Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

New World en- Intelligent world. The
declaration of Independence, Announce
ing equal rights, meets Robert Burns
A manh a man for a. that
Inc United States was getting too
large to be managed by one government.
ana teiegraphy was invented to compress
within al hour the whole continent,
Armies i'll the civil war were to be fitted
out with clothing, and the sewing ma
chine Invention came out to make it
possible. Immense farming acreage is
presented in this country, enough to sup
/ port millions OF our native born and
millions OF foreigners: but the old style
OF plow and scythe and reaper and
! 'hrcsher cannot do the work, and there
come steam plows. steam llarrows. steam
reapefs, steam rakcS. steam threshers.
and tho work is accomplished. The
forests OF the earth fail to afford sufii-
Gent fuel, and so the coal mines sur
render u sniliciency. The cotton crops
were lnxuriant, but of comparatively
little value. for they could not he man
aged: and so. at just the right time.
nar%rcavcs came with his invention of
the spinning jenny. and Arkwright with
ms roller, and Mckinney with his cotton
$'n. The world. after pottering along
with tallow candles and whale oil, was
crying for better light and more of it.
ana the hills OF Pennsylvania poured out
rivers OF oil and kerosene illumined the
nations. But the oil wells began to fail,
and then the electric light comes forth
to turn night into day.
80 all events are woven together, and
the world is magniicently governed, be-
cause it is divincly governed. We criti-
else thingsand think the divine machine
cry IS going wrong. and put our fingers
AMID the wheels only to get them
crushed. But say, hands off! Things
are coming oat gloriously. Cornelius
may be in Crsaiea, and Peter in Joppa;
but their dreams meet. 1t is one hand
that is managing the world, and that is
GODS hand; and one mind that is PLAN
ing all things for good. and that is Gods
mind: and one heart that is filled with
love and pardon and sympathy, and that
is Gods heart. Have faith in Him. Fret
about nothing. Things are not at loose
ends. There are no accidents. All will
come out right in your history and in
the world. AS you are waking from
one dream up stairs an explanatory
stairs.
But standing OH this Joppa house-top
l look off OH the Mediterranean. and what
is that strange sight see? The waters
are black. seemingly for miles. There
seems to be q great multitude OF logs
fastened together. Oh, yes, it is great
raft of timbers. They are cedars of
Lebanon which King Hiram is furnishing
King Solomon in exchange for 20, 900
measures of wheat, 10000 baths of oil
and 10000 baths of wine. These cedars
have been cut down and trimmed in tho
mountains OF Lebanon by the 10000 ak
men 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's temple, now building ut Jerus-
alem, for we have lost our hold of the
Nineteenth century and are clear back
!, in the ages.
The RATS of cedar are guided into
what is called the Moon Pool, an 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 a
loud, long 'Io, heave!' as the carriers
get their shoulders under the great
weight, the timber is fastened to the
wagons and the lowing oxen are yoked
to the load, and the procession of teams
moves on with crack of whip and drawled
out words which. translated, / suppose
would correspond with the .sWhoa. haw,
gee.' of modern teamSters. toward
Jerusalem. which is thirty miles away,
; over mountainous distances which for
!. hundreds OF years detied all engineering.
And those. rough cedars shall become
carved pillars. and beautiful affairs. and
rounded bannisters. and traceried panels,
and sublime ceiling, and exquisite harps,
and kingly charicts.
I As the wagon train moves out from
Joppa over the plain of Sharon toward
4 Jerusalem I say to myself, what vast
numbers of people helped to build that
temple of Solomon, and what vast num-
bcrs of people are now engaged in build
ing the wider, higher, grander temple of
righteousness rising in the earth. Our
1 Christian ancestry toiled at it, amid
sweat and tears, and hundreds Of the
4 generations 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 AK in the far
away Lebanon, and some drove wedge,
and some twisted a withe. and some trod
the wet and slippery RATS on the sea,
and some yokcd the OK, and some pulled
at the load, and some showed the plane,
and some fitted the joints, and some
heaved up the raftcrs, but all helped build
the temple, though some of these never
saw it, so now let US all put our
hands. and our shoulders, and our
hearts to the work OF building the tenn
pie of righteousness, which is to fill the
earth; and one will bind wound, and
another will wipe away u tear, and
Ianothcr will teach class, and another
. will speak the encouraging word, and
all of us will be ready to pull and lift,
and in some way help on the work until
the millcnia morn snail gid the pima
} Gle of that finished temple, and at its
shining gates the world shall put down
its last burden, and in its LAYERS wash
off it's last stain, and ut its affairs the
last wanderer shall kneel. At the dedi-
cation of that temple all the armies of
earth and heaven will shoulder arms"
and present arms" and ''ground arms"
for ..behold! greater than Solomon is
here"
i But my first day in the Holy Land is
ended The sun is already closing his
Il ava for the night I stand on the bal