Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-10

usually is demonstrated n ~, uishonesty
40 not see what God made i go. .
hero cow "e ~ not to be looked at. But
men dow o ' ne, crowds of disfgured wo-
Jonna h,nd ,,ie road on their way to
their booa nu'c 5, OF sticks for firewood ON
in tho naas.: Ihey started at 3 o'clock
st,an u ..'ornlng to get the fuel. They
amG Sea under the burdens. Whipped
hnnd,o a ~ a. VII some of them be if their
10 u ron',, u SUCKS Is too small. All that
70 - t snl. Tor enforcement is for man
Won onu ~ ms wiie, "be off, don't want
iom " ans more Woman a slave in all
lahas, except those in which the eosnei
Uat JESUS ~ u.s. Christ makes her a queen. And
ses IN christian countries there are wo-
f men posing as skeptics, and men with
, ,amlly deriding the only religion that
M ..tl.s sacred and honorable the names
" WE, mother, daughter. and sister,
what Is that? Town of Ramleh. birth
pace, residence and tomb of Samuel. the
g.orlous prophet. Near by Tower Of
rorty MARTYRS, SO called because that
nun numoer OF disciples persisted there for
Gnrlst,s sake, but il towers had been
JUN 1or all those who, in the time of
war as IN time of peace, have fallen on
enls road during the ages past you might
almost walk on turrets from JopDa to
Jerusalem. fp" W
NOW we pass guard houses which are
castles OF chopped straw and mud where
at night and partly through the day
armed men dwell and keep the bandits
on travellers. In the caves of these
mountains dwell men to whom massacre
would be high play and q purse with a
lew pennies would be compensation
enough for the struggle that the savage
might have with the wayfarer. There is
only one other defense that amounts to
much I'm these lands, and that is the law
OF hospitality. If you can get an Arab
to eat with you, II only one mouthful.
you are sure of his protection, and that
has been so from age to age. The
Lords Supper was built on that custom.
a special friendship after partaking food
together. To that custom Walter Scott
refers in his immortal Craftsman. !"
where Saladin, with one stroke of the
sword, strikes the head from an enemy
who stands in Saladin's tent with q Gun
in his hand and before he has time to
put it to his lip. and does it so suddenly
that the body of his enemy, beheaded.
stands for q moment after the behead-
ing with the cup still in his right hand.
After the cup had been slipped it would
have been impossible, according to the
laws of oriental hospitality, to give the
fatal blow.
Here now we come to where stood the
fields into which Samson fired the foxes.
The foxes are no rarity in this land. 1
counted at one time twenty or thirty of
them In one group, and the cry all along
the line was s'Foxes! Look at the foxes!'
and at night they sometimes bark until
all attempts to sleep are an absurdity.
Those I saw and heard in Palestine
might have been descendants of the very
foxes that Samson employed for an APP
palling incendiarism. The wealth of
that land was in 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
| tirebrands are fastened to those couple
of foxes, and the affrighted 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 hills and among
the villages is heard the cry of ssFire!"
And in the burnt pathway walk Hunger
and Want and Desolation.
All this for spite. And some theolo-
gians learn one thing and some another.
But learn from it that great man may
sometimes stoop to very mean piece of
business, and that if men would use as
much ingenuity in trying to bless as they
do in trying to destroy, the world all the
way down would be in 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, kindling political fires,
| fires of religious controversy, fires of
hate, world wide fires; and the whole
harvests of Righteousness perish.
Brace up your nerves now, that you
may look while point them out. Yon-
der is Kirjath-Jearim, where the ark of
God staid until David took it to Jerusa-
lem. Yonder John the Baptist was
born. Yonder is Emmaus, where Christ
walked with the disciples at eventide.
Here are men blowing, only one handle
/! to the pillow, showing the accuracy of
Christ's allusion. When we pillow 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 pillow and looking back is
fit for the kingdom" The OK is urged
on by q wooden stick pointed with sharp
/ iron, and the OK knows enough not to
kick, for he would only hurt himself in
stead of breaking the g0ad. And the
Bible refers to that when it says to
Saul, SIT is hard for thee to kick against
the goads."
Hero is the valley Of Ajalon, famous
for Joshua's pursuit of the five kings and
the lunar arrest. And in Imagination ]
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 Joshua's time nor since
then stopped moment in their march,
halted at Joshua's command it was a
scene enough to make the universe
SILVER. ssMoon! 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 moon,
and YOU must remember that 1t was
more of an orb then than it is now. II
is burnt out world now, an extinct
world now, corpse laid out in state in
the heavens, waiting for the judgment