Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-08

"hon they found at the mouth of his cave
oh Ghe SIDE OF Cherith waiting for his
breakfast, having drunk his morning bey
erage from the rushing stream beneath,
onth nave oeen his buffers and purveyors.
/ GODS WINGED sERvIToRs.
out God compelled them, as he ALWAYS
mas compelled and always will compel
oiacK ana cruel and overshadowing provi-
dences to carry help to his children if they
\ only have faith enough to catch the bless
ing as 1t drops from the seeming. adversitv
Vne greatest blessing always coming not
with white wings but black wings RIack
wings OF conviction, bringing pardon to the
sinner. Black wings of crucifxion over
calvary, bringing REDEMPTION for the
world. Black wings of American revoln.
ton, bringing free institutions to a CONT
nent. Black wings of American civil war
bringing unification and solidarity to tha
republic Black wings of the Judgment
+ day, bringing resurrection to an entombed
human race. And in the last dav when
all your life and mine will be summed nm
we Will find that the greatest BLESSING we
I ever received came on the wings of the
black ravens of disaster Bless God for
troubled Bless God for sicEnessl Bless
God for persecution Bless God for nov.
erty! You never heard of anv man or
woman of great use to the world who had
! not had lots of trouble The diamond
must be cut: the wheat must be-threshed.
! ohS pldck ravens must fly. W no are these
nearest the throne? "These are they who
come out of great tribulation, and had
/ their robes washed and made white in the
! blood of the Lamb"
/ But Iookl Look what at O'Clock in the
afternoon bursts upon our vision - the
/ PLAIN OF jericho, and the valley of Jordan.
ana the Dead Sea. We have come to
! place where the horses not so much wall,
as slide up on their launches, and we all
dlsmount, for the steep descent is simnIv
terrific, though a princess of Wallachia
who fell here and was dangerously injured
/ after recovery spent a large amount of
money in trying to make the road passa-
BILE. Down and down. till we saw the
/ white tents pitched for us byourmuleteers
amid the ruins of ancient Jericho. which
fell at the sound of poor music plaved ON
rams horn" that ancient instrument
which, taken from the head of the leader of
the Hook OF sheep, is perforated and pre-
! pared to be fingered by the musical per
I0mer, and blown upon when pressed To
the lips. AS in another sermon | have
I Iuiiy described that scene, | will ONLY say
that every day for seven days the ministers
OF religion Went round the city of Jericho
blowing upon those rams horns. and on
the seventh day, without the roll of a war
chariot, or the stroke of a catapult, or the
SWING OF ballista, crashI crash! crash
went the walls of that magnificent capitaII
ON THE SITE OF JERICHO.
On the evening of Dec. we walked
amid the brick and mortar of that shat
tered city, and said to myself; All
TINS done by poor music blest of God. for
/ 1t was not harp, or a flute, or cIappinr
! cymbal, or an organ played, at the sound
/ of which the city surrendered to destruc
ton, but rude instrument making rude
music blest of God, to the demolition of
that wicked place which had for centuries
defied the Almighty. And | said, if all
this was by the blessing of God on moor
music, what mightier things could be done
/ by the blessing of God on good music, skill
full music, gospel music. If all the good
that has already been done by music were
subtracted from the world | believe three
/ fourths of its religion would be gone. The
/ lullabys of mothers which keep sounding
on, though the lips that sang them forty
! years ago became ashes; the old hymns in
/ log cabin churches and country meeting
houses, and psalms in Rouse's version in
/ Scotch kinks; the anthem in English cathe-
drals; the roll of organs that will never let
Handel or Haydn or Beethoven die; the
/ thrum of harps, the sweep of the bow across
bass viols, the song of Sabbath schools
storming the heavens, the doxology of
/ great assemblages-why thousand Jeri
chos of sin have by them all been brought
/ down.
/ Seated by the warmth of our campfires
/ that evening of Dec. 6, amid the bricks and
debris of Jericho, and thinking what poor
music has done and what mightier things
could be accomplished by the blessings of
! God on good music, said to myself Min
listers have been doing grand work, and
| sermons have been blessed but would it
not be well for us to put more emphasis on
music? Oh, for a campaign of ''Old Hun
1 dred!' Oh, for a brigade of Mount Pts
/ gahs! Oh, for cavalry charge of Corona
tionsW Oh, for an army of Antiochs and
St. Martins and Arielsl Oh for enough
orchestral batons lifted to marshal all ma
tions! AS Jericho was surrounded by poor
music for seven days, and was conquered,
so let our earth be surrounded seven days
/ by good gospel music, and the round planet
will be taken for God Not a wall of oppo-
] ii y,
ace of sin, not an enterprise of unrighteous
ness, could stand the mighty throb of such
atmospheric pulsation. Musicl 1t sound
ed at the laying of creations corner stone
when the morning stars sang together
Musicl 1t will be the last reverberation,
when the archangel's trumpet shall wake
the dead. Music! Let its full power be
now tested to comfort and bless and arouse
and save.
THE BITTER FOUNTAIN SWEETENED.
While our evening meal is being pre-
pared in the tents we walk out for mo
ment to the Fountain of Elisha" the one
into which the prophet threw the salt be,
cause the waters were poisonous and bitter,
and 10! they became sweet and healthy;
and ever since, with gurgle and laughter,
they have rushed down the hill and leaped
from the rocks, the only cheerful object in
al! that region being these waters.
Now on this plain of Jericho the sun is
setting, making the mountains look like
balustrades and battlements of amber and
maroon and gold; and the moon, just
above the crests, seems to be window of
heaven through which immortals might
be looking down upon the scene, Three
Arabs as watchmen sit beside the camp
fire at the door of my tent, their low CON
versation in a strange language all night
| long a soothing rather than an Interrupt
ton. | had a dream that night never to
be forgotten, that dream amid the com
plete ruins of Jericho. Its past grandeur
returned, and | saw the city as it was
when Mark Antony gave it to Cleopatra
and Herod bought it from her. And /
! heard the hoofs of its swift steeds and the