Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-11-19

! uAiNe UP tonne door of the proDsc. Th
oharloteerS shout "Whoar' 10 th bor.e
ana trainping hoofs and grinding wheel,
cease shaking tho earth. Come ont. Eli.
sha' come out You have COMPANY Tn,
granuest company that ever came tc
your house has come to it now. No sti,
inside Elisha's house. The fact was.
Vne Lord had informed Elisha that the
SICK captain was coming and Just how
10 treat him. Indeed, when Won are
slck ana the Lord wants you to GET
wei, he always tells the doctor how n
treat you, and the reason we have Sc
many bungling doctors is because tbey
uepehd upon their own strength and
instructions and not ON the Lord God.
ana that always makes malpractioe,
Come out, Elisha, and attend to your
business
General Naaman and his retinue wait
ed and waited and waited. The fact
was Naaman had two diseases-pride
ana leprosy. Tho one was as hard to get
rld OF as the other. Elisha sits quietly
IN his house and does not 90 out After
awhile when he thinks he has humbled
TINS proud man, he says to a servant,
Io out and tell General Naaman to
bathe seven times in the river Jordan.
out yonder five miles, and he will get
entirely well. " The message comes out.
WhatV' says the commander in chief
Oh the Syrian forces, his eye kindling
with an animation which it had not
shown for weeks and his swollen foot
stamping on the bottom of the chariot.
regardless Of pain. WHAT Isn't he
coming out to see me? Why, thought
certainly he would come and utter some
cabalistic words over me on make some
enlgmatical passes over my wounds
Why, | don't think he knows who I
am. Isn't he coming ont? Why, when
the Shunamite woman came to him, he
rushed out and cried: Is it we'll with
theeF Is it well with thy husband? Is
1t well with thy child?' And will he
treat poor unknown woman like that
ard let me, titled parsonage, sit here
Ill my chariot and wait and wait? |
won't endure it any longer. Charioteer
drive onl Wash in the Jordan! Ha, hal
Ihe Shiny Jordan-the muddy Jordan
the monotonous Jordan / wouldn't
be seen washing in such a river as that.
Why, we watered our horses in better
river than that on our way hepe-the
beautiful river, the jasper paved riveref
Pharpar. Besides that we have in our
country another Damascene river, Aba
ma, with foliaged bank and torrent ever
swift and ever clear, under the flicker.
ing shadows of sycamore and oleandec.
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers Of
Damascus, better than all the waters Of
Israeli"
l suppose Naaman fOlt very much as
Americans would feel if, by way of
medical prescription, some one should
tell us to go and wash in the Danube or
the Rhine. We would answer, care
not the Connecticut and the Hudson
Just as goodP" Or as an Engliehman
would feel If he were told, by way of
medical prescription. no must go and
wash in the Mississippi or the st. Law.
renee. He would cry out, "Are not the I
Thames and the Shannon Just as wellY'
The fact was that naughty Naaman
needed to learn what every Englishman
and every American needs TO learn
hat when God tells you to do thing
1ou must go and do It, whether you
understand the reason or not. Take the
prescription, whether you like II or not.
Jne thing is certain. Unless naughty
Naaman does as Elisha commands him,
re will die Of his awful sickness. And
lnless you do ~ Christ commands you
'ou will be seized upon by an eyerlast-
ng wasting away Obey and live; dis,
hey and die. Thrilling, oyermehing, {
stupendous alternatiyel }
a Dead Failure.
Well, General Raaman could not
tand tho test Tho ohariOteer gives a !
ork 20 the right line until the bit snaps
d tho horses mouth. aud tho whir Of !
le wheels aud the flying OF tho dust .
how the indignation Of tho great com !
lander, "He turned and went away Ia !
rage" 30 people now often get mad '
religion. They YitppeIate against =
against churches, against y
h1slian people. Ono would think from |"
leir iraio buhagiOT that God bad been =
udylnB h3w tu annoy aud eKasperata y
ld den0lish them. What has ho boon =
lingi Only trying a. ours their death =
Ealing leposy. That IL all fei ihey =
nip pp their horsos. ihoy dlR Ia the ,,
ipis, mld lhey ~ away w rage =
f0, after All. " seoms ihai ihis hoalth y
.onlsion " ueneIal kaaiaAu 10 a. hs v
dead failure That illilg liebgoW 0sp y
Sc might ~ well Aags n0i cold hiw ~ .
rs prophet, sud ibis long jopTBey
.ighi 30 Neil BOi hays been taken ,
uor, slnk, dying kARmani Afu y0u ~ y
N away iu high dndgepp aHd suTss y.
.ap Nlipn ypu palnei A. his chan0i "
llls h pi0innni his seiY ants rlaiub0r y,
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'hl " ihg Rlmy bus rliiiiNsna sila -
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