Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-01
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to get a young doctor Of about 81 year.
of age. But no doctor is needed now
in this kouse at Capernaum. The PEG
pie look at the sun dial to find what
time of the day it is, and see it is Just
past noon and o'clock. Then they
start out and meet the returning father
and as soon as they come within speak
ing distance they shout at the top Of
their voices, "Your boy is getting
we'll" us it possible9' says the father
when did the change for the better
take placer lone o'clock, " is the an
swer "Why, says the courtier, 'that
is just the hour that Jesus said to me,
THY son liveth' One o'clockl"
AS they gather at tile evening meal
what gladness on all the countenances
in that home at Capenaum The
mother, Joanna, has not had sleep for
many nights, and she now falls off into
delightful slilmber. The father, ChuZa,
the Herodian courtier worn out with
anxiety as well as by the rapid journey
to and from Cana, is soon in restful un-
consciousness. Joanna was a Christian
before, but warrant she was more of
q Christian afterward. Did the father
Chuza accept the Christ who had cured
his boy2 Is there in all the earth a
parent 50 ungrateful for the GONZALES
cence or restoration of an imperiled
child as not to go into room and
kneel down and make surrender to the
almighty love that came to the rescued
ACCEPT THE DOCTRINE.
DO not mix up this ease with the an.
CRY discussions about Christian science,
but accept the doctrine as old as the
Bible, that God does answer prayer for
the sick That Capernaum boy was
not the only Illustration of the fact that
prayer is mightier than q typhoid fever.
And there is not a doctor of large prac-
tice but has come into the sick room of
some hopeless case and, in cheerful
manner if he were a Christian, or with
a bewildered manner if he were
skeptic, said "Well, what have you
been doing with this patient2 What
have you been giving him2 The pulse
is better. The crisisis past. After all,
] think he will get we'll" Prayer will
yet be acknowledged in the worlds ma
terra medica, and the cry is just rs an.
propriate now as when Chuza, the
courtier from Capemaum, uttered in
Christ's hearing, Come down ere my
child dep If the prayer be not an
swered in the way we wish, it is because
God has something better for the child
than earthly recovery, and there are
thousands of men and women now
alive in answer to fathers and mothers
prayers, myself one of the multitude
For | have heard my parents tell
how, when ut three years of age scarlet
fever seemed to have done it's full work
on me, and the physicians had said
there was no moro use Of their coming
and they had left a few simple direc-
tions 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 the prayer
"Come down ere my child diel" was
answered in q recovery that has not
been followed by a moments sickness
from that time TO this.
The mightiest 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 n gentleman was
a guest at the White House in Wash
ington, and he gives This incident, lie
says: II had been spending three
weeks in tho White House with Mr..
Lincoln as his guest. One night-it
was just after the battle of Bull Run
/ was restless and could not sleep.
was repeating the part which l was to
take in a public performance. The
hour was past midnight Indeed, it
was coming near to the dawn when !
heard low tones proceeding from a pri-
waite room where the president slept.
The door was partly open, l instinct
lively walked in, and there saw Il sight
which shall never forget. 1t was the
president llnceling before an open Bible.
1.-THE light was turned low in the
room. His back was turned toward
me; for n moment l was silent rs !
stood looking in amazemeut and won.
der. Then he cried out in tones so
pitiGul and sorowful; "Oh thou God
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he prayed for wisdom, hear mel ]
cannot lead this people, l cannot guide
the affairs of this nation without thy
help. l am poor and weak and sinful.
Oh, God, who didst hear Solomon when
he cried for wisdom, hear me and save
the nationw You see we don't need
10 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
dying slave, belonging to the man who
had made present to the town of the
church of which Jesus was pastor, the
synagogue among whose ruins l today
leap from fragment to fragment. This
was the cure Of q 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 an sympathetic
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