Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-02

all eternity were enacted, land of ruin
and redemption, land where was fought
the battle that made our heaven posi-.
BILE, land of Godfrey and Saladin, OF
JOSHUA AND JESUS.
VIII the night ever be gone? Yes, II
is growing lighter, and along the horizon
there is something like bank of clouds
and as a Waterman PAGES the deck, say
to him: "What is that cut vouder?'
'That IS land, sir, - said the sailor.
fThe land!' l cried, aud soon all oul
! friends were aroused from sleep and the
| shore began more clearly TO reveal itself
With roar, and rattle, and bang the
! anchor dropped in the rOadstead half a
mile from land, for though Joppa is the
| only harbor OF Palestine, it is the worst
! harbor on all the coasts. Sometimes for
/ weeks no ship stops there. Between
/ rocks about seventy-Hve feet apart a
small boat must take the passengers
ashore. The depths are strewn with the
skeletons of those who have attempted to
land or attempted to embark. Twenty
seven pilgrims persisted with one crash of
boat against the rocks. Whole fleets
OF crusaders, of Romans, of Syrians, of
Egyptians have gone TO splinters there.
A writer 800 years ago said he stood on
the beach in storm q: Joppa, and out
Of thirty ships, all but seven went
to pieces on the rocks and 1000 of the
dead were washed ashore.
Strange that with q few blasts of pow
der like that which shattered our Ameri-
con He'll Gate, those rocks have not been
uprOoted and the way cleared, 80 that
great ships, instead OF anchorage far out
from land, might sweep up to the wharf
for passengers and freight. But you
must remember that land is under the
Turk, aud what the Turk touches, he
withers. Mohammedanism is against
easy wharves, against steamers, against
rail-trains; against printing presses,
AGAINST CIVILIZATION.
Darkness is always opposed to light.
The owl hates the morn. "Leave those
rocks where they are, - practically cries
the Turkish government; ave want no
people OF other religions and other habits
to land there, il the salt seas wash over
them, let 1t be a warning TO other
Invaders; away with your nine
teenth century, with its free thought
and its modern inventions. That
Turkish government ought to be blotted
from the face of the earth, and it will
be. OF many of the inhabitants of
Palestine l asked the question, 90 Has the
sultan of Turkey ever been here?''
Answer, "No. "Why don't he
come, when it belongs to his domInIon?"
And after the man interrogated looked
this way and that, so as to know he
would not be reported, the answer would
invariably be, che dare not come. L
believe it. If the sultan of Turkey At
tempted to visit Jerusalem he would
never get back again. All Palestine
hates MIN. l saw him go TO the mosque
for prayers in his own city of Constanti-
nople and saw seven thousand armed
men riding out to protect him. Ex-
penslve prayers! Ofcourse that govern
meut wants no better harbor at Joppa.
May God remove that curse of nations,
that old hag of the centuries, the Turk
ish government! For its everlasting in
suit 10 God and woman, let it perish!
And SO those racks at the hnrbor remain
the jaws of repeated destruction.
AS we descended the narrow steps at
the side of the ship, we heard the
clamor, and quarrel. and swearing of
fifteen or sixteen different races of men of
all features, and all coors and all YER
naculars; all different in appearance, but
all alike in desire to get our baggage and
ourselves at exhorbitant prices. Twenty
boats and ouly ten passengers TO go
pushes aside some, and strikes with a
heavy stick others, and by violences that
WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED
in our country, but which seem to be the |
only manner of making an impression !
there, clears our way into one of the |
boats which heads for the shore. We |
are within fifteen minutes of Christ-land. |
Now we hear shouting from the beach |
and in five minutes We will be landed. |
The prov of the boat is caught by men |
who wade out to help us in. We |
are tremulOus with suppressed excite |
ment, our breath is quick, and from the |
side of the boat we spring to the shore, |
and Sunday morning, December / 1889, |
about s CLOCK, our feet touch Pales- |
tine. Forever to me and mine will that |
day and hour be COMMUNICATED for that
mercy. Let il be mentioned |
in prayer by my children and children's
children after we are gone, that morning
we were permitted to enter that land and
gaze upon those holy hills, and feel the
emotions that rise and fall, and weep
and laugh, and sing and triumph at such
a Decentralization.
On the back of hills $50 feet high Joppa
is lifted toward the skies. 1t is as pictur-
esQue as it is quaint, and as much un-
ike any CITY we nave ever seen, as
though IT was built in that star Mars.
where few nights ago this very Septem-
Der, astronomers through unparalleled
telescopes saw q snow storm raging.
How glad we were to be in Joppal Why.
his is the city where Dorcas, that queen
Of the needle, lived aud died and was
'esurrected. You remember that the
poor people came around the dead BODY
IF this benefactress aud brought speci-
mems of her kind needie-work and said,
Dorcas made this;'' "Dorcas sewed
hat;' "Dorcas cut and fitted this;n
'Dorcas hemmed that According to
the commentator, they laid her
tut in state in public room and the poor
yrung their hands and cried, and sent
or Peter, who performed a miracle by
Which the good woman
CAME BACK TO LIFE
md resumed her benefaotious. An es-
,eeial resurrection day for one womanI
She was the model by which many
women of our day have fashioned their
ives and at the first blast of the horn of
he wIntry tempest, there appear 10 900
)orcases-Dorcas of Brooklyn, Dorcases
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