The Monmouth inquirer., 1890-12-04

way we wish, It is because Sod has
something better 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 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 directions to
make the remaining hours peaceful, and
according to the custom In those times
in country places the neighbors had al
ready come In and made the shroud, the
forlorn case suddenly frightened and
tho prayer "Come down ere my child
die!" was answered in q recovery
that has not been followed by a mo-
ment's sickness from that time to this.
The mightiest agency In the universe
is prayer, and it turns even the Almighty.
1t decides the destinies of individuals,
families and nations. During our sad
civil war gentleman was guest at the
White House in Washington, and he
gives this incident. He says: II had been
spending three weeks In the White House
with MIR. Lincoln as his guest. One
night-it was just after the battle OF Bull
Rum was restless and could not sleep.
I was repeating the part which was to
take in public performance. The
hour was past midnight. Indeed, It
was coming near to the dawn when
/ heard low tones proceeding from
~us~ 10 vuhA
dent slept. The door was partly open.
/ instinctively walked In, and there I
saw sight 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 moment / was silent as stood
looking in amazement and wonder.
Then he cried out in tones SO pitiful and
sorrowful: 'Oh, thou God that heard
Solomon in the night when he prayed
for wisdom, hear me? ! cannot lead
this people, 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
nation!'" We don't need to go back to Bi-
BILE times for evidence that prayer Is heard
and answered. But some one may say
that Christ at Capernaum healed that
courtier's child, yet would not have done
1t 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 pastor,
the synagogue among whose ruins I
to-day leap from fragment to frag-
ment. 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 SO 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 for all. Oh, this lake
Galilee What a refreshment for
Christ 1t must have been after sympa-
thizing with the sick, and raising the
dead, and preaching 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 his hot face, and
look up to the stars, the lighted lamps
around the heavenly palaces from which
he has descended!
All heaven and earth were still; from the high
post
OF stars to the hiIled lake and mountain coast.
All heaven and earth were still-though not
in sleep,
But breathless, as 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 place as Lake Call
leel There Is only one city OF any size
on it's beach, and both the western and
eastern shores are solitude, broken
ely by the sounds coming from the mud
novels Of the degraded. Why did not
Christ begin ut Babylon the mighty, at
Athens the learned, at Cairo the historic,
at Thebes the hundred gated, at Rome,
the triumphant II Christ was going to
save the world, why not 60 where the
worlds people dwell Would man,
wishing to revolutionize for good the
American continent, pass his time amid
the fishing huts on the shores Of New
foundland 2"
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wheel of civilization and art, and the
center of population that staggers real
ization. On the shore Of the lake we
sail to-day stood nine great cities -6cyth-
opolis, Tarich, Hippos, Gamala, Chorazin,
Capernaum, Bethsaida, Magdala, Tibe-
rias-and many villages the smallest OF
which had $4,000 inhabitants, according
to Josephus, and reaching from the beach
back into the country in all directions.
Palaces, temples, coliseums, gymnasi-
ums, amphitheatres, towers, gardens
terraced on the hillsides, fountains, be-
wildering 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 shallops OF
dreadful with all kinds Of war galley.
Four thousand ships, history says, were
at one time upon these waters. Battles
were fought there, which shocked all ma
tions with their consequences.
Here mingled blood with pure and sparkling
foam,
! In her last throes Judma fought with Rome.
TTnon those sea fights looked Vespasiau