Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-10-16

here!'' Peter. Whl1e vet wondering what
his dream meant, descends the stairs ant
meets these strangers at the gate and they
tell him that good man by the name OF
Cornelius. in the CITY of Cpsarea. has also
had . dream and has >cEt them for Peter
and to ask him to come and preach. At
that call Peter left Joppa for Cpsarea
The dream that he had just had prepared
him to preach. for Peter learned by it To re
ject no people as unclean and whereas he
previously thought he must preach only to
the Jews, now he goes to preach to the Gen.
tiles who were considered unclean.
Notice how the two dreams meet-Peter's
dream on the house-top. Cornelius dream at
Ca,sarea. So 1 have noticed providences
meet, distant events meet, dreams meet
Every dream is hunting up some other
dream and every event Is searching for
some other event. In the 18th century
u492) the great event was the discovery OF
America. The art OF p hitting. born IN tho
same century. goes out to meet that dscov-
cry and make the new work an Intelligent
world. The declaration OF independence
announcing equal rights meets Robert
Burns,
"a mans a man for a that"
The United States was getting too large
to be managed by one government. and to-
legraphy was invented to compress within
an hour the whole continent. Armies In the
civil war were to be fitted out with clothing
and the sewing machine invention came out
to make it p issib!e. Immense farming
acreage Is presented n this country, enough
to support millions OF our native born. and
millions OF foreigners; but the old style OF
plough, and scythe, and reaper. and
threshcr, cannot do the work, and there
came steam plows, steam harrows. steam
reapers. steam rakes, ste am threshers, and
the work is accomplished. The forests OF
the earth fail to afford sufficient fuel, and
80 the coal mines surrenders a suficiency.
Tho cotton crops wero luxuriant, but OF
comparatively little value, for they could
not be managed, and So ut just the right
time, Hargreaves came with his invention
of the spinning-ienny, and ArkwriRht with
his roller. und Whitney with his cotton gin.
The world, after potterng along with the
tallow candle and whale OIL was crying for
better light and more OF it; and the hills OF
Pennsylvania poured out rivers OF oil. and
kenosene Illuminated the nations. But the
oil wells began to fail then the electric
light came forth to turn night into day. So
all the events are woven together. and the
world is magnifcently governed. We criti-
else things and think the divine machinery
is going wrong, and put our fingers amid the
wheels only to get them crushed. Eat,
say, hands of! Things are coming out
gloriously, Cornelius may he in Casarea.
and Peter in Joppa. but their dreams meet.
1t Is one hand that Is managing the world.
and that is Gods hand, and one mind hat
Is planning all things for good, and that is
Gods mind; and one heart that is filed
with love and pardon. and sympathy. anC
that is Gods heart. Have faith in Him.
Fret about nothing Things are not loose
at ends. There are no accidents. All will
ON. Out flSul Ia ,on, i'is.o.y ana Al -.
world. AS you are waking from one
1ream Upstairs. an explanatory dream VIII
DC knocking at the gate downstairs.
Standing here in Joppa, l remember that
where we this morning disembarked the
prophet Jonah embarked. For the first
time in my life l fully understand that
story God told Jonah to go to Nineveh.
but the prophet declined that call and came
here to Joppa. l was for weeks, while in
the Holy Land, consulting with tourist
companies, AS to how l could take Nincvch
In my journey. They did not encourage
the undertaking. 1t is a most tedious ride
to Nineveh and "A desert. Now l see an ad-
ditional reason why Jonah did not want to
go Nineveh. He not only revolted because OF
the disagreeable message he was called to
deliver at Ninevch but because it was n
long way and tough and ndit-infcs ted.
so he came here to Joppa and took ship.
Rut. alas. for the disastrous voyage! He
paid his full fare for the whole voyage. but
the ship company did not FIJI their part OF
the contract To this day they have not
paid back that passage money. Why people
should doubt the story of Jonah and thu
whale is more OF Il mystery than the Bible
event itself. l do not need the .act that
| Pliny, the historian. records that the skclc-
| ton OF u whale forty feet long. and with hide
q foot and a half thick. was brought from
Joppa to Rome. The event recorded In tn,
book OF Jonah has occurred a thousand
times. The Lord always has whale out
| side the harbor for IA man who starts in the
wrong direction. Recreant Jonah. l do not
wonder that even the whale was sick OF
him. This prophet was put in the Bible not
"a n a " In ts,Y hnan trL,I
the world not only needs lighthouses, but
buoys, to show where the rocks are. The
Bible story OF him ends by showing the
prophet in II fit of the sulks He was mad
| because Nineveh was not destroyed, and
then he went out to pout. and sat down
under big leaf, using it for shade from thu
tropical sun, and when worm disturbed
that leaf, and it withered and the sun smoto
Jonah, he few into u great rage, said; IN
| Is better for me to die than to live"
prophet in rage because he had lost hi,
| umbrella? Beware of petulance!
But standin. here on the house-top NJ
Joppa, look of upon the sands near tht
beach, and almost expected to find then
crmsoned and incarnadined. But no; Tho
rains long ago washed away the last sign o
the Napoleonic massacre. Napoleon wa
| marching on through the coasts. He hat
| here at Joppa four thousand Albaninns. wht
had been surrendered as prisoners OF war
and under a promise OF protection. VIVA
] shall nc do with them! 1t will bo iinpas
! sible for him to take them along. and n,
! cannot afford to leave soldiers enough l.
guard them from escape. 1t will not b,
| difficult for the man who broke the heart OF
lovely Josephine and who. when asked i
great losses Of life In his battles were not tot
dear price to pay for his victories
shrugged his shoulders mirthfully and said
you must break the eggs il you want t,
make an Omelet'-1 say. 1t wi, not be dif
cult for him to decide. The prisoners O
war, by his order, are taken out on tn,
sands and put to death-one Thousand q
them, two thousand OF them, th,ee thousant
of them, four thousand Of them, massacred
| And the blood pours down into the sea. tn,
red OF the one mingllng with the blue Of til,
| other. and making an awful maroon whi.:l
neither God nor nation can ever forget. Y,
who are fond OF vivid contrasts, put the tw,
scenes of Joppa side by side. Dorcas witt
her needle, and the immortal butcher will
his knife.
But standing on this Joppa house top.
look on on the Mediterranean, and what
| that strange sight l seer The waters ar
black. seemingly for miles. There seems T.
he q great multitude OF 1, ps fast entd tn