Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09


flames cannot divide, and tire-hrands are
fastened to those couples of foxes. and
the affrighted creatures Hre let loose and
run every whittier among the harvests
aud In the awful blaze down go the corn
shocks, aud the vineyards, and the olives
and all through the valleys and over the
hills, and among the villages Is heard the
crv OF 'Fire!'' And in the burnt path
way walk hunger and want aud desola-
ton.
All this for spite. And some the
ologians learn one thing, and some an
other. But learn from it that great
man may sometimes stoop 10 very
mean piece of business, and that II men
would use as much ingenuity i'll trying to
bless as they do in trying to destroy, the
world all the way down would have been
i'll better condition. Yet the fire of the
foxes kindled that night in Palestine has
not gone out, but has leaped the seas,
and the sly foxes, the human foxes, are
now still running every whittier, kim
ding political fires, fires of religious
controversy, fires of hate, worldwide
fires, and whole harvests Of righteous
ness perish. Ii took the hard work of
multi,udes on all these plains of PGles-
tine for months aud months to rear the
vine and raise the corn, but it took only
800 worthless foxes one aight to blaze all
into ashes.
Brace up your nerves now, that you
may look while point them out. Tonder
is kirjathiear where the ark of God
stayed until David took it 10 Jerusalem.
Yondpr John the Baptist was born. Yon-
der is E'nmaus, where Christ walked
with tbs disciples IT eventide. Here are
men ploughng, with only one handle TO
the plough, showing the accuracy OF
ChriEt's ullusiou. When we plough in
America or England there are two hands
on two handles, but in Palestine only
one handle. And SO Christ uses the
singular saying: "No man having put
his hand to the plough and looking back
is fit for the kingdom. - The OK is urged
on by wooden stick
POINTED WITH SHARP IRON,
and the OK knows enough not to kick,
for he would only hurt himself iustegd Of
breaking the goad. And the Bible re-
fers to that when it says TO Saul: at is
hard tor thee 10 kick against the goads. -
Here is the valley of Albion. famous
for Joshua's pursuit OF the five kings and
the lunar arrest. And in Imagination l
see the moon in day time halt. Who
has not sometimes seen the moon dispute
the throue with the sun? But when the
king of day and the queen of night, who
never before JOshua's time, nor since
then, stopped q moment i'll their march,
halted III Joshun's command, it was q
scene enough to axe the universe
shiyer: Moon! stand thou still in the
valley OF Ajalon.'
At another time we will see the sun
stop above Gideon, but now we have
only to do with the moo aud you must
remember that it was more of au orb
than il ID now. 1t is n burnt out world
now "a dead world now, an extinct world
now, corpse laid out in state IN the
heavens waiting for the Judgment day 10
bury it. But on the day of which l
speak the moon was probably n living
world, yet it halted ut the wave OF
Joshuu's finger, ''stand thou still! -
Do not bulge an inch until Joshua fin
ishes those five kings, who are there
tumblng 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 ufterward locked in, and from
which they were taken out 10 be slain,
and in which they were afterward buried;
and you do well TO examine that cavern,
for within few hours it became three
things which no other cave ever was:
FORTRESS, PRISON, sEPULCHRE.
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 all over
the surrounding country, aud long be-
fore the travellers came up TO him, the
plan for taking their money or their life
or both was cuusummnted. He one dnv
found company of monks who would
not pay and he smothered them to death
i'll hot oven. In his last days he lived
here like an ORR ntal prince, and had hIs
attendants and admirers TO WHOM he told
the stories of brigaudage and assassiua-
ton. So late as when ur eminent and
beloved American, William G. Prime,
passed through, Abou Gosh, the sound
reilly Bedouin sat ut his doorway smoking
his pipe. His descendants live in tins
village and probably nre no more honest
than their distinguished ancestor, but
maraudiug and murder is not as safe
business now as when all this route 10
Jerusalem was subject TO outrages pande-
nouiac.
Here we pass the village of Latrun,
u
few struggling houses on steep hills rising
from the valley OF Aialon. Up these
steep hills, in his earlier days the thief
had carried the spoils of arson and bur-
glary, and down them he had borne the
heavier burden of guilty heart. But
higher than these hills he mounted, after
he had repented, from the trunstixed pos
ture on the cross to the bosom of for
giving God.
Now We come to the brook Elah, from
which little David took the smooth
stones with which he Frustrated Goliath.
There is bridge spanning the ravine,
but at the season we crossed there ia not
a drop of water in the brook. We went
down iuto the raviue and walked amid
the pebbles that had been washed
smooth-very smooth by the rush of the
waters
THROUGH ALL TIE AGES.
There 10 where David armed himself.
He walked around and picked up i've of
these polished pebbles. He got them of
Just the right size. He prepared himself
for five volleys. SO that if the giant es-
capes the first he will not escape the
whole five. The topography of the place
SO cOrresp ponds with the Bible story that l
could see the memorable fight go on. 1t
Is the ouly fight ever did watch. Pu-