Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-03-01
2Rclisicus Department.
DEBIR. Alb. 4th. As.

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wish | could see you! cannot tell
half what want to in letter, but l
will try to give you some insight into
our home. My good husband has fitted
the old house of the king of this city, in
a splendid manner. Its location is in
the highest and most pleasant part of
the city, and the court was formerly filled
with flowers, and fountain. The foun-
tain is again sending up shower of
sparkling water, and the flowers will
come out in perfection by another season.
l would like to write you all about the
books we found here, and the schools
which were established of old in this
city. but that will take me from more
important things.
| have been kept in feyerish anxiety
for months, thinking What if this city
should be one of he.forty-eight which
should fall by lot to the Leyites. L
kept asking my husband what he would
do if it should But he put me off by
replying. "wait and see" At length
father has returned from Shiloh. The
work of dividing to the seven tribes -
designating the six cities of refuge, and
the forty and two other cities for the
Levites being completed Sure enough,
both Hebron and Debir are taken-the
cities of my father, and husband So
soon as | heard of it, FASTENED to He
bron to see father and learn more about
it, and how it was to affect us. | could
not keep from murmuring on the way
1t seemed too bad to give up our homes,
almost as soon as We had come in posses
sion of them. Then Hebron, had been
especially designated as fathers. was
in anything but an enviable frame of
mind when l alighted in fathers court;
could not keep from showing that
something troubled me, even in the
greeting of father after this long separa-
ton. He soon drew me aside and wish
ed to know why l was under a cloud.
told him frankly what L was thinking,
and how felt.
He commenced by saying: "My dear
daughter, l am exceedingly sorry to find
that this has caused you so many un-
happy hours. Has not Jehovah given
US all this land? Would not properly
loyal, grateful heart give HIM the first
fruits, and the best of the land i? The
priests and Levites are of his own choos-
ing, and for our own good as we'll as his
glory. The provisions for their main
tainance are ample, but not above others.
Their portion in the land is Jehovah,
and shall our selfshness withhold the
tithes and offerings p In this manner
father continued to talk for sometime,
until l felt ashamed of myself, to think
that /. one of the most favored, should
have INDUCED in such thoughts and
feelings.
! asked father to pray for me, thai
Jehovah would forgive, and taking my
hand, we knelt in prayer How long
suffering. how good our Jehovah is K
forgive us .H
''Come, said father, ''let us now joir
the rest of the family on the housctop
your brother Ira has just come in. anC
what farther have to say to you, can b,
said just as we'll before them" soor
learned that my fears, while unworth,
of pious Israelite. were also ground
less. Hebron and Debir have both faller
to the house of Aaron, but it is desira
bic on their part, as we'll as ours, tina
we should continue in our homes al
6 heretofore, both for defence, and becaus,
the priests and their families are no
: numerous enough to occupy but small
portion of the cities. How much bette
it would be for us if we trusted Jehoyal
more ! 1 think this has taught me
lesson shall heed.
Just now there is an unusual excite
ment here. The tribe of Simeon are en-
n camped just outside the city walls, witt
their families and herds. They arrives
! for Shiloh yesterday, and are on thei
way to their lot southwest of here
toward Egypt. 1t was found. when tn
4. surveyors returned from an examination
of the land, that Judah and father
household had more land than was need
ed for their families therefore portio
70 was taken of, between Judah and Eph
J. rain, for Benjamin and Dan, and anoth
er portion in the southeast for Simeo1
The lots of the other four tribes hav
Z fallen north of Menasseh. | am Ola
that there is to be more inhabitant
south of us. for our homes will be MOI
secure than if the South country wei
all open to the roaming tribes of ii
, desert, and the uncOnquered cities,
E the Great sea.
: My brother Elah and his wife ha,
h been visiting with US for a few day
Oi 1t does seem so good to have home,
&c which to receive and entertain OF
Vi friends. This morning Elah was passir
: the encampment of Simeon. when
r. saw an excited crowd gathering, and
a rode up to see what was calling them t
ee gether. He found they had Just broug