Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-29
WONDERS OF PALESTINE.
Continued from Second page.


Christina commission said 10 the nurse
Who stood there wash the faces and the
feet Of these men nnd it will revive them :"
mo, " said tie nurse, II diln't come into
the army to wash anybody's feet"
"Well, " said the distinguished member of
the commission, bring me water and n
towel; Twill be very glad to wash their
feet" One was the spirit of the devil, the
other the spirit of Christ.
PETERS VISION on THE HOUSE TOP.
But reference TO Peter reminds me that
we must go to the house top in Joppa
where he was taught the democracy Of re-
ligion. That was about the queerest thing
that ever happened On our way to that
house top we passed IN old well where the
great stones were worn deep with the ropes
OF the buckets, and it must be n well many
centuries old, and think Peter drank out
Of it. -Four or five goat or calf skins filled
with water lay about the yard. We soon
got up the steps and on the house top. 1t
was in such place in Jo2pa that Peter,
one noon while he was waiting for dinner,
had hunger fit and tainted away, and had
n vision or dream or trance. said to my
friends ON that house top, Listen while
read about what happened here" And
opening the Bible we had tho whole story
It seems that Peter on tho house top
dreamed that great blanket was let down
out Of heaven, and In it were sheep and
gonts and cattle and mules and pigeons
and buzzartls and snakes and all manner
of creatures that fly the mir or walk the
fields or crawl the earth, and in the dream
n voice told him as he was hungry to eat,
and he said, IL cannot eat things unclean."
Three times he dreamed it. There was
then heard knocking at the gate of the
house on the top of which Peter lay in a
trance, and three men asked, sis Peter
here| Peter, while yet wondering what
his dream meant, descends the stairs and
meets these strangers ut the gate, and they
tell hirn that good man by the name of
Cornelius, in the city of Cpsnrea, has also
had dream, and has sent them for Peter
and to ask him to come and preach. At
that call Peter left Joppa for CRsarea. The
dream he had Just had prepared him to
preach, for Peter learned by it to reject no
people ~ unclean, and whereas he pre-.
viously thought he must preach only to
the Jews, now he goes to preach to the
Gentiles, who were considered unclean.
Notice how the two dreams meet--Pe.
ter's dream on the house top, Cornelius
dream Mt Cesarea, So | have noticed prov
licences meet, distant events meet, dreams
mect. Every dream Is hunting up some
other dream, and every event is searching
for some other event. In the fifteenth cen.
fury G492l the great event was the dis.
covery of America. The art of printing,
born in the same century, goes out to meet
that discovery and make the new world
an intelligent world. The Declaration of
Independence announcing equal rights
meets Robert Burns
A mans a man for n that.
GODS OPPORTUNITY.
The United States was getting too large
to be managed by one government, and
teleEraphy was invented to compress with.
in IN hour the whole continent. Armies
in the civil war were to be fitted out with
clothing, and the sewing machine inven.
ton came out to make it possible. I'm.
meuse farming acreage is presented in this
country, enough TO support millions of our
native born and millions of foreigners; but
the old style of pillow and scythc and rcarer
and thrcsher cannot do the work, and there
come steam plows, steam harrows, steam
reapers, steam rakeS, steam threshers, and
the work Is accomplished. The forests Of
the earth fail toalfOrd sufficient fuel, and so
the coal mines surrender u sufliciency. The
cotton crops were luxuriant, but of com
paratiyely little value, for they could not
be managed, and so, at just the right time,
Hargreavcs came with his invention of the
spinning jenny, and Arlwright with his
roller and Whitney with his cotton gin.
The world, after pottering along with tai
low candles and whale oil, was crying for
better light and more of it, and the hills of
Pennsylvania poured out rivers of oil, and
kerosene illumined the nations. But the
oil wells began to fail, and then the elec.
trio light comes forth to turn night into
day.
So all events are woven together, and the
world is magnifcently governed because
it Is divincly governed. We criticise things,
and think the divine machinery is going
wrong and put our fingers amid the wheels
only to get them crushed. But Tsay, hands
off Things are coming out gloriously.
Cornelius may be in Cpsarea, and Peter in
Joppa, but their dreams meet. II is one
hand that is managing the world, and that
is Gods hand; and one mind that is plan.
ming all things for good, and that is Gods
mind; and one heart that is filled with
love and pardon and sympathy, and that
is Gods heart. Have faith in him. Fret
about nothing Things arc not Mt loose
ends. There are no accidents. All will
como out right in your history and In the
world. As you are waking from one
dream up stairs nm explanatory dream
will be lSrecking at the gate down stairs.
Standii .yhere in Ioppa | 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 20 to Ninevch,
but the prophet declined that call and
came here TO Joppa. | was for weeks,
while i'm the Holy Land, consulting with
tourist companies as to how could take
Ninavch in my journey They did not
encourage Che undertaking, 1t is a most
tedious ride to Nincveh and desert,
WHY JONAH FEARED.
Now | see an additional reason why
Jonah did not want to 20 to Nineveh. He
not only rcvolted because Of the disagree
able message he was called to deliver at
Ninevoh, bat because it was a long way
and tough and bandit infested. So he
came here to Joppa and tool, ship. But
alas for the disastrous voyage! He paid
his III fare for the whole voyage, but the
ship company did not ill 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. | do not need the fact that
Pliny, the historian, records shat the skel-
etou of whale forty feet long and with
hide a foot and half thick, was brought
from Joppa 10 Rome.
The event recorded in the book Of jonah
has occurred thousand times. The Lord