The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-17

the heavier burden OF guilty heart
Now we come to the brook Elah. from
which little David took the smooth
stones with which he Frustrated Coli
ath. There is bridge spanning the ra-
vine, but at the season we crossed there
is not drop Of water in the brook. We
went down into the ravine and walked
amid the pebbles that had been washed
smooth, very smooth, by the rush of the
waters through all the ages. There is
where David armed himself
The topography of the place 30 corre-
spends with the Bible story that could
see the memorable fight 90 on. 1t is
the only fight 1 ever did watch. Pugil-
ism 1 abhor, but here were two cham
pions, the one God-appointed, the other
Satan-appointed, and deciding the des-
tiny of nation, the destiny of a world
1t was Marathon, an Arbela, s-Water-
loo, Blenheim, Sedan, concentered
into two right arms Here are two
ridges of mountains 1--WE hundred feet
high, the Phillistines on one ridge. the
Israelites on the other ridge. The
fight is in the valley between, at that
season shaded, and sweet with terebinth
and acacia David, the champion for
the Israelites. Goliath, the champion
for the Phillistines. David understood
and almost effeminate, only mouthful
for Goliath. who was nearly ten feet
high.
They advanced to meet each other,
but the Bible says that, David made the
first step forward. Nearer and nearer
they come, but 1 do not think David
will wait. until he comes within reach
of Goliath's sword, for that would be
fatal, and David has a weapon with
which he can fight at long range. Closer
and closer they come, but David adj
vances the more rapidly. Come to
me-" said the giant. land Twill give thy
flesh unto the fowls of the air and to
the beasts Of the field" David re-
sponded: 81 come to thee in the name
OF the Lord of Hosts" Aha, that is the
right kind of battle shout: SIN the
name of the Lord of Hostsr" He who
fights in that spirit wins the day. The
almost Israelitish dwarf enlarges into
proportions.
The moment to strike Is come. David
takes his sling with stone in 1t and
whirls it round his head, until he has
put the weapon into sufficient momen-
tum, and then taking sure aim, hurls it
The giant throws up his hands and reels
back and falls. The stone sank into his
forehead. That was the only available
point of attack. as...t .r.
But we must hasten on, for the danger
now is that night will be upon US be-
fore we reach Jerusalem. o! we must
see it before shutdown. We are climbing
the hills which are terraced with olive
groves, uplands rising above uplands,
until we come to an immensely of bar
renness, gray rocks, whore neither tree,
nor leaf, nor bush, nor grass blade, can
grow. The horses stunt BILE, and slip,
and pull, till 1t seems the harness must
break. Solemnity and awe take posses
sion of US. Though vivacious party,
and during part Of the day POPULARITY
had reigned, now no one spoke a word
except to say to the dragoman: Tell
us when you get the first glimpse of the
city" never had such high expecta-
ton of seeing any place as of seeing
Jerusalem. l think my feelings may
have been slightly akin to that Of the
Christian just about to enter the
heavenly Jerusalem. ~
Over another shoulder Of the hill we
go, and nothing in sight but rocks
and mountains and awful gulches be-
tween them. which make the head swim
II you look down. On and up. on and
up, until the lathered and smoking
horses are refined in and the dragoman
rises in front and points eastward, cry
ing "Jerusalemr' 1t was mightier than
an electric shock. We all rose. There
it lay. the Or re of nations, the termi-
nus of famous pilgrimages, the object
of Roman and crusading wars, and for
it Assyrians had fought, and Egyptians
had fought, and the world had fought;
the place which the Queen OF Sheba
visited and Richard Ceur de Lion had
Home of solomon. Home
of Ezekiel. Home of Jeremiah. Home
of Isaiah. Home OF Saladin. Mount
Zion of David's heartbreak and Mount
Moriah where the sacrifices smoked,
Mount Of Olives where Jesus preached,
and Gethsemane where He sgonized,
and Golgotha where He died, and the
Holy Sspulcher whore He was buried.
o, Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Greatest city
on earth and type of the city celestial.
An Arab on a horse that was like
whirlwind, bitted and saddled and
spurred, its name and TANKS jet as the
highland there are no horsemen as
Arab horsemen-hsd come far out to
meet us and invite US to his hotel inside
the gates But arrangements had been
made for US to stay at hotel outside
the gates In the dusk Of evening we
halted in front Of the place and entered,
but I said: 'No. thank you for your
courteous reception, but l must sleep
tonight inside the gates Of Jerusa.
lem I would rather have the poorest
place inside the gates than the
best place outside" So we remounted
our coach and moved on amid clamor
of voices, an between camels grunting
with great beams and timbers on their
back, brought in for building purpores
for it is amazing how much camel
can carry-until we came to what is
called the Joppa gate of Jerusalem.
1t is about forty feet wide, twenty
feet deep and sixty feet high. There is
a sharp turn just after you have entered.
so planned as to MAKE the entrance OF
armed enemies the more difficult On
the structure of these gates the safety
of Jerusalem depended and all the Bible
writer's used them for illustrations.
Within five minutes walk Of the gate
we entered David wrote: Enter into
thy gates with thanks, giving" Lift up
your heads, o, ye gatesr' The Lord
loveth the gates of Zion, "''Open to me the
gates Of righteousness" And Isaiah
wrote: go through. go through the