The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-01

bJuplu NO W OfbluulUbT WIEN any mOHloHN
there might start ont within sight OF
the ship, the land where the most stu.
peEduous scenes Of all time and eterni.
ty were enacted, land Of ruin and re.
demption, and where was fought the
battle that made our Heaven possibls.
land OF Godfrey and Saladin, Of Joshua
and Jesus, t....t t'i1,
Will the night ever be gone? Yes, II
is growing lighter, and along the hori,
zon thore Is something like bank OF
clouds, and as watchman PAGES the
deck, say to him: "What is that out
yonder?" That is land, sir" said the
sailor. "The landl' cried, and soon
all our friends were aroused from sleep
and the shore began more clearly to re.
veal itself. With roar, and rattle, and
bang, the anchor dropped In the road
stead half mile from land, for though
Joppa is the only harbor Of Palestine, 1t
Is the worst harbor on all the coasts.
Sometimes for weeks no ships stop
there. Between rocks about seventy
Eve feet apart small boat must take
the passengers ashore. The depths are
strewn with the s eletons Of those who,
have attempt d to land or attempted to
embark. Twenty-seven pilgrims per-
ished with one crash Of boat against,
the rocks. Whole fleets OF Crusaders,
OF Romans, Of Syrians, Of Egyptians,
have gone to pieces there. A writer
eight hundred years ago, said he stood
on the beach in storm at Joppa and out
Of thirty ships, all but seven went to
pieces on tho rocks and thousand OF
the dead were washed ashore. .ltY nd /
Strange that with q few blasts Of pow
! der like that which shattered our Amer
lean He'll Gate, those rocks have not been
uprooted and tho way cleared, so that
great ships, instead Of anchorage far out
from land, might sweep up to the wharf
for passengers and freight. But you
must remember that land is under the
Turk, and what the Turk touches, he
withera Mohammedanism is against
easy wharves, against steamers,
against rail-trains, against printing
presses, against civilization. Dark
ness is always opposite to light The
owl hates the morn. "Leave those rocks
where they are," practically cries the
Turkish government; 1--WE want no peo-
pie Of other religions and other habits
TO land there; II tho salt seas wash over
them, let 1t bo warning TO other in
vaders; away with your nineteenth CEN
tury, with its free thought and It's mod
ern inventions" That Turkish govern
ment ought to be blotted from the face
Of the earth. and it will be-. OF many
Of the inhabitants Of Palestine, l asked
the question: HAS the Sultan OF Tur-
key ever been hers?" Answer, mo"
why don't he come, when II belongs
to his dominion?" And, after the man
interrogated looked this way, and that,
30 as to know he would not be reported,
the answer would invariably be: HE
dare not come" believed it II the
Sultan OF Turkey attempted TO visit
Jerusalem he would never get back
again. All Palestine hates him. / saw
him go to the mosque for prayers in his
own city OF Constantinople and saw
seven thousand artned mon riding out
to protect him. Expensive prayersl OF
course that government wants no better
harbor at Joppa.. May God remove that
curse OF nations, that old bag OF tho
centuries, the Turkish government For
its everlasting insult to God and woman,
let 1t perishl And so those rocks at the
hsrbor remain the jaws Of repeated do.
struction. rH-'
As we descended the narrow steps at
the side Of the ship, we heard the clamor
and swearingo Of fifteen or sixteen differ
ent races, OF men OF all features, and all
colors, and all vernsculars; all different
In appearance, but all alike in desire TO
get our baggage and ourselves at exor-
bitant prices. Twenty boats and only
ten passengers TO 60 ashore. The man
having charge Of US pushes aside some,
and strikes with heavy stick others,
and by violence that would not be toler-
ated In our own country, but which
seems TO be the only manner Of making
any impression there, clears our way
into one OF the boats which heads for tho
shore. We are within fifteen minutes
OF the Christ land. Now we hear shout
ing from tho beach, and In Ave minutes
We will be landed. The PROV OF the
boat is caught by men who wade out TO
help US in. We arc tremulous with sup
pressed excitement our breath is quick,
and from the side Of the boat we spring
TO the shore, and Sunday morning, De-
cember 1, 1889, about eight o'clock, our
feet touch Palestine Forever 10 me
and mine will that day and hour be
commemorated, for that pre-eminent
mercy Let 1t be mentioned in prayer
by my children and children's children
after wo are gone, that morning we were
permitted TO enter that land, and gaze
upon those holy hills, and feel the emo
tions that rise, and fall, and weep, and
laugh, and sing, any triumph atsuch
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On the back Of hills one hundred and
hfty feet high Joppa is lifted toward
the skies. 1t Is as picturesque as 1t 10
quaint and as much unlike any city We
have ever seen, As though II were built
In that star Mars, where . few nights
ago this very September. astronomers
through unparalleled telescopes saw .
snowstorm raging. How glad we are TO
be in Joppal Why, this Is the city
whore Dorcas, the queen Of the needle,
lived and died and was resurrected.
You remember that the poor people
came around tho dead body Of this bsne-
faotress and brought specimens Of her
kind needle-work and said, "Dorcss made
this; Dorcas sewed that; Dorcas hemmed
that" According to Lightfoot the COM
they laid her out in state in
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