Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-06

bus IL towers had been built for nil those
who in the time Of war us in time Of peace
have fallen on this road during the ages
past you might almost walk on turrets
from Joppa TO Jerusalem.
Now we pass guari houses, which are
castles of chopped straw and mud where
at night and partly through the dag
armed men dwell AMI keep the bandits of
travellers. In the caves of these mount
aims dwell men to whom massacre would
he high play and purse with Il few pen
MES would be compensation enough for
the struggle that the savage might have
with the wayfarer There is only one
other defense that amounts to much in
these lands and that is the law of hospi-
tally. If you can get m Arab TO eat with
you, if only one mouthful, you are sure of
his protection, and that has been so from
age to age. The lords supper was built
on that custom, n special friendship after
partaking food together. To that custom
Walter Scott refers in his immortal "Talis.
man" where Saladin, with one stroke Of the
sword, strikes the heal from an enemy
who stands in Salatin's tent with cup in
his hand and before he has time to put it to
his lip, and docs it so suddenly that the
body of his enemy, boheaded, stands for a
moment after the beheading, with the cup
still in his right hand After the cup Ind
been slipped it would have been impossible,
according to the laws Of oriental hospital
ity. to give the fatal blow
CHRISTIAN LANDS ARE SAFEST.
The only lands where it is safe to travel
unarmed are Christian lands. Human
life Is more highly valued and personal
rights are better respected, and am glad
TO believe that in our country, from the
Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean, there
is not place today where man is not
safer without a pistol thln with one But
all through our Journeys in Palestine we
required firearms. While the only weapon
had on my person was New Testament
we Went through the region where said
to the dragoman, "Dlvi |, a?a you armedY
and he said ayes" and 8 hid, Are those
fifteen or twenty muleteers and baggage
men and attendants armed?" and he said
eyes, and felt safer
On we roll through the plain of sharon
Here grew the rose after which Christ was
nun Il, Rose OF Sharon. celebrated in all
ChristendOm and throughout all ages
There has been controversy aS to what
flower it was. Some say it was Il marsh
nnlloW that thriveS here. and some elaine
this honor for the nArcssus, and some for
the blue iris, and some for the scarlet
GnemOnc, for you must know that this
plain of Sharon is II rolling ocean Of color
when the spring breczes move across it,
',ut leaving the botanists in controversy
as TO what it is, would take the most arc
rlatic and beautiful Of them all ana twist
them into "a Earand for the "name which
IN above every name"
Yondcr, u little to the north ~ we move
on, is the plain OF Gao The Bible men
lions it again and again. The village
standing on this plain Of Ono is mud
village Two great basins of rock catch
the rains for the people. OF more i'm
Portauce in olden time than in modern
time was this plain Of Ono Bat as the
drtgoman announced it and in the Bible
read of it was reminded of the vast multi.
tude of people who now dwell in the plain of
Ono. They are, by their nervous constitu.
tiOn or by their hack Of faith in God, al.
ways in the negative. Will you help to
build u church, Oh, mol VIII you start
out in some new Christian cnterprisoi
Oh, moi Do you think the world is gcttinn
any bcttcr2 Oh, moi They lie down IN
the path of all good movements. sanitary,
social, political and religious. They har
ness thoip horses with no traces to pull
ahead, but only brceching straps to held
back. For all Christian work would not
rive for II thousand Of them the price of
clipped ten cont piece. They are in the
plain of Oh, moi May the Lord multiply
the numbers Of those who when anything
good is undertaken Gr1 found to live in
the plain of Oh, yes! Will you support
this new charity? Oh, yes! Do you think
that this victim of evil habit can be re
formed? Oh, yesl Are you willing o do
anything, whether Obscure or resounding,
for the welfare Of the church and the sal
walton Of II ruined wOrld2 Oh, yesl Bpt
nm sorry to say that the most populous
plain in all the earth today is the plain Of
Ono.
SAMSON'S DESTRUCTIVE WRATH.
Here now we come where stood the fields
into which Samson fired the foxes. The
foxes are no rarity in this land. | counted
at one time twenty or thirty of them in
one group, and the cry all along the line
was "lfoXcs Look at the foXcs!' and at
night they sometimes bark until all at
tempts to sleep are an absurdity Those !
saw and heard in Palestine might have
been descendants Of the very foxes that
Slmson employed for IN appalling incen
diarism The wealth of that land was in
the hurvcsts, and it was harvest time and
She straw was dry. Three hundred foxes
are caught and tied in couples by some
wire or incombustible cord which the
flames cannot divide, ana firebrands are
fastened to those couples of foxes, and the
atlrighted creatures are let loose and run
every whittier among the harvests, and in
the awful blaze down 20 the corn shocks,
a.. IL
through the valleys and over the hills and
among the villages is heard the cry of
"I'irep And in the burnt pathway walk
hunger and want and desoatiun.
All this for spite. And some theologians
learn one thing and some another, Bat !
learn from it that great man may seine.
times stoup to very mean piece of busi
ness, and that il men would use us much
ingenuity in trying to bless as they do in
trying to destroy, the world all the
way down would he in better condition.
Yet the fire of the foxes kindled that night
in Palestine has not gone out but has
lcapcd the seas, and the sly foxes, the hui
man foxes, are now still running every
WHITTIER kindling political fires, fires of
religious controversy, fires of hate world
wide fires and the whole harvest of right.
eoltsuess perish. 1t took the lard worl, of
multtudes on these plains of Palestine for
months and months 70 rear the vine ana
raise the corn, but it took only three hun.
Gred worthless foxes one night to blaze all
into ashes.
A TRANSPORTING SCENE.
Erane up yodr nerves now, that you may
look While ! point them out. Yonder is
kirjath-Jearim, where the ark of God
staid uutl David took it to Jerusalem,
Yondrr John the Baptist was born. Yon-
nnr /. I'm, ,nnna r.hnrn Elrist ,,nlknl with