The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-05

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God that heard Solomon in the night
when he prayed for wisdom. hear mel
/ can not lead this people, can not
guide the affairs of this Nation without
Thy help / am poor and weak and
sinful o God, who didst hear Solomon
when he cred for wisdom. hear me and
save the Nationr You see we don't
need to go back to Bible times for evil
dence that prayer is hea I'd and an
! swercd-
But some one may say that Christ at
CapeEnaum healed that courtier's child,
yet He would not have done 1t for one
| in humble life Why. in that very
Capernaum He did the same thing for
dying slaveS This was the cure OF a
Roman soldiers slave, whose only ac-
knowledged ghts were the wishes OF
his owner And none are so now en-
shaved or so humble or sick or so sinful,
but the aIi-sympathetic Christ is ready
to help them, ready to cure them. ready
| to emanc pate them
But" says some one, why was it
that Christ coming to save tho world
/ should spend so much Of his time on
and around SO solitary a p ace as Lake
/ GalileeP There is only one city OF any
size on its 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
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! the historic, at Thebes the hundred
gated, at Rcme the triumphant If
Christ was going TO save the world, why
not go where the worlds people dwellP"
/ My friends, Galilee was the hub of the
/ wheel of civilization, and art, and the
| center OF a population that staggers
| realization On the shore of tho lake
1 we sail to- day, stood nine great cities,
| Seythopolis, TaFiche, Hlppos, Canada,
ohOrazin, CaPernaum. Bethsa;das Mag
| dala, Tiberias-and many villages, the
| smallest of which had Is, 900 in
hab.taHts, according TO Josephus,
and reaching from the beach back
! into the country in ali direct tons
-Four thousand ships, history says,
were at one time upon these waters
Battles were fought there which
shocked all nations with their conse-
quences-
Upon those sea fights looked YES
pssian and Titus, and Trajan, and
whole empires From one OF these
naval encounters so many of tho dead
! hoated to the beach they could not soon
| enough be entombed, and plague was
| threatened Twelve hundred soldiers
| escaping from these vessels of war were
one day massacred in the amphi thea ter
at liberals. For 500 years that almost
| continuous city encjrcling Lake Galilee
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
emaneipate its enslaved' and reanima 10
its dead.
And let the church and the world take
the suggestion. While the solitary
places are not to be neglected, We must
strike for the great cities IL tn lis world
/ is ever to be taken for Christ Evangel-
ize all the earth except the cities and in
one year the cities would corrupt tho
earth. But bring the cities and all tho
word Will come Bring Paris and
! France will come. Bring Berlin and
! Germany wi ! come Bring St Peters
! burg and Russia will come. Bring Vi
/ emma and Austria viii come. Bring
/ Cairo and Egypt will como Bring the
/ near 3, 600 600 people in this cluster of
cities on the Atlantic coast and all
America Will soon see the salvation OF
| God
oThou blessed Christ who didst come
/ to the mighty cities enc.rcling Lake
Galilee! come in mercy to all our great
| cities of to-day. Thou who didst put
! Thy hand on tho white name of the
| foaming bills OF Gennesaret and make
them lie down at Thy feet, hush ali the
/ raging passions of the world O Thou
/ blessed Christ who on the night when
the disciples were trying to cross this
lake and ''the wind was contrary, - after
| nine hours of rowing had made only
three miles, didst come stepping on
water that at the touch OF Thy foot
hardened into 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 l. BE not af aidi'
Thank God that have cen this lake
of Christly memories, and 1 can say
with Robert McCheyne. the assembled
minister of Scotland, who, seated on
the banks OF this lake, wrote in his last,
SEX days and just before he crossed the
Jordan, not the Jordan that empties
into Galilee, but the Jordan that emp
ties into the sea of glass mingled with
! fire." these sweet words Fl t to be played
| by human fingers on strung strings of
earthly Lutte or by angelic fingers on
! seraphic harps;
! IL is not that the mil ga zaIIe
Co tlrs down 10 drink thy tide,
But lie that was pierced to save from hell
OFT wandered by thy side.
Graceful around thee the mountains meet.
Tuou calm, posing sea;
I But ahi f-r more. the be uutitul feet
OF Jrsus walSed Ger thee
o saviour! gone 60 Gods right hand,
Yet the same Saviour stiII.
Graved On Thy heart Is tkIs lovely strand