Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-16
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staid until David took it to Jerusalem xtlll
Yonder John the Baptist was DOTH ~
der is Emmaus, where Christ walAeu WIN WIN
the disciples at eventide. Here are ileh
blowing, only one handle TO the pow
showing the accuracy Of Christs ailusloh;
When we pillow in America or Ehgiahu
there are two hands on two hanules' puV
in Palestine only one handle. anu 50
| Christ uses the singular saying, NO man
having put his hand to the pillow anu iooA-
ing back is Gt for the kingdom. Inc OK
is urged on by wooden stick pointed WIN
sharp iron, and the OK knows enough not
to kick, for he would only hurt himself IN
stead of breaking the goad. And the Bloie
refers to that when it says TO saul, lt Is
/ hard for thee to kick against the goads
Here is the valley OF Ajalon, famous for
.Joshua's pursuit of the five kings and the
/ lunar arrest. And in Imagination see
the moon in daytime halt. VINO has not
| sometimes seen the moon dispute the
/ throne with the sun? But when the KING
/ of day and the queen Of night, who never
before .Ioshua's time nor since then stopped
a moment in their march, halted al
Joshua's command il was scene enough
to make the universe shiyer: Moon, stand
thou still In the valley Of Aialon! AT an
other time we will see the sun stop above
Gideon. but now we have only to do with
the moon, and you must remember IL was
more Of an orb than it is now. II is
burnt out world now, dead world now,
an extinct world now, corpse laid out IN
state in the heavens, waiting for the ludg-
ment day 10 bury it. But on the day OF
which speak the moon was probably
living world, yet it halted at the wave OF
Joshua's finger, "Stand thou stilll' DO
not bulge an inch until Joshua finishes
those five kings who are there tumbling
over the rocks, sword Of man slashing
them, hailstones out Of the sky pelting
them.
And there is the cavern of Makkedah,
where they fled for safety, and where they
were afterward locked in, and from which
they were taken out to be slain, and in
which they were afterward buried, and you
do well to examine that cavern, for within
a few hours it became three things which
no other cave ever was-tortress, prison,
sepulcher.
AN OLD TIME RoBBER
Now we pass the place where once lived
one of the greatest robbers of the century,
Abou Gosh by name. From this point you
see he could look over the surrounding
country, and long before the travellers
came up to him the plan for taking of their
money or their life, or both, was consum-
mated He one day found a company Of
monks who would not pay, and he smoth
cred them to death in hot oven. In his
last days be lived here like an oriental
prince. and had his attendants and admir-
ers TO whom he told the stories Of brigaud
age aud assassination. So late as when
our eminent and beloved American, VIII
lam G. Prime, passed through, Abou Gosh,
the scoundrelly Bedouin, sat at his door
way smoking his pipe. His descendants
live in this village, and probably are no
more honest than their distinguished an
cestor but marauding and murder are not
as safe business now as when all this
route TO Jerusalem was subjected TO out
RACES pandemoniac.
Here we pass the village Of Latrun, home /
of the penitent thief, the village, a few
struggling houses on steep hills, rising |
from the valley Of Ajalon. Up these steep /
hills in his earlier DAYS the thief had car
ried the spoils Of arson and burglary and 1
down them he had borne the heavier bur /
den of a guilty heart But higher than /
these hills he mounted after he had re
pented, from the transixed posture on the 1
cross to the bosom of forgiviny God
Now we come TO the brook Elah, from 4
which little David took the smooth stones /
with which he Frustrated Goliath. There 4
is bridge spanning the rayine. but at the /
season we crossed there is not a 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 him
self. He walked around and picked up
five Of these polished pebbles. He got
them Of just the right size. He prepared
himself for five volleys, so that il the giant
escapes the first he will not escape the
whole five. The topography OF the place
so corresponds with the Bible story that
could see the memorable fight 20 on. Il
is the only fight ever did watch
Pugilism abhor; but here were two cham
pions-the one God appointed, the other
Satan appointed, and deciding the destiny
Of nation, the destiny of a world 1t was
a Marathon, an Arbela, Waterloo, Blen-
helm, a Sedan, concentered into two right
arms Here are two ridges Of mountains
800 feet high, the Philistines on one ridge.
the Israeltes on the other ridge The fight
is in the valley between, at that season
shaded and sweet with terebinth and AGA
Ella, David the champion for the Israel
ties, Goliath the champion for the Philis-
tines, David understood and almost effemi-
nate, only mouthful for Goliath, who was
nearly ten feet high
DAVID AND GOLIATH.
They advance to meet each other, but the
Bible says that David made the first step
iorward Nearer and nearer they come.
out do not think David will wait until
le comes within reach Of Goliath's sword,
or that would be fatal, and David has
Weapon with which he can fight at long
'ange. Closer and closer they come, but
David advances the more rapidly. Come
o me, said the giant, land / will give thy
iesh unto the fowls of the air and to the
beasts of the field" You see Goliath 20.
ng to give David for a banquet to the
'ulture and jackal He, the mountain of
lesh, will fall over on that little hillock. |
rear him laugh through the mouthpiece
# his helmet. He will toast the little
vhiffet on tho top of his long sword He
viii call all the crows for a breakfast.
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