Telegram-herald., 1890-11-03

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rlSztioA of y hlek ssol0zscas pools ss orly
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Dza to boersbees ss fertile. and sroEn ztle
sad Fesplsnsseut - On the Haoxnins when
tbs ksBg rode ear e. his pleasars grounds
IL chariet - swifs aud followed bs n0agt-
e. riders 50 brilliant that il wss fer speod
Ike harrieahe followed by = cs'eione.
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As ! look Uroa this greas 4aaednct of
pElestige. = wondroDS specimen of ancient
ussonry about seven feet high. two feet
wide, Sometimes tunneAas the solid rock
and thsa rolhag its waters throasa stone
ware pipes. a. aauedaet d0sag is wsrk
ten miles before it gcgs e. those three reser-
yCiFs, snd then gathering their wealth of
FefreeAmeDt ard pouring Il On 20 the
mighty cty of jerusalem and hiling the
braEen ssa q her temple. aud The hath
r0orQs of her palaces. aad the great pools
~ Silcam. and Eezekiah. aud Bethesda. /
had that our century hrs 40 rnonorsaiy of
the world weadesS. anl thai tie con
oeitet ae-e in which We live bad better saks
in sOhae of the sails of is pride when K re-
mem hers that * Is hare work IL later aces
20 get masonry that viii last fftv wears.
10 say nothing Of the three Thousand,
and no mcdern machinery ooula lift
blocks or stone like some Of those stand
ing high up ia the walls Of Baal-
bee. aud the art Il printing claimed sor
recent ages WAS practiced by the Chinese
fourteen hundred years ago. ard that our
midnight lightning express rail train was
fsresecn hy the prophet Nahum, when IL
the Bible lie wrote, The ch&riols shall
rage in the streets, they shall jostle one
against another in the broad ways. they
shall seem like torches. they shall run like
ligiitniRgB, aud our electric telegraph was
foreseea o. Job, when ia the Bible he
wrote. "Canst thou send lahtnings that
they Hay so and say unto thee, Here we
are''" What Is that talking Dy the hight
nings but the electric telegraphg I DO not
know but that the electric forces row being
year by year more thoroughly harnessed
may have been employed in ages extinct,
aud that the Eghtaings all up and down
the sky have been running around Ike
lost hounds TO find their former master
Embalment was a more thorough art
three thousand years ago thSn today. Den
tistry, that we suppose one Of the important
arts discovered in recent centuries, Is proven
TO be four thousand years old by the filed
teeth Of the mu2aaies in the museums at
Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold
plates found by Belzoni in the tombs Of de-
parted nations Wehare been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation Of the
blood so late as the Seventeenth century
Oh, no. Solomon announces il ia Ecclesias-
ties, where first having shown that he un-
sder5teod hespinal cord, silver colored as il
is, and that IL relaxes in old age-"the silver
cord be loosed." goes on TO compare the
heart 20 a pitcher at well, for the three
canals of the heart do receive the blood like
q pitcher, ''or the pitcher be broken at the
fountain" What is that bat the circula-
tion OF the blood, found out twenty-six
hundred years before Harvey was bornf
After many centuries of exploration and
calculation astronomy finds out that the
world is round. Why, Isaiah knew it was
round thousands Of years before when in
the Bible be said: THE Lord sittsth upon
the circle Of the earth" Scientists toiied
/ on for centuries and found out refraction
or that the rays of light when touching the
earth were not straight, but bent or carved.
Why, Job knew that when ages before in
the Bible he wrote OF the light: at is
turned rs clay TO the seal.
OLD PAINTERS AND DYERs.
/ In the old cathedrals Of England mod
ern painters IN the repair Of windows are
trying to make something as good as the
window painting Of four hundred years
ago and always failing by the unanimous
verdict of all who examine and compare
The color Of modern painting fades in fifty
years, while the color OF the old masters is
as we'll preserved after Ave hundred yearS
as after one year | saw last winter on The
walls Of exhumed Pompeii paintings with
color as fresh as though made the day be-
fore, though they were buried eighteen
hundred yeers ago. The making OF Ty-
riaN purple is an impossibility now
In ocr modern potteries we are trying
hard to make cups and pitchers and bowls
as exquisite az those exhu1ned from
Herculaneum, and our arti6cers are
attempting 10 make jewelry for car
and neck and finger equal 70 that
brought up from the nsusoleums OF two
thousand years before Christ. We have in
our tine glass in oil shopes and all colors
but PliRy, more than eighteen hundred
years ago, described a malleable glass
which, If thrown upon the ground and
osnted, could bc pounded straight again
by the hammer or could be twisted around
the wrists, and that confounds all the glass
mnnufactories Of our own time ] tried in
Damascus, Syria, 20 buy = Damascus blade,
one of those swords that could be bent
double or t=ed into knot without break
ing. l could not get one. Why The
Nineteenth century cannot make n Dalnas-
cus blade. II we 60 on enlarE1ng our cities
we may after while get city az large as
Babylon, which was ave times the size Of
London.
These agueducts Of Solomon thst ] visit
today. finding them IN good condition three
thousand years after construction. make
me think that the world may have forgot
ten more than il now knows The great
honor OF our ACC IS not machinery, for the
ancients bad some styles OF n mere won
derful. nor aTT, tor the ancIeDts had 6rt
more exquisite and durable. nor architect
ure, for Roman Coliseum and Gresian
Acropolis surpsss al modern srchit4os re.
nor cities for some of the ancient Ciaes
were larger than ours IN the sweep o. their
pomp. Bot our attempts must be in uscrsl
achievement and gospel victory In that
We have alrssdT surpasse3 thsua, and N
that direction let the azes pusa On Let
us Drag les of worldly aehEeTeHseBt sDa
thank God for moral Opportunity. Nors