Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06

and over the hills and among the villages is
heard the cry of Firel And in the burnt path
way walk Hunger and Want and Desolation.
And all this for spite. And some theologians
/ learn one thing, and some another. But learn
! from it that great man may sometimes stoop
| to very mean piece of business and that If
men would use as much ingenuity in trying to
bless as they do in trying to destroy, the world
| all the way down would have been in better
condition.
Brace up your nerves now. that you may look
| while point them out Yonder is Kirjatb.
| Jearim, where the ark of God stayed until Da-
vid took it to Jerusalem. Yonder John the
| Baptist was horn. Yonder is Emmaus where
| Christ walked with the disciples st eventide.
| Here is the valley of Ajalou. famous for JOSH
| ua's pursuit of the hve kings and the lunar
arrest. And there is the cavern of Makkedah,
| where they fed for safety. and where they
were afterward locked in, and from which they
were taken ont to be slain, and in which they
were afterward buried: and you do well to ex-
anime that cavern, for within a few hours il
became three things which no other cave ever
was: fortress, prison. sepulchre.
Now we pass the place where once lived one
OF the greatest robbers of the century. Abuu
Gosh by name. From this point you see he
could look over all the surrounding country,
and long before the travellers came up to him,
the plan for the taking of their money or their
life. or both was consummated. He one day
found company of monks who would not pay,
and he smothered them to death in hot oven.
In his last days. he lived here
LIN L AN 4,
and had his attendants ana admirers to whom
he told the stories of brigandage and assassi-
nation. So late when our eminent and be-
loved American, William c. Prime, passed
through, Abou Gosh, the scoundrelly Bedouin,
sat at his doorway smoking his pipe. His de-
scendanrs live in this village. and probably are
no more honest than their distinguished ances-
tor, but marauding and murder are not as safe
business now as when all this route to Jeru-
salem was subject to outrages pandemoniac.
Here we pass the village of Latrun. home Of
the penitent thief the village. a few struggling
houses on steep hills rising from the valley of
Alalon. Up these steep hills in his earlier
days, the thief had carried the spoils of arson
and burglary, and down them he had borne the
heavier burden of guilty heart. But higher
than these hills he mounted, after he had re-
pented, from the tranfixed posture on the
cross to the bosom of a forgiviIg God.
Now we come to the brook Elah, from which
little David took the smooth stones with which
he prostrated Goliath. But 1--WE must hasten on,
for the danger now is that night will be upon
us before we reach Jerusalem. OH we must
see it before sundown. We are climbing the
hills which are terraced with olive groves, up
lands rising above uplands. until we come to an
immensity of barrenness gray rocks above gray
rocks, where neither tree nor leaf. nor bush,
nor grass blade can grow. The horses stumble,
and slip, and pull, till it seems the harness
must break. Solemuity and awe take posses
sion of us. Though a vivacious party, and
during part of the day jocularity had reigned,
now no one spoke a word except to say to the
dTagoman; ell us when you get the first
eXpectation of seeing any place as of seeing
Jerusalem. think my feelings may have been
slightly akin to that of the Christian just about
to enter the heavenly Jerusalem. My ideas of
THE EARTHLY JERUSALEM
were bewildering. Had not seen pictures of
it? Oh, yes; but they only increase the be-
wilderment. They we're taken from a variety
of standpoints. If 20 artists attempt TO sketch
Brooklyn. or New York, or London, or Jeru-
salem, tney Will plant their cameras at different
places. and take as many different pictures, but
In few minutes shall see the sacred city with
my own eyes. Over another shoulder of the
hill we go. and nothing in sight but rocks and
and awful gulches between them,
which make the head swim if you look down.
On and up, on and up. until the lathered and
smoking horses are reined in, and
the dragoman rises in front, and
mightier than an electric shock. We all
rose. There it lay, the prize of nations, the
terminus Of famous pilgrimages, the object of
Roman and crusading wars. and for il Assyrians
had fought; and Egyptians had fought, and the
world had fought; the place where the Queen
of Sheba visited, and Richard C9ur de Lion
had conquered. Home of Solomon. Home of
Ezekiel Home of Jeremiah. Home OF Isaiah
Home of SaladIn. Mount Zion of David's
heartbreak, and Mount Morah, where the sac
rIhces smoked, Mount of Olives where Jesus
preached and Gethsemane where he agonized
and GoIgotha where he died, and the Holy
Sepulchre where he was buried. O. Jerusa-
lem! Jerusalem! Greatest city on earth, and
type of the city celestial.
After have been 10 600 years in heaven, the
Of that first view from the rocks on
the afternoon of December will be as vivid as
now. An Arab on horse that was like whlrl-
wind, bitted and saddled and spurred, its name
and tanks jet as tbs highland there are no
such horsem'n n as Arab horsmen-had come far |
put to meet us. and invite us to his hotel inside
The gates. But arrangements had been made |
-or us to stay at hotel outside the gates. In 1
he dusk of evening we halted in front of the |
'lace and entered, but said: mo, thank you
or your courteous reception, but I must
would rather have the poorest place inside the |
gates than the best place outside"
ENTERING THE HOLY CITY.
So we remounted our coach and moved on |
amid clamor of voices, and between camels |
yrunting with great beams and timbers on their |
pack, brought in for building purposes-for it |
S amazing how much a camel can carry-until |
We came to what is called the Joppa Gate of |
Jerusalem. 1t is about 40 feet wide, 20 feet |
ieep and 80 feet high. There Is a sharp turn /
ust after you have entered SO planned as to |
make the entrance of armed enemies the more |
hfhcult. On the structure of these gates the |
afety of Jerusalem depended, and all the Bible |
writer's used them for illustrations Within
i've minutes walk of the gate we entered,
David wrote: ENTER into thy gates with |
Lift up your heads O. We |
,atesr' The Lord loveth the gates of Zion"
Open to me the gates of righteousness" And
salaE wrote: 60 through, go through the
.ates." And the captive Of Patmos wrote: /
The city had Il gates" Having passed the
.ate, we went on through the narrow streets,
imly lighted, and passed to our halting place,
md sat down by the window from which we
ould see Mount Zion, and said: Here we are
{ last, in the capital of the whole EARTH" And
thoughts of the past and the future rushed
through my soul in quick succession and |
hought of that old hymn, sung by SO many
.scending spirits;
Jerusalem, my happy home
Name ever dear to me!
When shall my Iabors have an end,
In JOY and peace and thee?
When shall these eyes thy heay'n-buIlt walls
And pearly gates behold?
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong.
And streets of shining goldg
And so with our hearts full of gratitude to
rod for j0urneying mercies all the way from
oppa to Jerusalem, and with bright antlcipa-
ion OF our entrance into the shining gate of
be heavenly city when earthly JOURNEYS are
yer, my second day IN Palestine is ended.
Wool Markets.
ST. LoUIs-Wool receipts, 80 055 pounds:
larket firm, but unchanged.
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
luite a Busy Sunday of Preparation on the
Wharf.
Sunday was not observed on the levee yester-
ay very vigorously. All that was required to |