The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-12-13

ifo-na. Let the Turk be driven ou5 and the
american OF EngiiShman or Scotchman 20
An and MohammedsniSm Withdraw ITS ldoi-
aIrv and pure Christianity build its affairs,
and the irrigation OF which Solomons pools
was only a suggestion will make all that land
from Dan to Beersheba as fertile, and
aromatic and resplendent as on the morning
when the king rode out to his pleasure
grounds in chariot so swift and followed ~
mounted riders SO brilliant that IL was lof
speed like hurricane followed by cyclone.
As look upon this great aqueuuct or
Palestine, wondrous Specimen OF ancient
masonry, about seven feet high. two feet
WIDE sometimes tunneiing the solid ROCK
and then rolling its waters through stone
ware pipes. an aqueduct doing Its work ten
niiI-s UeIore IL gets TO those three reservoirs.
and then gathering their wealth of refresh.
ment and pouring it on to the mighty city
of Jerusalem and filling the brazen sea of her
temple and the bathrooms of her palaces,
and the great pools of Sloan. and HezeEiah
and Bethesda, find that our century has nc
monopoly of the worlds wonders and that
the conceited age i'll which we live had better
take in some of the sails of its pride when it
remembers that il is hard work in later ages
to set masonry that will last fifty years, to
say nothing OF the three thousand, AMI no
modern machinery could lift blocks of
stone like some OF those standing
El1lDoc,
and the art of printing claimed for
recent ages was practiced by the Chinese
fourteen hundred years ago, and that our
midnight lightning express rail train was
foreseen oy the prophet Nahum. when in the
Blole he wrote, Tho ch2riots shall race n
the streets, they shall iostle one against su-
other i'll the broad ways, they shall seem ike
torches, they shall run ike lightning" ami
our electric telegraph was foreseea by jon.
when in the Bible he wrote ''Canst thou send
hghtnin2S that they NAV go and say unto
tree. Here we are%" What is thar talkin..
by the lightnings but the electric telegraph?
fUonot know brt mat the electric forces now
being year by year more thoroughly har-
ntssed may have been employed in ages ex-
tinct, and that the li-htnings all UP and down
the SKY have been running around like LOST
hounds to find their former master.
kmbalnent was more thorough srt three
thousand years ago than to-day Dentistry,
that We suppose one of the important arts
discovered IN recent centuries, is proven to
be four thousand years Old by the filled
teeth of the munlmleS in the museums ut
Cairo Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold
plates found by Bei2oni in the tombS OF de-
parted nations. We have been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation OF the
blood so late as the seventeenth century.
Oh, no. Solomon announces it III EccleSias-
ties, where first having shown that he uu-
derStood the spinal cord, silver colored as 1t
Is. and that it re.axcS III old age--''the silver
cord be loosel." goes on 20 compare the
heart to pitcher at well, for the three
canals of the heart do receive the biool like
pitcher. ''or the pitcher he broken at lhe
fountain What is that but the circciatiO.,
Of the blood, found out twelty-six hundred
years before Harvey was born: After many
centuries OF exploration and calculation as
1
Why, Isaiah knew it was round thousands of
gears before when in the Bible he said: 'sThe
Lord sitteth uDon the circle of the earth"
Scientists toiiad on for centuries and found
out refraction or that the rays of light when
touching the earth were rot straight, but
bent or curved. Why, job knew that when
ages before in the Bible he wrote OF the light:
1t is turned as clay To the seal"
In the old cathedrals of England modern
painters in the repair of windows are trying
10 make something as good as the window
painting of four hundred years ago and
always failing by the unanimous verdict o.
all who examine and compare. The color OF
modern painting fades in fifty years. while
the color of the old masters is as well pre-
served after five hundred years as after one
year. | saw last winter on the walls of ex-
luIled Pompeii paintings with color as fresh
Is though made the day before, though they
we're buried eighteen hundred years ago
The making of Tyrian purple is an impossi-
1ility now. In our modern potterieS we are
Tying hard To make cups and pitchers and
,owes as exquisitely as those exhumei from
HeIrulaneum, and our artihcers are at
;empting to make jewery for ear
md neck and finger equal to that
brought up from the mausoieums of two
thousand years before Christ. We have in
our time glass in all shapes and all colors
out Pliny, more than eighteen hundred years
Ago. described a malleable glass which, if
thrown upon the ground and dented, could
20 pounded straight again by the hammer or
could be twiste around the wrists, and that
)ur own time. l tried in Damascus, Syria,
20 buy Damascus blade, one of those swords
hat could be bent double or tied in knot
without breaking | could not get one.
Why? The Nineteenth century cannot make
Damascus blade. If We go on enar,ng
,ur cities We may after a while get a city As
arge as Babylon, which was five times the
nZe of London.
These a9ueducts of Solomon that visit To-
lay, finding them in good condition three
thousand years after construction, make me
think that the world NAV have forgotten
more than it nov knows. The great honor
of our age is not machinery, for the aucients
uad some styles of it more wonderful; nor
art, for the ancients had arc more exluisits
and durable: nor architecture, for Roman
Coliseum and GreciaI Acropolis surpass all
modern architecture; nor cities, for some of
the ancient cities were larger than ours in
The sweep OF their pomp. But our attempts
must be in moral achievement and gospel
victory. In that We haze already surpassed
them, and in that direction let the ages push
Oh. Let us brag less OF worldly achievement
and thank God for moral opportunity
More good men and goOl women is what the