Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

| selves ~, W s.c our baggage and our.
49,. ,nI ,I al eSorbltant prices. Twenty boats
! IN M oliy zen passengers to 20 ashore
| = s;s, man having charge of us pushes
",,,n soi'l', and strikes with heavy sticks
,"i,'' ana by violence that would not br
=. 80 ", a.eo III our country. but which seems
:" oe .he only manner of making any i'm
PRESTON there, clears our way into ono
! w l'ie noatS. which heads for the shore
we are within fifteen minutes of NM.
/ s s. land. Now we hear shouting
| IRON inc beach. and in five minutes We
WIN DC landed. The Prov of the boo, is
vaughn by mon who wade on, to helm ne
! in. wy w MY us
we are tremnlous With suppressed On
e,scmrnt, our breath is quick. and from
t!le side OF the boat we sprin- tn fbr
snofs' and Sunday morning. Dee. /. 1889.
apeht O'Clock, our feet touched palos-
| .'iie. Forever to ne and mine will thai
ons ana hour be COMMUNICATED for that
pfe-cmlhent mercy. Let ii be mco-
! .,o y, IN prayer by my children and
{, chslalen's children after we are uonc.
.,i'se haofhlng we were permitted to enter
1n'.e rama ana gaze upon those holy hills
anu leei lhe emotions that rise aud fall
ana weep and laugh aud sing and tri-
ullp:l at such q Decentralization.
! YIN the back of hills one hundred and
| MY 1eet high .joppa is lifted toward the
SKIES. IL Is as picturesque as it is
| quaint, and us much unlike any city we
nave ever seen. us though it were built
Ill lnat star Mars, where Il few nights
ago TINS very September astronomers.
through unparalleled telescopes. saw u
snow storm raging. How glad VIC were
to be i'll Joppa. Why, this is the city
where Dorcas. that queen of the needle,
llved and died and was resnrrectc
You remember that the poor people
came around the dead body of this benc-
factress. and brought specimens of her
Kind needlcwork and said, ..Dorcas
made this" s'Dorcas sewed that
"Dorcas cut and fitted this .sDorcas
hemmed that
According to Lightfoot, the commen-
tator, they laid her out i'm state in pub
lie room, and the poor wr,lng their hands
and cried and sent for Peter, who per-
formed q miracle by which the good wo-
man calue back to life aud resumed her
benefactions. 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 wintry tempest
there appear ten thousand Decreases
Decreases of Brooklyn, Decreases of New
York. Decreases Of London, Decreases OF
all the neighborhoods and towns and
cities of Christendom-just as good Us
the Dorcas of Joppa which l visited.
Thank God for the ever-increasing skill
and sharpness and speed and generosity
of Dorcas' needle.
"What is that man doing" l said to
the dragoman in the streets OF Joppa.
''Oh, he is carrying his bed Multi
tudes of people sleep out OF doors. and
that is the way so many in those lands
become blind. 1t is from the dew of tho
night falling on the cyelids. AS :. result
OF this, in Egyptevery twentieth person is
totally blind. In Oriental lands the bee
is made of IL thin small mattress, I
blanket and Il pillow, and when the mal
rises in the morning he just ties up thu
three into a bundle and shoulders il ant
| takes it away. 1t was to that the
Saviour referred when he said to the
sick man, ''Takc up thy bed and walk. $
An American couch or an English couch
would require at least four men to carry
it. but one Oriental can easily manage
HIS SlulllDef equipment.
But / inhale some of the odors Of the
large tannerics around Joppa. 1t is
there TO this day, IL prosperous business,
this tanning OF hides. And that reminds
| me OF Simon. the tanner. who lived at
/, Joppa. aud was the hest of Peter. the
| apostle. l suppose the olfactories OF
! Peter were as easily insulted by the
odors Of a tannerS as others. But the
Bible says, He lodged with one Simon,
the tanner" People who go out to do
rcformatory and missionary and Chris
tian work must not be too sensitive.
Simon, no doubt, brought to his home
stead every night the mal-odors of the
calfskins and oN-hideS in his tannery, but
Peter lodged in that home, not only be-
cause he may not have been iAvited to
| the houses OF the merchant princes sur
rounded by redolcnt gardens. but TO
teach all men and women engaged in
| trying to make the world better, that
they must not be squeamish and fastd-
ious and iinical and ovcr-particular in
doing the work of the world.
| But reference to Peter reminds me
! that We must go to the housetop in
Joppa where he was taught tho democ-
racy of religion. That was about the
aucerest thing that ever happened. On
our way up to that housetop we passed
/ an old we'll where the great stones We're
! worn deep with the ropes Of the buckets,
and it must be we'll many centuries old,
and think Peter drank OF it. -Four OF
| five goat OF calfskins filled with water
| lay about the yard. We soon got up the
! steps and on the housetop. 1t was in
such a place in Joppa that Peter one
noon. while waiting for dinner, had a
j hungry fit and tainted away, and had a
| vision or dream OF trance. said to my
family and friends OH that housetop,
s.Listen while read about what hap,
| pened here And opening the Bible we
had the whole story.
1t seems that Peter on the housetop
dreamed that great blanket was let
| down out of Heaven. and i'll it were sheep
and goats and cattle and mules and
pigeons AID buzzards and snakes ard all
manner of creatures that fly the air. OF
| walk the field. or crawl the earth. and
in the dream a voice told him as he was
hungry to eat. and he said, Il cannot
eat things unclean." Three times he
dreamed it. There was then heard
knocking at the gate OF the house ON the
ton of which Peter lay in II trance, and
! three men asked, lis Peter hcre?'
peter, while yet wondering what his
! a...n, meant. desceuds the stairs and