The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-10


Know he would not b reported, the an
swse woald Invariably b no dare not
come. believe IL II the Saltsa Of
Turkey attempted 10 visit Jerusalem 10
would never got back again. All Pales.
tine hates him.
AZ NO descended the narrow steps at
the side OF tho ship We heard the cl1moe.
and quarrel and swearing Of fifteen o.
sixteen different races q men Of al
features and al colors and al vsrnacu-
lars; Ill different In appearance, but all
alike In desire to got our baggage and
ourselves 1t exhorbitant peicea Twenty
boats and only ten passengers 70 80
ashore.
Forever to nj and mine viii that day
and hour b commemorsted for that
pee-cminent mercy. Let Il be mem
toned In prayer BY my children and
children's children after Nc are gone
that morning We . permitted to en-.
ter that land and gaze upon those holy
hills and feel the emotions that rise.
and fall and weep and laugh, and sing.
and triumph 1t such . Decentralization.
On the back Of hills $50 feet high Jopps
il lifted toward the skies 1t IL -
picturesque ~ 1t IL quaint and q much
unlike any city we have ever seen IS
though 1t were built in that star Mars
where . few nights ago this very Sep
tember astronomers through unpar-
slleled telescopes saw . snow storm
raging. How glad We were to be in
JOppai Why, this is the city whore
DorcaA. that queen Of the needle. lived
and died and was resurrected You 10
member that tho poor people came
around the dead body Of this benefac-
tress and brought specimens Of her kind
Of needle work and said: ''Dorcas made
this;'' ''Dorcas sewed that" Dorcas cut
and fitted this" ''Dorcas hemmed that"
According to Lightfoot the comments
tor. they laid her out in state in . pub.
lie room and the poor wrung their hands
and cried and sent for Peter, who per
formed . miracle by which the good
m came back to life and resumed her
benefactionA An especial resurrection
day for one woman! She was the model
by which many women Of our day have
fashioned their lives and at the first
blast of the horn Of the wintry tenn
pest there appear ten thousand Decreases
Decreases of Brooklyn, Decreases Of
New York, Decreases Of London, Dor
cases Of all the neighborhoods and
towns and cities Of Christendom, just -
good as the Dorcas of the Joppa which
I visited.
"What is that man doing?" I said to
the dragoman in the streets OF Joppa
%. he is carrying his bed" Multitudes
Of the people sleep out Of doors and that
is the way 70 many in those lands be-
come blind. It is from the dow OF the
night falling on the eyelida As . re-
suit Of this in Egypt every twentieth
person is totally blind.
In Oriental lands tho bed is made of
a thin. small mattress. a blanket and a
pillow, and when the man rises in the
morning be just ties up the three into q
bundle and shoulders it and takes it
away. 1t was to that the Saviour re-
ferred when he said to the sick man,
Take up thy bed and walk"
But ] inhale some of the odors of the
large tanncries around Joppa 1t is
there to this day q prosperous business,
this tanning OF hides And that re-
minds me Of Simon. the tanner. who
lived at JOppa, and was the host OF
Peter. the apostle. suppose tho Olfac-
tories Of Peter were IS easily insulted
by the OdOrs of a tannery rs others
But the Bible says: HE lodged with
one Simon, the tanner" People who
60 out to do reformatory and missionary
and Christian work must not be too sem
sitive. Simon, no doubt, brought to his
homestead every night the malodors of
the calf skins and OK hides in his tan
merry, but Peter lodged In that house,
not only because he may not have been
invited to the houses of merchant
princes surrounded by redolent gardens.
but to teach all men and women IN
gagged in try :ng to make the world bet
ter they must not be squeamish and fas-
tidious and finical and over particular
in doing the work OF tho world. The
Church OF God is dying Of fastidious-
ness. We cry Q the sufferings Of the
world in 500 pocket handkerchiefs and
then put . cen in the poor box There
are many willing to do Christian
work among the clearly and refined and
the elegant and the educated. but ex-
cuse them from taking . loaf OF bread
down q dirty alley. excuse them from
teaching a mission school among the
uncombed and unwashed. xcuse them
from touching the hand of one whose
finger nails are in mourning for de.
parted soap. Such religious precision
lists can toll in atmOspheres laden with
~honcysuckle and rosemary. but not in
air floating up from the malodOrOus
watts. No. nc, mo-! excuse them from
lodging with ono Simon, the "a n
But reference to Peter reminds me
that we must 60 to the house-tOp in
JOppa whore he vas taught tho democ-
racy Of religion. That was about the
queerest thing that ever happened. On
our way up to the hOuse-tOp we passed
an old well where the great stones were
worn deep with the ropes Of the buckets.
and it must be . we'll many centuries
old, and, ! think, Peter drank out OF
It Four or i've goat or calf
skins filed with water lay about
tho yard. We oon got up the steps and
on the housc-top TWAS in such . place
in Joppa that Peter, one noon, while he
was waiting for dinner. had . hungry ft
and tainted away and had . vision OF
dream or trance. l said to my family
and friends on that house-top: Listen
while / read about what happened
here" And opening the Bible. We had
the whole story. 1t seems that Peter
on the house-top dreamed that . great
blanket was let down out Of Heaven.
and in it werc sheep and goats and cat
tie and mules and pigeons and buzzards
and snakes and all manner Of creatures
that fly the air, n walk the fields OF
crawl the earth. and in the dream Of
voice told him as he was hungry, to eat,
and he said: Il ~ not eat things un-