Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-12-18

the father, ''when did the change for the
better take place." Zone O'clock" is tho
answer. "Why," says the courticr, ..,ba,
is just the hour that Jesus said to me .rh,
son liveth.' One o'clock"
AS they gather at the evening meal VIVA.
gladness in all the countenances in that
home in Capernaum! The mother Joanna
has not had sleep for many nights and sh.
now falls OF into delightful slumber. The
father, Chuza, the Herodian courtier. worn
out with anxiety as well an by the rapid
journey to and from Cana is soon in res,ful
Inconsistencies. Joanna was Christian
before but warrant she was more OF a
Christian afterward. Did the father Chu2a
accept the Christ who had cured his hoy,
Is there in all the earth . parent so migrate
full for the convalescence or restoration NJ
an imperilled child as not to go into aroon
and kneel down and make surrender to tn.
almighty love that came to the rescue.
DO not mix up this case with the anyrv
discussions about Christian science. bi.
accept the doctrine, as old as tho Bib.
that God does answer prayer for the sick.
That Capernaum boy was not the only illus.
tration of the fact that prayer is mightier
than typhoid fever. And there is no. a
doctor Of large practice but has come into
the sick room of some hopeless case and.
in cheerful manner, if he were Chris
tian, Or with bewildered manner if he
were q skeptic, said, 'Well, what have
you been doing with this patient? What.
have you been giving him? The pulse is
better. The crisis is past. After all,
think he will get WELL" Prayer will We.
be acknowledged In the worlds mater.
medica and the cry is just as appropriate.
now as when Chuza, tho courtier from
~ s.,
"Come down ere my child die!' If the
prayer be not answered in the way we,
wish. it is because God has something
better for the child than earthly recovery.
and there are thousands OF men ana women,
now alive in answer to fathers and
mothers prayers. myself ono of the multi
tude. For have heard my parents tell
how when at three years of age scarlet
fever seemed to have done its full work on
me and tho physicians had said there was
no more use Of their coming and they had
left few simple directions to make the
remaining hours peaceful, and according
to the custom in those times in country
places, the neighbors had already come in
and made the shroud, the forlorn case sud
denly frightened and tho prayer ''Come-
down ere my child die!" was answered in
recovery that has not been followed by.
moments sickness from that time 70.
this.
But someone may say that Christ in Ca
pernaum healed that courtier's child, yet
he would not have done it for one in hum
bic life. Why, in that very Capcrnaum he
did the same thing for dying slave. be-
longing to the man who had made a present
to tho town Of the church Of which Jesus
was pastor, the synagogue among whose
ruins today leap from fragment to frag
ment. This was the cure of q Roman SOL
dier's slave, whose only acknowledged rights
were the wishes of his owner And none
are now so cnslaved or so humble or so sick
or SO sinful, but the all-sympathetc Christ
is ready to help them, ready to cure thom.
| ready to emancipatc them. Hear it'll Par
| Comfort for all. Heaven for ALL Oh, this
Lake Galilee! What . refreshment for
Christ it must have been after symrathizing
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 around the heavenly palace
from which he had descended.
! But" says some one, why was it taat
Christ coming to save the world should
spend so much of his time on and around
so solitary place Us Lake Galilee? There
is only one city Of any size on its beach.
and both the Western and Eastern shores
are solitude, broken only by tho 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
hundred-gated, at Rome tho triumphant?
IL Christ was going to save the world, why
not go where the worlds people dwell?
Would man, wishing to revolutionize for
good the American continent. pass his time
amid the fishing huts Of the shores of New
foundland? My friends, Calico was the
hub of the wheel of civilization and art,
aud tho center of a population that stag
gers realization. On the shores OF the
lake we sail today stood nine great cities
Scythopolis, Tarichn, Hippos. Ganala.
Chorazin. Capernaum. Bethsaida, Mag
dala. Tibcrias-and many villages, the
smallest Of which had 5000 inhabitants,
according to Josephus, and reaching from
tho beach back into the country in all d.
rections. Palaces, temples, coliscums,
. gymnasiums, amphitheatres towers gar
dens terraced OH the hillsides, fountains
bewildering with sunlight baths upon
whose mosaic floors kings trod; whie this
lake from where the Jordan enters it 70
where the Jordan leaves it, was beautiful
, with all styles of Shallop, or dreadful
with oil builds of war galleon. -Four
thousand ships, history says, were at ONT
, time upon these waters Battles wers
, fought there which shocked all nations
, with their consequences.
Here mingling blood with pure and spark
Ing foam, -,
In her last throcs Judna fought Will
T Rome.
: Upon those sea-6ghts looked Vespaslan
! and Titus and Trojan, and whole empires
From one of these naval encounters s.
many Of the dead foated to the beach
q they could not soon enough be entombed
' and q plague was threatened. Twelv
. hundred soldiers escaping from ines
. vessels of war wero one day massacred
@ the ampitheatre at Tiberias. FOR tn! y.
I hundred years that almost continuous GU
| o,,,;rrl;r0 T oLo Ga1i1ee was the metrOpOIl