The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-10-23

QflOrd SulnCleQG 1ucl, anu So tue cOdl IuilcS
surrender sufficiency. The cotton crops
value, for they could not be managed; and
so, at just the right time. HarSreaves came
with his invention Of the spinning jenny,
then Arkwright with his roller, and Whitney
with his cotton gin. The world, after pot
tering along with tallow candles and whale
oil, was crying for better light and more of
it, and the hill Of Pennsylvania poured out
rivers of oil, and kerosene illumined the ma
tons. But the oil wells began to fail, and
then the electric light comes forth to turn
night into day.
So all events are woven together, and the
world is magnificentiy governed, because II
and think the divine machinery is going
wrong, and put our fingers amid the wheels
only to get them crushed. But say, hands
Off Things are coming out gloriously. Cor
uelius may be in CpSarca, and Peter in
Joppa, but their dreams meet. 1t is one
hand that is managing the world, and that IS
Gods hand; and one mind that is planning
all things for good, and that Is Gods mind;
and one heart that is filed with love and
pardon aud sympathy, and that IS Gods
heart Have faith i'll Him. Fret about notn-
Ing. Things are not at loose ends. Ihere
are no accidents. All will come out right Ill
your history and in the world. AS you are
waking from one dream up stairs all ex-
planatory dream will be knocking at the gate
down stairs.
Standing here in Joppa l remember that
where We this morning disembarked the
prophet Jonah embarked. For the first time
in my life fully understood that story.
God told Jonah to 60 to Nineveh, but the
prophet declined that call and came here to
Jopps. Twas for weeks, while in the Holy
Land, consulting with tourist companies as
to how could take Nineveh in my journey.
They did not encourage the undertaking. 1t
is q most tedious ride to Nineveh amid q
desert Now see an additional reason why
Jonah did not want to go TO Nineveh. He
not only revolted because it was u long way
and tough, and bandit infested, so he came
here to Joppa and took ship. But, alas, for
the disastrous voyage! He paid his full fare
for the whole voyage, but the ship company
did not fill their part OF the contract. To
this day they have not paid back that pas
sage money. Why people should doubt the
story of Jonah and the whale is more Of a
mystery than the Bible event itself. do
not need The fact that Pliny, the historian,
records trat the skeleton OF n whale forty
feet long, and with hide foot and e half
thics, was brought from Joppa to Rome.
The event recorded in the book of Jonah
has occurred thousand times. The Lord
always has $. whale outside the habor FOR
man who starts in the wrong direction. Rec
reant Jonah! do not wonder that even the
whale was SICK of him. This prophet was
put in the Bible not rs an example, but as
warning, because the world not only needs
lighthouses, but buoys, to show where the
rocks are. Tho Bible story Of him ends by
showing the prophet in fit of the sulks. He
was mad because Nineveh was not destroyed,
and tten he went out to pout, anil sat under
O big leaf, using it for shade from the tropi-
cal sun. and when worm disturbed that
leaf, aud il withered, and the sun smote
Jonah, he flew into great rage, and SAID:
ut is better for me to die than to live" a
prophet in rage because he had lost his
umbrellal Beware Of petulance!
But standing here on the housetop at Jop-
pa, look of upon the sands near the beach,
and / almost expected to find them criu-
soned and incarnediaed. But no; the rains
long ago washed away tbo 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 them2 It will 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 prica to pay
for his victories. shrugged his shoulders
mirthfully and said, "You must break tho
eggs il you want to make an omeieE i 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 Geath-one thou
sand of them, two thousand ct them, three
of them, four thousand of them,
And tho blood pours down into
the sea, the red of the ono mingllng with the
blue OF the otker, and making an awful
maroon which neither God nor nation can
yer forget. Ye who are fond Of vivid con-
trasts put the two scenes of Joppa side by
side. Dorcas with her needle, and tho In
mortal butcher with his knife.
But standing on this Joppa house top l
look off on the Mediterranean, and what IS
that strange sight see? The waters are
black, seemingly for miles. There seems to
bo a great multitude Of logs fastened to-
gethcr. Oh. yes, it is great raft OF timbers.
They arc cedars Of Lebanon, which King
Hiram is furnishing King Solomon in ex-
change foc %, 600 man ures Of wheat, 10000
baths of oil and 90, 900 baths Of wine. These
cedars have been cut down and trimmed in
the mountains Of Lebanon by the 10000 ex-
men engaged there and with great withes
and iron bolts are fastened together, and they
pre floating down to Jcppa to be taken across
the land for Solomon's temple, now building
Mt Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold OF
the Nineteenth century and are clear backln
tie ages.
The RATS of cedar are guided into what Is
called the Moon Pool. an old harbor south
Of Joppa, now filled with sand aud useless.
With long pixies the timber is pushed this
way and that in the water, then with divers
and MANY loud, long 10, heave" As the
carriers get their shoulder under the great
weight, the timber is fastened to the waS~
ons and the lowing oxen are yoSed 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, gee" of mod
ern teansters, toward Jerusalem, which is
thirty miles away over mountainous dis
tances which for hundreds of Years defied
all engineering. And those rough cedorS
shall become carved pillars and beautiful
affairs, and rounded bannisters, and tr2c-
eriel panels, and sublime ceiling, and ez-
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 SolomVn, and
what vast numbers of people are now ell
gagged in building the wider, higher, grander
temple Of Righteousness rising in The earth:
Dur Christian ancestry toiled at it, amid
sweat and tears, and hundreds of the genera.
lions of the good, and the long train OF
Christinn workers still moves on; and as i'll
the construction of Solomon's temple some
lewo1 with the ak in the far away Lebanon,
and some drove a wedge, and some twisted
l wi:he, and some trod the wet and slipper,
'afts on the sea, and some yoked
The OK, and some pulled at the load,
and soma showed the plane, and somo
fitted the joints, AMI some heaved
up the rafters, but all helped build the tenn
pie, though some OF these never saw it. so
low letus all put our hands, and our shoul-
lers. and our hearts to the work of building
The temple of righteousness. which is to fill
,he earth; and one will bind u wound, and
another will wipe away 4 tear, Gnl another
will taach q class ou] anotho" will SDla; tha