Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-29


Away with your Nineteenth century, with
its free thought and It's modern invcn-
tic ms " That Turkish government ought
to be hotted from the face Of the earth,
and it will he.
Of many Of the Inhabitants of Palestine
I asked the question, "lIas the sultan of
Turkey ever been hore?" Answer, NO
"Why don't he come when it belongs to
his dominion?" And after the man inter
rogated looked this way and that, SO ils to
know he would not he reported, the an
swGr would invariably be, "IIe dare not
come" | believed it, If the sultan of
Turkey attempted to visit Jerusalem he
would never get back again. All Pales
the hates him. saw him 20 to the
mosque for prayers in his own city of Con
stautinOple, and SAW seven thousand armed
men riding out to protect him. Expensive
prayersl OF course that government wants
no better harbor Mt Joppa. May God re
move that curse Of nations, that old hag of
the centurieS-thc Turkish government!
For its everlasting insult to God and
woman let it perishl And so those rocks
ut the harbor remain the jaws of repeated
destruction.
VIVID MEMORIES OF JOPpA.
As we descended the narrow steps ut the
side Of the ship we heard the clamor and
quarrel ana swearing of fifteen or sixteen
different races of men of all features and
cOlOrS and all vernnculars; all different in
appearance, bnt NIL alike in desire to get
our baggage and ourselves at eXhorbitant
prices Twenty boats and only ten passen
gers to 20 ashore. The man having charge
of us pushes aside some, and strikes with
a heavy stiek others, and by violences that
would not he tolerated in our country, but
which seem to he the only manner of max
ing any impression there, clears our way
Into one of the boats which heads for shore
We are within fifteen minutes of the Christ
land. Now we hear shouting from the
beach, and in five minutes we will be
landed.
The PROV of the boat is caught by men
who wade ont to help us in. We are
trcmulous with suppressed excitement,
our breath is quick, and from the side of
the boat we spring to the shore, and Sun
day morning, Dec. /, 1889, about o'clock
our feet touch Palestine Forever to me
and mine will that day and hour be com
memorated for that pre-eminent mercy.
Let it be mentioned in prayer by my chill
gone, that morning we were permitted to
enter that land, and gaze upon those holy
hills, and feel the emotions that rise and
fall and weep and laugh and sing and
triumph mt such II Decentralization
On the back of hills one hundred and
fifty feet high Joppa is lifted toward the
skies. 1t is ls picturesque as it is quaint,
and rs much unlike any city we have ever
seen as though it were built in that star
Mars, where Il few nights ago this very
september astronomers, through unparal
leled telescopes, saw n snowstorm raging
How glad we were to be in Joppa Why,
this is the city where D3rcas, that queen
of the needle, ivel and died and was res
directed You remember that the poor
people came around the dead body of this
benefactress and brought specimens of her
kind ncedework and said, "Dorcls made
this" "Dorcas sewed that" "Dorcas cut
and fitted this" "Dorcas hemmed that"
According to llightfoot the commenta.
tor, they laid her out in state in public
room, and the poor wrung their hands and
cried and sent for Peter, who performed
miracle by which the good woman came
back TO life and resumed her benefactions.
An especial resurrection day for one wo.
mani She was the model by which many
women of our day have fashioned their
lives, and at the first blast of the horn of
the wntry tempest there appear ten thou
sand Dorcases- Decreases of Brooklyn, Dor
eases Of New York, Decreases of London,
Decreases of all the neighborhoods and
towns and cities of ChristendOm, just ms
good as the Dorcas of the Joppa which
visited. Thank God for the ever increas
ing skill and sharpness and speed and gen
crosby of Dorcas' needlel
"What is that man dcng?" | said TO the
dragoman in the streets of .Joppa. ooh,
he IL carrying his bed" Multtudes of the
people sleep out of doors, and that is the
way 80 many in those lands become blind
It is from the dew Of the night falling on
the eyclds. As a result of this, in Egypt
every twentieth person is totally blind. In
Oriental lands the bed is made of thin
s. all mattress, II blanket and pillow, and
when the man rises in the morning he Just
ties up the three into bundle and shoul.
dcrS it and takes it, away. 1t was to that
the Saviour referred when he said to the
sick man, Take up thy bed and walk"
An American couch or an English couch
would require ut lenst fonr men to carry
it,. but one Oriental can easily manage his
slumber equipment.
SIMON, THE TANNER.
But inhnle some of the odors of the
large tanneries around Joppa 1t is there
to this day Il prosperous business, this
tanning of hides And that reminds me
of Simon, the tanner, who lived at Jopps,
and was the host of Peter, the apostle
suppose the olfactorics Of Peter were rs
easily nsultcl by the doors of tanncry
as others But the Bible says "IIe lodged
with one Simon, the tanner" People who
go out To do reformatory and missionary
and Christian work must not be too sen.
sitive Simon no doubt brought to his
homestead every night the malodors Of
the calf skins and OK hides in his tannery,
hut Peter lodged in that home not only
because he may not have been invited to
the houses OF merchant princes surrounded
by recipient garden:, but TO teach all men
AMI women engaged in trying TO make the
world better that they must not hc squoam-
ish and fastidious and lincal and over par
ticutar in doing the work Of the world
The Church of God is dySHg OF fastidi.
business. We cry over the suiierings OF the
world in hundred dollar pocket handkcr.
chiefs and then puta cent in the poor box
There are many willing to do Christian
work among the clearly, and the refined,
aud the elegant, aud the educated but ex-
cuSe them from taking loaf OF bread
down q dirty alley, excuse them from
teaching mission school among the un-
combcd and the unwashed, excuse them
from touching the hand Of one whose
finger nails are in mourning for departed
soap. Such religious prelisionists can toll
IN atmospheres laden with hone, suc,sle
auu rusV mary, out not m AR floating up
from the mnlodorous watts. No, no, moi
Excuse them from lodging with one 81.
mon tho tauunr