Telegram-herald., 1890-11-17

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Nam- 4. 81 *FoFasmaeb IS thcE knowesE
how we ara 60 e8eamp ~ the wilderness
Sisht after night ne have slept in tent
+ Ia Palestine. There are large villages q
Beaouins NithsUt house aad for three
thousxna years the people of those places
have hved Ia biack teuts, made cat q dyed
skins, and when the winds and storms
wOFe cut and tore loose these coverings
osAers 0f the same kind took their places.
Noah lived In tent; Abraham In = teat.
I jacob pitched his tent on the mountain.
Isaac pitched bis tent ia the valley Iot
pitched has tent toward Sodoa In a tent
the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the general,
% tke ground, first having gives him sour
milk called "lebsn" as soporiac 20 make
him sleep souadly, that being the effect of
such nutrition. a. modern travellers can
testify The Syrian army in a tent The
ancient battle shout was ITO your tents.
O Israeli Paul was a tent maker In
deed, Isaiah, rnagnifcently poetic, indi-
Gates that all the human race live under
blue tent when he says that God stretch
egh out the heavens as a eurtein and
spressieth them out a. = tent 20 dwell in !"
and Hezskiah compares death 20 the strik-
ing of tent, saving, My age Is removed
from me ss a shepherds tent"
In our tent in Palestine tonight hear
something / never heard before and hope
never 20 hear again. It is the voice Of a
hyens amid the rocks near by. When You
may have seen this monster putting his
mouth between the iron bars Of menag-
erie he i a captive. and he gives a humil-
lated and suppressed cry. But yOnder in
the midnight on a throne OF rocks he has
nothing 20 fear and he utters himself in
q loud, resoanding. terrific, almost super
natural sound. splitting up the darkness
into deeper midnight IL begins with a
howl and ends with a sound something Ike
horses whining. In the hyenas voice ara
defiance and strength and bloodthirstiness
and crunch Of broken bones and death.
BEASTS OF PREY NO LONGER THERE.
am glad TO say that for the most part
Palestine is clear OF beasts Of prey. The
leopards, which jeremiah says cannot
change their spots, have all disappeared,
aud the lions that once were common all
through this land, and used by all the
proDhets for illustrations of cruelty and
wrath, have retrested before the discharges
OF gunpOwder, of which they have an in
describable fear. But for the most part
Palestine j. what il originally was With
the one exception OF a wire thread reach
ing from Joopa TO Jerusalem and from
Jerusalem to Nazareth and from Nazareth
70 Tiberias and from Tiberias 10 Damas-
Gus, that one nerve OF civilization the tels-
graphic wire (for we found ourselves only
a few minutes of from Brooklyn and New
York while standing by Lake Galilee),
with that one exception Palestine is just as
it always was.
Nothing surprised me so much as the
persistence of everything. A sheep or
horse falls dead, and though the sky may
one minute before be clear of all wings in
FIVE minutes after the skies are black with
eagles cawing, screaming, plunging, fight
ing for room, contending for largest NOR
scls Of the extinct quadruped. All, now
understand the force of Christ's illustra-
tion when he said, 'Wheresoever the car
cass is there will the eagles be gathered to-
gether" The longevity OF those eagles is
wonderful They live fifty and sixty and
sometimes hundred years. An, that ex-
plains what David meant when he said,
'"Thy youth is renewed like the eagles"
saw a shepherd with the folds of his coat
far bent outward, and | wondered what
was contained in that amplitude of APP
| bot
has that shepherd got under his coat9"
And the dragomnn said, "It is a very
young lamb he is carrying; it is too young
and too weak aud too cold to keep
up with the flock" At that moment
saw the lamb put It's head out from the
shepherds bosom and l said, There it is
now, Isaiah's description Of the tenderness
OF God-hc shall gather the lambs with
his arm and carry them in his bosom"
wow EARLY AT THE sEPULCHER.
Passing By a village home, in the Holy
Land, about noon / saw a great crowd in
and around a private house, and | said
TO the drazoman, David. what is going on
, there2" He said. Somebody has recently
died there. and their neighbOrs go in for
several days after 20 sit down and weep
with the be. ssved" There it is, | said, the
old scripturAi custom. And many of the
Jews came TO Martha and Mary, to com
fort them concerning their brother" Early
in the morning passing by n cemetery IN
the Holy Land / saw among the graves
about fifty women dressed ia black, and
they were CRYING: "Oh, my childn' "Oh,
my husbandF' "Oh, my fatherl' "Oh,
my mother Our drsgomaa told US tha,
every morning, very early for three morn
ings after burial, the women 90 20 the
scpulcher, and after that every week very
early for year. AS saw this group just
after daybreak I said, There it is again
the same old custom referred 70 ia Luke
the evangelist. where he says, Certain
women which were early at the sepul
cher
THr WONDERFUL WE'LL OF JACOB.
But here we found ourselves At Jacob:
! well. the most famous well in history
most distinguished for two things, becsus'
it belonged 70 the old patriarch after whom
Il was named, and for the wonderful
things which Christ said. seated on tbi'
: well curb. 70 The Ssnaritan woman. We
dismount from our horses in drizElin
rain ssd Our dragomsn. climbing up q
the veil over the slippery stones, stumbie'
and friehtens us sIl By nearly falling int
IL 7 measured the we'll at tss top and
foand il SIX feet from sdgs 20 edge
so-sa grass and weeds snd thoray growth.
ovcrhang f. In one plsof the reef 4
broken through Large sslnee suabaus
the val on al sides
Oar drasor1an took pebbles snd iroppef
thera in. and from Tho tire thsy le(t hi.
hard 20 tae instant tEeT clicked on th'
bottom you ccold hesr it vas deep though