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complished. The forests of the earth fail tc
afford sufficient fuel, and so the coal mines
surrender a sufhciency. The cotton crops
were luxuriant, but Of comparatively little
| value, for they could not be managed; anc
so, at just the right time, Hargreaves came
with his invention of the spinning jenny,
then Arkwright with his roller, and Whitney
with his cotton gin. The world, after pot.
tering along with tallow candles and whale
oil, was crying for better light and more OF
it, and thu hill of Pennsylvania poured out
rivers of oil, and kerosene ilumined the no.
tions. But the oil wells began to fail, and
then the electric light comes forth to turn
/ night into day.
So all events are woven together, and the
world is magnifcently governed, because II
is .divinely governed. We criticise things
and think the divine machinery is going
wrong, and put our fingers amid the wheels
only to get them crushed. But say, hands
of! Things are coming ont gloriously. Cor.
nelius may be in Casarea, and Peter in
Joppa, but their dreams meet. 1t is one
Land that is managing the world and that /.
Gods hand; and one mind that is planning
all things for good, and that is Gods mind,
and one heart that is filed with love and
heart. Have faith in Him. Fret about moth
ing. Things are not at loose ends. There
are no accidents. All will come out right In
your history and in the world. AS you art
waking from one dream up stairs an e&
planatory dream will be knocking at the gate
down stairs.
Standing here in Jorpa remember that
where we this morning disembarked tht
prophet Jonah embarked. For the first time
in my life fully understood that story
God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, but the
prophet declined that call and came here to
Joppa. Twas for weeks, while in the Holy
Land, consulting with tourist companies as
to how could take Nineveh in my journey,
They did not encourage the undertaking. II
is most tedious ride to Nineveh amid 8
desert Now see an additional reason why
Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh. He
not only revolted because it was long way
and tough, and bandit infested, so he came
here to Joppa and took ship. But, alas, for
the disastrous voyage! He paid his full fare
for the whole voyage, but the ship company
did not fill their part of the contract. Tc
this day they have not paid back that pas
sege money. Why people should doubt tn.
story of Jonah and tue whale is more Of
mystery than tho Bible event itself. dc
not need the fact that Pliny, the historian,
records that the skeleton OF whale forty
feet long, and with hide foot and hall
thick, was brought from Joppa to Rome.
The event recorded in the book of Jonah
has occurred thousand times. The LORD
always has whale outside the habor for
man who starts in the wrong direction. Rec.
reant Jonah! do not wonder that even the
whale was SEX Of him. This prophet was
put in the Bible not as an example, but as a
warning, because the world not only needs
LIGHTHOUSES, but buoys to show where the
rocks are The Bible story Of him ends by
showing the prophet inc fit of the sulks he
was mad because Nineveh was not destroyed,
and then lie went out to pout anil sat under
a big'leaf, using it for shade from the tropi.
cal sun, and when q worm disturbed that
leaf, and it withered, and the sun smote
Jonah, he few into great rage, and saldi
1T is better for me to die than to live" A
prophet in q rage because he had lost his
umbrellal Beware of petulance
But standing here on thu housstop at Jop-
pa, look off upon the sands near the beach,
end almost expected to find them Grim
soned and incarnadined. But no. the rains
long ago washed away the last sign of the
Napoleonic massacre. Napoleon was march.
ing on through the coasts. He had here at
Joppa four thousand Albanians VINO had
been surrendered as prisoners OF war, and
under promise of protection. What shall
he do with them? It will be impossible for
him to take them along, and he cannot AFFORD
10 leave SOldlerS enough 70 Sudiu Cue!u Aioni
escape It will not be difficult for the man
who broke the heart of lovely Josephine, and
who, when asked if the great losses OF life in
his battles vera not too dear price to pay
for his victories, shrugged his shoulders
mirthfully and said, "You must break the
eggs il you want to make an omelet'-1 say
it will not be difficult for him to decide.
The prisoners of war by his order are taken
out on the sands and put to death-one tnoa-
sand of them, two thousand CT them, three
thousand of them, four thousand OF them.
massacred. And the blood pours down into
the sea, the red Of the one mingling with tn?
blue Of the other, and making an awful
maroon which neither God nor nation can
ever forget. Ye who are fond Of vivid con-
trasts put the two scenes Of Joppa side by
side Dorcas with her needle, and the lm-
mortal butcher with bis knife.
But standing on this Joppa house top !
look off on the Mediterranean, and w0at Is
that strange sight see? The waters ere
black, seemingly for miles; There seems 10
be a great multitude Of logs fastened to-
gether. Oh. yes it IS great raft of tinlbers.
They are cedarS of Lebanon, which King
Hiram is furnishing King Solomon in eX.
change for 90, 900 measures of wheat, 10000
baths of oil and 10000 baths of wine. These
cedars have been cut down and trimmed in
the mountains of Lebanon by the 10000 ak
men engaged there and with great wlthes
and iron bolts are fastened together, and they
are floating down to Joppa to be taken across
the land for Solomon's temple, now building
at Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold OF
the Nineteenth century and are clear back IN
tne ages.
The raftS Of cedar are guided into what is
called the Noon 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 divers
and many loud, long so, heave" as the
carriers get their shoulder under the great
weight, the timber is fastened to the wag-
ons and the lowing oxen are yoked to the
load, and the procession Of teams moves OH
with crack of whip and drawled out words
which, translated, l suppose would CORE
spord with the "Whoa. haw, gee" of mod
ern teamsters, toward Jerusalem, which Is
thirty miles away over mountainous dls; Is;
tanceS which for hundreds Of years defied
all engineering. And those rough cedars
shall become carved pillars and beautiful
altars, and rounded bannisters, and trac.
cried panels, and sublime ceiling, and e1.
quiste harps and kingiy chariots.
As the wagon train moves out from Joppa
over the plain OF Sharon toward Jerusalem
say to myself, what vast numbers OF people
helped build that temple Of Solomon, and
what vast numbers of people are now en-.
gagged in building the wider, higher, grander
temple OF Righteousness rising IN the eartn:
Our Christian ancestry toiled at It. amid
sweat and tears and hundreds Of the genera.
tions Of the good, and the long train OF
Christian workers still moves on; and as in
the construction Of Solomon's temple some
hewed with the ax In the far away Lebanon,
and some drove a wedge, and some twisted
withe, and some trod the wet and slippery
RATS on the sea, and some yoked
IL al ~ fha 1aoI