The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-10

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plished
So oil events 40 woven togothee. 81
The world h Dagni0oentay governed
We criticize things and think Ne q.
vine machinery - going wrong. and pat
our fingers amid the wheels only - rot
them erushed But ! say. hanAs
OIL Things ass coming ont gioei.
ously. Cornelius may b in CDsarea.
and Peter in Joppa. bat tAsiP
dreams meet II II ooe had that
10 managing the world, aaa that 70 Gods
hand, and one mind that - planning al
things for good. and that 10 Gods mind;
and oae hosrt that II alled With love
and pssdon. and sympathy. and that u
UOO D o00xb n0v0 G0Ab0 IL ILL.,
Standing here h Jopps I remember
that where No this morning. ~disembarked
the prophet Joash embarked For the
frst time In my life I fully understand
that story. God told Jonah to 90 70
Nineveh. but the prophet declined that
call and anne here to Jopp& was for
weeks while in the Holy Land consulting
with tourist companies - 70 how /
could take Nineveh In my journey.
They did not encourage the undertake
ing. It IL . most tedious ride TO Nine
web and . desert Now I see an addi-
tional reason Why Jonah did not want
to go to Nineveh. He not only revolted
because Of tho dissgreesble message he
was called to deliver 1T Nineveh.
but because it ~ . long way and
tough and bandit infested. 90 he came
here to Joppa and took ship But alas
for the disastrous voyage! He paid his
full fare for the whole voyage. but the
ship company did not MI their part Of
the contract To this day they have
not paid back that passage money. Why
people should doubt the story Of Jonah
and the whale Is more OF . mystery than
the Bible event itself. I do not heed
the fact that Pliny, the historian. 70
cords hat the skeleton Of . whsle forty
feet long and with hide q foot and . half
thick was brought from Joppa 10 Rome.
The event recorded In the book OF
Jonah has occurred . thousand times
Tho Lord always has . whale outside
the harbOr for . man who starts in the
wrong direction. Recreant Jonah! lido
not wonder that even the whale was
sick of him. This prophet was put In
the Bible, not as an example. but as .
warning, because the world not only
needs lighthouses but buoys to show
| where the rocks are. The Bible story OF
him ends by showing the prophet in .
| 1T Of the sulka He was mad because
Ninevah was not destroyed, and then he
went out to pout, and sat under q big
leaf. using it for shade from the tropical
sun. and when . worm disturbed that
leaf. and it withered and the sur smote
Jonah, he few into . great rage. said:
1T is better for me to die than to live"
A prophet in . rage because he had lost
his umbrella! Beware Of petulancel
But standing on this Joppa h~ouse-top.
I look of on the Mediterranean. and
what is that strange sight I see? The
waters are black. seemingly for miles
There seems to DO . great multitude Of
logs fastened together. O. yes it is .
great raft of timber. They are cedars
from Lebanon which King Hiram is
furnishing King Solomon in exchange
for 20, 600 measures of wheat, 20. 600
baths Of oil and 20. 600 baths Of wine.
These ccdars have been cut down and
trimmed in the mountains Of Lebanon
by the 20. 900 axmen engaged there. and
| with great withes and iron bolts are
fastened together, and they arc floating
down to Joppa to be taken across the
land for SOlomon's temple now building
at Jerusalem, for we have lost u hold
of the nineteenth century and are clear
back in the ages. The RATS OF cedar
are guided into what SCALED tho Moon
pool. an old harbor south Of Joppa, o
filled with sand. and useless.
And these rough cedarS shall become
carved pillars and beautiful affairs and
rounded bannisters and ~traceried panels
and sublime ceilings and exquisite harps
and kingly chariotS
Our Christian ancestry toiled 1T 1t
amid sweat and tears. and hundreds Of
generations of the good and the long
train OF Christian workers still moves
| on, and, as in the construction Of Solo
mons temple. some hewed with the axe
in the far away Lebanon. and some drove
q wedge. and some twisted = withe. and
some trOd the wet and slippery RATS on
the sea. and some yokcd the u, and some
pulled ut the load, and some showed the
plane, and some fitted the points, and
some hewed up the rsfters. but all
helped build tho temple, though some
Of these never saw it. 10 now let US all
put our hands. and our shoulders and
our hearts to the work of building tho
temple of righteousness that shall all
tho earth; and one will bind . wound,
and another will wipe away . tear, and
another will teach a class and another
will speak the encouraging word, and
all Of us will be ready to pull and lift
and in some way help on the work until
the millenial morn shall gid the pin
nacle Of that finished temple. and 1t
its shining gates the world shall put
down its last burden and In it, LAYERS
wash OF its last stain and at its affairs
the last wanderer shall kneel. At the
dedication Of that temple all tho armies
Of earth and Heaven will shoulder
arms" and present arms" and ground
arms" for "behold . greater than Solo
mon il here"
But my first day In the Holy Land 10
ended. The sun il already closing his
eye for the night ! stand on the bal
cony Of . hotel which was brought 70
Joppa in pieces from the State Of Maine
by some fanatics who came here expect
ing to see Christ reappear In Palestine.
My room here was once occupied BY that
i CAs&exian hoao a Hho anakn,Aaa- r.