The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-03

come" 1 believe it If the SnItan OF
Turkey attempted to visit Jerusalem he
would never get back again. All Paies-
| tine hates him.
As we descended the narrow steps at
/ the side of the ip.we heard the cfamor
and quarrel ard swearing of fifteen or
sixteen different races of men of all
| features and all colors and all 7ernacu-
lars; all different IN appearance, but all
| alike in desire to get our baggage and
ourselves at exhorbitant prices. Twenty
boats and only ten passengers to go
4 ashore.
Forever 70 me and mine will that day
and hour be commemorated for that
pre-eminent mercy. Let it be men
toned in prayer by my children and
4 chffdfen's children after we are gone
that morning we were permitted te en-
ter that land and gaze upon those holy
hills, and feel the emotions that rise,
and fall ard weep and laugh, and sing.
and Triumph at such q disem barkatio
On the back of hills $50 feet high Jeppa
is lifted toward tho skies It is as
picturesque as it ia quaint ard as much
| unlike any city we have ever Seen as
| though it We're built in that star Mars,
where few nights ago this very Sep
4 tember astronomers, through unpar-
| alleled telescopes. saw snow storm
rag ng. How glad we were to be in
Dorcas, that queen of the needle. lived
and died and was resurrected. You re-
| member that the poor people came
| around the dead body of this benefac-
| tress and brought specimens of her kind
OF needle work and said: ..Dorcas made
this;" 'Dorcas sewed that" Dorcas cut
| and Htted this;" .'Dorcas hemmed tn I"
According to Lightfoot, the commenta-
/ tor. they laid her out in state in pub
lie room and the poor wrung their hands
| and cried and sent for Peter, who per-
/ formed miracle by which the good
! woman came back to life and resumed her
| benefact:ons- An especial resurrection
| day for one woman! She was the model
by which many women of our day have
| fashioned their lives and at the first
] blast of the horn of the wintry tenn
pest there appear ten thousand Dorcases
Decreases of Brooklyn, Decreases of
| New York, Decreases of London Dor
cases OF all the neighborhoods and
! towns and cities of Christendom, lust as
good as the Dorcas of the Joppa which
| l visited.
what is that man doing?n 1 said to
| the dragoman in the streets of Joppa
%, he is carrying his bed" Multitudes
cf'the people sleep0utof doors and that
is the way SO many in those lands be-
1 come blind 1t is from the dew of the
night falling on the eyelids AS a re-
suit of this in Egypt. every TWEEN tie th
person is totally blind.
In Oriental lands the bed is made of
| thin, small mattress blanket and a
| pillow. and when the man rises in the
| morning be just ties up the three into a
bundle and shoulders it and takes it
| away. 1t was to that the Saviour re-
1 ferred when he said to the sick man
Take up thy bed and walk"
But inhale some of the odors of the
large tanneries around Joppa- It is
4 there to this day a prosperous business,
| this tanning of hides And that re-
4 minds me of Simon, the tanner who
Peter, the apostle. suppose the olfac-
tories of Peter were as easily insultcd
| by the odors of q tannery as others
But the Bible says: "He lodged with
one Simon, the tanner" People who
| go ont to do reformatory and missionary
and Christian work must not be too sem
\ sitiye. Simon, no doubt, brought to his
homestead every night the malodors of
the calf skins and OK hides in his tan
| merry, but Peter lodged in that house.
/ not only because he may not have been
| invited to the houses of merchant
| princes surrounded by redolent gardens,
but to teach all men and women en-
| gagged in trying to make the world bet
ter they must not be SQueamish and fas-
| tidious and finical and over particular
in doing the work of tho world. Tho
Church of God is dying of fastidious-
| ness We cry over the sufrerings of the
world in 500 pocket handkerchiefs and
then put cent in the poor box. There
| are many willing to do Christian
work among the clean1y and refined and
the elegant and the educated, but ex-
'cuse them from taking a loaf of bread
down dirty alley. excuse them from
| teaching n mission school among the
| nncom bed and unwashed, excuse them
| from touching the hand of one whose
finger nails are in mourning for de-
! parted soap. Such religious precision
lists can toll in atmospheres laden with
honeysuckle and rosemary, but not in
air floating up from the malodorous
| watts. No, no, mol excuse them from
lodging with one Simon, the tanner.
But reference to Peter reminds me
| that we must go to the house-top in
Jcppa where he was taught the democ-
racy of religion That was about tho
gueerest thing that ever happened. On
our way up to the house-top we passed
an old well where the great stones were
worn deep with the ropes of the buckets,
! and it must be a we'll many centuries
old. and, 1 think. Peter drank out of
1T Four or five goat or calf
skins filed with water lay about
the yard. We soon got up the steps and
I
\ in Joppa that Potter, one noon, while no
was waiting for dinner, had hungry fl t
and tainted away and had Wis on or
dream or trance. / said to my family
and friends on that house-top: Listen
while 1 read about what happened
here" And opening the Bible, we had
the whole story. 1t seems that Peter
/ on the house-top dreamed that great
blanket was let down out of Heaven
and in it were sheep and goats and cat
tie and mules and pigeons and buzzards
| and snakes and all manner of creatures
that fly the air. or walk the fields, or
| crawl the earth. and in the dream of
| voice told him as he was hungry, to cat
and he said: II can not eat things un-
clean" Three times he dreamed it
There was then heard a knocking at
the gate of the house on the top of
which Peter lay in a trance and three
men asked: as Peter here?"- Peter,
while yet wondering what his dream
meant descends the stairs and meets
these strangers at the gate and they tell
him that a good man by the name of
| Cornelius, in the city of Csesarea, has
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