Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-01

Tor the welfare of the church and the
salvation Of ruined world? Oh. YES,
but am sorry to say that the most
populous plain in all the earth today is
the Plain of Ono.
THE DEMON OF DESTRUCTION.
Here now we come to wherestood the
nelds into which Samson fred the
foxes. The foxes are no rarity in this
land. L counted at one time twenty
or thlrty OF them in one group, and the
cry all along the line was ''Foxesl Look
at the foxes" and at night thew soma
tnmes bark until all attempts to sleep
are an absurdity. Those | saw and
heard In Palestine might have been de-
scendants of the very foxes that Sam
son employed for an appalling incendi-
arlsm The wealth of that land was
III the harvests, and it was the harvest
time and the straw was dry. Three
hundred foxes are caught and tied in
couples by some wire or incombustible
cord which the flames cannot divide,
and 1lrebrands are fastened to those
couple OF foxes, and the affripbted
creatures are let loose and run every
whittier among the harvests, and in the
awful blaze down go the corn shocks.
and the vineyards, and the olives and
all through the valleys and over the
nils and among the villages is heard
the cry of ''Fire!" And in the burnt
pathway walk Hunger and Want and
Desolation.
All this for spite And some theo-
loglans learn one thing and some an
other. But | learn from it that a great
man may sometimes stoop to a very
mean piece of business, and that if men
would use as much ingenuity in irving
10 bless as they do in trying to destroy,
the world all the way down would
be III better chldition. Yet the fire
of the foxes kindled that night in Pal
estlne has not gone out, but has leaped
the seas, and the sly foxes, the human
foxes, are now still running every
whittier, kindling political fires, fires of
rehglous controversy, fires of hate
world wide fires, and the whole har-
vests OF righteousness perish. 1t took
the hard work of multitudes on all
these plains of Palestine for months
and months to rear the vine and raise
the corn, but it took only three hun
dred worthless foxes one night to blaze
all into ashes.
brace up your nerves now, that you
may look while point them out. YOn-
der Is hirjath-J earim, where the ark of
God staid until David took it to Jeru-
salem. Yonder John the Baptist was
born. Yonder is Emmaus, where Christ
walked with the disciples at eventide
Here are men blowing, only one han
die to the pillow, showing the accuracy
OF Chrlsts allusion. When we plow in
America or England there are two
hands on two handles, but in Palestine
only one handle. And so Christ uses
the singular saying, mo man having
put his hand to the pillow and looking
back is tit for the kingdom" The OK
is urged on by a wooden stick pointed
with sharp iron, and the OK knows
enough not to kick, for he would only
hurt himself instead of breaking the
goad And the Bible refers to that
when it says to Saul, ct is hard for
thee to kick against the goads :"
THE VALLEY OF AJALoN.
Here is the valley of Ajalon, famous
for JOshua's pursuit of the five kings
and the lunar arrest And in imagina
ton l see the moon in daytime halt
Who 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 Joshuas time
nor since then stopped moment in
their march, halted at Joshua's com
mand, it was a scene enough to make
the universe shiver. 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 re
member that it was more of an orb
than it is now. 1t is a burnt out world
now, a dead world now, an extinct
world now, a corpse laid out in state in
the heavens, waiting for the judgment
day to bury it. But on the day of
which l speak the moon was probably
a living world, yet it halted at the
wave of Joshua's finger Stand thou
still" 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 Make
dab, 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 at
forward buried; and you do well to ex
anime that cavern, for within few
other cave ever was-fortress, prison,
sepulcher.
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
all the surrounding country, and long
before the travellers came up to him
the plan for the taking of their money
| or their life or both was consummated.
He one day found a company Of
monks who would not pay, and he
smothered them to death in a hot oven.
In his last days he lived here like an
oriental prince, and had his attendants
and admirers, to whom he told the sto
rios Of hrioanda0a and assassination