The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-08

straw was dry. The hundred foxes are
caught and tied in couples by some wire
or incombustible cord which the flames
can not divide, and frebrands are fas-
tened to those couples Of foxes, and the
affrighted creatures are let loose and
run every whither among the harvests,
and In the awful blaze down 60 the corn
shocks, and the vineyards, and
the olives, and all through the
valleys and overs the hills, and
among the villages is heard the cry OF
firei And in the burnt pathway walk
hunger, and want and desolation. All
this for spite. And some theologians
learn onething, and some another. But
learn from II that great man may
sometimes stoop to very mean piece OF
business, and that II 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. Yet the fire OF the
foxes kindled that night in Palestine
has not gone out but has leaped the
seas, and the sly foxes, the human foxes,
are now still running every whittier,
kindling political fires, fires Of religious
controversy, fires OF hate, worldwide
fires, and whole harvests Of righteous
ness perish. 1t took the hard work OF
multitudes on all these plains Of Pales-
tine for months and months to rear the
vine and raise the corn, but ittook only
three hundred worthless foxes one night
to blaze all into ashes. ~
Brace up your nerves now, that you
may look while point them out. Yon-
der is Kirjath-Jearim, whore the ark Of
Goa stayed until David took 1t to Jeru-
salem. Yonder John the Baptist was
born. Yonder is Emmaus, whore Christ
walked with the disciples at eventide.
Here are men plowing, only one handle
to tho plow, showing the accuracy OF
Christ's allusion. When we plow In
America or England there are two
hands on two handles, but in Palestine
only one handle. And so Christ uses
the singular, saying: "No man having
put his hand to the plow and looking
back is fit for the kingdom" The OK is
urged on by wooden stick pointed
with sharp iron, and the OK knows
enough not TO kick, for he would only
hurt himself instead Of breaking the
goad. And the Bible refers TO that
when 1t says to Saul ut is hard for
thee to kick against the goads."
Here is the valley Of Ajalon, famous
for Joshua's pursuit Of the five kings,
and the lunar arrest And in imagina-
tion see the moon in day time halt
Who has not sometimes seen the moon
dispute the'throne with the sun? But
when the king OF day and the queen OF
night, who never before Joshua's time,
nor since then, stopped moment In
their march, halted at Joshua's COM
mand, It was scene, enough 10 make
the universe SILVER: "Moon, stand thou
still in the valley Of Ajalonl" At an
other time we will see the sun stop
above Gideon, but now we have only TO
do with the moon. and you must remem-
Der that II was moro OF an orb than 1t
Is now. IL Is burntrout world now, q
dead world now, an extinct world now,
corpse laid out In state In the heavens,
waiting for the Judgment day TO bury It
But on the day OF which | speak the
moon was a living world, yet II halted
at the wave Of Joshua's finger, "Stand
thou still" Do not bulge an inch until
Joshua finishes those fve kings who
are tumbling over the rocks, sword OF
man slashing them, hailstones out OF
the sky pelting them.
And there Is the cavern OF Makkedah,
where they fed for safety, and where
they were afterwards locked in, and
from which they were taken out TO be
slain, and In which they were afterward
buried and you do we'll to examine that
cavern, for within few hours 1t became
three things which no other cave ever
was, fortress, prison. sepulcher.
Now we pass the place whore once
lived ono OF the greatest robbers OF the
century, Abou Gosh by name. From
this point you see no could look over all
the surrounding country, and long be-
fore the travellers came up 10 him, the
plan for the taking Of their money or
their life, or both was consummated.
He ono 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 like an Oriental
prince, and had his attendants and
admirers TO whom he told the stories OF
brigandago and assassination. So late
as when our eminent and beloved Amer
ican, william c. Prime, passed through,
Abou Gosh, the scoundrelly Bedouin,
sat at his doorway, smoking his pipe.
His descendants live In this village, and
probably are no more honest than their
distinguished ancestor, but marauding
and murder are not as safe business
now as when all this route 10 Jerusalem
was subject TO outrsges pandemoniac.
Here we pass the village OF Latrun,
home OF the penitent thief, the village,
few struggling houses on steep hills
rising from the valley OF Ajaloi. Ut
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 Q guilty heart
But higher than these hills be noun tqd,
after he had repented, from The tram.
hxed posture on the cross TO the bosom
Of I forRiying God -
Now We CONT o the brook Eiah, from
which little David took the smooth
stones with which he prostrAted G9ltfth
There is q bridge spanning tina raEine,
but at the season we crossed, there II
not drop Of water In tho brook. We
went down into the ravine and walked
amid the pebbles tbat he'd been washed
smooth, very spoqth, By the fu.h Of th.
waters through all the ages There Z
whore. David armed himself He walked
around and picked mp Ave Of these pol
ished pcbblea He got them Of just this
right size. He prepared himself for five
volleys, 90 thati II the giant escapes the
first, he will not escspe the whole Ave
The topography Of the place 80 leorre
spends with the Bible story that I could
see the %enorsblel hghtIso on AZ 4 I