The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-28

1 ten0e0 the wedding OF poor retaI1fSs
l having come over from Hszareth
for women are first to notice such
| things-found that the provisions had
| fallen short and she told Christ, and He,
/ to relieve the embarrassment OF the
housekeepeE, who had invited moro
! guests than the pantry warranted, be-
came the butler OF the occasion, and
/ out of cluster of few sympathetic
words squeezed beverage of 1875 gal
Ions of wine in which there was not one
drop of intoxicant or it would have left
that party as maudlin and drunk as the
I great centennial banquet in New York
two years ago left Senators and Gov
| errors. and Generals and merchants
| princes The difference between the
wine at the wedding in Cana, and the
| wine at the banquet at 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
an especial vintage.
And hero is 4 remarkable fact in my
| recent journey-1 travelled through
Italy, and Greece, and Egypt. and Pal
estine, and Syria, and Turkey, and how
many intoxicated people do you think 1
saw in ali those five great realms? Not
one We must in our Christianized land
have got hold of some kind of beverage
that Christ did not make. o, L am glad
that Jesus was present at that wedding.
| and last December standing at Cana,
that wedding came back Night had
| fallen on the village and its surround
| ings- The bridegroom had put on his
head bright turban and a garland OF
| flowers, and his garments had been
| made fragrant with frankiucense and
camphOr, and preceded by band of
musicians with flutes and drums, and
horns, and by torches in full blaze, he
starts for the brides home. The BRIDE
is in white robes and her veil not only
covers her face but envelopes her body.
| Her trousseau is as elaborate as the
resources of her fathers house permit
Her attendants are decked with all the
ornaments they own or can borrow.
/ At first sight of the torches of the
brid egrcOm and his attendants coming
over the hill the cry rings through the
home of the bride: They are in sight
Get ready! Behold the bridegroom
comethi Go ye out to meet him" As
the two professions approach each other
the timblers strike and the songs COM
mingle, and then the two professions
become one and march toward the
bridegroom's house. and meet third
| procession which is made up of the
friends of both bride and bridegroom.
Then all enter the house, and the Dance
begins and the door is shut And all
this Christ uses to illustrate the joy
with which the ransomed Of earth shall
meet Him when He comes garlaaded
with clouds and robes in the mos ming
and trumpeted by the thunders OF the
last day
Lookl There He comes down OF the
hills of Heaven. the bridegroom And
let us start out to hail Him, for hear
the voices of the judgment day sound
ing, BEHOLD, the bridegroom cometh!
Go ye out to meet Him!'' And tho dis
appoin tment of those VIII have declined
the invitation to the Gospel wedding is
presented under the figure of q door
heavily closed. You hear it slam. Too
lateI Tho door is shut
But we must hasten on, for do not
mean to close my eyes tonight till SEQ
from mountain top Lake Galilee, on
whose banks next Sabbath we will wor-
ship, and on whose waters the following
morning we will take q sail On and
up we go in the severest climb OF all
Palestine, the ascent of the Mount of
Beatitudes, on the top of which Christ
preached that famous sermon on
biesseds-blessed be this and blessed be
that
On and up until on the rocks of black
basalt we dismount. and climbing to
the highest peak, look out on an en-
chantment of scenery that seems to be
the beatitudes themselves, arched into
skies and rounded into valleys, and
silverod into waves. The view is like
that OF North Carolina from the top
of Lookout mountain, or like that of
| Vermont and New Hampshire from the
top of Mount Washingt ton. Hail hills
of Galileei Hail Lake Genesaret only
four miles away! Yonder, clear up and
most conspicuous, is Safed, the very
city which Christ pointed for illustra-
ton in tho sermon preached here. say
ing: "A city set on a hill can not be
hid" Tho valley of Hattin between
here and Lake Cali! ee is an amphithea-
ter, as though the natural contour of the
earth had invited all nations TO come
and sit down and hear Christ preach a
sermon in which there were more start
ling novelties than wore ever announced
in all the sermons that were ever
preached
Tho worlds theory has boon: Blessed
arc the arrogant; bIossed are the super
cilious; blessed arc the fearless; blessed
arc they that have every thing their
own way; blessed are the war eagles;
blessed arc the prosecutors; blessed are
the popular; blessed are the Herods, and
the CDsars, and the Ahabs. mol mol
nor says Christ with voice that rings
over these rocks, and through yonder
valley of Hattin, and down to the opal ne
lake on one side, and the sapphire Medi-
terranean on the other, and across
Europe IN one way ana across ASIA IN
the other, and around the earth both
ways, till the globe shall yet be girdIed
with the nine beatitudes: Blessed ara
the poor, blessed are the mournful.
blessed are tho meek. blessed are the
hungry, blessed are the merciful, blessed
are the pure, blessed are the peace
makers, blessed are the the prosecuted.
blessed are the falsely reviled-
| Do you see how the Holy Land and
/ the Holy Book fl { each other? God with
His left hand built Palestine and with
His right wrote the Scriptures, the two
hands of the same Being. And in pro-
portion as Palestine is brought under
close inspection, the Bible viii be found
more glorious and more true. Might
lest book of the pasti Might est book
of the future! Monarch of all iiteFaturel
The proudest works of genius shall decay
And reason brig test ius; fade away;
The Sophist's art, the poers bolGest flight.
Shall sink in darkness and conclude in ight
But IA th triumphant over time shall stand,
Shall grasp this sacred volume in her hand ;