The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-09

he was hungry, to ent, and hesaid; Lean.
not ent things unclean.'' Three times
he dreamed it. There Was then heard
a knocking at.the gate of the house, on the
top of which Peter lny in n trance. and three
men asked. us Peter here?n Peter. while
yet wondering that his dream meant, de-
sends the stairs and meets these strangers
Mt the gate and they tell him that a good
man by the name OF Cornelius. in the city OF
CRsare,l has also had u dream and has sent
them for Peter and to nsk him to come aud
preach. At that call, Peter left Joppa for.
CRsarea. The dream lie had just had pre-
pared him to preach, for Peter,learnad by it
to reject no people as unclean and whereas
he previously thought his must prench only
to tho Jews, now lie goes to preach to the
Gentil6s who wore considered unclean.
Standing here in .loppa. | remember that
where we this morning disembarked the
prophet Jonah embarked. For the first time
in my lie 1:nlly understand thntstory. God
told Jonah to 60 to Ninevnh but the proph.
ct declined that call and came here to Joppa.
| was for weeks while in the Holy Land, con.
sulting tourist companies. as to how / could
take Ninevah in my journey. They did not
encourage the undertaking 1t is most
tedious ride to Ninevnh and a DESERT Now
see an additional reason why Jonah did not
want to go to Ninevah, He not only revolt.
ed because of the disngreeable message he
was called to deliver at Ninevah, hut because
it was a long way and tough. and bandit-in-
tested, so he came here to Joppa and took
ship But alas. for the disastrous voyage!
He paid his full fare for the whole voyage.
but the ship company did not fill their part
OF the contract. To this day they have not
paid back that passage money. Why peo-
pie should doubt the story of Jonah and the
whale is more of O mystery than the Bible
event itself. do not need the tact that
Pliny, the historian, records that the skee-
ton of whale 40 feet long and with hide
ia feet thick, was brought from Joppn to
Rome. The event recorded in the book of
Jonah has occurred q thousand times. The
Lord always has whale outside the har-
Dor for a man who starts in the wrong.
direction: Recreant Jonah! do not
wonder that even the whale was sick OF him
This prophet was put in the Bible, not as
an example, but as q warning because the
world not only needs light houses, hut buoys,
to show where the rocks are The Bible
story OF him ends by showing the prophet in
fit OF the sulks He was mad because N inc
yah was not destroyed, and then he went
out to pout, and sat under big leaf using
it for shade rom the topical sun, and when a
worm distributed that leaf, and it withered
and the sun smote Jonah, he few into q great
rage, and said: ct is better for me to die
than to live" prophet in a rage because
he had lost his UNI brella! Beware petnlance
. But standing here on the housetop at
Joppa, look off upon the sands near the
beach, and l almost expected to find them
crimsoned and incarnadined. But no; the
rains long ago washed away the last sign OF
the Napoleonc massacre. Napoleon was
marching on through the coasts. He had
here at Jonpa 1000 Albanians, who had
been surrendered as prisoners of war, and
under II promise of protection. What shall
he do with them? 1t will be impossible for
him to take them along, and he cannot afford
to leave soldiers enough to guard them from
escape. It will not be difficult for the man
who broke the heart Of lovely Josephine, and
who, when asked if the great losses of life in
his battles were not to dear price to pay
Tor his victories. shrugged his shoulders
mirthlully and said, you must break theegg
If you want to make an omelet'-I say, it will
not be difficult for him to decide. The
prisoners OF war, by his order, are taken out
on the sands and putrto DEATH, 900 of
them, 1000 Of them 5000 of them, a, 900
OF them, massacred: And the blood pours
down into the sea, the red of the one ming
ling with the blue of the other, and m king
an aw al maroon which neither God nor ma
tion can ever forget. Ye who are fond OF
vivid contrasts. put the two scenes of Joppa
side by side, Dorcas with her needle, and the
immortal butcher with his knife.
But my first day in the Holy land is
ended. The sun is already closing his eye
for the night. l stand on the balcony OF o
hotel hich was brought to Joppa in pieces
from the State of Maine by some fanatics
who came here expecting to see Christ re-
appear in Palestine. My room here was
once occupied by that Christian hero OF the
M nt ,a lie; s. Chinese, Egyptian,
God as well as for the worlds pacifcation.
Although the first of December and winter,
the air is full offragrance from gardens ali
a-bloom and under my window are acacia
and tamarisk and mulberry and century
plants and orange groves and oleander.
From the drowsiness of thelair and tho
fatigues of the day l feel sleepy. Good
night. Tomorrow morning we start Tor
Jerusalem
But standing on this Joppa house top. I
look off on the Mediterranean, and what is
that strange sight see? The Writers are
black, seemingly for miles. There seems to
gether. Oh, yes, it is great raft oftim hers
They are cedars of Lebanon which King
Hiram is furnishing King Solomon, in e1-
change for 10000 measures OF wheat, 90
600 baths OF oil. and 10000 baths o. vine
These cedars have been cut down and
trimmed in the mountains Of Lebanon by
the 10000 axemen engaged there and with
great withes and iron bolts are fastened to-
gether, and they are floating down to Joppa
to be taken across the land for Solomon 8
temple now building at Jerusalem, Tor we
have lost our hold OF the Nineteenth century
ana are clear pack IN the ages. The RATS
OF cedar are guided into what is called the
Moon Pool, all old harbor, south Of Joppa,
now filled with sand and useless. With long.
pixies the timber is pushed this way and that
in the WATER then with levers, and many u
loud long 10, heave'' as the carriers get
their shoulders under the great weight, the
timber is fastened to the wagons and the
lowing oxen ure yoked to the load, and the
procession Of teams moves on with crack Of
whip, and drawled OUT words Which trans
lated. suppose, would correspond with the
whoa. haw. gee!'' OF modern teamsters.
toward Jerusalem, which is 80 miles away,
over mountainous distances, which for hun
dreds of years defed all engineering. And
these rough cedars shall hecome carved pill
lars, and beautiful alters and rounded ban
nisters, and traceried panels and sublime
ceiling, and exquisite harps, andkingly char
lots.
As the wagon train moves out from Joppa
over the plain OF Sharon toward Jerusalem.
| say to myself what vast mum bers o t pc ple
helped build that temple Of Solomon, and
what vast numbers of people are now en-
gagged i'll building the WIDER higher, grander
temple Of righteousness rising in the earth
Our Christian ancestry toiled at it, amid
sweat and tears, and hundreds of the genera.
tons of the good, and the long train OF
Christian workers still moves on and as in
the construction OF Solomon's temple some
hewed with the az in tho far-away Lebanon
and some drove wedge, and some twisted
q witEe, and some trod the VET md slinnprv