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Ia this house - Cxpernsum. The poop.s
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ing father aud Sc soon as they cone within
speakins distance they shout Al the top of
their voices "Yoar boy Is getting well +"
Is it pesssblei" says the father. "When
did the change for the better take place.
One clock" Is tie aasweF why" says
the ceurtier, that Is just The hour that
Jesus said 10 mo Thy son lyesh.' One
o'clock
GLADSKss on rHxIR ooUsfKSAscR
AS they gather at the evening meal what
glAAnass OF all the eountenenoes in thst
home al Capernaunl The mother, Josa-
Ia. has net bad sleep fer many nislts, and
she now falls of into delightful siuInesr.
The father, Chuxa, the Rerodian cpurtier,
wsrn ent with anxiety a. well az by the
rapid journey 10 and from Cana, IL soon IN
rsstful unoenscioasncss. Joanna Was a
Christian before, bat ! warrant she was
moro Of Christian afterwxrd- Did the
father Chuxa accept the Christ who had
cured his boyi In there in all The earth a
parent 30 unGrstefal for the eonvalesocnoo
or restsrs alton Of an imperiled child as not
TO go into a room and kneel down and
make surrender 10 the almighty love that
came TO the rescue,
Do not mix up this case with the angry
accept the doctrine, as old as tse Bible,
that God does answer prayer for the sick.
That Capernaun boy was not the only
illustration of the fact that prayer is
mightier than typhoid fever. And there
is not doctor of large practice bat has
come into the sick room Of some hopeless
case and, in a cheerful manner if he were
a Christian, or with bewildered manner
II be were a skcptic, said: well, what
have you been doing with this PATIENT
What have you been giving hin' The
pulse is better. The crisis is past. After
all, think be will get we'll" Prayer will
yet be Acknowledged in the world Is materia
medica, and the cry is just as appropriate
now as when Chuzs, the courtier from
Cspernaum, uttered in Christ's hearing,
Come down ere my child diei''
II the prayer be not answered in the way
we wish, IL 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 aud
mothers' prayers, myself one of the multi
tude. For l 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 moro use of their coming and they had
left few simple directions 10 make the
remaining hours peaceful, and according
to the custom in those times in country
places the reishbors had already come in
and made the shroud, the forlorn case sud
denly frightened and the prayer Come
down ere my child diel' was answered in a
recovery that has not been followed by a
moments sickness from that time TO this.
PRAYER TuE NIGHTrEsT AGENCY.
The nighticst agency In the universe is
prayer, and Ii tarns even the Almighty II
decides the dsstinies of individuals FAM
lies and nations. During our sad civil war
a gentleman was a guest at the White
House in Washington, and be gives this in
cidont. He says: 81 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 was
restless and could not sleep. was repeat
ing the part which was to take in pub
lie performance The hour was past mid
night Indeed, il was coming near to the
dawn when ! heard low tones proceeding
from a private room where tho president
slept. The door was partly open. l in
Btinctively walked in, and there / saw
sight which / shall never forget 1t was
The president knceling before an open
Bible.
The light was turned low ia the room.
His back was turned toward me. For a
moment I was silent as / stood locking in
amazcment and wonder. Then be cried
out In tones so pitiful and sorrowful: oh,
thou God that heard Solomon in the night
when be 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 Sclomon when be cried for
wisdom. hear me and save the nationp I"
You see we don't need to 60 back 10 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, yet
would no, have dene it for one Ia humble
life. Why. In that very Cspernann he
did the ser,e thing for dying slave be
longing 70 the nsn who had made pres
ent to the town ef the church Of wh4ua Je-
sus WAS pastor, the synagogue among
whose ruins today leap from fragment to
fragment This was TIE cure of q Roman
soldier's slave. whose only Acknowledged
rights were the wishes Of his own-r. And
none are now so esslsved or 50 humble or
40 sick or so sinful but the ali sym pat hetic
Christ Is ready to help them. ready TO cure
shern. readyte ernsucipste them. Hear 81
I Pardon for AT. Mercy for al. Help for
al. Comfort for all Heaven for all. Oh.
/ this lake Gsill,ei what q re{reshmsnt
I for Christ IL must have bcsn after symps-
tAising rish the sick, ard raising tbs
dead, And prsaosiaz y the nultituass all
day losx 50 co<ne so~n On these baai1 in
/ the night tiHcs. and feel The cool air Of the
l "a on his het fsee and ooh M % u. ear.