Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-23

throb of such atmospheric pulsatlou.
Musici II sounded At the laying OF cre-
atiou's cornerstone when the morning
stars sang together. Music! II will be
the last reverberatiou, when the arch-
angels trumpet shall wake the ueai.
Music. Let its full power be now tesisd 10
comfort and bless and arouse ana save
While our evening meal Is being pre-
pared in the tents, we walk out for mo-
ment to the "fountaIu OF Ellshh, the
one into which the prophet threw the
salt. because the waters were poisonous
aud bitter, and 10. they became sweet
add healthy; End ever since. with gursle
aud laughter, they hive rushed down
the hill, and Ienped from the rocks, the
ONLY cheerful object in all that region
being these waters.
Now OH this plain OF Jericho the sun
is setting making the mountains looA
like balustrades and battlenen's OF am
Der and maroon aud gold; anu ths moon
Just above the crests, seems 10 ne "
window of heaven through which I'M
mortals might be looking down upon the
seems Three Arabs as Waterman SIT
beside the campfire ut the door OF my
tent, their low conversation in Strange
language all night long soothing rather
than an interruption. l had cream
that night never to be forgotten that
dream amid the complete ruins OF J"r!-
cho. Its past grandeur returned, ana
saw the CITY rs It was when Mark Antony
gave it 10 Cleopatra and Herod houett IL
from her. And l heard the hoo!s OF lis
swift ste-ds, and the rumbltng OF It's
chariots and the shouts OF excited spec
tator, In its amphitheatre.
And there was W hite marble amid green
groves OF palm and bglsstp; cold stone
vRrmrd with sculptured folinEe; HARD
pillars cut into soft lace; Kinds AMI
! Odyssey. in granite; basalt jet as the
night, mounted 10y carbuncle lila ming Us
the morning; upholstery dyed As though
dipped in tho
| BLOOD or BATTLE FIELDS;
! robes enCrusted with DIAMOND; nosaics
white as spufonm flashed on by auroras;
| gaye.iss which the sun saw by day
! rivalpd by revrls the moon saw by night;
! blHsphemy built against the sky: cellinGs
! stellar as the midnight heavens; grand
eurs turreted, archivolted and intrrcol-
umnar: wickedness 60 appalling that es-
teulishpd vocabulary fails, and we must
make an adjective ana call 1t Herodic.
The region round EbOu. the city walls
! seemed to me white with cotton such rs
| Thenius describes as once growing there'
| aud sweet with sugar cane, ana luscious
| with orange and hgs aud pomegrsnAtes'
and rednlent with such flora as can only
grow where tropical sun Kisses the
earth. And the hour came back TO ms
when in the midst of all that splenGor
| Herod died, commanding his sister
Salone Immediately after his death TO
securs the assassination of all the chef
Jews whom he had brought TO the city,
and shut up in circus for that purpose,
and the news came to the audienre IN the
thegter Us some one took the stage, and
announced to the excited multitude:
''uerod il dead! Herod is dead!
Then in my dream, all the pomp OF
Jericho vanished and gloom was added
to gloom and desOlHtion to Oscillation,
aud wos to woe, until, perhaps the rip
bling waters of the Fountain OF Elisha
suggesting it-as sounds will sometimes
give direction TO a drenm-l thought that
the waters of Christi salvation and the
fountains .'opsn for sin and uncieah-
ness, - we're rolling through that plain
and rolling across that continent. ana
rolling round the earth, until on elther
side OF their banks all
TIE THORNs BECAME FLOWERS,
and all ths deserts gardens. and all the
novels mansions, and all the funerals
| DrlGNl PROFESSIONS, anu MA INC oioN'- "
, war was turned into dahlias. aud NIL the
groans became anthems, ani Dante 5
Inferno became Dhpte's Divina Com
media, and Paradise Lost was submerged
! by Paradise Regained, and tears became
, CRYSTALS, and cruel swords came out oil
foundries glisteniug ploughshsres, and
, i'll my dream, at the blast OF trumpei
the Frustrated walls of Jericho rose
l again. And some one told me that MS
these walls IN Joshua's time. ut the
sounding trumpets of doom went DOWN,
: now at the sounding trumpet OF the Cos
q pei they come up again. And though'
= IL LIAM appeared at the door OF my tent,
q and l said: "Who are you anu tron
= whence have you Gomez aud DO said
: IL am the Samaritan you heard OF a
r tho tavern on the road from Jeruihieu
Z to Jericho, as taking care OF the Inat
q who fell among thieves. aud / have 1hs
Il come from healing the last wound or tn'
. last unfortunate in ell the earth. Ant
d rose from my pillow in the tent to gree
a him, and my dream broke, and l realized
d 1t was only dream, but u dream Whici
y shall become glorious reality as surely
\ a. God Is true and Christ's gospel Is TIT
o worlds cathollcon. "Glory he TO TN
q Father, and to the Son, and to the Hol.
r. Ghost, as it was in the beginning, l
IL now, and ever shall be, world withou