Sharp County record., 1890-10-16

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family and friends On that holse-lop'
Listen while I read about what nap
reued here. And. opening the Blo-e,
We had the whole story. IL seemed
/ that Peter on the hOlse-IoP dreanel
that a great blanket was let down oli
Of Heaven. and in 1t we're sheep ana
goats and cattle and mules and pigeons
and bUzzarfs and snakes and all man
rar Of creatures that fly the air or Frlk
the fields or crawl the ear5h- and n 'le
dream a voice told him as be was IN
rrv. TO eat. and be said: Il can noi
/ eat things mclean" Three times He
dreamed il. There was then heard
knocking at the gate Of the house
on the TOD Of which Peter lay IN
L trance, and three men asked IS
Peter here?- Peter, while yet wonder
| ing what his dream meant tesceuds the
stairs and meets these strangers al IHe
gate and they tell him that a good man
| by the name Of Cornelius, IN the city OF
/ Casarea, has also had 4 dream and has
sent them for Peter and TO ask him TO
come and preach. At that call Peter
| left Joupa for Casarea. The dream he
had Just had prepared him 10 preach,
| for Peter learned by it to reject no Peo-
DIe as uncIeau, and whereas he prevL'
ousLy thought he must preach daily TO
Jews, now he goes to preach TO TIE
GentiIes who were considered unc-eln-
Notice how the two dreams meet
Peters dream on the house-iop,
/ Cornelius dream at Cesarea. SO l
have noticed providences meet, distant
events meet, dreams meet Every dream
is hunting up some other dream, and
every event is searching for some other
event In the fifteenth century ll492l
the great event was the discovery OF
America. The art of printing, born in
the same century, goes out to meet that
discovery and make the new world an
/ Intelligent world The Declaration Of
Independence announcing equal rights
meets Robert Burns.
y man ) a man Tor a GlaL
But standing on this Joppa house-top
| look off on the Mediterranean, and
what is that strange sight l see? The
waters are black, seemingly for miles.
There seems to be a great multitude Of
logs fastened together. Oh, yes, it is a
great raft of timbers. They are cedars
of Lebanon which King Hiram is fur
nishing King Solomon in exchange for
twenty thousand measures Of wheat,
twenty thousand baths of oil and twen-
ty thousand baths Of wine. These Ce-
dars have been cut down and trimmed
in the mountains of Lebanon by the
seventy thousand axemen engaged
there, and with geat withes 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 Je-
rusalem, 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
filed with sand and useless. With long
pixies the lumber is pushed this way and
that in the water, then with levers, and
many loud, long 40, heavem
as the carters get their shoulders un-
der the great weight, the timber is
fastened to the wagons, and the lowing
oxen are yoked to the load, and the
procession of teams moves on with crack
of whip and drawled-out words, which
translated, I suppose, world correspond
with the whoa, haw, geem Of modern
teamsters, toward Jerusalem, which is
thirty miles away, over mountainous
distances which for hundreds of years
defed all engineering. And these
rough cedars shall become carved pill
lars, and beautiful altars, and rounded
banisters, and traceried panels, and sub
lime ceilings, and exquisite harps, and
kingly chariots.
As the wagon train moves out from
Joppa over the plain of Sharon toward
Jerusalem, say tc myself, what vass
numbers of people helped build that
Temple Of Solomon, and what vast num-
bers of people are now engaged in build
ing the wider, higher, grander temple
Of righteousness rising in the earth.
Our Chistian ancestry toiled at it, amid
sweat and tears, and hundreds OF the
generatiaus of the good, and the long
train Of Christian workers still
moves on, and as in the con.
struction Of Solemon's Temple somr
hewed with the axe in the far
away Lebanon, and some drove wedge,
and some twisted q withe, and some
trod the wet and slippery RATS on the
sea, and some yolled the OK and some
pulled at the load, and some showed the
plane, and some fitted the points, and
somo heavod up tho rafters, but all
helped to build the temple, though
some Of these never saw 1t, so now let
Us all put our hands to the work of
building the temple of righteousness,
which is ," fill the earth, and one will
bind a wound, and another will
wipe away tear, and another will
teach a 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 millen-