Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-06

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| 5000 years to make God forget his prom
ises. Those who are prospered in other
lands will do we'll to stay where they
! are. But let the Israelites who are de-
| preciated, and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces towards the rising sun Of
their deliverauce God will gather in
| that distant land those of that race who
! have been maltreated, and He will blast
| with the lightnings of His omnipotence
| those lands on either side of the Atlantic
| which have been the instruments of an
| noyance and harm to that Jewish race +,
| to which belonged Abraham, and David +,
and Joshua, and Baron Hirsch, and
! Montefore, and Paul the Apostle, and
! Mary the Virgin, and Jesus Christ the
| Lord.
YELLED WOMEN.
On the way across the plain of Sharon
| we meet many yelled women. 1t is not
respectable for them to go unveiled, and
| i. is veil that ia so hung as to make
them hldeous. A man may not even see
the face OF his wife until after betrothal,
! OF 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.
do not see what God made fair face
for, if it 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 firewood on
their heads. They started at 8 o'clock
in the morning 10 get the fuel. They
stagger under the burdens. Whipped
and beaten will some of them be If their
bundle of sticks is too small. All that
is required for enforcement is for man
to say to his wife: "Be off. l dom t
want you any more.' Woman a 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 sceptics, and men with
family deriding the only religion that
makes sacred, and honorable the names
of wife, mother, daughter and sister.
What is that? Town of Ramleh,
birthplace, residence and tomb of Sam
uel, the glorious prophet. Near by,
TOWER OF FORTY MARTYRS,
called because that number of disciples
persisted there for Christ q sake; but if
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 guardhouses which are
castles of chopped straw and mud where
at 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
would be high play and purse with
few pennies would be compensation
enough for the struggle that the savage
might have with the wayfGrer. There ls
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much in these lands, and that is the law
of hospitality. If 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 Lord
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 in Saladin' 8
tent with 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 a moment
after the beheadlng, 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-
tslity, to give the fatal blow.
ARMED ATTENDANTS.
The only lands where it is safe to travel
uuarmed are Christian lands. Human
life is more highly valued and personal
rights are better respected, and l am
glad to believe that II our country, from
the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean,
there is not place to-day where man
is not safer without pistol than with
one. But all through our JOURNEYS in
Palestine we required firearms. While
the only weapon l had on my person was
a New Testament, we went through the
region where l said to the dragoman:
"David, are you armed?' and he said
eyes, aud l said: "Are those fifteen
or twenty muleteers and baggage men
and attendants armed?' And 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, Gel
ebrated IN all Christendom and through
out all ages. There has been contro-
versy as to what flower it was. Some
say 1t was q marshmallow that thrives
here, and some claim this honor for the
narcissus, and some for the blue iris,
and some for the scarlet anemone, for
you must know that this Plain of Sharon
is a rolling ocean of color when the
spring breeZes move across it. But leav-
ing the botanists in controversy as to
what 1t is, 1 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 on is the Plain of Ono. The Bible
mentions it again and again. The viii
lage standing on this Plain of Ono is q
mud village. Two
GREAT BASINS OF ROCK
catch the rains for the people. OF more
Importance in olden time than in modern
time was this Plain of Ono. But as the
dragoman announced it and in the
Bible 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, mol Do YOU
think the world is getting any better?
Oh, no! They lie down in the path of
all good movements, sanitary, social,
political or religious. They harness
their horses with no traces to pull ahead
but only breechiug-st to hold back.
For all Christian work l would not give
for thousand of them the price of a clip
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