Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-27

on his h-nd bright snrb4 and
| GARLAND OF FIag&s ~
and his garments had n Hpads
grant with frunkincen1 and psS9Gp I'D
an odor whi"n the ~ IS ecia
likes. Accompanied afoolrsmR
and preceded By dgN music ms
aEith au,seAsd drum sdkMorns. ID
d loreA ny full bl le starts for -
bf4 b Nome & Thi5 3kr of fire is met
by AdAer -iVr Off the torches of
the De aud brides DIS; tamb beau an
swer tiamleau.s AHyAside j. jRs,peas
robe hess<eif et T Is her
1 lace e49elopeGxer body. Her trou.-
| seau il Va orAN as the resources OF
/ her IA IS ha4fs permit. Her attend
$ssne Uead with ali the ornaments
| they o4p or can borrow; but their own
| persona charms make tame the jewels,
for th3je Oriental women eclipse in at
Siract &eLess all Others except those OF
| 6o1l6&n land. The dHmsuu rose is III
! their cheek, and the diamond in the
! lustre of their eyes, and the biuckness of
the night in their long locks, and in
! their step is the grsc"fuIness of the
morning. AT the first sigh. of the
| torches of the bridegroom and his
attendants coming over the hill
the cry rings through the home of the
| bride: "They are in sight, Get ready.
Behold the bridegroom cometh. Go We
| out to meet him. As the two pro-
cesSiOns approach each other, the tim
! brels strike aud the songs commingle,
| and then the two professions become
| one, and march toward the bridegroom :
| house, and meet third y ocessiou which
Is made up of the friends of both bride
| and bridegroom. Then all enter tue
house,
AND THE DANCE BEGINS,
and the door Is shut. And all this Christ
uses to Illustrate the joy with which the
ransomed Of earth shall meet II IN when
lie comes garanded with clouds, and
robed i'll the morning and truDpeted by
the ,hunders of the Last Day. Look,
There he comes down Off the hills OF
! heaven, the Bridegroom, Aud let us
start out TO hail Him, for hear the
voices OF the judgment Day sounding:
"Behoid the Bridegroom cometh Go
ye out 10 meet Hlm!'' Aud the disap-
pointment of those who have declined
the aviation to the Gospel wedding is
presented under this figure of a door
heavily closed. You hear it slam. Too
lste, TIE door is shut.
mean TO close my eyes tonight until L
see from mountain top, Lake Galilee.
on whose banks, next Sabbath, we will
worship. and on whose waters the fol-
lowing morning We will take sail. On
and up We go in the seyerest clint of all
Palestine, the ascent of the Mount OF
Beatitudes, on the top of which Christ
preached that famous sermon on the
6i esseds-b!essed this and blessed that.
Up 10 their knees The horses plunge in
mole hills, and d surface that gives way
at the first touch of the hoof, and again
and again the tired beasts halt. as much
as to say to the riders, ''ir is unjust for
you to make US climb these Sleeps ON
and up over mountain sides where in the
-er season. hyacinths aud daisies, and
OXes, and
ANEMONES KINDLE THEIR BEAUTY.
On and up until on the rocks of black
basalt we dismount, and climbing TO the
highest peak look out on an eiichantmeut
of scenery that seems TO be the Beati-
1udes themselves arched into skies, and
rounded into valleys and silvered into
waves. The view is like that of Ten
nessee and North Carolina from the top
of Lookout Mountain, or like that of
Vermont ana New Hampshire from the
tOp VI AOutt Ilhll VI
Gaileel Hail Lake Gennesarst, only
four miles away! Yonder. clear up and
most conspicuous, is Safed. the very city
TO which Christ pointed for illustration in
the sermon preached here. yinS: "A
city set on hill cannot be hid There
are rocks around me Oh this Mount of
Beatitudes, enough to build the highest
pulpit the world ever saw. Aye, 1t Is
the highest pulpit. 1t Overlooks all time
and eternity. The valley OF Hattin be-
tween here and Lake Galilee is an amphi-
theater, as though the natural contour
of the earth had invited all nations to
come and sit down, and hear Christ
preach sermon. III which there were
more startling novelties than were ever
announced in all the sermons that were
ever preached. To those who heard Him
on this very spot, His words must have
seemed the contradiction of everything
that they had ever heard or read or ex-
perienced. The world g theory has been:
Blessed are the arrogant; blessed are the &
supercilious; blessed are the fearless VI
blessed are they that have everything
their own way; blessed are the war
eagles: blessed ars the prosecutors;
blessed are the popular; blessed are the
Herods, and the C9sars, and the Ahabs.
No! No. No.
says Christ, with voice that rings over
these rocks, and through yopder valley
of Hattin, and down to the opaline lake
on one side, aud the sapphire Mediter-
raneaR on the other, and across Europe
in one way, and across Asia in the other
way. and around the earth both ways,
till the globe shall vet be Gird!ed with
the nine beatitudes: Blessed are the
poor, blessed are the mournful, blessed !
are the meek, blessed are The hungry,
blessed are the mercful, .iessed are the
pure, blessed are the peacemakers, |
blessed are the prosecuted, blessed are
the falsely reviled.
Do you see how the Holy Land and the |
Holy Book fit each other? God with His |
left hand built Palestine, ana with His !
right wrote the scriptures, the two hands |
OF the same Being. And in proportion |
rs Palestine is brought under close in |
spection, the Bible Will be found more !
glorious and more true. Mightiest book
of the past! Mightiest book OF the fu- |
ture! Monarch of all literature!
The proudest works o. genius shall decay,
And reason bri1 htest luster fade away;
4 he sophist's art, the poet boldest dight,
all air in Aark and ind in n, oh