Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-29

along, ana ne cannot afford to leave sol
dieFs enough to guard them from escape.
IL win not be difficult for the man who
broke the heart Of lovely Josephine and
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 mirthfnlly and said, "You must break
the eggs if you want TO make an omclet"
II say it will not be difficult for him to
decide
The prisoners of war, by his order, are
taken ont on the sands and put TO death
one thousand of them, two thousand Of
them, three thousand of them, four thou,
sand OF them, massacred. And the blood
pours down into the sea, the red of the one
mingling with the blue of the other, and
making an awful maroon which neither
God ncr nation can ever forget. We 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.
TIE CEDARs or LEBANON.
But standing ON this J0ppa house top
| look OFF on the Mediterranean, and
what is that strange sight | see? The
waters are black, seemingly for miles
logs fastened together. Oh, yes; 1t is a
great raft of timbers They are cedars Of
Lebanon which King Hiram is furnishing
King Solomon in exchange for $4,000 meas.
ures of wheat, 10000 baths of oil and 20, 600
baths of wine These cedars have been
cut down and trimmed in the mountains
of Lebanon by the 10000 axmcn engaged
there, and with great wthes and iron bolts
an ,,O1 L.. al n
ing down to Joppa to be taken across the
land for Solomon's temple now building
ut 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 harbor south of Joppa, now filled
with sand and useless.
With long pixies the timber is pushed
this way and that in the water; then with
levers and many Il loud, long 40, heaveI'
us the carriers get their shoulders under
the great weight, the timber is fastened to
the wagons and the lowing oxen are yokcd
TO the load, and the procession of teams
moves on with crack OF whip and drawled
out words which, translated, / suppose
would correspond with the whoa haw,
geei" of modera teamsters, toward Jeru-
salem, which is Shirty miles away, over
mountainous distances which for hun.
dred1 of years defed all engineering. And
these rough cellars shall become carved
pillars, and beautiful affairs, and rouuded
b.nnsters, and traceried panels, and sub
lime ceiling, and exquisite harps, and
hingly chariots As the wagon train moves
ont from JOppa over the plain of Sharon
toward Jerusalem | say to myself, what
vast numbers Of people h lped build that
temple of solomon, aud What vast mum
brrS Of people are now engaged in build
ing the wider, higher, glander temple of
righteousness rising in tho earth.
Oar Christian ancestry toiled at it amid
sweat and tears, and hundreds of the gen
CREATIONS of the good, and the long train of
Christian workers still moves on; and as
in the construction of Solomon's temple
some hewe1 with the aXo in the far away
Lebanon, and some drove a wedge, and
some twisted IL wthc, and some trod the
wet and slippery RATS on the sea,
and some yoked the OK, and some pulled
mt the load, and some showed the plane
and some fitted the joints, and some
heaved up the rafters, but all helped build
the temple, though some of these never
saw it, so now let us all put our 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 wound, and another will wipe away
a tear, and another will teach class, and
another will speak the encouraging word,
and all of us will be ready to pull and lift,
and in some way help on the work until
the millennial morn shall gid the pinnacle
of that finished temple, and mt its shining
gates the world shall put down its last
harden, and in its LAYERS wash off it's last
stain, and ut its affairs the last wanderer
shall kneel At the dedication of that
temple all the armies of earth and heaven
will shoulder arms" and present arms"
and ground arms, " for "bchold greater
than Solomon is here"
But my first day in the Holy Land is
ended. The sun is already closing his eye
for the night. stand on the balcony of
hotel which was brought to Joppa in
pieces from the state of Maine by some
fanatics, who came here expecting to see
Christ reappear in Palestine. My room
here was once occupied by that Christian
hero Of the enturies-English, Chinese,
Egyptian, world wide Gen. Gordon, man
mighty for God rs well Us for the worlds
pacifcation. Although the 1st of Decem.
Der and winter, the air is full of fragrance
from gardens all Holoom, and under my
window are acacia and tamarisk and null
berry and century plants and orange
groves and oleander From the drowsi-
ness of the air and the fatigues of the day
feel sleepy. Good night! Tomorrow
mnrnipo vye st nrt for TnriISnIem