The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-29

lule> lOT weeks no snip Stops tneTe- Dc
tween rocks about seventy-five feet apart
small boat must take the passengers ashore
the depths are strewn with the skeletons o
those who have attempted to land or at
tempted to embark. Twenty-seven pilgrims
persisted with one crash of a boat agAins
he rocks Whole fleets Of crusaders, o.
Romans, Of Syrians, of Egyptians, have
gone TO splinters there. A writer eighl
hundred years ago said he stood on the
beach in a storm at JOppa, and out OF thirty
Ihips all but seven went 70 pieces on the
rocks and a thousand OF the dead were
washed ashore.
Strange that with a few blasts OF powder
ike that which shattered our American
He'll Gate, those rocks have not been up
rooted and the way cleared, so that great
.hips. instead of anchorage far out from
ard might sweep up ID the wharf for pas
senQers and freight. But you must remem-
Der that land is under the Turk, and what
IA Turk touches he witherS. Mohamme-
ja1ism is against easy wharves, against
steamers, against rail trains, against
printing presses, against CIVILIZATION
Darkness is always opposed to light
The owl hates the morn. Leave
hose rocks where they are" prac-
ticaIly cries the Turkish government; I'VE
want no people Of other religions and other
habits 10 land there; if the salt seas wash
Dver them, let it be a warning to other
In vaders; away with your nineteenth CEN
u--y, with its free thought and its modern
inventions" That Turkish government
pu,Zht to be blotted from the face OF the
sar tn, and it will be. OF many OF the
inhabitants of Palestine, asked the ques-
ton, "Has the Sultan of Turkey ever been
hereD Answer. mo- "Why don't he
come when it belongs to his dominlopP
And after the man Intercepted looked this
gay. and that, so as to know he would not
b. reported, the answer would invariably
Be. she dare not come" | believed it.
n the Sultan of Turkey attempted
30 visit Jerusalem, he would never get back
again. All Palestine hates him. | saw him
20 to the mosque for prayers in his own city
Of Constantinople and saw seven thousand
Armed men riding out TO protect him. Ex-
pensiye prayers! OF course that govern
"a emit wants no better harbor at Joppa.
May God remove that curse of nations,
shi It old bag of the centuries. the Turkish
government For its everlasting insult TO
Col and woman. let it perish And so
tho se rocks at the harbor remain the jaws
of repeated destruction.
As we descended the narrow steps at the
side of the ship, we heard the clamor, and
uuarrel and swearing of fifteen or sixteen
different races OF men of all features, and
all colors and all vernaculars; all different
In appearance, but all alike in desire to get
our baggage and ourselves at exorbftant
Or ices Twenty boats and only ten passen-
gers to go ashore. The man having charge
Of US pushes aside some, and strikes with
heavy stick others, and by violences that
would not be tolerated in our country. but
WIN ch seem to be the only manner Of max
ing any impression there, clears our way
into oOe of the boats which heads
for the shore. We are within fifteen
minutes of the Christ-land. Now we hear
shouting from the beach, and in five
minutes we viii be landed. The prov of
the boat is caught by men who wade out to
help ms in. We are tremulous with su-
pressed excitement, our breath is quick, and
from the side of the boat we spring to the
shore and Sunday morning, Dec. l, 1889,
about o'clock, our feet touch Palestine,
Forever to me and mine will that day aud
hour be COMMUNICATED, for that preemi-
nent mercy. Let it be mentioned in prayer
by my children and children's children after
we are gone, that morning we were per-
aitted TO enter that land, and gaze upon
those holy mills, and feel the emotions that
rise, and fall, and weep, and laugh, and
sing, and triumph at such q disembarka-
hon.
On the back of hills one hundred aud
fifsy feet high Joppa is lifted toward the
skies 1t Is as picturesque as it is quaint,
and as much unlike any city we have ever
seen as though it were built in that star Mars,
where few nights ago this very Septem-
Der astronomers, through unparalleled tele-
scopes. saw snow-storm raging. How
glad we were to be in Joppal Why, this is
the city where Dorcas, that queen Of the
needle, lived and died and was resurrected.
You remember that the poor people came
around the dead body of this benefactress
aud brought specimens of her kind needle
work and said: 'Dorcas made this" Dor
ras sewed that" "Dorcas cut and fitted
this" ''Dorcas hemmed that Accord
hg to Lightfoot, the commentator,
they laid her out in state in
public room, and the poor wrung their
hands aud cried and sent for Peter, VINO
performed miracle by which the good
woman came back to life and resumed her
benefactions. An especial resurrection day
Tor one womanl 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 tempest there
appear ten thousand Dorcases-Dorcases of
Brooklyn. Decreases of New York, Decreases
Of London, Decreases of all the neighbor-
hoods and towns and cities of christendom,
Just as good as the Dorcas of the Joppa
which ! visited. Thank God for the ever
Increasing skill and sharpness and speed and
generosity of Dorcas' needed
''What is that man doingl' said to the
Hragoman in the streets of Joppa 'Oh,
be is carrying his bed" Multitudes of the
people sleep out-of-doors, and that is the
way so many in those lands become blind.
II is from the dew of the night falling on
ihe eyelids. As a result of this, in Egypt.
svery twentieth person is totally blind. In
Oriental lands the bed is made of thin,
small mattress, blanket and pillow. and
when the man rises in the morning he lust
fes up the three into a bundle and shoulders
It and takes it away. 1t was to that the
Saviour referred when he said to the sick
man, Take 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 slumber
Equipment
But I inhale some of the odors of the
arge tanneries around Joppa. 1t is there
70 this day, prosperous business, this tan
ning of hides. And that reminds me of
Simon the tanner, who lived at Joppa, and
was the host of Peter the apostle [ suppose
the olfactories of Peter were as easily in
suited by the odors of tannery as others.
But the Bible says: He lodged with one
Simon, the tanner" People who go out to
10 reformatory and missionary and Chris
tian work must not be too sensitive. Simon
no doubt brought to his homestead every
hight the maiodors of the calf-skins and
Dx-hides in his tannery, but Peter lodged in
that home, not only because he may not
nave been invited to the houses of merchant
princes surrounded by redolent gardens, but
10 teach all men and women engaged in
trying to make the world better, they must
not be Snueamish and fastidious apd f;ni-