Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10

mirthfully and said, ''You must break the
eggs il You want to make an omelet'-I say
IL win not be difficult for him TO decide.
The prisoners Of war by his order are taken
out on the sands and put 10 death-one tnou-
sand of tasm. two thousand CT them, three
thousand OF them four thousand OF them,
massacred. And the blood pOurs down into
the sea, the red Of the one mingling with the
blue OF the other. and making an awfuI
maroon which neither God nor nation can
ever forget. Ee who are fond OF vivid con-
trast5 put the two scenes OF J0ppa side by
side, Dorcas with her needle, and the i'm
mortal butcher with his knife.
Bat standing on this JODpa house top l
look off on the Mediterranean, and what Is
that strange sight l see: The waters are
black, seemingly FOR miles. There seems to
be great multitude of logs fastened to
gether. On. Yes, it is great raft of timbers.
They are cedars OF Lebanon which King
hiram Is furnishing King Solomon in ex-
change for 20, 600 measures OF wheat, 10000
baths of oil and 20 600 baths OF wine. These
cedars have been cut down and trimmed il
the mountains OF Lebanon by the 10000 ak
men engaged there, and with great wltheS
and iron bolts are fastened together, and they
are floating down to Joppa TO be taken across
the land for Solomon's temple, now building
at Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold OF
the Nineteenth century and are clear backin
the ages.
The RATS of cedar are guided into what is
called the Noon Pool. an old harbor south
of Joppa, now filed with sand and useless.
With long pixies the timber is pushed this
way and that in the water, then with divers
and many loud, long 40 heaver' as the
carriers get their shoulder under the great
weight, the tim Der is fastened to the wag-
ons and the lowing oxen are yoked to the
load and the procession of teams moves on
with crack of whip and drawled out words
which, translated. l suppose would CORE
spond with the Whoa. haw, gee" of mod
ern Transfers toward Jerusalem, which Is
thirty miles away over mountainous dis
tances which for hundreds of years defied
all engineering. And those rough cedar.
shall become carved pillars and beautiful
affairs, and rounded bannisters. and trac-
cried panels, and sublime ceiling, and ex-
quisite harpS and kingly charlCtS.
As the wagon train moves out from JOppa
over the plain of Sharon toward Jerusalem
say to myself, what vast numbers of people
helped build that temple of Solomon, and
what vast numbers of people are now en-.
gagged in building the wider. higher. grander
temple Of Righteousness rising in the earth.
Our Christian ancestry tolled at it, amid
sweat and tears, and hundreds of the genera.
tons of the good, and the long train of
Christian workers still moves on; and as in
the construction of Solomons temple some
hewed with the ak ia the far away Lebanon
and some drove a wedge, and some twisted
a withe, and some trod the wet and slippery
RATS On the sea, and some yoked
the OK, and some pulled at the load,
and some showed the plane and some
fitted the joints, and some heaved
up the rafters but all helped build the tenn
pie though some OF these never saw it, SO
now let us all put our hands, and our Shout
ders, and our hearts to the work of building
the temple Of righteousness, which is to fill
the earth; and one will bind a wound, and
another will wipe away tear, and another
will teach a class, and another will speak the
encouraging word, and all of US will be
ready to pull and lift, and in some way help
on the work until the mllenial morn shall
gid the pinnacle of that finished temple, and
at it's shining gates the world shall put down
its last burden, ard in. its LAYERS wash off its
last strain, and at its affairs the last wanderer
shall kneel. At the dedication of that tenn
pie all the armies of earth and heaven will
shoulder arms and present arms" and
''ground arms" for ''beholdi greater than
Solomon is here"
But my first day in the Holy Land is
snded. The sun IS already closing his eye for
the night. stand on the balcony of a hotel
the State of Maine by some fanatics who
came here expecting to see. Christ reappear
in Palestine. My room here was
once occupied by that Christian
hero of the centuries-English, Chinese,
Egyptian, worldwide General Gordon, a
nan mighty for God as well as for the
worlds pacifcation Although tho first OF
December and winter, the air Is full Of fra
grance from gardens all a-blOom and under
mulberry and century plants and orange
groves and oleander. From the drowsiness
OF the air and the fatigues of the day / feel
sleepy Good night! Tomorrow morning
we start for Jerusalem.