The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-09


light. The owl hates the morY !. Leave
those rocks where they are" practically
cries tho Turkish governments: 1--WE want no
people Of other religions and other habits to
land there; j. the salt seas wash over them.
let it be u warning to other invaders; away
with your nineteenth century, with it's free
thought and modern inventions" That
Turkish government ought to be blotted
from the face q the earth, andTitwill be. or
many Of the Inhabitants of Pacs tine asked
the question. HAS the sultan OF Turkey
ever been here9 Answer, Mo- why
don't he come, when it belongs to his do
minion?" And. utter the man Intercepted
looked this way, and that. no rs he knew he
would not be reported. the answer would in
variably be, He dare not come" believe
it. II the sultan Of Turkey attempted to
visit Jerusalem he would never get back
again. All Palestine hates him. l saw him
go to the mosque for prayers in his own city
of Constantinople and saw 1000 armed men
riding out to protect him. Expensive pray
ers. OF course that government wants no bet
terharbor at Joppn. May God removeth
curse of nations, that old bag the centuries,
the Turkish government! For it's eyerlast-
ing insult to God and woman. let it perish
And so those rocks at the harbor remain the
jaws of repeated destruction.
As We descended the narrow steps at the
side of the ship, we heard the camor. and
races of men Of all eatures. and all colors
and all vernacuars: all different in appear.
ance, but all alike in desire to set our bag
gage and ourselves at exhorbiuant prices
Twenty boats and only 10 passengers to so
ashore. The man having charge of us
pushes aside some, and strikes with heavy
sticks Others. and by violence that would not
be tolerated in our country, but which seems
to be the only manner OF making any i'm
preston there. cleares our way into one of
the boats which heads for the shore. We
are within 10 minutes of the Christ-land.
Now we hear shouting from the beach and in
five minutes we are landed The PROV OF the
boat is caught by men who wade out to help
us in. We are tremulous with suppressed
excitement. Ourbreathi is quick, and from the
side OF the boat we spring to the Shore and
Sunday morning, Dec. l, 1899, about 8
O'Clock. our feet touch Palestine. Forever to
me and mine will that day and hour be com
memoratsd, FOR that re-eminent mercy. Let
it be mentioned in prayer by my children and
children's children after we are gone. that
morning we were permitted to enter that land
and gaze upon those holy hills, and ,eel the
emotions that rise aud fall. and weep, and
laugh. and sing, and triumph at such q
Decentralization.
On the back of hills $50 feet high Joppa is
lifted toward the skies. 1t is as picturesque
as it is quaint, and as much unlike any city
II
that star Mars, where, a few nights ago this
very September, astronomers, though I'M
pnreled Telescopes. saw a snow storm rag
ing. how glad we were to be in .Joppa! Why,
this is the city where Dorcas, that queen OF
the needle, lived and died and was resurrected.
You remember that the poor people came
around the dead body OF this beneiactress
and brought specimens of her kind needle
work. and said: ''Dorcas made this" "Dor-
cas- sewed that" ''Dorcas cut and fitted this:''
''Dorcas hemmed that" According to Light
foot, the commentator, they laid her out in
state in a public room and the poor wrung
their hands and cried. and sent for Peter,
who performed a miracle by which the good
woman came back to life and resumed her
benelactions. An especial resurrection day
Tor one woman! She was the 10 ode by which
many women ofOur day have fashioned their
lives, and at the first blast of the horns of
the wintry tempest there appear 1000 Dor
cases-Dorcases of Brooklyn, Decreases of New
York, Decreases of London, Decreases Of all
the neighborhoods and towns and cities of
Chnstendom, just as good az the Dorcas Of
the Joppa which visited. Thank God for
the ever-increasing skill and sharpness and
speed and generosity of Dorcas's needle.
What is that man doing?" said to the
dragoman in the streets OF Joppa "Oh. he
is carrying his bed' Multitudes of the peo-
pie sleep out-of-doors, and that is the way so
many of those lands become blind. It is
from the dew OF the night falling on the eye
lids. AS a result Of this, in Egypt every
twentieth person is totally BLIND.
In oriental lands the bed is made of thin
small mattress, q blanket and pillow, and
when the man rises in the morning he Just
ties up the three into q bundle and shoulders
it and takes it away. 1t was to that tile
Savior referred when he said to the sick man,
Take up thy bed and walk An Ameri-
can couch or an English couch would require
at least four men to carry it, but one Orient
al can easily manage his slumber equipment.
But lnhnle some OF the odors oil the large
tannerles around Japan. 1t is there to this
day. prosperous business, this tanning of
hides. And that reminds me of Simon. the
tanner, who lived at Joppa, and was the
bost of'Peter the apostle. / suppose the o.
factories OF Peter were as easily insulted by
the oders of a tanne1y sss Others But the
Bible says, ''He lodged with one Sim on, the
tanner" People who go out to do re orma-
tory and missionary and Christian work
must not be too sensitive. Simon no doubt
brought to his homestead every night the
malodors of the calfskills and ox-hi,les in
his tnnnery. but Peter lodged in that home.
not only because he may Eot have been in
V1ted to the houses of merchant princes sur
rounded by redolent gardens, but to teach
make the word better, they must not he
squeamish and fastidious and financial and
over-particular in doing the work of the
world. The church OF God isl dying. of fas-
tldiousness We cry over the sutferings OF
The world in hundro d dollar pocket hand
kerciliets, and then put a cent in the poor
box. There are many willing to do Chris
tan work am ong the cleanly and refined and
the elegant and the educated; but excuse
them from taking loaf OF bread down a
dirty alley; excuse them from touching q
mission school among the uncombed and
the unwnshed; excuse them from touching
the hand of one whose finger nails are in
mourning for departed soap. Such religious
preclslonsts can toll in atm ospnere laden
with honeysuckle or3rosemary, but not in
air floating up from the malodorous watts
No, no. no! excuse them from lodging with
one Simon, the tanner.
During the last war, there were in Vir-
ginia some 60 or 70 wounded soldiers in a
barn on the second floor, SO near the root
TINT the heat of the August sun was almost
insupportabe, The men were dying from
sheer exhaustion and suffocntion dis
tinguished member of the Christian COM
mission said to the nurse who stood there
wash the faces and leet of these mon and
it will revive them.'' No. said the nurse,
Il didn't come into the army to wash any
body's feet" well. said tine distinguished
member of the commission, bring me
water and a towel l will be glad to wash
their feet" One was the spirit Of the devil,
the other the spirit OF Christ.
But the reference to Peter reminds me
that we must go to the house tops in J oppa
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