Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-09


enlargement Of marriage. Hencel tn,
awful mistakes and the unhappy homes
for God has made the face an index o.
character, and honesty or dishonesty
usually is demonstrated in the features
do not see what God made fair fac,
for II Il were not to be looked at. But
here come the crowds OF disfgured wo
men down the road on their way tC
Joppa, bundles Of sticks for frewood Oh
their heads. They started at O'Clock
in the morning to get the fuel. They
stagger under the burdens. Whipped
and beaten will some OF them be II theiI
bundle Of sticks is too small All that
Is required for enforcement is for mar
to say to his wife, "Be of, don't want
you any MORE" Woman slave in al
lands, except those in which the gospe
of Jesus Christ makes her queen. And
yet in Christian countries there are wo-
men posing as skeptics, and men with
family deriding the only religion that
makes sacred and honorable the names
of wife, mother, daughter and sister.
What is that? Town of Ramleh, birth
place, residence and tomb Of Samuel, the
glorious prophet. Near by Tower OF
Forty Martyrs, so called because that
number of disciples perished there for
Christ's sake, but II towers had been
built for all those who, in the time OF
war as in time of peace, have fallen on
this road during the ages past you might
almost walk on turrets from Joppa to
Jerusalem.
Now we pass guard houses which are
castles ofchopped straw and mud where
at night and partly through the day
armed men dwell and keep the bandits
off travellers. In the caves of these
mountains dwell men to whom massacre
would be high play and purse with a
few pennies would be compensation
enough for the struggle that the savage
might have with the wayfarer. There is
only one other defense that amounts to
much in these lands, and that is the law
of hospitality. If you can get an Arab
to eat with you, if only one mouthful,
| you are sure of his protection, and that
has been so from age to age. The
Lords Supper was built on that custom,
special friendship after partaking food
| together. To that custom Walter Scott
refers in his immortal Craftsman"
where Saladin, with one stroke of the
sword, strikes the head from an enemy
who stands in Saladin's tent with a cup
in his hand and before he has time to
put it to his lip. and does it so suddenly
that the body of his enemy, beheaded,
stands for moment after the behead-
ing with the cup still in his right hand.
After the cup had been slipped it would
| have been impossible, according to the
laws of oriental hospitality, to give the
fatal blow.
Here now we come to where stood the
! fields into which Samson fired the foxes
The foxes are no rarity in this land. l
counted at one time twenty or thirty of
them in one group, and the cry all along
the line was ''Foxes! Look at the foxesp'
and at night they sometimes bark until
all attempts to sleep are an absurdity.
Those / saw and heard in Palestine
might have been descendants of the very
foxes that Samson employed for an ap-
palling incendiarism. The wealth of
that land was in the harvests, and it was
the harvest time and the straw was dry.
Three hundred foxes are caught and tied
in couples by some wire or incombustible
cord which the flames cannot divide, and
tirebrands are fastened to those couple
| VI lOACSs hHu ul6 dlIlSnLcu CI0dUulcS
are let loose and run every whittier
| among the harvests, and in the awful
blaze down go the corn shocks, and the
| vineyards, and the olives, and all through
| the valleys and over the hills and among
the villages is heard the cry of "Fire"
And in the burnt pathway walk Hunger
and Want and DesoIation.
All this for spite. And some theolo-
gians learn one thing and some another.
But learn from it that great man may
sometimes stoop to very mean piece of
business, and that If men would use as
much ingenuity in trying to bless as they
do in trying to destroy, the world all the
way down would be in better condition.
Yet the fire of the foxes kindled that
night in Palestine has not gone out, but
has leaped the seas, and the sly foxes,
the human foxes, are now still running
every whittier, kindling political fires,
| fires of religious controversy, fires of
| hate, world wide fires; and the whole
harvests of righteousness perish.
| Brace up your nerves now, that you
| may look while point them out. Yon-
der is Kirjath-Jearim, where the ark of
God staid until David took it to Jerusa-
lem. Yonder John the Baptist was
born. Yonder is Emmaus, where Christ
walked with the disciples at eventide.
Here are men blowing, only one handle
to the pillow, showing the accuracy of
Christ's allusion. When we plow in
America or England there are two hands
on two handles, but in Palestine only
one handle. And so Christ uses the
singular saying ''No man having put
his hand to the plow and looking back is
tit for the kingdom" The OK is urged
on by wooden stick pointed with sharp
iron, and the OK knows enough not to
kick, for he would only hurt himself in
stead of breaking the goad. And the
Bible refers to that when it says to
Saul, SIT is hard for thee to kick against
| the goads.''
Here is the valley of Ajalon, famous
| for Joshua's pursuit of the five kings and
the lunar arrest. And in imagination
see the moon in daytime halt. Who has
not sometimes seen the moon dispute the
throne with the sun? But when the
king Of day and the queen of night, who
never before Joshua's time nor since
then stoppeda moment in their march,
halted at Joshua's command it was a
scene enough to make the universe
shiver. Moon! stand thou still in the
/ valley of Ajalon!p At another time we
will see the sun stop above Gibeon, but
now we have only to do with the moon,
and you must remember that it was
more Of an orb then than it is now. 1t
is a burnt out world now, an extinct
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