The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-16

And there is tho cavern of Makkedahs where they fled for safety, and where they wero afterward locked in, and from which they were taken out to be slain, and in which they were afterward buried; and you do well to examine that cavern, for within few hours it became three things which no other cave ever was-fortress, prison, sepulchre.
 Now we come to the brook Elan, from which little David took the smooth stones with which he prostrated Col lath. There is bridge spanning the ravine, but at the season we crossed, there is not drop of water in the brook. We went down into the ravine and walked amid the pebbles that had been washed smooth, very smooth, by the rush of the waters through all the ages. There is where David armed himself. He walked around and picked up five of these polished pebbles. He got them of just the right size. He. prepared himself for five volleys, so that If the giant escapes tho first, he will not escape the whole five. The topography Of the place so Y I could see the memorable fight going on. It is the only fight ever did watch. Pugilism l abhor, but here were two champions, the one God-appointed, tho other Satan-appointed, and deciding the destiny of nation, tho destiny of a world. Itwas Marathon, an Arbeia, a Waterloo, Blenheim, Sedan, concern trated into two right arms. Hero are two ridges of mountains five hundred feet high, the Philistines on one ridge, the Israelites on the other ridge. The fight is in the val ley between. at that season shaded and sweet with terebinth and acacia David, the champion for the Israelites; Goliath, the champion for the Philistines. David undersized and almost effeminate, only a mouthful for Goliath, who was nearly ten feet high. They advanced to meet each other, but the Bible says that David made the first step forward. Nearer and nearer they come, but do not think David will wait until he comes within reach of Goliath's sword, for that would be fatal, and David has a weapon with which he can fight at long range. Closer and closer they come, but David advances the more rapidly.
 Come to me, said the giant, "and will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the fields" You see Goliath going to give David for a banquet to the vulture and jackal. He, the mountain of flesh, will fall over on that little hillock. I hear him laugh through tho mouth-piece of his helmet. He will toast the little whiffet on the h,p of his long sword. He will call all the crows for breakfast Come to me you contemptible little fellow, and I will make quick work with you" The idea that fiye-footer should dare to come out against ten-footer. Let tho two armies looking down from the ridges watch mel" David responded: 'I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts" Aha, that is the right kind of battle-shout "ln the name of the Lord of Hostsr
 How that cry rings through the Wady-es-Sumpt! He who fights in that spirit wins the day. The almost Israel. itish dwarf enlarges into omnipotent proportions. The moment to strike has come. David takes his sling with a stone in it and whirls it round and round his head, until he has put the weapon into sufficient momentum, and then, taking sure aim, hurls it The giant throws up his hand, reels back and falls. The stone sank into his forehead. That was the only available point oi attack. But how about the helmet on his head? Did the stone that David flung crush through the helmet? No
 an old rabbi says he thinks that when Goliath scoffed at David, the giant SC suddenly and contemptuously jerked up his head that the helmet fell of. That is like enough. David saw the bare forehead, foot high, and aimed at the center of it, and the skull cracked and broke in like an egg-shell, and the ground shook as the great oak of mil. itary chieftain struck 1t Huzzah for David
 l never had such high expectations oi seeing any place as of seeing Jerusa. lem. l think my feelings may have been slightly akin to that of the Chris. tian just about to enter the heavenly Jerusalem. My ideas of the earthly Jerusalem were bewildering. Had not seen pictures of it? Oh, yes; but they only increase the bewilderment. They were taken from variety oi standpoints. If twenty artists attempt to sketch Brooklyn, or New York, or London, or Jerusalem, they will plant their cameras at different places, and take as many different pict. ures, but in few minutes I shall see the sacred city with my own eyes. Oyer another shoulder of the hill we go. and nothing in sight but rocks and mount aims, and awful gulches between them, which make the head swim if you look down. On and up on and up, until the lathered and smoking horses are refined in and the dragoman rises in front and points eastward, crying; 'Jerusalemf" It was mightier than an electric shock. We all rose. There it lay, tho prize of nations, the terminus of famous pilgrimages the object of Roman and crusading wars, and for it Assyrians had fought and Egyp- tians had fought, and the world had  fought; the place which the Queen of Sheba visited, and Richard Ceur dc Lion had conquered. Homo of Solomon. Home of Ezekiel. Home of Jeremiah. Home of Isaiah. Home of Saladin. Mount Zion of David's eart-break, and Mount Moriah, where the sacrifices smoked. Mount of Olives, where Jesus preached, and Gethsemane. where He agonized, and Golgotha, where He died, and the Holy Sepulcher, where He was buried. 0. Jerusaleml Jerusaleml Greatest city on earth, and type of the city celestial
 After I have been To 900 years in Heaven, the memory of that first view from tho rocks on the afternoon of De cember will be as vivid as now. An Arab on a horse that was like a whirl- wind, bitted and saddled and spurred, its mane and Hanks jet as the night and there are no such horsemen as Arab