Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-14

ifornia. Let the Turk be driven out and the
American or Englishman or Scotchman go
in and Mohammedanism withdraw Its IDOL
atry and pure Christianity build its affairs,
and the irrigation OF which Solomon's pools
was only a suggestion will make all that land
from Dan to Beersheba as fertile, ana
aromatic and Respondent as on the morning
when the king rode out 70 his pleasure
grounds in chariot 50 swift and followed Dy
mounted riders so brilliant that 1t was Tor
speed like hurricane followed by cyclone.
AS l look upon this great aquaduct or
Palestine wondrCus specimen OF ancient
masonry, about seven feet hlgn. TWO ISeG
wide sometimes tunneling the solld rock
and then rolling its waters through stole
ware pipes, an aqueluct doing Its WORK Ten
miles before it gets 20 those three reservoirs,
and then gathering their wealth or refresh
ment and pouring it on to the mighty city
Of Jerusalem and filling the brazen sea of her
emple, and the bathrooms of her palaces
and the great pools of Sloan, and HeZekiah
and Bethesda, | find that cur century has no
monopoly of the worlds wonders, and that
the conceited age in which we live had better
take in some Of the sails of its pride when it
remembers that it is hard work in later ages
to get masonry that will last fifty years, to
say nothing Of the three thousand and no
modern machinery could lift blocks of
stone like some of those standing
high up in the walls of Baalbec,
and the art of printing claimed for
recent ages was practiced by the Chinese
fourteen hundred years ago, and that our
midnight lightning express rail- train was
foreseen by the prophet Nahum. when in the
Bible he wrote, 1.-The cnariots shall rage in
the streets, they shall jostle one against an
other in the broad ways they shall seem like
torches, they shall run like Lightning" and
our electric telegraph was foreseen by job
when in the Bible he wrote, 'Canst thou send
lightnings that they may go and say unto
thee, Here we areP" What is that talking
by the ightnings but the electric telegraph?
Ido not Know but that the electric forces now
being year by year more thoroughly har-
messed may have been employed in ages ex-
tinct, and that the lightnings all up and down
the sky have been running around like lost
hounds to find their former master.
Embalment was more thorough art three
thousand years ago than to-day. Dentistry,
that we suppose one Of the important arts
discovered in recent centuries, is proven to
be four thousand years old by the filled
teeth of the mummies in the museums at
Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth ON gold
plates found by Belzoni in the tombs Of de-
parted nations We have been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation of the
blood so late as the seventeenth century.
Oh, no! Solomon announces it in Ecclesias-
ties, where first having shown that he I'M
derStOOd the spinal cord, silver colOred as 1t
is, and that it relaxes in old age-'the silver
cord be loosed," goes on to compare the
heart to pitcher at we'll for the three
canals of the heart do receive the blood like
a pitcher, ''or the pitcher be broken at the
fountain" What is that but the circulation
of the blood, found out twenty-six hundred
years before Harvey was born? After many
centuries Of exploration and calculation as
tronOmy finds out that the world was round.
Why. Isaiah knew it was round thousands OF
years before when in the Bible he said: "Ihe
Lord sitteth upon the circle of the earth"
Scientists tOiled on for centuries and found
out refraction or that the rays Of light when
touching the earth were not straight, but
bent or curved. Why, Job knew that when
ages before in the Bible he wrote of the light:
1T is turned as clay to the SEAL"
In the old cathedrals of England modern
painters n the repair of windows are trying
to make something good as the window
painting of four hundred years ago, and
always failing by the unanimous verdict of
all who examine and compare. The color OF
modern painting fades in fifty years, while
the color of the old masters is as well pre-
served after five hundred years as after one
year. l saw last winter on the walls of ex-
humed Pompeii paintings with color as fresh
as though made the day before, though they
were buried eighteen hundred years ago.
The making Of Tyrian purple is an impossi-
bilitY now. In our modern pOtterieS are
trying hard to make cups and pitchers and
bowels as exquisite1y as those exhumed from
Herculaneum, and our artifcers are at
tempting to make jewelry for ear
and neck and finger equal to that
brought up from the mausoleums of two
thousand years before Christ. We have in
our time glass in all shapes and all colors.
but Pliny more than eighteen hundred years
ago, described a malleable glass which, If
thrown upon the ground and denied, could
be pounded straight again by the hammer or
could be twisted around the wrists, and that
cOnfounds all the glass manufacturers OF
our own time. | tried in Damascus, Syria,
to buy Damascus blade, one of those swords
that could be bent double or tied In knot
without breaking. l could not get one.
Why? The Nineteenth century cannot make
a Damascus blade. II we go on charging
cur cities we may after while get a city as
large as Babylon, which was five times the
size Of London
These aqueducts of Solomon that visit to-
day, finding them in good condition three
thousand years after construction, make me
think that the world may have forgotten
more than it now knows. The great honor
of our age is not machinery, for the ancients
had some styles of it more wonderful; nor
art, for the ancients had art more exquisite
ana durable: nor architecture, for Roman
Coliseum and Grecian Acropolis surpass all
modern architecture: nor cities for some of
the ancient cities were larger than ours in
the sweep of their pom D. But our attempts
must be in moral achievement and gospel
victory. In that we have already surpassed
them, and in that direction let the ages push
on. Let us brag less of worldly achievement
and thank God for moral opportunity.
More good men and good women is what the
world wants. Toward moral elevation and
spiritual attainment let the chief struggle
be. The source of all that I will show you
before shutdown Of this day on which we have
visited the pools of Solomon and the gardens
of the king.
We are on this December afternoon on the
way to the cradle of Him who called Himself
greater than solomon. We are coming upon