Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-29

the Christian commission said to the nurse
who stood there. wash the faces and feet OF
these men and it will revive them" mo, "
said the nurse, 81 didn't come into the army to
wash anybodys feet" "Well," said the dis
tinguished member of the commission, "bring
me water and a towel 1 will be very glad to
wash their feet" One was the spirit of the
devil, the other the spirit of Christ"
DEMOCRACY OF RELIGION.
But reference TO Peter reminds me that we
must 60 to the horsetop in Joppa where he was
taught the democracy of religion. That was
about the queerest thing that ever happened.
On our way up to that housetop, we passed an
old well where the great stones were worn deep
with the ropes of the buckets and 1t must be a
well many centuries DID, and. / think, Peter
drank out of il. Four or Ave goat or calf skins
filled with water lay about the yard. We soon
got up the steps and on the housetop. 1t was
in snch place in Joppa that Peter, one noon,
while he was waiting for dinner, had hungry
tit and tainted away and had vision or dream
or trance. said to my family and friends on
that housetop, Listen while read about what
happened here" And opening the Bible, we
had the whole story. 1t seems that Peter on
the housetop dreamed that great blanket was
let down out of heaven. and in 1t were sheep
pigeons and buzzards and snakes and all man.
ner of creatures that fly in the air or walk the
fields, OF crawl the earth. and in the dream a
voice told him as he was hungry. to eat, and he
SAUL cannot eat Things unCl6au. 1uTeo
times he dreamed it, There was then heard a
knocking at the gate of The house on the top
of which Peter lay in a trance and three men
asked: rs Peter heref' Peter, while yet
wondering what his dream meant, descends the
stairs and meets these strangers at the gate.
and they tell him that good man BY the name
of Cornelius. in the city of Casarea, has also
had a dream and has sent them for Petar and
to ask him to come and preach. At that call,
Peter left Joppa for Cesarea. The dream he
had just prepared him to preach, for Peter
learned by it to reject no people as unclean.
and whereas. he previously thought he must
preach only to the Jews. now he goes to preach
to the Gentiles who were considered unclean.
Standing here In Joppa, / remember that
where we this morning disembarked the
Prophet Jonah embarked. For the first time
in my life fully understand that story. God
told Jonah to go to NIneveh, but the prophet
declined the call ana came here to Joppa. 1
was for weeks, while in the Holy Land, con-
sultlng with tourist companies as to how could
take Nineveh in my journey. They did not en-
courage the undertaking. 1t is most tedious
ride to Nineveh, and desert.
WHY JONAH REvoLTED.
Now see additional reasons why Jonah did
not want to 60 to Nineveh. He not only re-
volted because of the disagreeable message he
was called to deliver at Nineveh, but because
it was a long way and tough and bandit-in-
Tested, so he came here to Joppa and took ship.
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his full fare for the whole voyage, but the ship
company did not fill their part Of the contract.
To this day they have not paid back that pas
sage money Why people should doubt the
story of Jonah and the whale is more of a mys-
terry than the Bible event itself. do not need
the fact that PlIny, the historian, records that
the skeleton of whale 40 feet long. and with
hide a foot and a half thick, was brought
from Joppa to Rome. The event
recorded in the Book Of Jonah has oc-
whale outside the harbor for a man who
starts in the wrong direction. Recreant Jonah!
do not wonder that even the whale was sick
of him
But standing here on the housetop at Joppa,
look off upon the sands near the beach, and
almost expect to find them crimsoned and
incarnadined. But no; the rains long ago
washed away the last sign Of the Napoleonic
massacre. Napoleon was marching on through
the coasts. He had here at Jnppa 1000 Alba
mans, who had been surrendered as prisoners of
war, and under promise of protection. What
shall he do with them? 1t will be impossible
for him to take them along, and be cannot
afford to leave soldiers enough to guard them
from escape h will not be difficult for the man
who broke the heart of lovely Josephine and
who, when asked if the great losses of life in
his battles we're not
TOO DEAR PRICE
to pay for his victories, shrugged his shoulders
mirthfully and said, you must break the eggs
if YOU want to make an omelet''-I say, it will
not be difficult for him to decide. The prisoners
of war, by his order, are taken out on the sands
and put to death, 600 of them. 1000 of them,
g. 900 of them, 1000 of them. massacred: And
the blood pours down into the sea, the red of
the one mingling with the blue of the other,
and making an awful maroon which neither
God nor nations can ever forget. Ye who are
fond of vivid contrasts. put the two scenes of
Joppa side by side, Dorcas with her needle, and
the immortal butcher with his knife.
But standing on this Joppa housetop, look
off op the Mediterranean, and what is that
strange sight l see? The waters are black
seemingly for miles. There seems to be great
multitude of logs fastened together. Oh, yes,
of Lebanon which King Hiram is furnishing
King Solomon in exchange for 10000 measures
of wheat 20 600 baths of oil, and 20 600 baths of
wine. These cedars have been cut down and
in the mountains OF Lebanon by the
20, 600 axemen engaged there and with great
withes and iron bolts are fastened together,
and they are floating down to Joppa to be taken
across the land for Solomon's temple, now
building at Jerusalem, for We have lost our
hold on the Nineteenth century and are clear
back in the ages The RATS of cedar are guided
into what is called the Moon Pool, an old harbor,
south of Joppa. now filled with sand
and useless. With long pixies the timber is
pushed this way and that in the water, then
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as the carriers get their shoulders under the
great weight, the timber is fastened to the
wagons and the loving oxen are yoked to the
load, and the procession of teams moves on
with crack OF whip and drawled-out words,
which, translated, l suppose would correspond
with the whoa, haw. geer' of modern teams
ters, toward Jerusalem, which is 30 miles away
over mountainous distances, which for hun
dreds OF years defied all engineering. And
these rough cedars shall become carved pillars
and beautiful affairs and rounded banisters
and traceried panels and sublime ceiling and
exquisite harps and kingly chariots. AS the
wagon train moves out from Joppa over the
plain of Sharon toward Jerusalem, l say to my
self, what vast numbers of people helped build
that temple of Solomon, and what vast num-
bers of people are now engaged In building the
wider, higher, grander
TEMPLE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
rising in the earth. Our Christian ancestry
toiled at it, amid sweat and tears, and hundreds
Of the generations of the good, and the long
train of Christian workers still moves on. and
rs in the construction of SOlomon's temple
'ome hewed with the ak in the far-away
Lebanon and some drove wedge, and some
twisted a withe, and some trod the wet and
'lippery RATS on the sea, and some yoked the
,x, and some pulled at the load. and some
showed the plane, and some fitted the points,
md some heaved up:::the rafters, but all
helped build the temple, though some of
hese never saw it, SO now let us all put
,ur hands and our shoulders, and our hearts
o the work of building the temple of
righteousness, which is to fill the earth; and
me will bind a wound. and another will wipe
way tear, and another will teach class and
mother will speak the encouraging words, and
II of us will be ready to pull and lift. and in
ome way help on rhe work until the millenial
norm shall gild the pinnacle of that finished
emple, and at its shining gates the world shall
,ut down its last burden, and in its LAYERS wash
,f its last stain, and at its affairs the last
lerer shall kneel. At the dedication of that |
emple, all the armies of earth and heaven |
will shoulder arms" and present arms" and |
.ground armsm for .behold q greater than