Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-27

| III t0e lCeSt array ttdt lOIclRu iOOtu ever
wrought or lapidary ever empearled
know right well that there is volcano
waiting for it, whether IN domestic life,
or social life, or political life, or in tine
| foundations of the earth from which
sprang out the devaststions that swal-
lowed the cities of the plain. ''He
| toucheth the hills and they smoke
But THE DRAGoMAN WAS REJoICEp
| when we had seen enough of this volcanic
| region of Palestine, and he gladly
tighteus the girths for another march
| around the horses, which are prancing
and neighing for departure. We are off
for the Jordan, only two hours away.
We pass Bedouins, whose stern features
melt into a smile as We give them the
saluts ton, Salsam Aleikoum, "Peece
be with you,'' their smile sometimes
leaving US in doubt as to whether it is
caused by their gladness to see US or by
our poor pronunciation of the Arabic.
Oh, they are strange race, those
| Bedouins. Such comminglinE OF ruf-
| tianism and honor, of cowardice and
| courage, of cruelty and kindness! When
| band of them came down upon party
In which Miss Whately was travelling and
were about to take pocketbooks and
perhaps life, this lady, sitting upon her
aud began to sketch these brigauis,
and seeing this composure, the bandits
thought il something supernatural and
fed. Christian womanlinsss or manli-
ness is all-conQuering. When Martin
Luther was told that Duke George would
Kill him if he went to Lsipsic, Luther re-
piled, ~ would go 10 Leipsic if It rainsd
Duke Georges nine days
Now we come through regions where
there are hills cut into the shape Of ca
thedrals, with altar, aad column, ana
arch, and chancel, and pulpit and dome,
and architecture OF the rocks that think
can hardly just happen 40. Perhaps it
is because God loves the church so we'll,
He builds IN the soltudes of Yellowstone
Park, and Yosemite, and Switzerland,
and Palestine, these ecclesiastical piles.
And who knows, but that unseen spirits
may sometimes worship there? 'Drago-
man, when shall We see the Jordan?'
ask. All the time we were on the alert,
and looking through tamarlsk and will
lows for the
GREATEST RIVER OF ALL THE EARTH.
The Mississippi is wider, the Ohio IS
deeper, the Amazon is longer, the Hud-
son rolls amid regions more picturesque,
the Thames has more splendor on it's
banks, the Tiber suggests more imperial
procession, the Ilyssus has more classic
memories, and the Nile feeds greater
populations by its irrigation; but the
Jordan s the queen of rivers and runs
through all the Bible, G silver thread
strung like beads with heroics, and be-
fore night We shall meet on its banks
Elijah and Elisha, and David, and
jacob, and Joshus. and John, and
Jesus.
at last between two trees got
glimpse of river and said, tWhat is
that2'' "The Jordan - was the quick
reply. And all along the line which had
been heightened by other pilgrims, some
from America, and some from Europe,
and some from Asia, the cry WAS sounded
'The Jordan, The Jordan!'' Hundreds
of thousands of pilgrims have chanted on
its banks and bathed in its waters. Many
of them dip q wet gown in the wave and
wiring 1t out aud carry it home for their
own shroud. 1t is an impetuous stream
and rushes on as though it were fastening
to tell Its story TO the ages. Many al.
explorer has it whelmed, and many
boat has it wrecked. Lieut.. Molineux
had coppsr-bottomed crafts split upon its
shelvings. Only one boat, that of Lieut..
Lynch, ever lived to sail the whole
length of it. At the season when
the SHOWS on Lebanon melt the rage
OF this stream is like the Conemaugh
when Johnstown persisted, and the wild
beasts that may be near run for the hills.
explaining what Jeremiah says: "Be-
hold he shall 20 up like lion from the
swelling OF jordan No river so often
changes its MUD, for 1t turns and twists,
travelling 200 miles to do that which in u
straight line might be done in sixty
miles. Among banks now low now high,
now of rocks, now of mud, and now of
sand. having the feet of the terebinths
and oleanders, and scacias, and reeds,
aud pistchios, ana silver poplars. This
river marries the Dead Sea to Lake Cali
lee, and did ever so rough groom take |
THE HAND OF SO FAIR A BRIDE?
This is the river which parted to let an
army of 2, 900 600 Israeli:es across. Here
the skilled msjor-general of the Syrian
host at the seventh plunge dropped his
leprosy, not only by miraculous cure,
but suggesting to all ages that water,
and plenty of 1t has much to do with the
sanitary improvement of the world.
Here is where some theological students
of Elisha's time were cutting trees with
which to build theological seminary,
and an az head not sufficiently wedgeG |
10 the handle flew off into the river and
sank, and the young man deplored not
so much the loss of the ak head as the |
fact that it was not his own, and cried
:Alasl it was borrowed and the |
prophet threw a stick into the river and,
in defiance OF the law of grsvitetiou, the |
IRON ak head came to the surface and |
floatod like 8 cork upon the water, and |
kept floating until the young man |
caught it. A miracle performed |
to give one an opportunity |
to return that which was borrowed,
and a rebuke in all ages for those who |
borrow and never return, their bad |
habit in this respect so established that |
1t would be miracle if they did re- urn |
1t. Yea; from the bank of this river |
Elijah took team of FIRE, showing that |
the most raging element is servant of |
the good, and that there is no need that |
o lid of God fear anything; for, if the |
most destructive of all elements, was |
that day fashioned into vehicle for a |
departing saint, nothing can ever hurt |
you who love and trust the Lord am |
40 glad that that chariot of Elijah wes |
not made out of wood, or crystal, or |
anything ordinarily pleasant
BUT OUT OF FIRE,
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