The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-08

Hirsck, and Monteaore, and Paul the
Apogtla, and Mary the virgin, and Jesus
Chfist the Lord.
on the way across the plain OF Sharon
Ee met many yelled women. 1t is not
respectable for them to go pnyeiled,
and II ID D veil SO hung as TO make them
hideops A man may not even see the |
face OF his wife until alter betfothal, or |
engagement Of marriage. Hence the
awful mistakes, and the unhappy homes,
for God has made the face an index OF
character, and honesty or dishonesty
usually Is demonstrated in the features.
do not see what God made fair face
for, II 1t were not to be looked at But
here come the crowds Of dishgured wo-
men down the road on their way to
Joppa, bundles of sticks for frewood on
their heads. They started at three
O'Clock in the morning to get the fuel.
They stagger under the burdens.
Whipped and beaten will some Of them
be II their bundle Of sticks is too small.
All that is required for divorcement is
for man to say to his wife: "Be. of, 1
don't want you any more" Woman
slave in all lands except those in which
the Gospel Of Christ makes her queen.
! And yet in Christian countries there arc
women posing as sceptics and men with
family deriding the only religion that
makes sacred and honorable the names
of wife, mother, daughter, and sister.
4 What is that? Town OF Ramleh, birth
place, residence and tomb OF Samuel,
the glorious prophet Near by, tower
Of Forty Martyrs, 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 IS In time Of peace, have fallen on
this road during the ages past, you
| might almost walk on turrets from Jop-
pa to Jerusalem.
Now we pass gdard-houses which are
| castles OF chopped straw and mud where
at night and partly through the day,
armed men dwell and keep the bandits
of travellers. In the caves Of these
mountains dwell men to whom massacre
would be high play, and purse with
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. II you can get an
Arab to eat with you, II only one mouth
full, you are sure OF his protection and
that has been SO from age to age. The
Lords Supper was built on that Gus
tom, special friendship after partaking
food together. To that custom Walter
Scott refers in his immortal Tails
man." where Saladin, with one stroke
Of the sword, strikes tho head from an
enemy who stands in Saladin's tent with
cup in his hand and before he has
time to put 1t to his lip, and does It so
suddenly that the body Of his enemy,
beheaded, stands for moment after
the beheading, with the cup still in his
right hand. After the cup had been
slipped 1t would have been impossible,
according to the laws Of Oriental hospi-
tality, to give the fatal blow
The only lands where II is safe TO
travel uuarmed are Christian lands
Human life is more highly valued and
|
and am glad TO believe that in our
country, from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Pacific Ocean, there is not place to-
day where q man is not safer without
pistol than with one. But all through
our journeys in Palestine We required
firearms. While the only weapon had
on my person was new Testament we
went through the region where said to
the dragoman: David, are you armed2"
and he said "Yes," and I said "Are
those fifteen or twenty muleteers aud
baggage-men and attendants armed?"
and he said "Yes," and felt safer.
On wo roll through the Plain Of
Sharon. Here grew the rose after
which Christ was named, Rose Of Sharon,
celebrated in all Christendom and
throughout all ages. There has beon
controversy as TO what flower 1t was.
Some say 1t was q marsh-mallow that
thrives there, and some claim this honor
for the scarlet anemone, for you must
know that this Plain OF Sharon Is roll
ing ocean OF color when the spring
breezes move across 1t. But leaving the
botanists in controversy as TO what II Is,
would take the most aromatic and
beautiful OF them all and twist them
into garland for the Name which Is
above every name.'
Yonder, little to the north as we
move on, is the Plain OF Ono. The
Bible mentions II again and again. The
village standing on this Plain Of Ono is
mud village. Two great basins Of
rock catch the rains for the people. or
!, more Importance In olden time than in
, modern time was this Plain OF Ono
But as the dragoman announced II, and
in the Bible I read OF II I was reminded
Of the vast multitude Of people who now
: dwell In tho Plain OF Ono. They arc,
/ by their nervous constitution or by
their lack Of faith In God, always In
the negative Win you help 70 build
church7 O no! Will you start
, out In some new Christian enter
priss7 o. mol They lie down In the path
I Of all good hSsepents, sanitary, social,
political shd religious They harness
their horses with no traces 10 pull ahead,
: but only breeohing-straps 10 hold back
For all Christian work would not give
for . thousand Of them the price Of .
clipped ten cent piece. There are in the
! Plain OF o, mol May the Lord multiply
tho numbers Of those. who, whom any
thing good ID Undertaken are found TO
: live in the plain Of oh, yes VIII you
support this new oharity9 o, yesl Do
, you think that this victim OF evil habit