Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-01

trated Goliath. There is a BRIDGE
spanning the ravine, but at the season
we crossed there is not a drop of water
in the brook. We went down into the
ravine and walked amid the pebbles
| that had been washed smooth. very
smooth, by the rush of the waters
through all the ages. There is where
David armed himself. He walked
around and picked up five of these
polished pebbles. He got them of Just
the right size He prepared himself for
! five volleys, so that if the giant escapes
the first he will not escape the whole
five. The topography of the place so
corresponds with the Bible story that
could see the memorable fight 60 on.
1t is the only fight ever did watch.
Pugilism l abhor but here were two
championship one God appointed,
the other Satan appointed, and decid-
ing the destiny of a nation, the destiny
/ of a world 1t was a-Marathon. an
Arbela, a Waterloo, a Blenheiln, a
Sedan, concentered into two right arms.
Here are two ridges of mountains five
hundred feet high, the PhiIistines on
one ridge, the Israelites on the other
ridge The fight is in the valley be-
tween at that season shaded. ana
sweet with terebinth and acacia. David
the champion for the Israelites; Go
Hath the champion for the Philistines
David, undersized and almost effem-
mate, only mouthful for Goliath, who
was nearly ten feet high.
They advance to meet each other
but the Bible says that David made
the first step forward. Nearer and
nearer they come, but | do not think
David will wait until he comes within
reach of Goliath sword, for that would
be fatal, and David has weapon with
which he can fight at long range.
Closer and closer they come, but David
advances the more rapidly. Come to
me" said the giant, ''and l will give
thy flesh unto the fowls of the air and
to the beasts of the field" You see
Goliath going to give David for ban
quet to the vulture and jackal. He
the mountain of flesh, will fall over on
that little hillock. l hear him laugh
through the mOuthpiece of his helmet
He will toast the little whiffet on the
top of his long sword He will call all
the crows for breakfast. Come to
me, you contemplate little fellow, and
| will make quick work with you The
idea that a five-fOOter should come out
against a ten-fOoter! Let the two ar
mics looking down from the ridges
watch mel" IAlvid responded, leone
to thee iii the name of the Lord of
Hosts" Aha, that is the right kind of
battle shout. In the name of the
Lord of Hosts"
How that cry rings through the
Wady-es-Sumpt! He who fights in that
spirit wins the day. The almost Israel
itish dwarf enlarges into omnipotent
proportions The moment to strike
has come. David takes his sling with
stone III it and whirls it round and
round his head until he has put the
weapon into sufficient momentum, and
then taking sure aim hurls it. The
giant throws up his hands and reels
back and falls The stone sank into
his forehead That was the only avail
able point of attack But how about
the helmet on his head! Did the stone
that David flung crush through the
helmetI No. An old rabbi saws he
thinks that when Goliath scOffed at
David the giant so suddenly and con
temptuously jerked up his head that
the helmet fell off. That is like enough.
David saw the bare forehead, a foot
high, and aimed at the center of it, and
the skull cracked and broke in like all
eggshell, and the ground shook as this
great oak of a military chieftain struck
it. Huzza for David!
FIRST SIGHT OF JERUSALEM.
But we must hasten on, for the dan.
ger now is that night will be upon us
before we reach Jerusalem. OH we
must see it before shutdown. We are
climbing the hills which are terraced
with olive groves, uplands rising above
uplands, until we come to an nnmensitv
of barenness, gray ROCKS above gray
rocks, where neither tree nor leaf nor
bush nor grass blade can grow. The
horses stumble and slip and pull till
it seems the harness must break So
lemnity and awe take possession of US.
Though a vivacious party, and during
part of the day popularity had reigned,
now no one spoke a word, except to say
to the dragoman, Tell us when you
get the first glimpse of the city"
never had such high expectation of see
ing any place as of seeing Jerusalem.
l think my feelings may have been
slightly akin to those of the Christian
just about to enter the heavenly Jeru-
salem. My ideas of the earthly Jerusa-
lem were bewildering. Had | not seen
pictures of it? Oh, yes; but they only
increased the bewilderment. They were
taken from variety of standpoints. If
twenty artists attempt to sketch Brook
Ign or New York or London or Jerusalem
they will plant their cameras at different
places, and take as many different pict-
ures, but in a few minutes l shall see
the sacred city with my own eyes,
Over another shoulder of the hill we
60, and nothing in sight but rocks and
mountains, and awful gulches between
them, which make the head swim if
you look down. On and up, on and
up, until the lathered and smoking
horses are refined in, and the dragoman
rises in front and nninIS eastward cry