News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-02

voyagel He paid 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 passage money. Why people
should doubt the story of Jonah and
the whale is more of a mystery than
the Bible event itself. | do not need
the fact that Pliny, the historian, re-
cords that the skeleton of a whale forty
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 occurred a thousand times
The Lord always has a whale outside
the harbOr for a man who starts in the
wrong direction. Recreant Jonah! I
do not wonder that even the whale was
sick of him. This prophet was put in
the Bible not as an example, but as a
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
fit of the sulks. He was mad because
Nineveh was not destroyed, and then
he went out to pout, and sat under a
big leaf, using it for shade from the
tropical sun, and when a worm dis
turbed that leaf, and it withered, and
the sun smote Jonah, he flew into a
great rage, and said, sit is better for
me to die than to live" A prophet in
a rage because he had lost his umbrella
Beware of petulance
VIVID CONTRASTS.
But standing here on the housetop
at Joppa, l look Off upon the sands
near the beach, and I almost expected
to find them crimsoned and incarna
dined. But no; the rains long ago
washed away the last sign of the Napo-
leonic massacre. Napoleon was march
ing on through the coasts He had
here at Joppa four thousand Albanians,
who had been surrendered as prisoners
of war, and under promise of protec-
ton. What shall he do with them? II
will be impossible for him to take them
along, and he cannot afford to leave
soldiers enough to guard them from es-
cape. 1t will not be difficult for the
man VINO broke the heart of lovely
Josephine, and who, when asked if the
great losses of life in his battles were
not too dear a price TO pay for his vic
tories, shrugged his shoulders mirth-
fully 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-one thousand of them, two
thousand of them, three thousand OF
them, four thousand of them, mas
sacred And the blood pours down
into the sea, the red of the one min
Cling with the blue of the other, and
an awful maroon which neither
God nor nation 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 i'm.
mortal butcher with his knife.
CEDARS OF LEBANON.
But standing on this Joppa house tor
look off on the Mediterranean, and
what is that strange sight l see2 The
waters are black, seemingly for miles,
There seems to be a great multitude OF
logs fastened together. Oh, yes, it is
great raft of timbers. They are cedars
of Lebanon which King Hiram is fur
nishing King Solomon in exchange fol-
20, 600 measures of wheat, 10000 baths
Of oil and 20, 900 baths of wine. These
cedars have been cut down and trim
med in the mountains of Lebanon by
the TO-, 900 axmen engaged there, and
with great withes ard iron bolts are
together, and they are float
ing down to Joppa to be taken across
the land for Solomon's temple, now
building at Jerusalem, for we have lost
our hold of 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 with levers and many
q loud, long 80, heavel" as the cart
ers get their shoulders under the great
weight, the timber is fastened to the
wagons and the lowing oxen are yoked
10 the load, and the procession of teams
moves on with crack of whip and
lrawled out words which, translated, ]
suppose would correspond with the
Whoa, haw, geei" of modern team
'ters, toward Jerusalem, which is thirty
miles away, over mountainous dis.
;ances which for hundreds of years de.
led all engineering. And those rough
,edars shall become carved pillars, and
beautiful affairs, and rounded bannis.
;ers, and traceried panels, and sublime
ceiling, and exquisite harps, and kingly
,hariots
AS the wagon train moves out from
Joppa over the plain of Sharon toward
Jerusalem 1 say to myself, what vast
numbers of people helped build that
emple of Solomon, and what vast
numbers of people are now engaged in
the wider, higher, grandeI
emple of righteousness rising in the
'arth. Our Christian ancestry toiled
It it, amid sweat and tears, and hun
lreds of the generations of the good,
md the long train of Christian workers
till moves on; and as in the oonstruo. |
ion of Solomon's temple some hewed |
With the AK in the far away Lebanon,
nd some drove wedge, and some
visited a withe, and some trod the wet |
nd slippery RATS on the sea, and some
-oked the OK, and some pulled at the
Dad, and some showed the plane, and
ONE fitted the joints, and some heaved
Ip the rafters, but all helped build the
emple, though some of these never
aw it, so now let us all put our
lands, and our shoulders, and our
earts to the work of building the TEN.
lie of righteousness, which is to fill the
arth; and one will bind wound, and
mother will wipe away tear, and an
Their will teach a class, and another
I'LL speak the encouraging word, and
II of US will be ready to pull and lift.
Id in some way help on the work un-
the millenial morn shall gid the pin
lcle of that finished temple, and at
) shining gates the world shall put
OWN its last burden, and in its LAYERS
ash off its last stain, and at its affairs
e last wanderer shall kneel. At the
'dication of that temple all the armies