Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01

| word sent the winds back through the mount
am gorges. Some of you Jack Tars TO whom
these words will come need to stack ship and
| change YOUR course If you are going to get
across the sea of life safely, and gain the heav-
/ enly harbor. Belay there. Ready about! Helm
| alec! Mainsail haul You have too valuable a
cargo OIL board 10 run into the Goodwins or the
Skerries.
star of peace! beam ocr the pillow
Bless the soul that sighs for thee;
Bless the sailors lonely pillow,
Far far at sea-"
Here at Capernaum. the Arabs having in
their arms carried US ashore to the only place
where our Lord ever had a pastorate, and we
stepped amid the ruins of the church, where
he preached again and again. and again, the
synagogue, whose rich sculpturing lay there,
not as when others see it in spring.tme, Gov
cred with weeds and loathesome with reptiles.
but in that December weather. completely un-
covered to our agItated and intense gaze. On
one stone of that synagogue is the scGlpturing
OF pot of mamma, an artistic commemoratlOn
of the time when the lsraelitos 'rere fed by
mama in the wilderness. and to which sculpt-
uring. no doubt. Christ pointed upward while
He was preaching that sermo.. on this very
spot, i'll Which He said: Not as your fathers
did eat mama and are dead; he that eateth of
this bread shall live forever" Wonderful
Capernaum. Scene of more miracles than any
place in all The earthi Blind eyes kinding with
the morning. Withered arms made To pulsate.
Lepers blooming into health. The dead girl re-
animated.
ONE OF THE MIRACLES.
These Arab tents which on this December
day find in Palestine, disappear and see Ca
pernaum as it was when Jesus was pastor of the
church here. Look at that wealthy home, the
architecture, the marble front, the upholstery,
the slaves in uniform at the doorway. 1t is
the residence of a courtier of Herod, probably
Chuza by name his wife Joanna. Christian
disciple. But something is the matter. The
slaves are III great excl ement and the courtier
living there runs down the front steps and
takes horse and puts him at full run across
the country. The boy of that nobleman is
dying of typhoid fever. All the doctors have
failed to give relief. But about five miles up
the country, at Cana, there is a Divine Doctor.
Jesus by name, and the agonized father has
gone for Him, and with what earnestness those
can understand who have had dying child in
the house. This courtier cries TO Christ:
Come down ere my child die!'
While the father is absent. and at o'clock in
the afternoon. The people watching the dying
boy see a change in the countenance and
Joanna, the mother on one side of his conch
says: 'Why, this darling is getting we'll; the
lever mas broken; see the perspiration on his
forehead; did any of you give him any new
kind OF medicine?" No" is the answer The boy
turns on his pillow. his delirIum gone, and asks
for something to eat and says: where's
father?' Oh, he has gone up to Cana to get a
young doctor of about 81 years of age. But no
doctor is needed now in this house at Caper-
naum. The people look at the sun-dial to find
what time of the day it ls and see it is Just past
noon, and l O'Clock. Then they start out and
meet the returning father and as soon rs they
come within speaking distance they shout at
the top of their voices: Your boy is gerting
we'll" SIS it possible?n says the father "When
did the change for the better take placer
"One o'clock" is the answer. "Why," says the
courtier, "rhat is just the hour that Jesus saiu
to me Thy son liveth.' One o'clock"
As they gather at the evening meal what
gladness on all the countenances in that home
at Capernaum! The mother, Joanna, has not
had sleep for many nights, and she now falls
of into delightful slumber. The father, Chuza,
the Herodian courtier, worn out with anxiety
as well as by the rapid journey to and from
Cana. is$ soon in resttul Inconsistencies.
Joanna was Christian before. but l warrant
she was more of Christian afterward, Did
the father, Chuza, acceps the Christ who had
cured the boy? Is there in all the earth a
parent so ungrateful for the convalescence or
of an imperied child as not to go
into room and kneel down and make sur
render to the almighty love that came to the
rescue.
