Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09

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He will toast the little whifIet on the ton
of his long sword. He will call all the
crows for breakfast. ''Come 10 me
YOU contemplate little fellow, and I
Will make quick work with you. The
idea that q five-focter should come out
! against n ten-footeri Let the two armies
looking down from the ridges watch
me!' David responded; 81 come 10
thee in the name Of the Lord Of Hosts.
Aha, that Is the
RIGHT KIND OF BATTLE SHOUT.
'In the name of the Lord of hosts!'
How that cry rings through the Wady-
es-Sumpt! He who fights IN that spirit
wins the day. The almost lsraelltlsh
dwarf enlarges into omnipotent proper
tons. The moment to strike has come.
David takes his sling with stone in II
and whirls II round and round his head,
until he has put the weapon into Hufii-
cient momentum, and then, taking sure
aim, hurls it. The giaut throws up his
hands and reels back and falls. The
stone sank into his forehead. That was
the only available point of attack. But
bow about the helmet on his head2 Did
the stone that David flung crush through
the helmet? No; an old rabbi says he
thinks thut when Goliath scoffed ut Du-
vic, the giant so sud denly and con-
temptuously jerked up his head that the
helmet fell of. That is like enough.
David saw the bare forehead. foot
high, and aimed At the center of it, and
the skull cracked and broke in like an
egeshell, and the ground shook as this
great OAK of q military chieftuin struck
it. HuZzah for David
But we must hasten on, for the danger
now is that night Will be upon US before
we reach Jerusalem. Oh! we must see
it before shutdown. We are climbing the
hills which are terraced with olive
groves. uplauds rising above uplands,
until we come to an imuen-
sity of barrenness, gray rocks
| above gray rocks, where neither
tree, nor leaf, nor bush. nor grass blade
can grow. The horses stumble, and
slip, and pull, till it seems the harness
must break. Solemnity and awe take
possession of us. Though a vivacious
party, and during part of the day jocu-
larity had reIgned, now no one spoke
word except to say to the dragoman,
"Tell US when YOU get the first glimpse
of the city - l never Lad such high ex-
pectatlon of seeing any place as OF
SEEING JERUSALEM.
/ think my feelings may have been
slightly akin to that of the Christian just
about to enter the heavenly Jerusalem.
My ideas of the earthly Jerusalem were
bewilderiug. Had not seen pictures of
il? Oh, yes; but they only Increase the
bewilderment. They weTe taken from
variety of stGndpoints. If twenty artists
attempt to sketch Brooklyn, or New
York, or London, or Jerusalem, they Will
plant their cameras ut different places
and take as many different pictures, but
in u few minutes l shall see the sacred
city with my own eyes. Over another
shoulder of the hill we go, and nothing
i'll sight but rocks and mountains, and
awful, gulches between them, which
make the head swim if you look down.
On and mp, on and up. until the lathered
and smoking horses are reined in and the
dragoman rises III front and points east
ward, crying, "Jsrusalem! 1t was
mightier than an electric shock. We Gll
rose. There il lay, the prize of nations,
the terminus OF famous piigrinages, the
object of Roman and crusading wars, and
for it AssyrIans had fought, and Egyp-
ians had fought, and the world had
fought; the place which the queen
of Sheba visited, and Richard Cpur de
Lion had conquered. Home OF Solomon.
Home of Ezekiel. Home of Jeremiah.
Home of Isaiah. Home of Saladiu.
Mount Zion of David a heartDreak, and
Mount Moriah, where the sacrifices
smoked, Mount of Olives, where Jesus
preached, and Gethsemane, where He
agonized and Golgothu, where He died,
and the holy sepulchre, where He was
buried. O, Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Greatest city on earth and type of
TIE CITY CELESTIAL.
After 1 have been ten thousand years
in heaven, the memory of that first view
from the rocks on the afternoon of De-
cemuer will be as vivid as now. An
Arab on u horse that was like whirl-
wind, bItted nud saddled and spurred,
its name aud TANKS jet as the nIght-and
there are no such hors6men as Arab
horsemen-had come far out to meet us,
and invite us to his hotel inside the
gates. But arrangements had been
made for US to stay at IL hotel outside the
gates In the dusk of evening we halted
in front of the place aud entered, but
said, "No, thank you for your courte-
Gus reception, but must sleep tonight
inside the gates of Jei usalem. l would
rather have the poorest place inside the
gates than the best place outside So
we remounted our coach and moved on
amid a clamor of voices, and between
cnmels grunting with great beams and
timhers on their back, brought in for
building purposes-for 1t is amaz-
ing how much a camel can carry
until We came to what is called the Joppa
Gate of Jerusalem. 1t is about forty feet
wide, twenty feet deep and sixty feet
high. There is a sharp turn just after
you have entered, SO planned rs 10 make
the entrance of armed enemies the more
difficult. On the structure of hese gates
the safety of Jerusalem depended, and
all the Bible writers used them for illus
trations. Within five minutes walk Of
the gate we entered David wrote: "En-
ter into thy gates with Thanksgiving,
Cliff up your heads, o, We gates!'
1.-The Lord loveth the gates of Zion,"
"Open to me the gates OF righteous
ness. - And Isaiah wrote: EGO through,
go through the gates!'' And the captive
of Patmos wrote: 'The city had twelve
gates. Having passed the gate we.
went on through the narrow streets,
dimly lighted. and passed 10 our halting-
place and sat down by the window, from
which
WE COULD SEE MOUNT ZION, \
and said: "Here we are ut last, in the
capital of the whole earth And