The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-10-11


lens. Whipped and beaten will some
Of them be If their bundle of sticks
Is too small.
What is that? Town of Ramleh, birth
place, residence and tomb of Samuel,
the glorious prophet. Near by, Tower
Of Forty Martyrs, called so because that
number of disciples persisted there for
.hrist's sake; but IL towers had been
built for all those who in the time of
war as in time of peace, have fallen on
road during the ages past, you
almost walk On turrets from Joppa
to Jerusalem.
Now we pass guard houses which are
OF chopped straw and mud, where
at night and partly through the day
men dwell and keep the bandits
of travellers. In the caves of these
dwell men to whom massacre
would be high play, and a purse with a
few pennies would be compensation
enough for the struggle hat the savage
might rave with the wayfarer. There
is only one other defense that amounts
to much in these lands, and hat Is the
law Of hospitality. II you can get an
fhIuo w u WIN JOuS II chAJ oiO hiSuoh
full, you are sure of his protection, and
that has been so from age to age. The
Lords Supper was built OF that custom.
On we roll through the plain OF
Sharon. Here grew the rose after
which Christ was named, Rose of
Sharon, celebrated in all Christendom
and throughout all ages.
Yonder, q little to the north as we
move on is the plain Of Ono. The Bible
mentions it again and again. The viii
lage standing on this plain Of Ono is a
mud village. Two great basins Of rock
catch the rains for the people. or moro
Importance in olden time than In
modern time was this plain OF Ono. But
as the dragoman announced 1t and In
the Bible / read Of 1t, l 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 mega
tive. Will you help to build q church?
o, no! Will you start out in some new
Christian enterprise? o. no! Do you
think the world Is getting any better?
o, mol They lie down in h path OF
all good movements. sanitary, social
political and religious. They harness
their horses with no traces to pull ahead
but only breeching straps to hold back.
For all Christian work / would not give
q thousand Of them the price OF a
clipped ten cent piece. These are in
the plain of o, no! May the Lord null
tiply the numbers of those who, when
any thing good is undertaken, are found
to live in the plain of o. Yes!
Here now we ome whore stood the
fields into which Samson fired the foxes.
The foxes are no rarity in this land. l
counted at n time twenty or thirty OF
them in one group and the cry all along
the line was "Foxesl Look at the
foxesI' and at night they sometimes
bark until all attempts to sleep are an
absurdity. Those l saw and heard in
Palestine might have been descendants
of the very foxes that Samson en-
ployed for an appalling incendiarism.
The wealth of that land was in the har-
vests and 1t was harvest time and the
straw was dry. Three hundred foxes
are caught and tied in couples by some
wire or incombustible cord which the
flames can not divide, and firebrands
are fastened to those couples of foxes
and the frightened creatures are lei
loose and run every whittier among the
harvests, and in the awful blaze &c
down the corn shocks, and the vine
yards, and the olives, and all through
the valleys and over the hills and
among the villages is heard the cry oil
''Firei" And in the burnt pathway walk
Hunger. and Want, and Dissolution.
All this for spite. And some theolo
gians learn one thing, and some another
But / learn from it that a great mar
| may stoop to a very mean piece Of bust
| ness, and that II men would use as mucf
ingenuity in trying to bless as they d.
| to destroy, the world all the way dowr
| would have been in better condition
Yet the fire Of the foxes kindled tina
night in Palestine has not gone out, blu
has leaped the seas, and the sly foxes
the human foxes, are now still running
every whittier kindling political fires
fires Of religious controversy, fires o
hate, world de fires, and whole har
vests of righteousness perish.
Brace up your nerves now, that yo'
may look while l point them out. Yon
der is Kirjath Jearim, where the ark o
God stayed until David took it to Jeru
salem. Yonder John the Baptist wa
born. Yonder Is Emmaus, where Chris
walked with the disciples at eventide
Here are men blowing, only n han
die to the pillow, showing the accurac.
of Christ's allusion. When we pillow il
America or England there are two hand
on two handles, but in Palestine onl,
one handle. And so Christ uses tn,
singular saying: mo man having pu
his hand to the pillow and looking bacl
is fit for the Kingdom" The OK is urge,
on by a wooden stick pointed with shar
iron. and the OK knows enough not T.
kick, for he would only hurt himself in
stead Of breaking the goad. And tn
Bible refers to that when 1t says t
Saul: at Is hard for thee to kick agains
the goads."
Here is the valley Of Ajalon, famou
for Joshua's pursuit of the five King
and the lunar arrest. And in imagina
ton l see the o. in day time halt
Who has not sometimes seen the moo
divide the throne with the sun? Blu
when the king OF day and the queen o
night, who never before Joshua's tim
nor since then stopped a moment Il
their march, halted at Joshua's com
mand it was a scene enough to max
the universe SILVER. Moon, stand tho
still In the valley of Ajalon!"
And there is the cavern of Makkedah
where they fed for safety and wher
they were afterward locked in, an
from which they we're taken out to b
slain, and In which they were afterwar
buried; and you do we'll to examine tha
cavern, for within a few hours 1t becam
three things which no other cave eve
was: Fortress, prison, sepulchre.
Now WI pass the place whore ono
lived one Of the greatest robbers Of tn
century, Abou Gosh by name. Fro
this point you see he could look over a
the surrounding country, and long b
fore the travellers came up to him IL
plan for the taking of their money
their life. or both, was ons ummate,
He one day found a company of monl
who would not pay and he smothere
them to death in a hot oven. In his la
days he lived here like an Orient
Prince and had his attendants and a,
mirers to whom he told the stories
~brigandage and assassination. So la
as when our eminent and beloved Anne
lean, William c. Prime, passed through
Abou Gosh, the ~scoundrelly Bedoui1
sat at his doorway smoking his pip
His descendants live in this village ar
probably are no more honest than the
distinguished ancestor, but maraudir
n murder are not as safe a busine
now as when all this route to Jerusale
was subject to outrages pandemoniac.
Here we pass the village of LatruI