Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-29

peidSo mas been found to have nine
hundred of these great mouthpieces.
They are on every continent and in all
ATTITUDES. That earthquake which
shook all America about six or seven
summers ago was only the raving
around OF volcanoes rushing against
the sides of their rocky caverns trying
TO break out. They must come to the
surface, but it will be at the divine
call They seem reserved for the pun
lshment of one kind of sin. The seven
cities they have obliterated were ceIe-
brated for one kind of TRANSMISSION.
Profilgacy was the chief characteristic
of the seven cities over which they put
their smothering wing-Pompeii. Her
culaneum, Stabi;e, Adma, Zeboim. So
dom and Gomorrah.
If our American cities do not omit
their prohigacy, if in high life and low
life dissoluteness does not cease to be a
joke and become a crime, if wealthy
llDertlnlsm continues to find so many
doors of domestic life open to its faint
est touch, if Russian and French and
American literature stepped in pruri
encv does not get banished from the
news stands and ladies' parlors, vrou
will let loose some of these suppressed
monsters of the earth. And | tell these
American cities that it will be more
tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in
the day of Judgment, whether that dav
OF Judgment be in this present century
or In the closing century of the earth's
/ continuance. The volcanic forces are
already in existence, but in the mercy
/ OF God they are chained in the kennels
4 OF subterraneous fire. Yet let profit
gacy, whether it stagger into a laza
retto or sit on a commercial throne
whether it laugh in a faded shawl un.
der the street gas light or be wrapped in
the finest array that foreign loom ever
wrought or lapidary ever impaired
know right well that there is a volcano
waiting for it, whether in domestic
fife, or social life, or political life, or in
the foundations of the earth from which
sprang out the devastations that swaI
lowed the cities of the plain. He
toucheth the hills and they smoke"
OFF FOR JORDAN.
But the dragOman was reioiced when
we had seen enough of this volcanic re-
gion of Palestine, and he gladly tight.
ems the girths for another march
around the horses, which are prancing
and neighing for departure. We are
off for the Jordan, only two hours
away. We pass Bedouins, whose stern
features melt into a smile as we give
them the salutation ''Salaam aleikoumr
Peace be with you, their smile some
times leaving us in doubt as to whether
it is caused by their gladness to see us
or by our poor pronunciation of the
Arabic. Oh, they are a strange race
those Bedcuins. Such a cOmmingling
Of ruffianism and honor, of cowardice
and courage, of cruelty and kindness!
When a band of them came down upon
a party in which Miss Whately was
travelling, and were about to take
pocket books and perhaps life, this
lady sitting upon her horse took out
her note book and pencil and began to
sketch these brigands, and seeing this
composure the bandits thought it
something supernatural and fed
. Christian wOmanliness or manliness is
all conQuering. When Martin Luther
was told that Duke George would kill
him if he went to Leipsic Luther re-
piled, Il would go to Leipsic if it
rained Duke Georges nine days"
Now we come through regions where
there are hills cut into the shape of ca
thedrals, with altar and column and
arch and chancel and pulpit and dome
and architecture of the rocks that |
think can hardly just happen so. Per
haps it is because God loves the church
SO well he builds in the sOlitudes of
Yellowstone park and Yosemite and
Switzerland and Palestine these eccle,
siastical piles. And who knows but
that unseen spirits may sometimes wor
ship there? "Dragoman, when shall
we see the JordanY | ask. All the
time we were on the alert, and looking
| through tamarisk and willows for the
/ greatest river of all the earth. The
Mississippi is wider the Ohio is deeper
the Amazon is longer, the Hudson rolls
amid regions more picturesque, the
Thames has more splendOr on its banks
the Tiber suggests more imperial pro
cession, the Ilyssus has more classic
memories, and the Nile feeds greater
populations by its irrigation; but the
Jordan is the queen of rivers and runs
through all the Bible, silver thread
strung like beads with heroics, and be
fore night we shall meet on its banks
Elijah and Elisha and David and
JACOB ana joshua ana Onn ana JesGs
VIEW OF THE RIVER.
At last between two trees l got
glimpse of a river, and said What is
that@ The Jordan" was the quick
reply. And all along the line which
had been heightened by other pilgrims
some from America, and some from
Europe, and some from Asia, the cry
was sounded, THE Jordan! The Jor
| dan" Hundreds of thousands of pill
grims have chanted on its banks and
bathed in its waters. Many of them dip
wet gown in the wave and wiring it
out and carry it home for their own
shroud. 1t is an impetuous stream, and
rushes on as though it were Fastening
to tell its story to the ages, Many an
explorer has it whelmed, and many
boat has it wrecked. Lieut.. Molineux
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