Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-04
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kNEELrNs BEFORE An OPEN BIBLE.

KNEELING BEFORE AN OPEN BIBLE.
The light was turned low in the room
His back was turned toward me; for 8
| moment l was silent as l stood looking in
amazement and wonder. Then he cried
| out 10 tones so pitiiul and sorrowful
''Oh thou God that heard Solomon III the
| night when he prayed for wisdom, hear
| me! l cannot lead this people, cannot
| guide the affairs of this nation without
thy help. lam poor aud weak and sin
full. Oh God who didst hear Solomon
when he cried for wisdom, hear me and
| save the nation!' You see We don {
need to go back to the Bible times for
evidence that prayer is heard and an
swered.
But some ons may say that Christ n
Capsrnaum healed that courtiar' 5 child &,
vet he would not have done it for one in
humble life. Wig, In tina; very CEper-
naum He did the same thing for dying
slave belonging to the man who hnd
made present to the town of the church
OF which Jesus WIS pastor, the synagogue
among whose runs I to-day leap from
fragment to fragment. This IVES tine
cure of Roman soldiers slave, whose
only acknowledged rights were the wishes
OF his owner. And none are now so en-
shaved or so humble or sick or SO sinful
but the all sympathetic Christ Is ready
10 help them, ready to cure them, ready
TO elnancipnte them. Hear it! Pardon
for all. Mercy for all. Help for MI.
Comfort for all. Heaven for ull. Oh,
this Luke Guliler! What q refresh
ment for Christ it must have
been after sympa, hizing with the sick
and raising the deal, aud preaching to
the multitudes all day long 10 come down
OIL these banks in the nighttime AMI
feel the cool air OF the sea on his hot
face, and look up 10 the stars the light. d
lamps around the heavenly palaces from
which he had descended.
All heaven and earth were still: from the h gh
OF stars to the hillod lake and mountain coast.
All heaven and earth were st.ll-though not in
sleep,
But GREATNESS, as we grow when feeling most.
"But,'' says some enc, 'why was it
that Christ coming to save the world
should spend 30 much of his time on and
around so solitary place rs Lake Gnl!-
lee? There is only one city of any size
OH its beach, and both the western and
eastern shores are solitude, broken
only by the sounds coming from the
not Christ begin at Babylon the mighty,
at Athens the learned. at Cairo the his
torlc, at Thebes the. huudred-gn at
Rome the triumphant? If Christ was
going to save the world, why not go
whers tie worlds people dweli3
Would man, wishing 10 revolu-
tionize 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 whaets
of civilization. and art. and the center
of population that staggerS realiza-
ton. On the shore of the lake We sail
to-day, stood nine cities-Scy thopolis,
Taricha, Hippos, Canada. Chorazin,
Capernaum, Bethsui,ia, Magdala, Ii
berins-and many villages the smallest
of which had 10, 900 III habitunts. accord
ing to Josephus, and reaching from the
beach back into the country in all direc-
tions. Palaces, temples, coliseuns,
gymnasiums, lmphtheaters, towers,
gardens :erraced on the hiilsides, fOuu-
tains bewildering with sunlight, ha!hs on
whose mosaic floors kings trod; while tine
lake from where the Jordan enters ii to
where the Jordan leaves it, was beauti-
fui with all styles of shaIlop, or dreadful
with all kinds OF war gulleou. Four
tho usand vessels. history says, were at
one time upon these waters. Battles
were fought there which shocked all ma
tious with their consequences.
Here mingling blood with pure and sparkling
In her last throes Judaa fought with Rome.
Upon those sea fights looked Vespa-
sian, and Titus and Trajnn. and whole
empires. From one of these naval en-
counters so many of the dead foated to
the beach, they could not soon enough
be entombed. and q plague was threat
eued. Twelve hundred soldiers, escap-
ing from these vessels of war. were Que
uay massacred in the amphitheatre at
Tiberias. For 300 years that almost cou-
tuuous city pncircling Lake Galilee |
was the metropolis of our planet. 1t
was 10 the very heart of the world that |
esus came to soothe its sorrows, and |
pardon its sins, and heul its sick, aud |
its enslaved and reanimate |
Its dead.
And let the church and the world take |
the suggestion. While the solitary |
places are not &c be neglected, we mus. |
strike for the great cities, if this world Is |
ever to be taken for Christ. EvangeliZs |
all the earth except the cities. aud in |
one year the cities would corrupt the |
earth. But bring the cities, and all the |
world will come. Bring London and |
En- gland will come. Bring Paris and |
France will come. Bring Berlin aud |
Germany will come. Bring ST. Peters
burg and Russia will come. Bring Vienna
and Austria will come. Bring Cairo and
Egypt will come. Bring the near 8 .000.-
boo people in this cluster of cities on the
Atlantic coast, and all America will soon
lee the salvation of God. Ministers OF
let US intensity our evangelism.
Editors and publishers, purify your
printing presses. Asylums of mercy,
enlarge your plans of endeavor. Aud |
instead of this absurd and belittiug
and wicked rivalry among our cities
Is 10 which happens TO have the most
men and women aud children. not real
iziug that the more useless and bad peo-
pie city has the worse il ia off and that
!, city which has 10 900 good people Is
more to be admired than city with
100 200 bad people.
LET Us TAKE A MORAL CENSUS
md see how many good men and good
women are leading forth how large q
generation of good children who will
.onsecrate themselves and consecrats
he round world to holiness and to God.
IN thou blessed Christ who didst cume |