Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-06

the sick captain was coming, and jus
how to treat him. Indeed, when yoi
are sick. and the Lord wants you Il
get well, he always tells the doctor
how to treat you; and the reason W.
have so many bungling doctors Is be
cause they depend upon their owl
strength and instructions, and not OF
the Lord God, and that always makes
malpractice. Come out, Elisha, anc
tend to your business Gen. Naamar
and his retinue waited, and waited
and waited The fact was, Naamar
had two diseases-pride and leprosy
the one was as hard to get rid of as the
other. Elisha sits quietly in his house
and does not go ont. After awhile,
when he thinks he has humbled this
proud man, he says to servant; Uo
and tell Naaman to battle seven times
in the river Jordan, out yonder fve
miles, and he viii get entirely well.
The message comes out: "WhatF says
the commander-in-chief of the Syrian
forces, his eyes lxindling with an ami
nation which it had not shown for
weeks, and his swollen foot stamping
on the bottom of the chariot, regard
less of pain. What Isn't he coming
out TO see me? Why, / thought GER
tainly he would come out and utter
some cabalistic words over me, or make
some enigmatical passes over my
wounds. Why, I don't think he knows
who am. Isn't he coming out? Why,
when the Shunamite woman came to
him. he rushed out and cried: Is 1t
well with thee? Is it well with thy
husband Is it well with thy ehildg
and will he treat a poor unknown wo-
man like that, and let me, titled per-
sonage. sit here in my chariot and wait,
and waltz | won't endure it any longer.
Charioteer.' drive on Wash in the
Jordan. Ha. hal The Shiny Jordan-the
muddy Jordan the monotonous Jor-
dan. | wouldn't be seen washing in
such river as that Why, we watered
our horses in better river than that
on our way here-the beautiful river,
the jasper-paved river of Pharpar. Be-
sides that, we have in our country an
other Damascene river, ALBANIA, with
foliaged bank, and torrent ever swift
and ever clear, under the Pickering
shadows of sycamore and oleander
Are not ALBANIA and Pharpar, rivers of
Damascus. better than all the waters
of Israeli"
! suppose Naaman felt very Ruch as
Americans would feel if, by way Of
medical prescription, some one would
tell us to go and wash in the Danube
or Rhine. We would answer: Are not
the Connecticut and Hudson just as
good?" Or as an Englishman would
feel II he were told, by way of medi-
cal prescription, he must go and wash
in the Mississippi or the St Lawrence.
He would cry out: "Are not the
and the Shannon just as well?"
The fact was that naughty Naaman
needed to learn what every English
man and every American needs to
learn-that when God tells You TO do
a thing, Won must go and do it, whether
You understand the reason or not.
Take the prescription, whether you
like it or not One thing is certain:
Unless naughty Naaman does as Elisha
him, he will die of his awful
sickness And unless you do as Christ
you, you will be seized
upon by an everlasting wasting away.
Obey and live-disobey and die. Thrill |
ing, over-aching, undergirding, stupen-
ious alternativel
Well. Gen. Naamaan could not stand |
he test. The charioteer gives a Jerk |
% the right line until the bit snaps in
he horses mouth, and the whirr Of the
wheels and the flying of the dust shows
he Indignation of the great com
nander. "He turned and went away
n rage. So the people now often get
mad at religion. They vituperate
against ministers, against churches.
against Christian people. One would
hink FROM their irate behavior that
icd has been studying how to annoy.
ind exasperate, and demolish them
What has He been doing? Only trying
o cure their death-dealing leprosy.
That is all Yet they whip up their
lorses, they dig in the spurs, and they
20 away in a rage.
So. after all. it seems that this health
of Gen. Naaman is to be a
lead failure. That little Hebrew cap
i've might as well have not told him OF
he prophet, and this long journey
night as well not have been taken.
'oor sick. dying Naaman! Are You go
ng away in high dudgeon. and worse
han when you came? As his chariot
ialts a moment, his servants Chamber
Ip in it and coax him to do as Elisha
aid: They say. Its easy. If the
'rophet had told you to walk for a
nile on sharp spikes in order to get rid
( this awful disease, you would have
one it. 1t is easy. Come, my lord. Just
ct down and wash in the Jordan. You
AXE bath every day anyhow, and in
his climate it is so hot that it win do
ou good. DO il on our account. and
Or the sake of the army you command.
nd for the sake of the nation that
dmires you. Come, my lord. lust try
his Jordanic BATH WELL he saws.
to please you | win do as you saw
he retinue drive to the brink of the
ordan. The horses paw and neigh
} get into the stream themselves and