The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-11-06

smothering wing: Pompeil, Uercula.
neum, StabiH, Adma, Zeboim, Sodom
and GomOrrah.
II our American cities do not quit
their proligacy, if in high life and low
life dlSSoluteneSS does not cease to be a
joke and become n crime, if wealthy
llbertinism continues to find so many
doors of domestic life open to its faint
est touch, If Russian and French and
American literature stepped IN prurien-
cy does not get baniShed from the news
stands and ladies' parlors, God will let
loose some OF these suppressed mon
Stcrs of the earth. And | tell these
American cities that it will be more
tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in
the day of Judgment, whether that
day ofjudgment be in this present cen
tury or in the closing century of the
earth's continuance. The volcanic
forces are already in existence. but in
the mercy of God they are chained in
the Kennels Of SubterraneOuS fire. Yet
let protligacy, whether it stagger into
laZaretto, or sit on a commercial throne,
whether it laugh in faded shawl un.
der the street gas light or to be wrap
pea In the finest array that foreign
loom ever wrought or lapidary ever
impearled, know right well that there
Is volcano waiting for it, whether i'm
domestic life, or social life, or political
life, or In the foundations of the earth
from which Sprang out the devaStati0nS
that swallowed the cities of the plain.
lie toucheth the hills and they smoke"
But the dragoman was rejoiced when
we mad seen enough of this volcanic re-
glon OF Palestine, and he gladly tight
ems the glrthS for another march around
the horses which are prancing and
neighing for Departure We are off for
the Jordan, only two hours away. We
pass BedoulnS whose stern features
melt into smile as we give them the
salutation Salaam Aleikoum, "Peace
be with yOu," their smile sometimes
leaving us in doubt as to whether it is
caused by their gladneSs to see us or
by our poor pronunciation of the Ara
bic; on, they are strange race, those
BedoulnS. Such 4 cOmmingling of
rutlianism and honor, of cowadice and
courage, Of cruelty and kindness. When
Dand OF them came down upon Il
party IN which Miss Whately was trav-
cling, and were about to take pocket
books and perhaps life, this lady sitting
upon her horse took out her note book
and pencil and began to sketch these
brlgandS, and seeing this composure
the bandits thought it something su-
pernatural and fled. Christian WOMAN
illness or manlineSS is all cOnquering
when Martin Luther was told that
Duke George would kill him if he went
to Leipsic Luther replied, II wonld 60
to Leipsic if it rained Duke Georges
nine days"
FIRST VIEW OF THE JORDAN
! NOW we come through regiouS where
there are hills cut into the shape of ca
thedralS, with altar and column and
arch and chancel and pulpi: and dome
and architecture Of the rocks that |
think can hardly just happen so. Per
haps it is because God loves the church
SO we'll, he builds in thu solitudcs OF
elloWStone park and Yosemite and
Switzerland and Palestine these ccclcs-
laStlcal piles. And who knows but
that unseen spirits may sometimes
worship there? "Dragoman, when shall
we see the Jordan ?" ask. All the
time we were on the alert. and looking
through tamari 5k and willows for the
greatest river of all the earth. The
mississippi is wider, the Ohio is deep
er, the Amazon is longer, the Hudson
rolls amid regions more picturesque.
the Thames has more Splendor on its
banks, the Tiber suggests more impe-
rial procession, the llyssus has more
classic memories, and the Nile feeds
greater populations by its irrigation,
Dtb Vic ooIuUl ID IllC queen OIL rivers.
and runs through all the Bible, a silver
thread strung like Leads with heroics,
and before night we sha.. meet on its
banks Elijah and Elisha and David and
Jacob and Joshua and j John and Jesus.
At last between two trees got a
glimpse of river and said, "What is
that ~ "The Jordan" was the quick
reply. And all along the line which
had been heightened by other pilgrims,
some from America, and some from
Europe, and some from Asia, the cry
was sounded The Jordan The Jor-
dan!' Hundreds of thousands of pill
grlmS have chanted on its banks and
bathed In it's waters. Many of them
dip Il wet gown in the wave and wiring
it out AID carry 1t home for their own
Shroui. 1T is an impetuous stream,
and rushes on as though it were has
tenlnz to tell It's story to tho ages.
Many an explorer has it whelmed and
many boat has it wrecked. Lieut..
Molineaux had copper bottomcd crafts
split upon its shclvings. Only one
boat, that of Lieut.. Lynch, ever lived
to sail the whole length Of it. AT the
season when the SHOWS on Lebanon
melt the rage Of this stream is like the
Conemaugh when Johnstown perished
and the wild beasts that may he near
run for the hills, explaining what .Jer-
emiah says, "Behold he shall 90 up like
a lion from the swelling Of Jordan
NO river so often changes its mind, for
1T turns and twists, travelling two hun
dred miles to do that which in q
straight line might be done in sixty
miles. Among banks now low, now
high, now Of rocks, now of mud and
now OF sand, laviag the feet Of the ter
eDlnths and oleandcrs and ac.cias and
reeds and ptstachios and silver poplars
ms river marries the Dead sea &C
Lake Gallilee. and did ever so rough Il
groom take the hand Of so fair bride q:
MIRACLES At TIIEJORDAN.
| This is tic river which parted to 1ot
an army of two million Israelites
across. Here the skilled major general
OF the Assyrian host at the seventh
plunge dropped his lcprosy not only by
miraculous cure, but suggesting to ali
ages that water, and plenty of it, has
much to do with the sanitary improve.
ment of the world. Here is where
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