Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-11

polygamy, the many wifehond of ,Mohan-
medsbisuns bas rlaadei Cha ref siSnthe I'M
utterable and everlasting curse Of wopan,
! and when woman sinks The race sinks
The proposition recently, made in high ec-
| clesiasticai' places for the reformation Of
! hiohammeianisln, instead of itsd oblitera-
ton, is like an attempt to improve plague
Eorl educate n oleprosy.1nT henH is only one
thing that will ever reform Mohaiasnetiiin
sisms andthItuis itsaextirpatien fmnil the
face of the earth by the power Of the GOSPEL
i'of the Son fnGods hsiich makes not only
man, but woman, FREE for this life and free
I Tor tie he u Come. eggs fvi Di54 0shJ
| The spirit of the horrible religioh Which
prevades the lefty OF 5DaInasciIs,, along
whose streets we walk and out 81 whose
bazars we mako phretasts e aud inE Whose
mosques we study ths wood carvings and
bedizeITmefts, was tleiiionst rated as Rate as
1860, when in this city it pIt to death i, 900
christians in foftyaeigl INT hours ando IStft to
the torch 5000 Chri4tiaii Homes, antf those
streets we walk today were red With the
carnage, and the shrieksl and groans Of The
dying and itlishouoredn men and sw9inen
made thisiplace hell on earth 1TIiis Went
on until a Moiammedan better tlisn bis
religion, Abd-ellKatler by name, a great
soldier, who ia one war1ihad1 with Z, 500
troops beaten $1,000 of the enemy, now pro
tested against this massacre anu gathered
the Christmas of Damascus into castles
and private honses and filled his own home
with the aifriShted sufferers i isAftaf Ia
while the mob came to his door and de
,nianded the christian dDqgs'' whom hewas
shelterin2 Aad Add eleISaderfnroumted
horse and drety his sword .land with aifew
of his old soldiers arouna him charged ON
the mob and cried: "WreDehesll Istliis the
way you honor the prophet May BIS
curses be upon ynuiH Shame ON youl
Shaule You will yet live 20 ropeabE Yeh
think you may do as you please With the
Christians, but the day of retribatioH will
come. The Franks will vet ttffn your
mosques into churc nesi Not a Christian
will give up. They aFu my brothers
Stand back or ] win give my men the or
der TO fire.
Then by the might Of one graf sonl un-
der God the wave OF assassination rolled
back Huzza for Abd-el-Kaderi Although
now we Americans and foreigners pass
through the streets OF Damascus unhin-
dered, there is in many parts Of the citythe |
stibdned Missing Of hatred for Christian
ity that fitdared would put 70 death every !
man, woman and child IN Damascus who /
does not declare allegiance to Mohammed. /
But ! am glad to say that wide, bard,
splendid turnpike road has within few |
years been constructed from Bayrout. on [
the shore OF the Mediterranean, % tliiscity [
Of Damascus, and If eyer again that whole
sale assassination is attempted Frepch
troops and English troops would. with jim.
Cling bits and lightning hoofs, dhslu tile +
hills and down this Damascus pl;sin and
leave the ammcilnnmurdereIs ,lend on
the floor OF their mnsQnes and seragios
II Is too late in the history OF the world for /
governments 10 allow such things "a the
modern massacre et Dainascas. For such E
attacks on 'Christiap mission.
aries and Christian dscil les the gospel is
not soappropriate as bnlliAs or sabers Sharp
and heavy enough 70 cut through With one
stroke from crown Of head to saddle ~
THE MODERN CITY.
/ But must shy Tint this city or Damas-
ms rs ] see IL now is not asabsorbing as
he Damascus Of oiden times ] turn my
Jack upon the bazars, with rugs fascinat.
ng the merchants from Bagdad. and the
indian textile fabric Of iDcompaiuble make, 4
md the manufactured saddles and brides
,ay enough for princes OF the orient to
lido and pull, and baths where ablhtion
'ecemes inspiration, ard the homes Of
hose bargain makers Of today, marbled
md divaned and fountained and uphoister
dand mosaiced and arabesqued and colon.
aided until nothing can be added, aud the T
plepdid remains Of the great mosque of
Ohm. originally built with gates so heavy
hat II required fiVe men to furntliem. and i
olumns of pdrphyry aud kneeling places
ramedn diamond and seyenty1fOur stain.
4 glass windows and six hundred lamps
( pure gold, alsingle prayer offered iii this
Mosque said 70 bs worth thirty Thousand
rayers offered IN any other place. | turn
~ back Oh uil these ard see Damascus as {
was when this nirroHv street which the
ible calls Straight.was n great wide street. !
New York Brpahway or n Parisihn
hamps Elysees nj great thoroughfare q
'ossing the city from CUTE to gate. along 6
h bic. trrampea and rolled The pomp Of all !
There goes ABRAHAM, the father Of all
le faithful. He has in this city been pun
lasing a celebr gtaa slaSee There goes !.
en- Ha1ad Of gllblaytimesg ian1in vlthirtv. =
va olnqueredmonarelIs There goes Da !.
n, king warrior and sacred poet. There !.
,es Farnun IN Raschid, once the com. 7
ander Of anarmyof pinety-iye thousand :
ersians and Arabs. There comes n war :, =
Or on his way to the barracks. carrying =
at Kind Of sword which the world has = =
rgotten how to make, a Damascus blade, q
IT'D the interlacings Of color changing at = =
cry new turn Of the light, many colors, - =
ming and going aud interioining,, the :"
ssle so keen il eoald cut in twain an OBJ
It without making the lower part Of the =. ~
lect tremble, with an elasticity that y
nld not be broken, though you brought !"
e pointo the sword clear back TO the :.
It. and having a watered appearance =,
rich made the blade seem as though Just
Dped in clear fountain. a triumph Of ii
tlery which thousand modern fonndrg- ~
n and chemists have attempted iniyain ~
initiate. On the side of this stres.t
masks. named after this city, figures OF =.
finals and fruits aud landseape- here
ing first wrought into siikAdainnsks
id specimens Of damaskeening b. which -
this city steel aud iron were first gr,.yed, -
4 then the groves filed with wire Of
d-damaskecning. But stand back or -,