The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-10-10


his battles were not to denr price to pny
for his Victories. shruggsd his shoulders
msrthfullv and said. ''you must bronx thee
you want to nuke ON omslet"-lsay, it will
not bc difficult for him to decide. The
prisoners OF war. BY his order, are tnken out
them, 1000 of them, 5000 of them. 1000
Of them, mnssacre.i: Aud the blood pours
down into the sea. the red OF the one ming
ling with the bue Of tho other, and making
an aw ul maroon which neither God nor ma.
tion can ever forget. Ye who are fond Of
vivid contrasts, put the two scenes Of Joppn
side BY side, Dorcns with her needle. and ths
But my first day In the Holy land 10
ended. The sun is already closing his eye
for tho night. stand on the balcony o, n
hotel which was brought to Joppa in pieces,
from the State OF Maine by soma fanntics
who cnme hero expecting to sec Christ re.
appear in ral"stinc. My room here was
once occupied by that Christian hero Of the
centnries-English. Chinese. Egyptian,
worldwide Gcn. Gordon, man mighty ioi
Cod nv well nv for the worlds paciiicaton,
Although the first OF December nnd winter.
he air is full Of fragrance from gardens all
a-b!oom aud under my window are acacia
and tnmarsk and mulberry and century
From the .lrowsincss OF the air and tho
tntigues of the .lny feel sleepy. Good
night. Tomorrow morning we start Tor
Jerusalem"
But stnniing on this Joppa house top, I
look of On the Mediterranean, and what il
hlack. seemingly for miles. There seems to
I've u great multitude Of logs fastened to.
gcther. oh, yes, it il greut raft OF ftiml.ers,
They are ce,lurs Of Lebanon which King
Hiram is furnishing King Solomon in ex.
change @ for 10000 measures o! wheat, 2O,-
600 hat',s ot oil. and 10000 baths oi wine.
These cednIs have been cut down and
trimmed in the mountains Of Lebanon Ly
tho 10000 axemen engaged there and with
grcnt witlles and iron bolts are fastened to.
gether. md they are floating down to J0ppa,
TO be taken across the land for Solomon 3
temple now building Mt Jerusalem, for We
have lost our hold OF tho Nineteenth century
81 cedar IRE guided into what is called tho
Moon Pool. an old harbor, south of JOppa,
now filled with saul and useless. With jonr
pixies lie timber il pushed this why and that
III the wnterss then with levers. aud mnny u
loud long 10. hcavc!" as the carriers get
their shoulders under tho great weight. the
timher IL fastened to the wagons and the
lowing oxen nre yokcd to the load, and the
procession of tennis moves ON with crack OF
whip, aud drnwed out words whicl trims.
lated. suppose. would correspond with the
whoa: lnw. gee!" of modern teamsters,
toward Jerusalem. which 10 80 miles away,
over mountainous distnnces, which for hun.
dre,ls OF years detied all engineering And
tl'esc r"ugl, celars shall hecome carved nil.
inra, an'i beautiful alters. an.i rounded 'han-
llistcrS. and trnrcred panels, md sublime
ceiling. and exquisite harps, and kingly cllar.
lots
Az the wagon train moves out from Joppa
over the plain OF Sharon toward Jerusalem,
! sny TO myself what vnst numbers of people
helped build that temple Of Solomon, and
what vast numbers of ofleopls nre now en.
gagged in building the wider. higher, gran.lcr
temple O rigllteousness rising in the earth.
Onr Christian ancestry toiled ut it, amid
sweat aud tears. Nnd hundreds of the genera
tions OF the good. md tho long train Of
Christian workers still moves on, aud as in
the construction Of SoomOn's temple some
hewed Will, the ax in tho fnr.away Lebanon
aud some drove n wedge. nnd some twisted
withe. and some trod the wet and slippery
rats on the sen, and some yokcd the OK, and
some pulled ut the loud, and some showed
the plane. ani some fitted the points. nnd
some heaved up the ratters, but all helped
build the temple, though some o. tl.eso
never saw, it so now let us all put our hands
nn'i our shoulders, and our henrts to the
work Of building the temple of righteous.
ness. which 10 to fill the cnrth; and one will
bind wound, and another will wipe nway n
tenr. and another will tench class, md an.
other will speak the encouraging wor,i, and
all Of US will lie ready to pull and lit, nnil
in some wny help ON the work until the
milleninl morn shall guild the pinnacle OF that
finished temple. md at it's shining gates the
world shnll put down it's last burden, and in
its lavers wasl of it's last stain. aud al it's
nltnrs the last wan,lerer shall kneel. At tho
dedication of that temple all the armies ot
enrthund henven will shoulder arms," and
present arms" and "ground urms," for
behold o greater than Solomon is here"