The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-17

ridges OF mountsins Ave husdsed bsst
high, the Phillistines on ooe ridge ~
Israelitss on tho Other ride1 IT,
fight IL in the valley betweea. st tha4
season shaded. and sweet With tefehintA
and scsciA David. the champion. S0e
the lsraeliteA Goliath. tho chsnpiso
for the P~hillistineA David anderstsoA
and almost eReminatA. only . mouthf1l
for Goliath. who VA nearly ten ieeS
high.
They advanced to meet eecA other,
but the Bible says that David made the
FIRST step forward Nearer and nearer
they como. but ! do not think David
will wait until he comes within reaoA
Of Goliath's sword, for that would b
fatal. and David has . weapon with
which he can fight 1t long range. Closer
and closer they como. bat David ad-
vances the more rapidly. Gone 70
me" said the giant and !viu give thy
flesh unto tho fowls Of 10 air and to
the beasts Of the field" David 70
sponded: Il come TO thee in the name
Of the Lord OF HostA" Aha, that 10 tho
right kind OF battle shout: I'm tho
name OF the Lord OF Hosts!" He who
fights in that spirit wins the day. Tho
almost Israelitish dwarf enlarRes into
Omnipotent proportions
The moment to strike il come David
takes his sling with . TOT in IL and
wbirls it round his head. until he has
put the weapon into sufficient momen
tum. and then taking sure aim, hurls it
The giant throws up his hands and reels
back and falls The stone sank into his
forehead. That was the only available
point Of attack.
But we must hasten on, for the danger
now is that night will be upon rs be-
see 1t before rundown We are climbing
the hills which are terrsced with olive
groves. uplands rising above uplands.
until we como to an immensity Of bar
renness, gray rocks. where neither tree.
nor leaf, nor bush, nor grass blade. can
grow. The horses stumble, and slip.
and pull, till it seems the harness must
break. S~Olemnity and awe TAX posses
sion OF US. Though . %vivaciOus party,
and during part Of the day POPULARITY
had reigned. now no n spoke = word
except to say to tho ~dragOman: "Tell
US when you get the first glimpse Of the
city" never had such high expecta-
ton Of seeing any place as Of seeing
Jerusalem. ! think my feelings may
have been slightly akin to that Of the
Christian just about to enter the
heavenly Jerusalem.
Over another shoulder of tho hill we
60. and nothing in sight but rocks
and mountains and awful gulches be-
tween them. which mako the head swim
il you look down. On and up. on and
up. until the lathered and smoking
horses arc refined in and the dragOman
rises in front and points eastward, cry
ing 'Jerusalemr' 1t was mightier than
an electric shock. We all rose. There
it lay. the prize of nations the tcrmi-
nus of famous pilgrimages, the object
Of Roman and crusading wars. and for
it Assyrians had fought and Egyptians
had fought and the world had fought;
the place which the Queen OF Sheba
visited and Richard Ceur do Lion had
conquered Home of Solomon. Home
of Ezekiel. Home of Jeremiah. Home
OF Isaiah. Home Of Saladin. Mount
Zion of David's heartbreak and Mount
MOriah where the sacrifices smoked,
Mount Of Olives whore Jesus preached,
and Gethsemane where He agOni.ed,
and Golgotha where lie died, and the
Holy Scpulcher where lie was buried.
O. Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Greatest city
on earth and type of tho city celestial.
An Arab on a horse that was like .
whirlwind, bitted and saddied and
spurred, its name and TANKS jet Is the
highland there are no hOrsemen a
Arab hOrsemen-had. come far out to
meet US and invite US to his hotel inside
the gates But arrangements had @
made for US to stay at a hotel outside
the gates In tho dusk of evening we
halted in front OF the place and entered,
but l said: mo. thank you for your
courteous reception, but l must sleep
tonight inside the gates Of Jerusa-
lem. I would rather rave the poorest
place inside tho gates than the
best place outside" So We remOunted
our coach and moved on amid a claMOr
of voices. an between camels grunting
with great beams and timbers on their
back, brought in for buildIn purpOres
for it is amazing how much a camel
can carry-until We came tO what 10
called the JOppa gate of Jerusalem.
1t is about forty feet wide. twenty
feet deep and sixty feet high. There Is
q sharp turn just after you have entered.
So planned as to make the entrance Ut
armed enemies the more difficult On
the structure OF these gates the safety
of Jerusalem depended and all the Rible
writer's used them for illustrations
Within five minutes walk OF the gate
We entered David wrote: ''Enter into
thy gates with thanks, giving" Lift up
your heads. o. We gates!' THE Lord
lovcth the gates Of Zion. "'Open to M the
gates OF righteousness" And Isaiah
wrote: Go through. 60 through the
gates" And the Captain of the Patinos
wrote: "The city had twelve gates"
Having passed the gate We went on
through the narrow streetA dimly light
ed, and passed to our hating place and
S0t 0OWh w tuC AbOu1 ~AA&n VIZ
could see Mount Zion. and said: "Here
We are at last in the capital Of the
whole earth" And thoughts OF the
past and the future rushed through my
soul in quick success ON. and I thought
Of that old hymn. sung by % many ~
cending spirits;
Jcrusal IN, my happy homo
Name ev r dear to moi
wnen shalt my labors have IN end,
In Joy and peace and theef
when shall these eyes thy heav'a- bsils
walls
And yearly gates behOldf
Thy bull warks With salvation strone,
And streets Of shining goldf
And SO with our hearts full Of graft.
tude to God for journeying mercies all
the way from Joppa to Jerusalem. and
with bright anticipation Of our entrance
into the shining gate OF the Heavenly
City when earthly journeys are over.
my second day in Palestine is ended.
How . Painter Won . wager.
Often have soul and ~DAintees die.