Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

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. Help for
all Comfort for all. Heaven for all Oh,
this lake Galileel What refreshment
for Christ it 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 arouad The heavenly
palaces from which he had descended
All heaven and earth were still; from the high post
OF stars to the billed lake and mountain coast
All heaven and earth we're 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 Galilee2 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 de-
graded. Why did not Christ begin at
Babylon the mighty, at Athens the learned,
at Cairo the historic. at Thebes the hun
dred gated, at Rome the triumphant II
Christ was going to save the world, why
not go where the worlds people dwell'
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, Gailee was the hub of the
/ wheel Of civilization and art. and the
center OF population that staggers real
1 ization. On the shore of the lake we
sail today stood nine great cities Scyth-
I opolis, Tarieh, Hippos, Canada, Chora-
/ Yin, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Magdala,
/ Iiberias-and many villages the smallest
Of which had 1900 inhabitants, accord
\ ing to Josephus, and reaching from the
/ beach back into the country in all direc-
/ tons, Palaces, temples cOlseums, gym
nasiums, amphitheatres, towers, gardens
terraced on the hilisides, fountains be-
I 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 shallop or dreadful with all kinds
Of war galley Four thousand ships, his
tory says, were at one time upon these wa
tiers. Battles were fought there, which
shocked all nations with their conse-
queuces.
Here minglng blood with pure and sparkling
foam,
In her last throes Jud,ea fought with Rome
Upon those sea fights looked Vespasan
and Titus and Traian and whole empires
From one of these naval encounters so
many Of the dead floated to the beach they
could not soon enough be entombed, and i
plague was threatened. Twelve hundred
soldiers escaping from these vessels of war
were one day massacred IN the amphithea-
tire ut Tiberias. For three hundred years
that almost continuous city encircling
Lake Galilee was the metropolis of our
planet. II WINS to the very heart of the
world that Jesus came to soothe its sor
rows, and pardon its sins, and heal its sick
and emancipate its enslaved and reanimate
its dead
TAKE THE SUGGESTION.
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 this world is ever to be |
taken for Christ Evangelize all the earth |
except the cities and in one year the cities
would corrupt the earth. But bring the |
cities and all the world win come. Bring /
London and England will come Bring /
Paris and France viii come Bring Berlin /
and Germany will come Bring st Peters.
burg and Russia will come. Bring Vienna
and Austria win come Bring Cairo and
Egypt will come. Bring the near three
million people in this cluster of cities on
the Atlantic const and all America will
soon see the salvation Of God Ministers
of religion let Us intensity our eyangel-
ism. Editors and publishers purify your
printing presses Asyluns Of mercy en-
large your plans of endeavorl
And instead OF this absurd and belittling
and wicked rivalry among our cities as to
which happens TO have the most men and
women and children, not realizing that the
more useless and bad people a city has the
worse il is off, and a city which has ten
thousand good people is more to be ad
mired than u city with one hundred thou
sand bad people, let US take moral census,
aud see how many good men and good wo
men are leading forth, how large genera
ton OF good children who will consecrate
themselves and consecrate the round world
TO holiness and to God Oh, thou blessed
Christ, who didst come to the mighty cities
Lake Galileel come in mercy to
all our great cities of today.
Thou who didst put thy hand on the white
name Of the foaming pillows of Gennesaret
and make them lie down at thy feet, hush
all the raging passions OF the world Oh,
thou blessed Christ, who on the night
when the disciples were A-ying to cross this
lake and 1.-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 aud 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 afraidw
Thank God that | have seen this lake of
Christly memories, and ! can say with
Robert McCheyne, the assembled minister
Of Scotland, who, seated on the banks of
this lake, wrote in his last, sick days. and
Just before he crossed the Jordan, not the
Jordan that empties into Galilee, but the
Jordan that empties into the sea of glass
mingled with fire." these sweet words, fit
10 be played by human fingers on strung
strings of earthly lutte, or by angelic fingers
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