News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-04

synagogue among whose ruins | today
leap from fragment to fragment This
was the cure Of Il Roman soldiers slave,
whose only acknowledged rights were
the wishes of his owner. And none are
now so enslavcd or SO humble or sick
or so sinful but the all sympathetic
Christ is ready to help thcm, ready to
cure them, ready to emancipate them.
Hear i'll Pardon for all Mercy fol
all. Help for all. Comfort for all.
Heaven for all. Oh. this Lake GalIiee!
WHAT a refreshmerU for Christ it must
have been after sympathizing 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 hiled lake and mountain coast.
All heaven and earth were still-thouSh 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 Il place rs Lake
Galilee? There is only one city of any
size on its beach, and both the western
and eastern shores are a solitude, brok-
en- only by the sounds coming from the
mud novels of the degraded. Why dld
not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty
at Athens the learned, at Cairo the MS
toric, at Thebes the lrIndred gated d.
Rome the triumphant: Ii CIiriS' We
going to save the world, why no' -
where the worlds people dwell w., -
a man, wishing to reYoittio Is his
good the American eoiititieii. ~ shores
time amid the fishing hutS on
of Newfoundland
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the wheel IL IN 49, 81 nd &c and
the center of a Population chat 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 10, 600 inhab-
itants, according to JOsephus, and
reaching from the beach back into the
country in all directions. Palaces, tenn
pies, coliseums, gynnasiums, amphithe
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, rningling blood with pure and sparkling
foam,
In her last throes Judpn fought with Rome
Upon these sea fights looked Yes
pasian and Titus and Trajan and whole
empires. From one Of these naval en-
counters so many of the dead noated to
the beach they could not soon enough
be intombed, and Il plague was threat,
ened. Twelve hundred soldiers escap-
ing from these vessels of war were enc
day massacred in the anphitheatre at
Tiberias. For three hundred years that
almost continuous city encircling Lake
Galilce 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 emancipate its ensIaved, and re
animate its dead.
STRIKE FOR THE GREAT CITIES.
And let the church and the world
take the suggestion. While the soil
tary places are not to be neglected we
must strike for the great cities if 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 will come Bring
London and England will come Bring
Paris and France will come. Bring
Berlin and Germany will come Bring
St Petersburg and Russia will come
Bring Vienna and Austria will come
Bring Cairo and Egypt will come.
Bring the near three million people III
this cluster of cities on the Atlantic
coast and all America will soon see the
salvation of God.
Ministers of religion! let us intensity
our evangelism Editors and publish
ers! purify your printing presses Asy
luns of mercy! enlarge your plans OF |
endeavorl And instead of this absurd |
and belittling and wicked rivalry |
to have the most men and women and |
children, not realizing that the more
useless and bad people IL city has the |
worse it is off, and that Il city which |
has ten thousand good people is more
to be admired than a city with one |
hundred thousand bad people, let H.
take moral census and see how many |
good men and good women are leading
forth how large generation of good
children who will consecrate themselves
and consecrate the round world to holi
ness and to God
Oh, thou blessed Christ, who didst
come to the mighty cities encircling
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 trying to
cross this lake and 1.-THE wind was con
trary, 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
I'll our shipping, whether on placid or
stormy seas, and say to all thy people
now by whatever style of tempest tossed
)r driven as thou didst to the drenched
disciples in the cyclone; BE of good
cheer. 1t is |, Be not afraidr
THANK GOD.
Thank God THAT l@haya seen thislake
If Christly memories, and | can say
With Robert MeCheyne, the assembled
minister of Scotland, who, seated on
lie banks of this lake, wrote in his last
lick days, and just before he crossed
he Jordan, not the Jordan that emp
les into Galilce, but the Jordan that
,mpties into the sea of glass mingled
with fire" these sweet words cit to be
'layed by human fingers on strung
trings of earthly lutte, or by angelic
myers on seraphic harps:
1t is not that the wild gazaIle
Comes down to drink thy tide,
But he that was pierced to save from hen