The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-31

Iullabys Of mothers which keep sounding on.
though the lips that sang them forty years
ago became ashes; the old hymnsin log cabin
psalms In Rouse's version IN SCOTCH kinks;
the anthem In English cathearaist the roll OF
organs that will mover let Handel or Haydn
or Beethoven die; the sthump o< harps, the
Of Sabbath schools storming the besvens thS
doxology Of great assembla lagos why 6 thou
sand Jefichos Of sfn have by th6m Ill been
brought down.
that evening Of December Q, amid thS bricks
and dep,ts oc Joricho, and thinking whax xpoor
MUSIC has done and what ptebkjeS Ehfngs
could DO accomplished By the blea4pgs 6f
Sa hsSs sSsd bssS %ss'a ans $ s.n e % A; sss
sermons neYe been blessed, but wouid ~,
musici 9h, for a campaign q .Oid Hun
red? Oh. for q brigade Of Mount Pts
gahsl oh. for cavalry charge Of "Ccrona-
tionsr Oh, for an army Of Antiochs and
St. Martins and Arielsi Oh, for enough
orchestral batons lifted TO marshal all ma
| tionsl As Jericho was surrounded by poor
music for seven days. and was conquered,
SO let our earth be surrounded seVen days
by good gospel music, and the round planet
| will be taken for God. Not a wall Of oppo-
sition, not a throne of tyranny, not pal
ace OF sin. not an enterprise OF unrfghteous-
SSSa 'tsns snsn. the mighty thrGS Of such
at the laying Of creations corner stone
when the morning stars sang together.
| Musici It will be the last reverberation,
when the archangel's trumpet shall wake
the dead. MusioI Let its full power be
now tested to comfort and bless and arouse
| and save.
While our evening meal Is being prepared
In the tents we walk out for moment to
the Fountain of Elisha" the one into which
the prophet threw tho salt because the
they became sweet and healthy; and ever
since with gurgle and laughter, they have
rushed down the hill and 1eaped from the
! rocks. the only cheerful object in all that
region being these waters. 1h- -.5+-
| Now on this plain of Jericho tho SUN isset-
ting, making the mountains look like balus-
trades and battlements Of amber and maroon
and gold; and the moon, just above the crests,
which immortels might be looking down up
on the scene. Three Arabs as watchtnen sit
my tent, their low conversation in
soossnps sssdnrss ..tssFg ssegunss sD all night 9ng
I had dream that night never to be for
gotten, that dream amid the complete ruins
OF Jericho. Its past grandeur returned, and
saw the city as 1t was when Mark Antony
gave It to Cleopatra and Herod bought It
from her. And heard tho hoofs of its swift
steeds and the rumbling Of its chariots and
the shouts Of excited spectators in its amphi-
] theatre.
| And there was white marble amid green
| groves Of palm and balsam; cold stone
warmed with sculptured foliage; hard pillars
cut into soft lace; Iliads and Odysseys in
granite; basalt jet as the night mounted by
dyed as though dipped in the blood Of battle
fields; robes encrusted with diamond; mo-
saics white as sea foam flashed on by auroras;
| gayeties which the sun saw by day rvale6 by
reveis the moon saw by night; blashphemy
built against the sky; ceilings stellar as the
! archivolted and intercoiumnar; wickedness
so appalling that established vocabulary fails
and we must make an adjective and call Il
Herodic.
The region round about the city walls
seemed to ME white with cotton such as
Thenius describes as once growing there
and sweet with sugar cane, and luscious with
'l orange and hgs and pomegranates, and redo
lent with such fora as can only grow where
| tropical sun kisses the earth. And the hour
came back to me when in the midst of oil
that splendor Herod died, commanding hi.
sister Salome Immediately after his death tx
secure the assassination OF all the chief Jew
whom ne had brought to the city and shut
up In circus for that purpose, and the news
came to the audience in the theatre as some
| one took the stage and announced to the ex-
| deadm 40
Then in my dream ali the pSamp of
Jericho vanished, and gloom was ralAded to
gloom, and desolation to desolatioh and WOO
to woe, until. perhaps the ripplinE waters
OF the fountain of Elisha suggesting it-as
sounds will sometimes give direction to a
dream Thought that the waters{of Christ's
and uncleannessS were rolling t6sb tnaS
| plain and across the continent ahd rolling
round tho earth, until on either side of their
banks all the thorns became flowers, aud
all the deserts gardens and all the
nerals bridal professions, and all the blood Of
! war was turned into dahlias, and all the
| groans became anthems, and Dants's "In-
ferno" became Dantes "Divina Commedia. -
| and paradise Lost" was submerged bv
"Parsd:;e Regained," and tears became
crystals, cruel swords came out of foundries
glistening plowshares, and In my dream at
the blast OF trumpet the prostrated walls
Of Jericho rose again.
And some one told me that as these walls
In Joshua's time at the sounding trumpets
OF doom went down, now at the sounding
trumpet of the gospel they come up
the door Of my tent, and I said, "Who arc
you and from whence have you comeT'
and he said, ~ am the Samaritan you heard
| OF at the tavern on the road from Jerusalem
| to Jericho, as taking care of the mar,
| who fell among thieves, and I have
] just come from healing the last wound Of the
last unfortunate in all the earth.n And
rose from my pillow in the tent to greet him,
and and my dream broke and l realized Il Yas YES
come a glorious reality as surely as God 4
true and Christ's gospel Is tho worlds Ca
thoiicon. Glory be to the Father, and tc
a., tho Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as It was al
tho beginning, Is now and ever shall be
world without end Amann