The Forrest City times., 1890-10-04

f<4Al0 VVt IlX0t l4 yVWE MtHu0Iy 0uX U UuV world. Az you are waking from one dream up -stAirs, sn explanatory dream will be knocking at the gate down-stafrs.
 Standing here in Joppa, remember that where we this morning discmbarked. the prophet Jonah embarked. For the flrst time In my life 1 fully understand that story God told Jonah to go to Ninevoh, but the prophet declined that call and came here to Joppa. was for weeks. while in the Holy Land, consulting with tourist companies. as to how could take Nineveh in Ay Journey. They did not encourage
 the undertaking. It is . most tedious ride
 to Nineveh and desert. Now sec an ad- go Nineveh. He not only revolted because of
 the disagreeablc message hc was called to deliver Ut Ninevch, but because 1t was a long way and tough, and bandit-infestcd, so he came here to Joppa and took ship Rut, alas. for the disastrous voyage! He paid his full fare for the whole voyage, but
 the ship company did not ill their part of the contract. To this day they have not paid back that passage money. Why people | should doubt the story of Jonah and the whale is more of a mystery than the Bible
 event itself do not need the fact that Pliny. the historian, records that the skele-
 ton of a whale forty feet long, and with hide
 a foot and half thick, was brought from
 Joppa to Rome. The event recorded in the
 book of Jonah has occurred thousand
 times. The Lord always has whale out-
 side the harbor for man who starts in tho
 wrong direction. Recreant Jonah! do not
 wonder that even the whale was sick of
 him. This prophet was put in tho Bible not
 as an example, but as a warning because
 the world not only needs lighthouses. but l buoys. to show where the rocks are. The
 Bible story of him ends by showing the prophet in a fl; of tho s'Ilks. He was mad because Nine, eh was not destroyed, and AL. l. A d xrpx under big ieaE using 1t for shade from the tropical sun, and when worm disturbed | that leaf, and 1t withered and tho sun smote Jonah, he flew into great rage, said; Tt Is better for me to die than to live" A 1 prophet in rage because he had lost his | umbrella? Beware of petulance.
 But standing here on the house-top at | Joppa, look of upon the sands near the beach, and almost expected to find them crimsoned and incarnadined. But no; the
 rains long ago washed away the last sign of
 tho Napoloonic massacre. Napoleon was
 marching on through the coasts, He had
 oee ss s o
 and under a promise of protection. What shall he do with them 2 It will be impos- | sible for him to take them along, and he
 cannot afford to leave soldiers enough to guard them from escape. It will not be I difficult for the man who broke the heart of
 lovely Josephine and who. when asked if
 great losses Of life in his battles were not toe | dear n price to pay for his victories. shrugged his shoulders mirthfuliy and said, you must break the eggs if you want to
 make an omelet'-I say, it will not be difli-
 cult for him to decide. Tho prisoners of war. by his order, are taken out on the
 sands and put to death--one thousand of | them, two thousand of them. three thousand 1 of them. four thousand of them, nassacred | And the blood pours down into the sca. the l red of the one mingling with the blue of the 1 other, and making an awful maroon which
 neither God nor nation can ever forget. fe | who are fond of vivid contrasts. put the two scenes of Joppa side by side porcas with
 her needle, and the immortal butcher with l his knife.
 | But standing on this Joppa house top. l l look off on the Mediterranean. and what is | that strange sight l sect Tho waters are black seemingly for miles. There seems tc be great multitude of legs fastened to- | gether. Oh, yes, 1t is great raft of timbers. | They are ccdars of Lebanon which King | Hiram Is furnishing King solomon In ex- | change for %, o00 measures of wheat. %. .ooC | baths of oil, and 20,0O0 baths of wine, l These ccdars have been cut down and ! trimmed in the mountains of Lebanon by l the 70, 900 axcmen engaged there and with | great withes and iron bolts are fastened to- i gether. and they are floating down to Joppa i 10 be taken across the land for Solomon's | temple now building at Jerusalem. for VIC have lost our hold of the nineteenth cen | tury and are clear back in the ages. The rufts of cedar are guided into what Is called the Moon Pool. an old harhor, south oi
 Joppa now filled with sand and use
 less, With long bikes the timber Is 1 pushed this way and that in the water, then | with levers, and many loud "lo, heave!' ! as the carters get their shoulders under the
 great weight. the timber is fastened to the
 wagons and the lowing oxen are yokcd to l the load, and the proce ssion of teams moves
 on with crack of whip, and drawled out | words which translated, l suppose, would correspond with the 'whoa, haw, gce'" of modern tcamsters toward Jerusalem. which
 Is 30 miles away over mountainous dis | tances, which for hundreds of years 1 dencd all engineering. And these rough | cedars shall become carved pillars. and beautiful altars. and rounded banaisters.
 and tracericd panels. and sublime cealing.
 and exquisite harps, and kingly chariots, | As the wagon train moves out of Joppa | over the plain of sharon toward Jerusalem. 1 say to myself what vast numbers of peo- | pie helped build that temple of Solomon. I and what vast numbers of people arc now | engaged In building the wider, higher ane ! grander temple of righteousness rising il ! tho earth. Our christian ancestry toilcd al l It. amid sweat nnd tears, and hundreds ] tho generations of the good. and the lon 1 train of christian workers stili moves on | and as in the construction of Solomon | temple some hcwod with the ax In the far l away Lebanon. and some drove a wedge 1 and some twisted a withe, and some trot | the wet and slippery rafts on the sea. and 1 some yoked the OK, and some pulled at tn, | load and some showed the plane. and some ] fitted the points. and some heaved up the l rafters. but all helped build the temple though some of these never saw 1t, so now ] lot us all put our hands, and our shoulders. | and our hearts to the Work of building the temple of righteousness. which is to All the
 earth; and one will bind a wound. and an other will wipe away a tear. and another 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 milenal morn shall gid the pinaclc of that Enished temple. and at its shining gates the world shall pull down its last burden, and In Its iavers wash of Its last stain. and and at iis altars the
 last wandercr shall kneel At tho dedica-
 tion of that temple, all the armies of earth
 and heaven shall shoulder arms.' and present arms. and ground arms" for
 ''heho.d Il greater than solomon is here"
 But my first day in the Holy Lands Is ended. The sun Is already closing his eye for the night stand on tho balcony of . hotcl that was brought to Joppa in pieces from the state of Maine by some fanatics who came here expecting to see Christ re- appear in Palistine. My room herc was once occupied by that christian hero of the cen
 turies English. Chinese, Egyptian world-
 wide General Gordon. man mighty for
 God as we'll as for the worlds pacifeation. Although the first of December and winter, the air is full of frasrance from gardens all
 a-bloom and under my window arc acacia
 and tamarisk and mulberry and century
 plants and orange grovcs and oleAndcr.
 From the drowsiness of the air and the la
 tigues of the day feel sleepy. Good night.
 Tomorrow morning we start for Jerusalem.
 By tho agency of tho London children,s
 county holidays fund o0.000 children last
 year endowed | Shorf halliday In tha roun.