Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-03
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in ruins, there are now growing there
flowers that are TO be found nowhere else
in the Holy Land. How dc ] account for
that? Solomon sent out his ships and
| robbed the gardens of the whole earth
for flowers and planted these exotics
here, and these particular flowers are
| direct descendants of the foreign plants
he imported. Mr.. Meshullam, a Chris
tian lsraelte, on the very site of these
royal gardens, has IN our day, by put
! ting in his own spade, demonstrated that
the ground is only
WAITING FOR THE RIGHT CALL
| to yield just as much luxuriance and
spendor 1900 years after Christ as it
yielded Solomon 1000 years before Christ.
So all Palestine is waiting 70 Lecome the
| richest scene of horticulture, RbOricul-
tCre and agriculture.
Recent travellers in the Holy Land
speak of the rocky and stony surface of
nearly all Palestine, as an impossible
barrier to the future cultivation or the
soil. But if they had examined min
utely the rocks ind stones of the HOLY
Land they would find that they are be-
| ing skeletoniZsd, and are being melted
into the soil and being for the most part
limestone, they are doing for that land
what the American and English farmer
! does when q great expense and fatigue,
he draws his wagon load of lime and
| scatters If on the fields for their enrich
ment. The storms, the winters, the
| great midsummer heats of Palestine,
by crumbling up and dissolying the
rocks are gradually preparing Palestine
and Syria 10 yield product ike unto
the luxuriant Westchester farms OF New
| York aud Lancaster county farms of
! Pennsylvania, and Somerset county
farms of New Jersey, and the other
magnificent farm fields of Minnesota and
Wisconsin, and the opulent orchards of
Maryland and California. Let the Turk
be driven out and the American or Eng
lishman or Scofchman 90 in and MOhs IN
mechanism withdraw Its idolatries, and
pure Christianity build its affairs, and
the irrigation of which Solomon s pools
| was only q suggestion will make all that
| land from Dan to Beersheba as fertile,
| and aromatic, and Respondent as on the
| morning when the king rode out 10 his
| pleasure ground In chariot so swift, and
! followed by mounted riders 80 brilliant
that it Was for speed like
! HURRICANE FOLLOWED BY CYCLONE.
As look upon this great aqueduct of
| Palestine, q wondrous specimen of an
| Gent masonry, about seven feet high,
| two feet wide, sometimes tunneling the
solid rock and then rolling its waters
| through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct
| doing its work ten miles before il gets to
| those three reservoirs, and then gather
| ing their wealth of refresbmept and
pouring il on 10 the mighty city of Jeru-
| salem and filling the brezep sea OF her
| temple, and the bath rooms of her pal
! aces, and the great pools of Sloan, and
IL rioh y.,fb EnI hot
century has no monopoly of the worlds
| wonders, and that the cOnceited age in
which we live had better take in some of
the sails of its pride when 1t remembers
! that it Is hard work In later ages to get
masonry that will last fifty years, to say
nothing of the three thousand,
! aud no modern machinery could
lift blocks of stone like some of those
standing high up in the walls of Baalbec.
and that the art of printing claim
ed for recent ages was practiced by the
Chinese 400 years ago, and that our
midnight lightning express rail train was
foreseen by the prophet Nahum, when in
tn Bible he wrote 1.-THE chariots shall
rage in the streets, they shall jostle one
against another In the broadways, they
shall seem like torches, they shall run
like lightninRs, - and our electric tele-
graph was foreseen by Job, when in the
Bible he wrote, :Canst thou send light
nings that they NAV 20 and say unto
thee, Here we are?' !" What is that
talking by the lightnings, but the electric
telegraph. do not know but that the
electric forces now being year by year
more thoroughly harnessed may have
been employed in ages extinct, and that
the lightnings all up and down the sky,
have been running around like lost
hounds
TO FIND THEIR FORMER MASTER.
Embalmmeut was a more thorough art
5000 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 filled teeth of
the mummies in the museum at Cairo,
Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold plates
found by Belzoni in the tombs of de-
parted nations. We have been taught
that Harvey discovered the circulation of
the blood SO late as the seventeenth CEN
fury. Oh, no! Solo6on announces it in
Ecclesiastes, where first having shown
he understood the spinal cord, silver
colored as II is, and that it relaxes in old
age, :ths silver cord be loosed,'' goes
on TO compare the heart to a pitcher at
we'll, for the three canals of the heart
10 FeCclNc tuo pIOOu iihc . OF
the pitcher be broken at the foun-
isin.'' What is that but the circulation
Of the blood, found out 2600 years be-
fore Harvey was born? After many
centuries OF exploration and calculation,
astronomy finds out that the world Is
round. Why, Isaiah knew it was round
thousands of years before when in the
Bible he said: ''The Lord stitch upon
the circle of the earth.'' Scientists
toiled on for centuries and found out re-
fraction or that the rays of light when
touching the earth were not straight but
bent or curved. Why, Job knew that
when ages before in the Bible he wrote
of the light: "It is turned as clay TO
the seal. -
In the old cathedrals of England,
modern painters IN the repair of windows
are trying to make something as good as
the window painting of four hundred
years ago and always failing by the
unanimous verdict of all who examine
and compare. The color of modern
painting fades in fifty years while the
color of old masters is as well preserved |
AFTER FIVE HUNDRED YEARS
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