Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-09

alas for the disastrous voyagei He paid
his full fare for the whole voyage, but the
ship company did not fill their part of the
contract. To this day they have not paid
back that passage money. Why people
should doubt the story of Jonah and the
whale is more Of a mystery than the Bible
event itself do not need the fact that
Pliny, the historian, records that the skel-
eton Of a whale forty feet long and with
hide foot and a half thick, was brought
from Joppa to Rome.
The event recorded in the book of Jonah
has occurred 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 sick of him. This
prophet was put in the Bible, not as an ex-
ample. but as a warning because the world
not only needs lighthouses, but buoys,
to show where the rocks are. The Bible
story Of him ends by showing the prophet
in fit of the sulks. He was mad because
Nineveh was not destroyed, and then he
went out to pout, and sat under big leaf,
using it for shade from the tropical sun,
and when worm disturbed that leaf, and
it withered and the sun smote Jonah, be
flew into great rage and said, at is better
for me to die than TO live" A prophet in
a rage because he had lost his umbrella
Beware of petulaneel
But standing here on the housetop at
Joppa look off upon the sands near the
beach, and almost expected to find them
crimsoned and incarnadined. But no; the
rains long ago washed away the last sign
of the Napoleonic massacre. Napoleon
was marching on through the coasts. He
had here at Joppa four thousand Alba
mans, who had been surrendered as pris.
oners of war, and under a promise OF pro
lection. What shall he do with themY II
will be impossible for him TO take them
along, and he cannot afford 10 leave sol
diers enough to guard them from escape
It will not be difficult for the man who
broke the heart Of lovely Josephine aud
who, when asked II the great losses Of life
In his battles were not too dear price to
pay for his victories, shrugged his shout
ders mirthfilly and said, "You must break
the eggs If you want 10 make an omelet"
Il say il 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 thou.
sand Of them, mastered. And the blood
pours down into the sea, the red Of the one
mingling with the Hue 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 immortal butcher with
his knife.
THE cEDARs OF LEBANON.
But standing on this Joppa house top
look off on the Mediterranean, and
what is that strange sight ! see; The
waters are black, seemingly for miles.
There seems TO be a great multitude of
logs fastened together. Oh, yes; it is
great raft OF timbers. They are cedars of
Lebanon which King Hiram is furnishing
King Solomon in exchange for 10000 meas
ures Of wheat, 10000 baths Of oil and 10000
baths Of wine These cedars have been
cut down and trimmed IN the mountains
Of Lebanon by the 10000 aRmen 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 hagbor south Of Joppa. now filed
with sand and useless
With long pixies the timber is pushed
this way aud that in the water; then with
levers and many a loud, long 80, heaver
as the carriers yet their shoulders under
the great weight, the timber is fastened Co
the wagons and the lowing oxen are yoked
20 the load, and the procession of teams
moves on with crack OF whip and drawled
ont words which, translated, | suppose
would correspond with the whoa, haw,
geet' Of modern teamsters, toward Jeru-
salem, which is thirty miles away, over
mountainous distances which for hun
dreds of years defied all engineering Aud
these rough cellars shall become carved
pillars, and beautiful affairs, and rounded
bann.sters, and traceried panels. and sub
lime ceiling, and exquisite harps, and
kingly chariots - the wagon train moves
ont from Joppa over the plain Of Sharon
toward Jergsa,em | say TO myself what
vast numbers OF people l. ,lped builc that
temple of Solomon, aud What vast mum
bers of people are now engaged in build
ing the wider, higher, ander temple Of
TiSiIE III Tue tttItu-
Our Christian ancestry toilei al IL amid
sweat and tears, and hundreds Of the gen
erations of the good, and the lon.y train of
Christian workers still moves on, and as
in the construction of Solomon's temple
some hewed with the axe in the far away
Lebanon, and some drove a wedge, and
some twisted withe, and some trod the
wet and slippery RATS on the sea-
and some yol;ed 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 helpgd build
the temple, though some of these never
saw it, 50 now let us all put oar hands,
and our shoulders, and our hearts to the
work of building the temple Of righteous
ness which is to fill the earth and one will
bind a wound and another viii wipe away
a tear, and another viii teach class, and
another will speak the encouraging word.
and all of us will be ready to pull aud lift,
and in some way help on the work until
the miilennial morn shall gid the pinnacle
Of that finished temple, and at It's shining
gates the world shall put down its last
burden, and in its LAYERS wash off its last
stain, and at its affairs the last wanderer
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