Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-08

was told Tor The cure OF his leprOSy TO go
wash IN the river Jordan. The river
Jordan Is much of the year a muddy
stream ami it is never so clear as this
river ALBANIA, that hear rumbling under
nv window to- night, nor as the river
Pnarpnr that we crossed to-day. They
are rs clear as though they had been
, seired through SONS esDeciai se!ve of the
mountains. General Naaman hai great
and patriotic pride i'll these two rivers of
his own country, nui when Elisha, the
prophet told him that If he wanted TO
get rid OF his leprosy, he must go and
wash In the jordan, he felt rs we, VINO
live on the magnificent Hudson would
feel if toll that We must go AMI wash
| in the mu LILY Thames. or Us those who
live on the transparent Rhine, were told
that they must go q nd wash
IN THE MUDDY TIBER.
So Gen. Nunman cried gu. with n
voics as loud As ever hs hal used in COM
mandiug his troops, uttering those mem
CRADLE WORKS which every minister of the
gospel sooner or later takes for his text:
'Are not Abnna and Pharpar, rivers OF
Damascus, better than the waters OF Is
rael? May not wash in them and be
CLEANUP Thank God We live in q land
with plenty of rivers, anu that they bless
nj! our Atlantic coast and all our Pacific
coast and retcuiate all the continent be-
tween the coasts. Only those who have
Travelled in the deserts of Syrie, or
E.,Ypt, or have in the oriental cities
heard ihe tiukling of the bell OF those
who sell water, can realize what it is to
have this divine beverage la abundance.
Water ruinb,ing over the roc!-s. turn
ing the mill wheel, sGturating
the roots OF the corn. dripping
from the buckets, filling the pitchers
of the household, rolling through the
fonts or bapt!strles of holy ordinance,
filling the reservoirs of cities, inviting
the cattle TO coma down aud slack their
thirst and the birds OF heaven to dip
their wing. ascending In robe OF mist and
fulliug again in benediction of shower
wuter, living water. God-given water!
We are awakened in the morning in
Damascus 10y the song OF those who
have different styles of food to sell. 1t
is not street cry Us in London or New
York, but wierd, and
LONG DRAWN OUT SOLO
compared with " hlch =: buzz-saw Is must
cal. L, makes you inopportuuely wGken,
and will not let you sleep again. But 10
those who understand the exact meaning
OF the song il becomes quite tolerable, for
they sing: ''God IS the nourishr-, buy
my breud, - 'God Is the nourisher, buy
my mills - Good ID the nourisher,
bur my fruit As you look out of
the window you see the Mohammedans
VINO are 10 large majority in the city at
prayer. And If it were put TO vote who
who should be king of all the earth
Is. 900 in that city would say Christ, Iut
1879 800 would say Mohammed. Looking
from the window you see on the house,
tops au,i on the streets Mohammeda,5 at
worship. The muezzin or the officers of
religion who announce the time of wor-
ship appear high up on the different
mu0rets or tall towers and walk around
the minaret enclosed by a railing and cry
in n sad aud mumblIng way: ''God is
great. l bear witness that there is no
God but God. l bear witness that Mo-
BANNED is the apostle OF God. Come to
prayers! Come to salvation! God is
great. There Is no other but God.
Prayers are better than Sleep Five
times day must the Moham-
medsn engage in worship. As he
begins he turns his face toward the
city of Mecca, ana unroils upon the
carries. With his thumbs touching the
between his hands, he cries:
''GoD is GREAT.f
Then folding his hands across his girdls,
he looks down and says: 'Holiness TO
thee 0 God and praise he TO thee. Great
is thy name. Great is thy greatness.
There Is no deity but thee Then the
worshiper sits upon his heels. then he
touches his nose to the rug, and then his
forehead, these geuufectiOns accom-
panied with the cry, 'Great is God. -
Then raising the forefnger of his right
hand toward heaven, he says: al testify
there Is no deity but God, and l testify
that Moh0mmed Is the servant Of God,
and the messenger of God'' The prayers
close by the worshipper holding his hands
opened upwards as il to take the divine
blessing, and then his hands are rubbed
over his face as if TO convey the blessing
TO his entire body.
There are two or three commendable
things about Mohammedanism. One is
that its disciples wash before every net OF
prayer. and that is five times Il day, and
there is gospel in cleanliness. Another
comnendable thing is, they don't care
who is looking, and nothing can stop
them in their prayer. Another thing is
tina: by the order OF Mohammde, and an
order obeyed for 1900 years, no Moham-
medau touches strong drink. But The
poiygamy the many wifehood of Moham-
mechanism has made tina; religion the uu-
utterable and everlasting curse OF
woman and when woman sinks, the race
sinks. The proposition recently made in
high ecclesiastical places for the
REFORMATION OF MoHsMMEpaNIsM
instead OF its obltteration, Is like an at