News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-09

want YOU any more" Woman slave
IN all lands, except those in which the
gospel of Jesus Christ makes her
queen. And yet in Christian countries
there are women posing as skeptics,
and men with family deriding the only
religion that makes sacred and honor
able the names of wife, mother, daugh-
ter and sister.
ROBBERY AND HOSPITALITY.
What is that2 Town of Ramleh,
birthplace, residence and tomb of
Samuel, the glorious prophet Near
by Tower of Forty Martyrs, so called be-
cause that number of disciples persisted
there for Christ's sake; but if towers
had been built for all those who, in the
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 guard houses 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 a few pennies would be
compensation enough for the struggle
! that the savage might have with the
wayfarer. There is only one other, de-
Tense that amounts to much in these
| lands, and that is the law of hospitality.
! If you can get an Arab to eat with you,
| if only one mouthful, you are sure of
| his protection, and that has been SO
from age to age. The Lords supper
was built on that custom, a special
friendship after partaking food to-
gether. 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's tent with
cup in his hand and before he has time
to put it to his lip, and does it so sud
denly that the body of his enemy, be-
headed, stands for a moment after the
beheading 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 hos
pitality, to give the fatal blow.
The only lands where it is safe to
travel unarmed are Christian lands
Human life is more highly valued and
personal rights are better respected, and
| am glad to believe that in our coun-
try, from the Atlantic ocean to the Pa
cific ocean, there is not a place today
where a man is not safer without a pis-
toll than with one. But all through our
Journeys in Palestine we required fire
arms While the only weapon | had
on my person was New Testament
we went through the region where l
said to the dragoman, David, are you
arned2" and he said, Yes, :" and said,
Are those fifteen or twenty muleteers
and baggagemen and attendants
armed?' and he said, Yes" and felt
safer
On we roll through the plain of
Sharon. Here grew the rose after
which Christ was named, Rose of Shar-
on, celebrated in all Christendom and
throughout all ages. There has been
controversy as to what flower it was.
Some say it was a 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
| leaving the botanists in controversy as
to what it is, | would take the most
aromatic and beautiful of them all and
twist them into a garland for the
Name which is above every name"
Yonder q little to the north as we
move on is the Plain of Ono. The BIZ
BILE mentions it again and again. The
village standing on this Plain of Ono is
a 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
as in the Bible read of it, l was remind
ed 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. Will you help to build a
church, Oh, moi Will you start out
| in some new Christian enterprise2
Oh, mol Do you think the world is
| getting any better? Oh, mol They
lie down in the path of all good move
ments, sanitary, social, political and
religious. They harness their horses
with no traces to pull ahead, but only
breeding straps to hold back.
For all Christian work would not
give for thousand of them the price of
a clipped ten cent piece. They are in
the Plain of Oh, no! May the Lord
multiply the numbers of those who,
when anything good is undertaken, are
found to live in the Plain of Oh, yes!
VIII you support this new charity?
Oh, yesl Do you think that this vic
tim of evil habit can be reformed?
Oh, yesl Are you willing to do any
thing, whether obscure or resounding,
for the welfare of the church and the
salvation of ruined world? Oh, yesl
But am sorry to say that the most
populous plain in all the earth today is
the Plain of Ono.
THE DEMON OF DESTRUCTION.
Here now we come to wherestood the
| fields into which Samson fired the
| foxes. The foxes are no rarity in this
land. | counted at one time twenty
or thirty of them in one group, and the
cry all along the line was "Foxesl Look
at the foxesl" and at night they some
times bark until all attempts to sleep
are an absurdity. Those l saw and
heard in Palestine might have been de-
scendants of the very foxes that Sam