The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-17

The oaly lands wheee Il II safe b
travel unarmed are Christian lsnda
Human life 10 nor highly vslued and
personal rights are better respected.
and ] am glad to believe that in our
country. from tho Atlantic ocean 70 the
Pacific ocean, there Il not Q place today
whore . man IL not safer without Q pis-
eol tia with one. But all through our
journeys to Palestine We required ire
arms While the only weapon I had
on my person was . New Testament We
went through the region where I said
to the dragOman: "Dsvid. are you
armed?" and he said: Eyes" and I
said: Are those fifteen or twenty
muleteers and b~aggagemen and attend
ants armed?" and he said: '.YeA" and
I felt safer.
On we roll through the plain Of
Sharon. Here grew the 1850 after
which Christ WAS named. Rose Of
Sharon, celebrated in all C~hristendom
and throughout all ages
YOnder. . little to the north a. We
move ON is the plain Of Ono The Bible
mentions 1t again and again. The viii
lage standing on this plain Of Ono is .
mud village. Two great basins Of rock
catch the rains for the people. OF more
importance in olden time than in
modern time was this plain Of Ono. But
- the dragOman announced it and in
the Bible ! read of it. I WAS reminded Of
the vast multitude OF people who now
dwell in the plain Of Ono. They are.
by their nervous constitution or by their
lack Of faith in God, always in the mega
tive. Will you help to build . church?
o. no! Will you start out in some new
Christian enterprise? o. no! DO you
think the world is getting any better?
O. no! They lie down in the path Of
all good movements sanitary. social,
political and religious They harness
their horses with no ace to pull ahead
but only breeching straps to hold back.
For all Christian work / would not give
. thousand Of them the price OF q
clipped ten cent piece. These are In
the plain Of O. no! May the Lord null
tiply the numbers Of those who, when
any thing good is undertaken. are found
to live in the plain of o. Yes!
Here o we come where stood tho
fields into which Samson fired the foxes.
The foxes are no rarity in this land. l
counted at one time twenty or thirty Of
them in one group and the cry all along
the line was "Foxes! Look at the
foxes!" and at night they sometimes
bark until all attempts to sleep are IN
sbsurdity. Those I saw and heard in
Palestine might have been descendants
Of the very foxes that Samson en-
plOyed for an appalling incendiarism.
The wealth Of that land was in the hsr-
vests and it was harvest time and tho
straw vas dry. Three hundred foxes
arc caught and tied in couples by some
wire or incOmbustible cord which the
flames can not divide. and firebrands
are fastened to those couples Of foxes
and the frightened creatures are let
loose and run every whittier among the
h~arvests and in the awful blaze go
down the ORR shocks, and the vine
yards. and the olives and all through
the valleys and over the hills and
among tho villages is heard tho cry Of
''Firc!" And in the burnt pathway walk
Hunger. and Want. and Desolation.
All this for spite. And some theOlo-
gians learn one thing, and some another.
But ! learn from it that a great man
may stOOp to a very mean piece of bust
ness, and that il men would use a smuch
ingenuity in trying to bless as they do
TO destroy. the world all the way down
would havo been in better condition.
Yet the fire Of the foxes kindled that
night in Palestine has not gone out but
has leaped the seas, and the sly foxes,
the human foxes, are nov still running
every whittier kindling political fires
fires Of religious controversy, fires of
hate. worldwide fires. and whole har-
vests of Righteousness perish.
Brace up your nerves now, that you
may look while I point them out. Yon-
der is kirjath Jearim, where the ark Of
God stayed until David took it to Jeru-
salem. Yonder John tho Baptist was
horn. YOnder is Emmaus, where Christ
walked with the disciples at cventide.
Here are men blowing. only one ham
die to the pillow, showing the accuracy
of Christ's allusion. When we pillow in
America or England there arc two hands
on two handles, but in Palestine only
one handle. And SO Christ uses the
singular saying: mo man having put
his hand to the plow and looking back
is fit for the Kingdom" The OK is urged
on by q wooden stick pointed with sharp
:.>r ~-l A., no. kr,.,, oak -A A.,
kick. for he would only hurt himself in
stead of breaking the gOad. And the
Bible refers to that when it says to
Saul: ut is hard for thee to kick against
the goadS"
Here is the valley OF Ajalon, famous
for Joshua's pursuit Of the i've Kings
and the lunar arrest And in imagina-
ton e the in day time halt
Who has not sometimes secn the moon
divide the throne with the sun? But
when the king Of day and the queen Of
night who never before JOshua's time
no since then stopped a moment in
their march, halted at Joshua's COM
mand it was q scene enough to make
the universe SILVER. moon. stand thou
still in the valley Of Ajalonw
And there is the v OF Makkedah,
where they fed for safety and where
they were afterward locked in, and
from which they were taken out to be
slain. and in which they were afterward
buried; and you do we'll to examine that
cavern, for within = few hours it became
three things which no other cave ver
was: Fortress prison, sepulchre.
Now we pass the place where once
lived n Of the greatest robbers Of the
century. Abou Gosh by name. From
this point you e he could look over all
the surrounding country, and long be-
fore the travellers came up 70 him the
plan for the taking Of their money or
their life. o both. was consummatcd.
He n day found q company of monks
who would o pay and he smothered
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