Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-27

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through tamarisk and willows for The
greatest river Of an the earth. Tie Mis-
sis'ippi is wider, the Ohio is deeper, the
Amazon is longer, the Hudson rolls amid
regions more picturesque, the Thames has
more splenaor on ms banks. the Tiber sng-
I gests more imperial procession the Ilyssus
has more classic memories, and the Nile
feeds greater populations by it's irrigation.
but the Jordan Is the queen Of rivers, and
runs through all HE Biha, silver thread
strung like beads with heroics and before
night we shall meet on its banks Elijah
and Elisha and David and Jacob and Josh
VA and John and Jesus.
Al last between two trees gotta glimpse
of n river and said What is thut2" THE
Jordan WINS The quick reply And all
along tho line which had been heightened
/ by other pilgrims, some from America,
and some from Europe, and some from
Asia, the cry WAS saaaded "The Jordanl
/ The JordnnW Hundreds Of thousands of
] pilgrims have chanted on it's banks and
bathed in its waters. Many Of them dip a
| wet gown in the wave and wiring it out
and carry it home for their own shroud
/ II is an impetuous stream, and rushes on
as though it We're hastenngt to tell it's story
! to the ages. Many an explorer has it
whelmed aud many boat has it wrecked.
! Lieut.. Molineaux had copper bottomed
4 crafts split upon its shelvings Only one
| boat, that Of Lieut.. Lynch, ever lived to
sail the whole lcngth of it. At the season
| when the SHOWS on Lebanon melt the rage
| of this streams like the Conomangh when
| Johnstown persisted and the wild beasts
| that may be near run Gorthe hills explain
/ ing what jeremiah says, Behold he shall
20 mp like lion from the swelling a( ,Tor-
/ dan" NO river so often changes it's mind,
for it turns uud twists travelling two hun.
| dred miles to do that which in straight
line might be done in sixty miles Among
banks now low, now high, now of rocks,
now of mud and now of sand, having the
feet of the terebintns and oleanders and
acacas and reeds and pistachios and silver
poplars. This river mneries the Dead sea
to Lake Gallilee, and did ever so rough
groom take the hand of so fair a bride?
MIRACLES AT THE JORDAN.
This is the river which parted to let an
army OF two million IsIaeltes across. Here
the skilled major general of the Assyrian
host at the seventh plunge dropped his lep.
rosy not only by miraculous cure, but sug-
costing to all ages that water, and plenty
of it, has much to do with the sanitary i'm
provement Of the world Here is where
some theological students of Elisha's time
were cutting trees with which to build
theological seminary, and an AK head not
sufficiently wedged to the handle, flew off
into the river ana sank, and the young
man deplorcd not SO much the loss of the
ak head rs the fact that it was not his own
and cried, Alas! it was borrowed" and
the prophet threw stick into the river
and in defiance ofthe law Of graytation the
iron AK head cameto the surface and noated
like a cork upon the water, and kept float
ing until the young man caught it. a
miracle performed 20 give one an opportu.
nifty to return that which was borrowed,
and Il rebukc in all ages for those who Dor.
row and never return, their bad habit in
this respect so established that it would be
a miracle il they did return it. Yea from
the bank of this river Elijah took team of
fire, showing that the most raging element
is servant Of the good, and that there
is no need that a child Of God fear any
thing for il the most destructive of all ele
ments was that day fashioned into a vehi
Gle for a departing saint, nothing can ever
hurt you who love and trust the Lord
am so glad that that chariot of Elijah
was not made out Of wood or crystal or
anything ordinarily pleasant, but out of
fire. and yet he went up without having
so much as To fan himself When step
ping from amid The foliage of these clean
ders and tamHrisks on the banks Of the
Jordan, he pat his foot on the red step of
the red equipage and took the red reins of
yapor in his hands, and spurred the gal
Looping steeds toward the wide open gate of
heaven, il was q scene forever memorable
So the hottest Affections of your life may
roll you hcavcnward. So the most burn
ing prosecutions, the most fiery troubles,
may become uplifting, Only be sure that
when you pull on the bits Of fire, you drive
up toward Cod and not down toward the
Dead sea. When Latimer and Ridley died
1T the stake they went up in a chariot Of
fire When my friend p p. Bliss, the
gospel singer, was consumed with the rail
yrain that broke through Ashtabula
bridge and then took flame, said, IAN
other Elijah gone up in a>chariot of firer'
BAPTl2l&G IN THE JORDAN,
But this river is Il river of baptisms
Christ WAS here baptized and John bap
tiHetl many thousands. Whether on these
occasions the candidate for baptism and
the officer of religion went into this river
and then while both were standing the
water WIS dipped in the hand Of one and
spriuklcd upon the forehead of the other
or whether the entire form Of the one bap
TIED disappeared for moment beneath
the surface of the food do not now de
clare While cannot think without deep
emotion Of the fact that my parents held
me In infancy to the baptismal font in he
old meeting house at Someryille and as
sHmgd vows GA my behalf, must tell you
BOW Of another mode Of baptism observed !
in The river Jordan on that afternoon in