The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-03

had examined minutely the rocks ard s. mes
OF the Holy Land, they would find that
thev are being skeletoalzed and are being
melted into the soil and, being for the
most part limestone. they are do
ing for that land what the a erican and
English farmer does when at great exPe lse
and fatigue he draws his wagon load OF
lime and scatters it on the fields for their
enrichment the storms, the winters, tue
great midsummer heats Of Palestine by
crumbling I'D and diSsolvlng tie rpcks are
gradually prepari Palestine and SYRIA 10
Weld a product like unto the luXurlant
Westchest-r farms OF New York and
Lancaster county farms OF Pennsylvania
aud Somerset county farms OF New Jersey
and the other magnificent farm nelds OF
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the opulent
orchards of Maryland and California.
Let the Turk be driven out and
the American or EnglIslnsn or scotch
man go in and Mohsmmeda ism withdraw
its idolatries, aud pure Christianity bulls
its affairs. and the irrigation OF which SOLO
mons pools was only suggestion WIN
make all that land from Dan 10 Beersheoa
a. fertile aud aromatic and resplendent as
as on the morning when the king rode out
70 his pleasure grounds IN chariot SO swift,
and follow ed by mounted riders SO brill
liant thar it was for speed like a hurricane
followed by a cyclone.
As Look upon this great aqueduct OF
masonry, about seven feet high, two feet
wide. sometimes tunnelling the solid rock
and then rolling its waters through stone
ware pipes, an aqleduct doing its work ten
miles before it gets TO those thres reservoirs,
and then gathering their wealth Of refresh
ment and pouring 1t on to the mighty city
of Jerusalem and filling the brazen sea OF
her temple, and the bath rooms Of her
palaces, and the great pools of Sloan. aud
Hezekiah and Bethesda, | find that our CEN
fury has no monopoly OF the worlds wonders,
and that the conceted age In which we
live had better take in some OF the sails or
its pride when it remembers that 1t is hard
work in later ages to get masonry that will
last Fifty years, to say nothing OF the three
thousand, and no modern machinery could
lift blocks of stone like some of those stand
ing high up in the walls of Baaibec, and
that the art OF printing claimed for recent
ages was practiced by the Chinese fourteen
hundred years ago, and that our midnight
lightning express railtrain was foreseen by
the prophet Nahum, when In the Bible he
wrote, 'Erhe chariots shall ragein the streets,
they shall joStle one against another IN the
broadways, they shall seem like torches,
they shall run like hghtnings," and our
electric telegraph was foreseen by Job,
when in the Bible he wrote, "Canst thou
send lightnings that they may go and say
unto thee. here we are'~ What is that
talking by the lightnings but the electric
telegraph, | do not know but that the
electric forces now being year by year
more thoroughly harnessed may have been
employed in ages extinct. and that the
lghtnings all up and down the sky have
been running around like lost hounds
to find their former master
Embalmment was a more thorough art
three thousand years ago than to-day.
Dentistry, that we suppose one Of the i'm
portant arts discovered in recent centuries,
is proven to be four thousand years old by
the filed teeth of the munmies in the mu-
seums at Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth
on gold plates found by BelZoni in the
tornbs of departed nations. We have been
taught that Harvey discovered the circula-
of the blood so late as the seventeenth cen
fury Oh, mol Solomon announces it in
Ecclesiastes, where, first having shown
that he understood the spinal cord, silver
colored as it is, and that 1t relaxes in old
age, t'the silver cord be loosed," goes on to
compare the heart to a pitcher at a well,
for the three canals of the heart do receive
the blood like pitcher, ''or the pitcher be
broken at the fountain" What is that but
the circulation of the blood, found out
twenty-six hundred years before Harvey
was bornq After many centuries of ex-
ploration and calculation. astronomy finds
out that the world is round. Why, Isaiah
knew il was round thousands of years be-
fore when in the Bible he said: 'The Lord
stitch upon the circle of the earth"
Scientists toiled on for centuries and found
out refraction, or that the rays of light
when touching the earth were not straight
but bent or curved. Why, Job knew that
when ages before in the Bible he wrote of
the light: at is turned as clay to the SEAL"
In the old cathedrals of England, modern
painters, in the repair of windows, are try
ing to make something as good as the win
dow painting of 400 years ago, and always
foiliOov Nv ha unanimous vardict NJ all hn
examine and compare The color of mod
ern painting fades in 80 years, while the
color of the old masters is as well preserved
after 500 years as after one year. l saw
last winter on the walls of exhumed Pom
peii, paintings with color as fresh as though
made the day before. though they
were buried 1880 years ago. the
making of Tyrian purple is an impossibility
now. In our modern pottsries we are try
ing hard to make cups and
pictures and bowls as exquisite
as those exhuned from Herculaneum
and our artihcers are attempting to make
jew elry for ear and neck and finger equal
TO that brought up from the mausoleums of
1000 years before Christ. We have In our
time glass in all shapes and colors, but
Phny. more than 1880 years ago, described
malleable glass which, if thrown
upon the ground and dented, could
be pounded straight agaia by the
the wrists, and that confounds all the glass
manufactures Of our own time. l tried in
Damascus, Syria, to buy Damascus blade,
one of those swords that could be bent
double or tied into knot without breaking.
could not get one. Whyl The nineteenth
century cannot make Damascus blade II
we go on enlarging our cities, we NAV after
a while get a city as large as Babylon,
which was five times the size OF London.
These aqueducts of Solomon that visit
to-day, finding them in good condition
three thousand years after construction.
make me think that the world may have
forgotten more than it now knows The
great honor of our age is not machinery,
for the ancients had some styles of it more
wonderful; nor art. for the ancients had
art more exquisite and durable; nor archi-
lecture, for Roman Coliseum and Grecian
Acropolis surpass all modern architecture:
nor cities, for some of the ancient cities were
larger than ours in the sweep of theft pomp
But our attempts must he in moral achieve
ment and gospel victory. In that we have
already surpassed them, ano in that di ection
let the ages push on. Let us brag less of
worldly achievement, aud thank God for
moral oppor unity. More good men and
good women is what the world wants.
Toward moral elevation and spiritual at
tainment. let the chief struggle be. The
source of all that will show you before
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