THE POWER OF PRAYER.
The michtiest agency in the universe is
prayer and it turns even the Almighty. 1t de-
cides the destinies of individuals families and
nations. During our sad civil war gentleman
was guest at the White House in Washing
on and he gives this incident: 81 had been |
pending three weeks in the White House with |
dr Lincoln, as his guest. One night-it was |
ust after the battle of Bull Run-I was restless |
md could not sleep. was repeating the part |
xhich was to take in a public performance. !
The hour was past midnight. Indeed, it was |
coming near to the dawn when 1 heard low
tones proceeding from private room where the
President slept. The door was partly open. 1 |
nsttnctiyely walked in and there saw sight |
which shall never forget. 1t was the Presi- |
lent kneeling before an oDen Bible. The light |
was turned low in the room. His back was |
turned toward me; for moment was silent as |
stood looking in amazement and wonder. |
Then he cried out in tones so pitiful and sor- |
-owful: "Oh thou God that heard Solomon in |
,he night when he prayed for WISDOM hear me! |
cannot lead this people, cannot guide the |
affairs of this nation without Thy help, l am |
Door and weak and sinful. Oh God who didsT |
lear Solomon when he cried for wisdom. hear |
ne and save the nationr' You see we don't |
reed to go back to Bible times for evidence |
hat prayer is heard and answered
But some one may saw that Christ at Gamer
laum healed that courtier's child. yet He would |
lot have done 1t for one in humble life. Why
u that very Capernaum He did the same thing
or a dying slave, belonging to the man who
lad made present 10 the town of the church
# which Jesus was the pastor. the synagogue
mong whose ruins / to-Say leap from fir agment
o fragment. This was the cure OF a Roman
oldier's slave, whose only acknowledged rights
we're the wishes of his owner. And none are
low so enslaved or so humble or sick or so sim
ul. but the all-sympathetic Christ is ready to
elp them. ready to cure them, ready to eman-
ipate them. Hear ii! Pardon for al. Mercy
or all. Help for all. Comfort for all. Heaven
or aii Oh, this Lake Galileei What refresh
nent for Christ IL must have been after SYM |
athizing with The sick. and raising the dead.
nd preaching to the multitudes all day long to
ONE do wi on these banks in the nighttime
nd feel the cool air of the sea on His hot face
nd look up to the stars, the lighted lamps
round the heavenly palaces from which He
lad descended.
GALILEE THEN AND NOW.
But" says some one. why was il that
'hrist coming to save the world should spend
O much of His time on and around so solitary
place as Lake Galilee? There is only one city
any size on its beach, and both the Western
nd Eastern shores are a solitude broken only
y the sounds coming from the mud novels of
be degraded. Why did not Christ begin at
'abylon the mighty, at Athens the learned, at
AFRO the historic, at Thebes the hundred
ated, at Rome the triumphant? If Christ was
ding to save the world. why not go where the
'orld's people dwell? Would a man, wishing
D revolutionize for good the American conti-
ent, pass his time amid the fishing huts on
he shores of Newfoundland?' Ny friends,
ialilee was the hub of the wheel OF civilI-
ltIon and art, and the center of popula-
on that staggers realization. On the
inc great cities, Scythopolis. Taricha,
[ippos Gamala- ChoraZin, Capernaum Beth |
Llda, Magdala, Tiberias-anG many villages, |
lie smallest of which had 600 Inhabitants |
to Josephus. and reaching from the
each back into the country in all directions /
alaces, temples, coliseums. gymnasiums |
towers, gardens terraced OH the |
lsdes, fountains bewidering with sunlight,
,ths upon whose mosaic floors Kings trod;
hile this lake from where the Jordan enters
to where the Jordan leaves it, was beautiful |
it'll all styles of shallop. or dreadful with all
nds of war galleon. Four thousand ships,
story says, were at one time upon these
lters Battles were fought there, which
ocked all nations with their consequences.
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