Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-08

tempt TO improve plague or educate a
| leprosy. There is only one thing that
W ill ever reform MOhammedanisn, and
that Is its exiirpation from the face of
| the earth by the power of the gospel of
the Son of God, which makes not only
| man, but woman free for this life and
| free for the life TO come.
/ The spirit of the horrible religion which
pervades the city of Damascus, along
hose streets we walk. aud ont of whose
bazaars We make purchases, aud in
whose mosques We study the wood
carvings and bsdIzenmeuts, was demon
strated rs late rs 1860, when in this city
1t put TO death 5000 Christians in forty
eight hours, and put to the torch 5000
Christian homes, aud those streets We
walk to-day were red with the carnage,
and the shreks and grOans of the dJ ing
ami dishonorei men aud women made
this place II he'll on earth. This went on
until Il Mohann edan, better than his
religion, bd-el- RAIDER by name, Il great
soldier who had in one war with 25,-
GOO troops beaten 60 Geo OF the enemy,
row protested against this massacre
aud gathered the Christians of Damascus
into castles an6 private houses and flied
his own home with the aIrighted suffer-
ers. After while the mob came TO his
door aud demanded the 'Christan
dOgs' whom he was shelterlns. And
Abd-el- kaGer mounted q horse and drew
his sword and with fe~ Of his old
soldiers around him, charged on the mob
and cried: "'Wretches! Is this the way
you honor the prophet May his curses
be upon you. Shame on you! Shame!
You will yet live 10 repent. You think
you may do as you please with the Chris
tians, but the day of retribution will
come. The Franks will yet turn your
mosques into churches.
NOT CHRISTIAN WILL GIVE UP.
They are my brothers. stand back or l
will give my men tbs order to fire. -
Then by the might of one great
soul under God the wave of
assassination rolled back. HUI
zah for Add ell Kader. Although
now we Americans aud foreigners pass
through the streets of Damascus unhin-
tered, there is in many parts OF the city
the subduod Kissing of hatred for Chris
tanity that If it dared would put
TO death every man, woman and child in
Damascus who does not declare allie
Eiauce TO Mohanmed. But l am glad
30 shy that wide, hard, splendid turn
pike road has within few years been
constructed from Beyrout on the shore
of the Mediterranean to this city of
Damascus, aud, If ever again that
wholesale assassination IS attempted,
French troops and English troops would,
with jinglIug bits and tightening hoofs,
dash up the hills and down on this Dum-
sscus plain ami leave the Mohnmmeduu
mur;erers dead upon the floor of their
a uIi T., Jota tn,
the history OF the world for governments
to allow such things as the mod
"a massacre at Damascus. For
such murderous attacks on Christian
missionaries and Christian disciples, the
Gospel is not so npproDriat as bullets or
sabres sharp and heavy enough to cut
through with one stroke from crown OF
head TO saddle.
But must soy that this city OF Dnmas-
Gus rs see it now is not SO absorbing rs
the Damascus of olden times. / turn
my back upon the baZaars, with rugs
fascinating the merchants from Ba2dnd,
and the Indian textile fabric of incom-
parable make, and the manufactured
saddles aud brides gay enough for
PRINCES OF THE ORIENT
TO ride aud pull and baths where ablu-
ton becomes inspiration, and the homes
of those burgain- makers OF to-day mar
bled and divened and fountained and
upholstered and nosaiced and grabss-
qued and coounGded until moth
ing can be added, and the splendid
remains of the great mosque of
John, originally built with gates go
heavy that it required five men to
turn them and columns OF porphyry and
knee!inC-places framed in diamond aud
seventy-iour stained glass windows and
six hundred lamps OF pure gold, a single
prayer offered in this mosque said TO be
worth thirty thousand PRAYERS offered in
any other place. l turn my lack on all
these and see Damascus as il was when
This narrow street, N h!s h the Bible calls
Straight, was q great wide street, New
York Broadway or Partisan Champs
Elysees, great thoroughtaCe crossing
the city from gate to gate. along which
trgmped and rolled the pomp Of all ma
lions. There goes Abraham, the father
of all the faithful. He has In this city
been purchasing celebrated slave.
There goes Ben Hadad of Bible times
lending thir;y-two conquered monnrchs.
There goes David. king, warrior, and
sacred poet. There goes Tamerlane
the conqueror. There goes Haroun
al Raschid, once the com.
man6er of an army OF ninety-five
thousand Persiaus and Arabs. There
comes warrior on his way 10 the bar
racks, carrying that kind of sword
which the world has forgotten how TO
make,
DAMASCUS BLADE
With the irter,aciugs OF color changing
at every new turn of the light, many
colors coming and going and interjoin-
ing. the blade 30 keen it could cut in