The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-07


rail- train was foreseeR by the prophet
Nahum, when in the Bible he wrote:
THE char.ots shall rage in the streets.
they shall jostle one against another in
the broadways, they shall seem like
torches. they shall run like lig&tnings."
and our electric telegraph was fcreseen
by job, when in the Bible he wrote:
''Canst thou send 1ightnings that they
may go and say unto thee: Here we
are?'' What is that talking by light
nings but the electric telegraph
EmbalmneRt was a more thorough art
8, 600 years ago than to-day Dentistry,
THAT we suppose one of the important
arts discovered in recent centuries is
proven to be 1000 years old by the
filed teeth of the mummies in the
museums at Cairo. Egypt, and artificial
teeth on gold plates found by Betzoni
ia the tombs of departed nations We
have been taught that Harvey discov-
cred the circulation of the blood so ate
as the seventeenth century o, mol
Solomon announces it in Ecclesiaste ties,
where first having shown that he under
stood the spinal cord, silver colored as
it is, and that it relaxes in old age,
"the silver cord be loosed." goes on to
compare the heart to e pitcher at a we'll,
for the three canals OF the heart to re-
ceive the blood like p tcher, 'or the
pitcher be broken at the fountain"
What is that but the circulation of the
blood, found out 2. 500 years before
Harvey was born? After many centuries
of exploration and calculation, astron-
omy finds out that the world is round
| Why, Isaiah knew it was round thou
sands of years be fore when in the Bible
he said: The Lord stitch upon the
| circle of the earth
In the old cathedrals of England,
modern painters in the repair of win
dows are trying to make something as
good as the window painting of 400
years ago and always falling by the
| unanimous verdict of all who examine
| and compare. The color of modern
| painting fades in fifty years while the
| color of the old masters is as we'll pre-
| served after 500 years as after one year.
l saw last winter on the walls of ex-
| humed Pompeii paintings with color as
fresh as though made the day before,
though they were buried 1880 years
ago. The making of Tyrian purple is
an impossibility now. In our modern
| potteres we are trying hard to make
| cups and pitchers and bowls as exquisite
as those exhumed from Herculaneum,
and our artihcers are attempting to
make iewelry for ear and neck and fin
| ger equal to that brought up from the
mausoleums of 1000 years before Christ
We have in our time glass in all shapes
and colors, but Pliny, more than l, 500
years ago, described a malleable glass
which, if thrown upon the ground and
denied, could be pounded straight again
| by the hammer or could be twisted
around the wrists. and that confounds
all the glass manufac tories of our own
| time.
| These aqueducts of Solomon that /
visited to-day, finding them in good con-
dition 5000 years after construction,
| make me think that the world may have
| forgotten more than it now knows The
great honor OF our age is not machinery,
for the ancients had some styles of it
more wonderful; nor art, for the ancients
had art more exquisite and durable; nor
architecture, for Roman coliseum and
Grecian acropolis surpass all modern
architecture; nor cities, for some of the
ancient cities were larger than ours in
the sweep of their pomp. But our at
| tempts must be in moral achievement
and gospel victory. In that we have
| already surpassed them, and in that d.
rection let the ages push on. Let us
| brag less of worldly achievements and
| thank God for moral opportunity
We are on this December afternoon
| on the way to the cradle of Him who
called Himself greater than Solomon.
| We are coming upon the chief cradle of
all the world, not lined with satin, but
strewn With straw. not sheltered by a
| palace, but covered by a barn. not pre-
sideded over by Princess, but lowered
over by peasant girl; yet cradle the
| canopy of which is angelic wings, and
| the lullaby of which is the first Christ
mas carol ever sung, and from which all
| the events of the past and all the events
of the future have and must take date
as being b. C or A n-before Christ OF
after Christ
l said to the tourist companies plan
ming our Oriental journey: Put us in
Bethlehem in Decembe the place and
the month our Lords BIRTH" and we
had our wish. 1 am the only man who
has ever attempted to tell how Bethle-
hem looked at the season Jesus was
born. Tourists and writer's are there in
| February or March or April, when the
valleys are an embroidered sheet of wild
| flowers. and anemones. and ranuuculu:
are flushed as though from attempting
to climb the sleeps, and lark and bull
finch are flooding the air with bird.
| orchestra
But 1 was there in December, a win
ter month, the barren beach between
the two oceans of redolence. I was told
that must not go there at that season
told SO before 1 started, told so il
Egypt, the books told me so, all travel
ers that consulted about it told nae so
But 1 was determined to see Beth1e
hem the same month in which Jesus ar
rived, and nothing could dissuade me
Was 1 not right in wanting to know
how the Holy Land looked when Jesu:
came to 1t? He did not land amid
flowers and song. When the angel.
chanted on the famous birthnight al
the fields of Palestine were silent The
glowing skies were answered by gray
rocks AS Bethlehem stood against
bleak, wintry sky, I climbed up to it
as through q bleak. wintry sky Jesu:
descended upon it His way down wal
from warmth to chill, from bloom t.
barrenness, from everlasting June to
sterile December. If 1 were going &
Palestine as a botanist and to study
the flora of the land, L would go IL
March, but I went as a minister O
Christ to study Jesus. and so went il
December.
The town of Bethlehem. to my sur
prise. is in the shape of a horse shoe,
the houses extending clear onto the
prongs of the horse shoe. The whole
scene more rough and rude than can be
imagined. Verify, Christ did not choose
a soft genial place in which to be born.
The gate through which our Lord