The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-12-04
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been followed by moments sickness
from that time TO this.
The mightlest agency In the universe
Is prayer, and it turns even the Al
mighty, 1t decides the destinieS of in
dividuals, families and nations Dur,
ing our sad civil war gentleman was
a guest at the White House in Wash
ington, and he gives this incident, He
says II had been spending three
weeks in the White House with Mr..
Lincoln as his gueat. One night-it
was just after the battle of Bull Run
| was restless and could not sleep,
was repeating the part which was to
take in a public performance. The
hour WAS past midnight. Indeed, it
was coming near to the dawa when
heard low tones proceeding from pri
waite room where the president slept,
The door was partly open. instinct
lively walked in, and there saw sight
which shall never forget, 1t was the
president kneeling before an open Bible,
1.-THE light was turned low in the
room, His back was turned toward
me; for u moment | was silent us
stood looking in amazement and won
der, 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 mel !
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
heSried for wisdom, hear me and save
the nation" You see we don't need
to go back to Bible times for evidence
that prayer is heard and answered
CHRIST WAS EVERY MANS FRIEND.
But some one may say that Christ at
Capernaum healed that courtier's child,
yet he would not have done it for one
in humble life. Why, in that very Ca
pernaum he did the same thing for a
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 today
leap from fragment to fragment. This
was the cure of a 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 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. Help for all. Comfort for all.
Heaven for all. Oh, this Lake Gallee
What a refreshment for Christ it must
have been after syInpathizing with the
sick, and raising the dead, and preach
ing 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 had descended
All heaven and earth were still; from the high
post
OF stars to the hled lake and mountain coast,
All heaven and earth were still-though not In
sleep,
But GREATNESS 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
Galilee9 There is only one city of any
size on its beach, and both the western
and eastern shores are solitude, brok-
en- only by the sounds coming from the
mud novels of the degraded. Why did
not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty,
at Athens the learned, at Cairo the his
toric, at Thebes the hundred gated, at
Rome the triumphant? If Christ was
going to save the world, why not go
where the worlds people dwell9 Would
a man, wishing to revolutionize for
good the American continent, pass his
time amid the fishing huts on the shores
of Newfoundland"
My friends, Galilee was the hub of
the wheel of civilization and art, and
the center of population that stag
gers realization. On the shore of the
lake we sail today stood nine great cities
--Scythopolis, Tarich, Hippos, Gam
ala Chorazin, Capernaum, Bethsaida,
Magdala Tiberias-and many villages,
the smallest of which had Is, 600 inhab
itants, according to Josephus, and
reaching from the beach back into the
country in all directions. Palaces, ten
pies, coliseums, gymnasiums, anphithe
aires, towers, gardens terraced on the
hillsides, fountains bewildering 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 shallop or 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
nations with their consequences.
Here, mngling blood with pure and sparkling
foam,
Ii her last throes Judaa fought with Rome
Upon those sea fights looked Yes
pasian and Titus and Trajan and whole
empires From one of these naval en-.
counters so many of the dead floated to
the beach they could not soon enough
be intombed, and plague was threat
ened. Twelve hundred soldiers escap-
ing from these vessels of war were one
day massacred in the amphitheatre at
Tiberias For three hundred years that
almost continuous city encircling Lake
Galilee was themetropolis 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 einacipate its enslaved and re
animate its dead
STRIKE FOR THE GREAT CITIES
And let the church and the world
take the suggestion. While the soil
tory places are not to be neglected VIC
must strike for the great cities if this
world is ever to be taken for Christ.
| Evangclize all the earth except the
cities and in one year the cities would
corrupt the earth. But bring the cities
and all the world will come. Bring
| London and England will come Brine