Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-05

we perish!' hal all along that morning
been reading from the New Testament the
story of occurrences on and around that lake.
But our Bible was closed now, and it was as
much as we could do to hold fast aud wish
for the land If the wind and tho waves had
continued to increase in violence the follow
ing fifteen minutes in the same ratio as in the
first five. and we had been still at their mercy,
our bones would have been bleaching in the
bottom of Lake Gennesaret instead OF our
beng here to tell the story.
But the same power that rescued the fish
ermen Of old to-day safely landed our party.
What a Christ for rough weather. All tno
,ailor boys ought to fly to Him as did those
Galiean mariners All you IN the forecastle
and all you VINO run uo AMI down the slip
perry ratlines, take to sea with you Him VINO
with a quiet word sent the winds back
through the mountain gorges. Some OF you
Jack rars to whom these words will come
need to tack ship" ami change your course
If you are going to get across this sea OF life
safely and gain the heavenly hsrbor. Delay
there Ready about. Helms a-leel Main-
sail haul
Star of pescel beam Ger the billow,
Bless the soul thst signs for thee
Bless the sailors lonely pillow,
Far, far al sea.
Here at Caparnaum, the Arabs having in
their arms carried US ashore to the only
place where our Lord ever had a pastorate,
and we stepped amid the ruins OF the church
where He preached again ami again and
Rrsin-the synagogue whose rich sculptur-
Ing lay there, not as when others see II IN
sDringtime covered with weeds and loath'
some with reptiles, but in that December
weather completely uncovered to our agi-
tated and intense gaze On one stone of that
synagogue is the sculpturing OF pot OF
mamma. an artistic COMMUNICATION OF the
time when the Israelites we're fed by mama
in the wilderness and to which sculpturng
no doubt Christ pointed upward while he
was preaching that sermon on this very spot
in which He said: Not as our fathersdid eat
mama and are dead; ne that eateth OF TIM
bread shall live forever" wonderful CS
nernaum, Scene Of mora miracles than any
place in ell the earta Blind eyes ENDING
with the morning. Withere1 arms made TO
pu,sste. Ieoers blooming into health. The
dead girl reanimate1.
These Arab tents which on this December
day find in Palestine disappear, and l see
Capernaum as it was when Jesus was pastor
of the church here. Look at that wealthy
home. the architecture. the marble 'front.'
the upholstery, the slaves in uniform at the
doorway. II is thu residence OF a courtler OK
Heroi, probably ChuZl by name, his wite
Joanna. a Christian disciple But something
is tine matter. The slaves are IN great ex-
element. and the courtier living there runs
down the front steps and takes horse and
Duts him at full run across the country Ina
bow of that nobleman is dying OF TYPHOID
fever All the doctors have failed 10 give
relies. But about five miles up the country,
at Cana, there is divine doctor, Jesus by
name. AMI the agonizei father has gone tor
Him. and with what earnestness those can
understand who have had dying chlld IN
the house This courtier cries to Christ,
Come down ere my child die"
While the father is absent, and at O'CLOCK
in the afternoon, the people watching the
diving boy see a change in the countenance,
and Joanna. the mother. on one side Of his
| coucn. saws: "Why. this darling is getting
well. the fever has DroSen. See the prespira-
ton on his forehead. Did any of You give
him any new Kind of medcine% NO. Is
the answer. The boy turns on his pillow,
his delirum gone, and ASKS for something TO
eat and saws: where's father? Oh, be has
gone up to Cana to get a young doctor OF
| about thirty-ole years OF age. But no doctor
| is needed now in this house at Capernaum.
! The people look at the sun dial to see what
| time it is, and see it is just past noon and
o'cock. Then they start out and meet the
returning father and as soon as they come
within speaking distance they shout at the
! ton of their voices: Your boy is getting
we'll" rs it possibleY' says the father,
"When did the change for the better take
nlaceT' lone o'clock is the answer why"
saws the courtier. that is just the hour that
| Jesus said to rue Thy son hyeth' One
O'Clock.
AS thev gather at the evening meal what
| g'sdness on all the countenances 10 Una
! home at CaDernaum, The mother Joanna,
| has not had sleep for many nights, and she
now tails off into delightful slumber. The
father. Chuza the Herodian courtler. worn
ont with anxiety as well as by the RAPID
tourney 10 and from Cana is soon III restIui
Inconsistencies Joanna was a Christian
! before, butt | warrant she was more o.
| Christian afterward Did the father Chuza
accept the Christ who had cured his boy?
! Is there in all the earth parent so migrate
| full for the convalescence or restoration or
an imI eriled child as not TO 20 into a room
/ and kneel down and make surrender to the
almighty love that came to the rescue?
The mightest agency in the universe is
| PRAYER, and it turns even the Almighty. 1t
decides the destiuies of individuals. families
and nations During our sad civil war
gentleman was a guest at the White House
in Washington, and he gives this incident.
/ He says: al had been spending three weeks
/ in the White House with Mr.. Lincoln as his
| guest One night-it was Just after the bat
/ tie of Bull Rum was restless and could not
sleep was repeating the part which was
TO take in a public performance. The hour
was past midnight Indeed, il was coming
near to the dawn when ! heard low tones
proceeding from a private room where the
! President slept. The door was partly open.
instinctively walked in, AMI there | saw a
sight which l shall never forget. 1t was the
| President Ineeling before an oOen Bible.
1.-The light was turned low in the room.
His back was turned toward me. For mo-
ment | was silent as | stood looking in
amazement and wonder. Then be cried out
in tones 50 pitiful and sOrrowful: Oh, Thou
God that heard Solomon in the night when
he PRAYED for wisdom, hear mel ] cannot
lead this people, IcannOt guide the affairs of
/ this nation without Thy help. am poor and
weak and sinful. On, God, who didst hear
Solomon when he cridd for vision, hear me
and save the nationP" You see WEI don't need
to 90 back to Bible times for evidence that
prayer is heard and answered.
But some one may say that Christ at Ca
| pernaum healed that courtier's child, vet
| would not have done IL for one in humble
life Why, in that very Cspernaum he did
the same thing for a dy g slave belonging
to the man who had ma 70 a present to the
town of the church OF which Jesus was pas
tor, the synagogue among whose ruins | to-
|
was the cure of Roman soldiers slave,
wGose only acknowledged rights were the
wishes Of his owner. And none are now so
enseved or so humble or SO SICK or 50 sinful
but the allsympathetic Christ is ready 70
help them, ready 10 cure them, ready to
emancipate them. Hear Ill Pardon for all.
Mercy for all Hep for all. Comfort for
| all. Heaven for all Oh, this lake Galilesi
| What refreshment for Christ it must have
been after sympathizing with the sic.. and
raising the dead, and preaching to the multi
tubes 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 had descended
An heaven and earth were sill: from the hlgi post
| Of stars TO the hilled lake and mountain coast
| All heaven and earth were ftill--hougn notin
sleep.
Bat GREATNESS, ss We grow when feeling most
"But," saws 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 Galilees There Is
| only one city Of any sizs on it's beach. and