Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-29
half thick, was brought from Joppa to

Rome.
The event recorded in the book of
Jonah has occurred a thousand times.
The Lord always has whale outside
the harbor for man who starts in the
wrong direction. Recreant Jonah! |
do not wonder that even the whale was
kck of him. This prophet was put in
the Bible not as an example, but as a
earning, because the world not only
needs lighthouses, but buys, to show
where the rocks are. The Bible story
of him ends by showing the prophet III
a fit of the sulks. He was mad because
Nineveh was not destroyed, and then
he went out to pout, and sat under a
big leaf using it for shade from the
tropical sun, and when a worm dis
turbed that leaf, and it withered, and
the sun sInote Jonah, he flew into a
great rage, and said, cit is better for
me to die than to live" A prophet in
arage because he had lost his umbrella
Beware of petulance
But standing here on the housetop
st Joppa, 1 look off upon the sands
near the beach, and I almost expected
to find them crimsoned and incarna-
dined. But no; the rains long ago
washed away the last sign of the Napo-
leonic massacre. Napoleon was march
ing on through the coasts. He had
here at Joppa four thousand Albanians,
who had been surrendered as prisoners
of war, and under a promise of protec-
ton. What shall he do with them? It
will be impossible for him to take them
along, and he cannot afford to leave
soldiers enough to guard them from es-
cape. 1t will not be difficult for the
man who broke the heart of lovely
Josephine, and who when asked if the
great losses of life in his battles were
not too dear price to pay for his vic
tories, shrugged his shoulders mirth-
fully and said, ''You must break the
eggs if you want to make an omelet''-
I say it will not be difficult for him to
decide.
The prisoners of war by his order
are taken out on the sands and put to
death-one thousand of them, two
thousand of them, three thousand of
them, four thousand of them, mas
sacred. And the blood pours down
into the sea, the red of the one min
Cling with the blue of the other, and
making an awful maroon which neither
God nor nation can ever forget. Ye
who are fond of vivid contrasts put
the two scenes of Joppa side by side,
Dorcas with her needle, and the i'm
mortal butcher with his knife.
CEDARS OF LEBANON
But standing on this Joppa house top
I look off on the Mediterranean, and
what is that strange sight L see? The
waters are black, seemingly for miles.
There seems to be great multitude of
logs fastened together Oh, yes, it is a
great raft of timbers They are cedars
of Lebanon which King Hiram is fur
nishing King Solomon in exchange for
20, 900 measures of wheat, 90 900 baths
of oil and 20, 900 baths of wine. These
cedars have been cut down and trim
med in the mountains of Lebanon by
the 20, 900 axmen engaged there, and
with great withes and iron bolts are
fastened together, and they are float
ing down to Joppa to be taken across
the land for Solomon's temple, now
building at Jerusalem, for we have lost
our hold of the Nineteenth century and
are clear back in the ages.
The RATS of cedar are guided into
what is called the Moon Pool, an old
harbor south of Joppa, now filed with
sand and useless. With long pixies the
timber is pushed this way and that in
the water, then with levers and many
a loud, long 80, heaveI" as the cart
ers get their shoulders under the great |
weight, the timber is fastened to the !
wagons and the lowing oxen are yoked |
to the load, and the procession of teams
moves on with crack of whip and |
drawled out words which, translated, | /
suppose would correspond with the
''Whoa, haw, gee!" of modern team
sters, toward Jerusalem, which is thirty
miles away, over mountainous dis /
tances which for hundreds of years de |
fed all engineering. And those rough /
cedars shall become carved pillars, and /
beautiful affairs, and rounded bannis- /
tiers, and traceried panels, and sublime /
ceiling, and exquisite harps, and kingly /
chariots.
AS lIIS WotSOI DlONSS OuO lIOIu
Joppa over the plain of Sharon toward /
Jerusalem | say to myself, what vast /
numbers of people helped build that /
temple of Solomon, and what vast |
numbers of people are now engaged in
building the wider, higher, grander /
temple of righteousness rising in the /
earth. Our Christian ancestry toiled I
at it, amid sweat and tears, and hun
dreds of the generations of the good, |
and the long train of Christian workers i
still moves on; and as in the construc-
ton of Solomon's temple some heweG I
with the AK in the far away Lebanon,
and some drove a wedge, and some
twisted a withe, and some trod the wet
and slippery RATS on the sea, and some
yoked the OK, and some pulled at the
load, and some showed the plane, and
some fitted the joints, and some heaved
up the rafters, but all helped build the
temple, though some of these never
saw it, SO now let us all put our
hands, and our shoulders, and our
hearts to the work of building the tenn
Dle of righteousness. which is TO fill the