Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-10-04

leaf, and it withered, and the sun smote
Jonah, he hew into great rage, and said:
1T is better for me to die than to live
prophet in a rage because be had lost his
umbrella Beware of petulancei
But standing here on the housetop at Jop-
pa, / look off upon the sands near the beach,
and almost expected to find them Grim
soned and incarnadined. But no; the rains
long ago washed away the last sign of the
Napoleonic massacre. Napoleon was march
ing on through the coasts. He had here at
Joppa four thousand Albanians, who had
been surrendered as prisoners of war, and
under promise of protection. What shall
he do with them9 1t viii be impossible for
him to take them along. and he cannot afford
TO leave soldiers enough to guard them from
escape. 1t will not be difficult for the man
who broke the heart OF lovely Josephine, and
who. when asked if the great losses OF life in
his battles were not too dear a price to pay
for his victories. shrugged his shoulders
nirthfuly and said, "You must break the
eggs if you want to make an onele- - say
it will not be difficult for him to decide.
The prisoners of war by his order are taken
out on the sands and put TO death-one tnou-
sand of them, two thousand ct them, three
thousand of them, four thousand OF them,
massacred. And the blood pours down into
the sea, the red of the one mingling with the
blue of the other. and making an awful
maroon which neither God nor nation can
ever forget Ye who are fond of vivid con-
trasts put the two scenes of Jopna side by
side. Dorcas with her needle, and the i'm
mortal butcher with his knife.
But standing on this Joppa house top
look off on the Mediterranean, and what is
that strange sight / see? The waters are
black, seemingly for miles. There seems to
be a great multitude of logs fastened to-
gether. Oh. yes, it is a great raft of timbers.
They are cedars of Lebanon, which King
Hiram is furnishing Kiog Solomon in ex-
change for 90, coo measures of wheat, $4,000
baths of oil AMI 90 600 baths OF wine. These
cedars have been cut down and trimmed in
the mountains of Lebanon by the 10000 ak
men engaged there, and with great withes
and iron bolts are fastened together, and they
are floating down to Jcppa TO be taken across
the land for Soiomon's temple, now building
at Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold OF
the Nineteenth century and are clear back IN
tee ages.
The RATS of cedar are guided into what is
called the Moon Pool, an old harbor south
of Joppa, now filed with sand and useless
With long pixies the timber is pushed this
way and that in the water, then with divers
and many loud, long 10, heaven as the
carriers get their shoulder under the great
weight, the timber is fastened to the wag-
ons and the lowing oxen are yoked to the
load, and the procession of teams moves on
with crack of whip and drawled out words
which, translated, | suppose would CORE
spond with the whoa. haw, geer of mod
ern transfers, toward Jerusalem. which is
thirty miles away over mountainous dis
tances which for hundreds of years defied
all engineering. And those rough cedars
shall become carved pillars and beautiful
affairs and rounded bannisters, and trac-
cried panels, and sublime ceiling, and ex-
quisite harps and kingly chariots.
As the wagon train moves out from Joppa
over the plain of Sharon toward Jerusalem |
say to myself, what vast numbers of people
helped build that temple of Solomon, and
what vast numbers of people are now en-
gagged in building the wider, higher, grander
I temple of Righteousness rising in the earth.
/ Our Christian ancestry toiled at it, amid
sweat and tears, and hundreds of the genera
tions of the good, and the long train Of
| Christian workers still moves on; and as in
| the construction of Solomon's temple some
hewed with the ak in the far away Lebanon,
and some drove a wedge, and some twisted
withe and some trod the wet and slippery
RATS the sea, and some yoked
the OK, and some pulled at tue load,
and some showed the plane, and soma
fitted the joints, and some heaved
up the rafters but all helped build the tenn
1 pie, though some of these never saw 1t, so
now let all put our hands, and our shoul-
/ ders, and our hearts to tine work of building
/ the temple of righteousness. which is to fill
( the earth; and one will bind a wound, and
another will wipe away 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 millenial morn shall
, gild the pinnacle of that finished temple, and
/ at its shining gates the world shall put down
! its last burden, and in its LAYERS wash off its
= last strain, and at its affairs the last wandercr
shall Kneel. AT the dedication OF that tenn
! pie all the armies of earth and heaven Will
shoulder arms" and present arms" AMI
ground arms" for ''behold greater than
Solomon is here"
But my first day in the Holy Land is
ended. The sun is already closing his eye for
| the night. Island on the balcony of hotel
which was brought TO Joppa in pieces from
the State of Maine by some fanatics who
came here expecting to see Christ reappear
in Palestine. My room hero was
once occupied by that Christian
hero OF the centuries-English, Chinese,
Egyptian, worldwide General Gordon, a
man mighty for God as well as for the
worlds paciiication Although the first of
December and winter. the air is full of fra
GRANGE from gardens all a-bloom, and under
my window are acacia and tamaris,l and
mulberry and century plants aud orange
groves and oleander From the drowsiness
of the air and the fatigues of the day l feel
sleepy. Good night! Tomorrow morning
/ we start for Jerusalem.