Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09


5000 years to make God forget his prom
ises. Those who are prospered in other
lands will do web to stay where they
are. But let the IsraPlites who are de-
preciated, and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces towards the rising sun of
their deliverance. God will gather in
that distant land those of that race who
have been maltreated, and He will blast
with the Iightuings OF His omnipoteuce
those lands on either sIde of the Atlantic
which have been the instruments of an
noynncs and harm to that Jewish race,
10 which belonged Abraham, and David,
and Joshua, and Baron Hirsch, and
Moutetiore, and Paul the Apostle, and
Mary the Virgin, and Jesus Christ the
Lord.
YELLED WOMEN.
On the way ucross the plain of Sharon
we meet many yelled women. 1t is not
respectable for them to 20 unveiled, and
il is Il veil that is SO hung as 10 make
them hIdeous. A man may not even see
the face OF his wife until after betrothal.
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.
l do not see what God made a fair face
for, II 1t were not TO be looked at. But
here come the crowds of disfgured
women down the road on their way to
Joppa, bundles of sticks for tirewood on
their heads. They started at O'Clock
in the morning to get the fuel. They
stagger under the burdens. Whipped
aud beaten will some of them be If their
bundle of sticks Is too small. All that
is required for enforcement Is for Il man
10 say to his wife: ''Be off. l don't
want you any more. - Woman slaye
in all lands, except those in which the
gospel OF Christ makes her queen. And
yet in Christian countries there are
women posing as scept>cs, and men with
family deridinC the only religion that
makes sacred, and honorable the names
OF wife, mother, daughter and sister.
What is that? Town of Rnmleh,
birthplace, residence aud tomb of Sam
uel, the glorious prophet. Near by,
TOWER OF FORTY MARTYRS.
called because that number OF disciples
persisted there for Christie suke; but il
towers had been built for all those, who
in time of war as in time OF peace, have
fallen on this road during the ages past,
you might almost walk on turrets from
Joppa to Jerusalem.
Now We pass euardhouses which are
castles of chopped straw and mud, where
Mt night and partly through the day,
armed men dwell and keep the bandits
off travellers. In the caves of these
mountains dwell men to whom massacre
" ould be high play and purse with
few pennies would lie 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, If only one mouthtul,
you are sure of his protection, and that
has been so from age TO age. The Lords
supper was built on that custom u special
friendship after partaking food together.
To that custom Walter Scott refers in his
immortal Talisman, where Saladin, with
one stroke of the sword, strikes the head
from an enemy who stands i'll Saladin's
tent with n cup in his hand and before he
has had time TO put it to his lips, and
does it so suddenly that the body of his
enemy, beheaded, stands tor moment
after the behsudIng, with the cup still in
his right hand. After the cup had been
slipped it would have been impossible,
according TO the laws of Oriental hospi-
tality, to give the fatal blow.
ARMED ATTENDANTS.
The only lands where it is safe to travel
uuaTmed are Christian lands. Human
lite is more highly valued and personal
rights are better respected, and l am
glRd to believe that III our country, from
the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean,
there is not place to-day where a man
is not safer without pistol than with
Pa estiue We required firearms. While
the only weapon L had OH my person was
Il New Testament, we went through the
region where l said to the drngoman:
"Duvid, are you armed?'' and he said
Eyes, - and l said: 'Are those fifteen
or twenty muleteers and baggage men
and attendants armed?' Aud he said
Yes, and l felt safer.
On we roll through the Plain of
Sharon. Here grew the rose after which
Christ was named, Rose of Sharon, eel
ehrated III all Christeudom and through
out all ages. There has been contro-
versy as TO what flower it was. Some
say it was q marshmallow that thrives
here, aud some claim this honor for the
narcissus, and some for the blue iris,
and some for the scarlet anemonr, for
you must know that this Plain of Sharon
is rolling ocean of color when the
spring b-eeZes move across it. But leav-
ing the botnuists in controversy as to
what it Is, would take the most aro-
matte 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 OH is the Plain of Ono. The Bible
mentions it again aud again. The viii
lnge standing on this Plain of Ono is d
mud villngs. 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
dragomuu announced it and in the
Bible l read of it, was reminded of the
vast multitude of people who now dwell
in the Plain of ono. They are, by their
nervous constitution or by their lack of
faith in God, always in the negative.
VIII you help TO build church.? oh,
no! Will you start out in some new
Christian enterprise? Oh, no! Do you
think the world Is getting any better?
on, no! They lie down in the path of
ell good movements, sanitary, social,
political or religious. They harness
their horses with no, traces TO pull ahead
but only breeching- straps to hold back.