The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06

: the accuracy Of Christ's allusion. When VI
: plough in America or England there arr
two hands on two handles, but in Palestine
/ only one handle. And 50 Christ uses tbs
? singular saying: mo mar AaviDg put hl,
hand TO the plough and looking bacN Is nj
I for the kingdom The OK is urged on BY
a wooden stick pointed with sharp iron, and
the OK knows enough not to kick, for be
would only hurt himself instead OF breaking
the goad And the Bible refers 10 that
when 10 says 70 Saul: 1T 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 imagination | ses the
moon in daytime halt VINO has not some
| times seen the moon dispute the throne with
the sum- But when the king Of day and the
queen Of night, who never before Joshuas
time, nor since then, stopped a moment IN
| their march, halted at JOshua's command
it was a scene, enough to make the universe
SILVER: Moon stand thou still in the
valley of Aialonm At another time we
will see the sun stop above Gideon, but
now we have only to deal with the
moon, and you must remember that
it was more OF an orb than il is
now 1t IS burntout world now, a dead
world now, an extinct world now, a corpse
laid out in state il the heavens, waiting for
the judgment day to bury it But on the
day of which speak the moon was prob
ably living world, YET 1t halted at the
wave of Joshuais finger, Stand thou still ~
Do not bulge an inch until Joshua finishes
those five kings. who are there tumbilng
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
xss.k.
they were taken out to be slain, and in
which they were afterward buried; and you
do well to examine that cavern, for within
| a few hours it became three things which no
other cave ever was: Fortress, prison,
sspulcher.
Now we pass the place where once lived
| one Of the greatest robbers of the Gentry,
Abou Gosh by name. From this point you
| see he could look over all the surrounding
country. and long before the travellers
came up tn him, the plan for the taking of
| their money or their life or both was consul
mated. He one day found company of
monks who would not pay, and he smoth-
cred them to death in hot oven. In his
| last days, he lived here like an oriental
prince, and had his attendants and admir-
ers to whom he told the stories of brigan-
dage and assassination. So late as when
| our eminent and beloved American, Will
liam c. Prime, passed through Abou Gosh,
the scoundrelly Bedouin sat at his door-wa
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
a business now as when all this route to
Jerusalem was subject TO outrages pande-
moniac.
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 A jalon. Up these steep hills
in his earlier days, the thief had carried the
spoils of arson and burglary, and down
them had borne the heavier burden of
guilty heart But higher than these hills
he mounted, after he had repented. from
the transfixed posture on the cross to the
bosom of forgiving God.
Now we come to the brook Elah, from
which little David took the smooth stones
with which he Frustrated Goliath. There is
a bridge spanning the ravine, but at the
season we crossed there is not drop of
water in the brook. We went down into
the ravtne and walked amid the pebbles
that had been washed smooth, very smooth,
by the rush of the waters through all the
ages. There is where David armed himself
He walked around and picked up five of
these polished pebbles. He got them Of
just the right size. He prepared himself
for five volleys, SO that IL the giant escapes
the first, he will not escape the whole
five. The topography of the place so
corresponds with the Bible story that
/ could see the memorable fight go on. 1t
is the only fight ever did watch. Pugilism
l abbor, but here were two champions, the
one God-appointed, the other Satan-ap-
pointed, and deciding the destiny of
nation, the destiny of a world. 1t was a
Marathon, an Arbela, a Waterloo, a Blen-
helm, a Sedan, concentered into two right
arms Here are two ridges of mountains
500 feet high, the Philistines on one ridge,
the Israelitas on the other ridge. The fight
is in the valley between, at that season
shaded, and sweet with terebinth and
acacia. David, the champion for the Israeli
ties, Goliath, the champion for the Philis-
tines. David understood and almost effen-
mate, only a mouthfui for Goliath, who
was nearly ten feet high
They advance to meet each other, but the
Bible says that David made the first step
forward. Nearer and nearer they come.
but do not think David will wait until he
comes within reach of Goliaths sword, for
that would be fatal, and David has a wea-
pom with which he can fight at long range.
Closer and closer they come, but DAVID ad-
vances the more rapidly. "Come to me-"
said the giant, land | will give thy flesh
unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts
OF the field" You sec Goliath going to
give DdNiu IOr u banquet TO the Vulture
and jackal. He, the mountain of
flesh, will fall over on that little
hillock. hear him laugh through the
mouth-piece of his helmet. He will toast
the little whiffet on the tou of his long
sword. He will call all the crows for a
breakfast. Come to me you contempti-
BILE little fellow, and l will make quick
work with you. The idea that five-footer
should dare to come out against a ten
footerl Let the two armies looking down
from the ridges watch mel" David re-
sponded: II come to thee in the name of
the Lord Of hosts" Aha, thai is the right
kind of battle-shout. "In the name of the
Lord of hosts" How that cry rings
throughout the Wady-es-Sumpt. He who
fights in that spirit wins the day The almost
Israelitish dwarf enlarges into omnipoten
proportions. The moment to strike has
come. David takes his sling with a stone
in 1t and whirls it round, and round his
head, until he has put the weapon into
sufficient momentum, and then, taking sure
aim hurts it. The giant throws up his hands
and reels back and falls. The stone sank
into his forehead. That was the only avail
able point of attack But how about the
helmet on his head2 Did the stone that
David flung crush through the helmeti No:
an old rabbi says he thinks that when
Goliath scotfed at David, the giant so sud
denly and contemptuously jerked up his
bead that the helmet fell of. That is like
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