Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-11-27

two miles apart, the bases of the
mountains arr only half mile apart, and
the tribes stood on the sides of the mount
aims. and the air is so clear and the acous
tic qualities of this great natural amphi
theatre so perfect that voices can be dis.
tinctly heard from mountain to mountain
as has been demonstrated by travellers fifty
times in the last fifty years.
Can you imagine anything more thrill
ing and sublime and overwhelming than
what transpired on those two mountain
sides, and in the plain between, when the
responsive service went on and thousands
of voices on Mount Gerizim cried, blessed
shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt
thou be in the fields, blessed shall be thy
basket and thy storel" and then from
Mount Ebal, thousands of voices responded
crying; Cursed be he that reinoyeth his
neighbours landmark Cursed he he that
maketh the blind to wander out Of the
way and then there rolled up from all
the spaces between the mountains that one
word with which the devout Of earth close
their prayers and the glorifed of heaven
finish their doxologies, "Amenl Amenr'-
that scene only to be surpassed by the
times which are coming, when the
churches and the academies of music
and the auditoriums of earth, no
longer large enough to hold the wor-
shippers of God; the parks the mountain
sides, the great natural amphitheatres Of
the valleys, shall be illled with the ont
pouring populations Of the earth and
mountain shall reply to mountain, ms
Mount Gerizim TO Mount Ebal, and all the
people between shall ascribe riches and
honor and glory and dominion aud victory
10 God the Lamb. and there shall arise an
amen like the booming Of the heavens
mingling with the thunder Of the seas.
THE HEARTBEoRES FATHER.
On and on we ride, until now we have
come to Shiloh, dead city on hill sur
rounded by rocks, sheep, goats, olive gar
dens and vineyards Here good Eli fell
backward and broke his neck, and lay dead
at the news from bis bad boys, Phineas aud
Hophni; and life is not worth living after
ones children have turned out badly, and
more fortunate WINS Eli, instantly expiring
under such tidings. than those parents
who their children recreant and prohigate,
live on with broken hearts 70 see them
going down into deeper aud deeper plunge
There are fathers and mothers here today
to whom death would be happy release be.
cause Of their recreant sons. And if there
be recreant sons here present, and your
parents be Gar away. why not bow your
lead IN repentance, aud az the close of this
service 20 20 the telegraph office and put
i on the wing Of the lightning that yon
have turned from your evil waysg Before
another twenty four hours have passed
AXE your feet Off the sad hearts Of the old
Home to thy God 0 prod.
gall
Many many letters do ! get in pnrport |
aging; Ny son is in your cities; we have |
rot heard from him for some time; we |
ear something Is wrong; hunt him up |
md say good word to him; his mother is |
llmost crazy about him; he is a child Of |
many prayers But how can | hunt him |
Up unless he be in this audienceg Where
re you, my boy? On the main floor, or
n this platform, on in these boxes, or in
hese great galleries2 Where are your
lift your right hand have n message
rom home. Your father is anxious about
GU; your mother is praying for you.
Our God is calling for you. Or viii you
'ait until Eli falls back lifeless, and the
cart against which you lay In infancy
Eases 20 beat9 What a story to tell in
lernity that you killed herg My God
vert that catastrophel
But | turn from this Shiloh OF Ellis sud
en- deoease under bad news from his boys
nd find close by what is called the
Meadow OF the Feast While this an
ent city WIS in the height Of its prosper.
y on this Meadow Of the Feast there
as an annual bali, where the maidens OF
le city amid clapping cymbals aud a blare
trumpets danced in glee. upon which
lousands of spectators gazed But no
ince since the world stood ever broke up
such a strange way rs the one the Bible
'scribes. One night while by the light Of
e lamps and torches these gayeties went
J, two hundred Benjamites, who had been
dden behind the rocks and among the
ees, dashed upon the scene. They came
II TO iniure or destroy hut wishing to set
, households Of their own, the women Of
cir own land having been slain in battle
7 preconcerted arrangement each one
the two hundred Benjamites seized the
ie whom he chose for the queen OF his
me and carried her away 20 large estate
ID beautiful residence, for these two hun
ed Benjamites had inherited the wealth ,
nation. !
BENJAMITE coURrslIIP.
As today near Shiloh we look at the q
ieadow Of the Feast" where the maidens
need that night. and at the mountain =
rye up which the Beniamites carried :
cir brides, we bethink ourselves of the i
tier land and the better times in which
: live, when such scenes are an impossi. /;
lily, and amid orderly groups aud with :
aver and benediction, and breath Of !
ange blossoms, and the roll Of the we'd
az march, marriage IS solemnized and
tn oath recorded in heaven. two i'm
ortals start arm in arm on journey TO :
i until death do them part. Upon every =
ch marriage altar may there come the :
.ssing of him who settefh the solitary !
families" Side by side on the path Of y
e Side by side ia their graves Side by
e in heaveni
But we must this afternoon, our last day !,
lore reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent "
the most famous battlefield Of all time I
he plain Of Esdraelon. What must have I
IN the feelings Of the Prince Of Peace rs =
crossed it on the way from Jerusalem ,
NAZARETH Not a flower blooms there :
has in its veins the inherited blood Of :
Ners that drank the bloosl of fallar a. | :.