Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-24

4 or tho earth turning an anger; be who
! wieias the thundcrbolt striking with a
I hammer; he who acooped out the bed for
! the ocean following d ladie he who
/ flashes emorning ON the earth ana makes
the midnight heavens culver with aurora
constructing a window. / cannot under
stand it, but believe it. a skeptic said to
an old clergyman, II viii not believe any
thing cannot explain Indeed, said
the clergyman, you win not belive any
thing yon cannot explain. Please TO ex-
! plain to me why some COWS have horns
and others have no horns. NO" said the
skeptic, Il did not mean exactly that. /
mean that / will not believe anything /
have not seem" Indeed" said the cler-
gyman, "you will not believe anything
you have not seen. Have you backbone?o
Yes" said the skeptic How do you
know" said the clergyman "Have you
ever seen it2' This mystery Of Godhead
and humanity interjoined cannot under
| stand and / cannot explain, but believe
it. ] am glad there are 30 many things we
cannot understand, for that leaves some
thing for heaven. II we knew everything
here heaven would be great Incidence.
What foolish people those who are in per-
pctual fret because they cannot understand
all that God says and does A child in the
first juvenile primer might rs well burst
into tears because it cannot understand
comic sections. In this world we are only
in the a B G class, and we cannot now UNI
dorstand the iibrarics Of eternity which
put to utmost test faculties archangolic I
would be ashamed Of heaven if we do not
know more there, with Ill our faculties in
tensiied q million fold and at the center Of
the universe, than we do here with our
dim faculties and clinging to the outside
rim of the universe,
CANA IN GAL1LEE.
In about two hours we pass through
Cana, the village of Palestine where the
mother Of Christ and our Lord attended
the wedding Of q poor relative, having
come over from Nazareth for that purpose
The mother Of Christ-for women are first
TO notice such things-found that the pro
visions had fallen short and she told
Christ, and he to relieve the cmbarrass-
ment Of the housekeeper, who had invited
more guests than the pantry warranted
became the butler Of the occasion, and out
of cluster of q few sympathetic words
squeezed a beverage of a hundred and
twenty-siX gallons Of wine in which was
not one drop Of intoXicant, or it would
have left that party as unaudlin and drunk
as the great centennial banquet ia New
York, two years ago, left senators, and
governors, and generals, and merchant
princes, the difference between the wine
at the wedding in Cana and the wine at
tho banquet in New York being, that the
Lord made the one and the devil made the
other. We got of our horses and examined
some of these water jars at Cana said to be
the very ones that held the plain water
that Christ turned into the purple bloom
OF IN especial vintage. ! measured them
and found them eighteen inches from edge
to edge and nineteen inches deep, and de-
clined to accept their identity But we
realized the immensity Of a supply of a
hundred and twenty-siX gallons Of wine
What was that for2 Probably one gallon
would have been enough, for il was only
an additional installment Of what had al
ready been provided, and it is probable
that the housckeepCrc not have guessed
more than one gallon out Of the way. But
q hundred and twcutysiX gallons! What
will they do with the surplus? All, it was
just like our Lord Those young people
were about to start in housekeeping and
their means were limited, and That big
supply, whether kept in their pantry or
sold, will be mighty help.
You see there was no strychnine or log
wood or nux vomicain that beverage, and,
as the Lord made it, it would keep He
makes mountains and seas that keep thou
sands of years, and certainly he could
make n beverage that would keep f0ur or
five years. Among the arts and inventions
of the future heae there may Fee some one
that can press The juices from the grape
and so minglc them and without one drop
of damuing alcoholism chat il viii keep
for years And the more Of i5 You take
the clearer viii DO the brain and the
healthier the stomach. And here is re-
marl,alla fact in my recent journey
Travelled through ITALY and Greece and
Egypt and Palestine and Syria and Tur-
key, and how many intoxicated people do
you t1nnk | saw in all those five great
rcalmsF Not one We must in our Chris
tanned lands have got hold Of some kind
of beverage that Christ did not make.
GLAD HE WAS THERE.
Oh, ann glad chat Jesus was present at
that wedding, and last December, stand
ing at Cana, that wedding came baclli
Night had fallen on the village and ITS
surroundings. The bridegroom had put.
on bis head q bright turban and gar
land of flowers and bis garments had been
made fragrant with frankincense and cam
plrur, an Odor which the oriental especially
likes Accompanied 10y groomsmen, and
preceded by a band of musicians with
flutes and drums and horns, and 10y torches
in fun blaze, be st8"Js for the brides home
This river Of FIRE is met by another river of
FIRE the torches Of the bride and brides
maids, flambeau answering lgmbeau. The
! H. d 90 .r1 = Hie-
covers her face bat guvg.ops her body
Her tr1lssgau is as elaborate as the re-
sources Of her fathers house permit Her
attendants are deckgl with all the orua-
ments they own or can borrow; but their
own personal cuaEls make tame tie jew
! els, for those oriental women eclipse in
attractiycuess an others except those Of
our own land. The damsan rose is
/ In their check and the diamond i'm
! the lusttr OF tHCiE eyes, and the black
ness of the night in their long locks, and
/ I'm their slapis tn gralcfuluess of themoIu
mC At the first si-gt Of tt' torches % tho
bridegroom and his attendants coming
over the lin the cry rings through Che
I home of the bride: "They are 10 si-atl Gey
ready Behold thc bridegroom comothl Go
/ sc out to meet him - A. the two process
sious approach each other the tmtrols
strike and The songs commipgie, and then
+ the two PROFESSIONS become one and march
/ toward che trilCgFoom's house, aud meet
! o third procession which is made unof the
/ friends of both, bride and bridegroom
/ Then all enter the louise and tho dance
I begins and the door Shut And MI this
/ Christ uses 70 illustrate the Joy with which
/ the rausomel OF earth SHAN meo- him when
4 he comes gsrlande5 w,jh clouds and robed
/ in the morning aud trGmp.,cl by the
I thunlcrs Of the last day. Look There