaic floors kings trod,
hile this lake from whore the Jordan
tiers 1t to whore the Jordan leaves it l
rs beautiful with all styles OF shallop,
dreadful with all kinds OF war gal
on. Four thousand ships. history says,
ore at one timo upon these waters.
lttles were fought thcre which shocked !
! nations with there consequences !
sre mingled blood with pure and sparkling
foam,
her last throes Jud@a fought with Rome. ,
Upon those sea-Hghts looked Ves-