The progress., 1890-11-29

Inc mOluer OF CnrlSL-IOr women are TrSt
to notice such things-found that the pro-
visions had fallen short and she told Christ
and He. to relieve the embarrassment OF the
housekeeper. who had invited more guests
than the pantry warranted. became the
butler OF the occasion, and out Of cluster
OF few sympathetic words squeezed a
beverage ola hundred and twenty-ssx gall
Ions Of wine in which was not one drop Of
intcxicant or it would have left that party.
as maudline and drunk as the great centen-
NAL banquet in New York two wears ago
le1t senators and governors and generals
and merchant princes. The difference be-
tween the wine Of the wedding in Cana
and the wine at the banquet in New York
being that the Lord made the one and the
devil made the other. We got off our
horses and examined somc Of these water
jars at Cana said to be the very ones that
held the plain water that Christ turned in
to the purple bloom of an especial vintage.
| measured them and found them eighteen
inches from edge to edge and nineteen
inches deep. and declined TO accept their
Identity. But we realized the immensity
of q supply of hundred and twenty-six>
gallons Of wine. What was that for?
Probably one gallon would have been
enough. for it was only. an additional in
StallmcEt OF what had already been provid-
cd, and it is probable that the housekeeper
could not have guessed mere than one gals
Ion out Of the way. But "a hundred and
and twenty-six gallonsl What will they do
with the surplus? All it was just like our
Lord. Those young PEOPLE were about 10
start housekeeping, and tilcir means were
limited, and that big supply. whether kept
III their pantry or sold, will be mighty
help. You see there was no strychnine. or
logwood. or nux yomiea. in hat'ibeveraee.
and as the Lord n ade it it would keep Ho
makes mountains and seas that keep thou
sands OF years and certainly He could make
a beverage that would keep four or five
years. Among the arts and inventions OF
the future / hope there may be some one
that can press the juices from the grapo
and so mingle them and without one drop
Of damning alcohol that it will keep for
years. And the more of it you take tho
clearer will be the brain and the healthier
the stomach. AID here is remarkable
fact in my recent journey-I travelled
through Italy, and Greece, and Egypt, and
Palestine, and Syria, and Turkey, and
how many intoxicated persons do you think
/ saw in all those five great realmso Not
one. We must in our Christianized lands
have got hold of some kind OF beverage
that Christ did not make.
But we must hasten on, for I do not
mean to close my eyes tonight till / see
from mountain top, Lake Galilee, on
whose banks, next Sabbath, we will wor-
ship, and on whose waters the following
morning we will take sail. On and up
we go in the seyerest climb of all Pales-
tine, the ascent Of the Mount of Beati-
tudes. on the top Of which Christ preached
that famous sermon on tic Blesseds-
Blessed this and Blessed that. Up to their
knees the horses plunge in mole-hills, and
surface that gives way at the first touch
Of the hoof, ard again and again the tired
beasts halt. as much as to say to the riders,
1T is unjust for you to make us climb
these steps," On and up over mountain
sides where in the later season, hyacinths
sand dases, and phloXes, and anemones
kindle their beauty. On and up until
on the rocks Of black basalt we dismonnt
and climbing to the highest peak, look out
on an enchantment of scenery that seems to
be the Bcatitudes themselves arched into
skies, and rounded into valleys, and sill
vered into waves. The view is like that
of Tennessee and North Carolina from the
top of Lookout Mountain or like that of
Of Mount Washington. Hail hills of Cali
lee. Hail Lake Gennesarct, only four
miles away! Yonder, clear UP and most
conspicuous. is Safed, the very city to
which Christ pointed for Illustration in the
on hill cannot be hid" There are
of Beatitudes, enough to build
the highest pulpit tho world ever
saw. Aye, it is the highest pulpit. 1t
overlooks all time and all eternity. The
valley Of Hattin between here and Lake
Galilee is an ampitheatrc, as though the
natural contour Of the earth had invited all
nations to come and sit down and hear
Christ preach sermon, in which there
were more startling novelties than were
ever announced in all the sermons that
were ever preached. To those who heard
Him on this very spot. His word must have
seemed the contradiction of everything that
they had ever heard or read
or experienced. The worlds theory
had been: Blessed are the ar
rogant; Blessed are the supercilious;
Blessed arc the fearless; Blessed arc they
that have verything their own way;
Blessed are the war eagles: Blessed arc
the prosecutors; Blessed are the popular;
Blessed are the Herods and the
Caesars, and tho Ahabs. mo! no!
no!n says Christ with voice that rings
over these rocks, and through yonder val
ley of Hattin, and down to the Opaline
lake on the one side and the sapphire
Mediterranean on the other, and across
Europe in one way, and across Asia in
the other way, and around the earth both
,vavc till the plohn shall vet ha rirdlnd
with the nine beatitudes: Blessed are the
poor, Blessed are the mournful, Blessed
are the meek, Blessed are the hungry
Blessed are the merciful, Blessed are the
pure, Blessed are the peacemakers, Blessed
ara tho raercnc1lt Blessed ard the falSel,r