Telegram-herald., 1890-11-17


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I1ore fortunate WA HI Instantly expirisg
under sach tl4lnxs, tAaA thoee parents
wAo. thar eklidren reoFsznt ana prcnigste.
live on With broken hearts 70 see them
going down into deeper And deeper plungs
There are fathers and mothers here today
10 whom death would b happy RELEASE De-
cause Of their Fecresnt sons And II there
he reereAat sons here present. And your
parents he far away, Why not bow your
head ia repentance, snd Al the close Of this
service 20 70 the telegraph offiee and put
il OF the wing of the hghtning that yoa
have turned from your evil Ways Before
another twenty four hours have passed
take your feet On the sad hearts OF the cid
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Many, many letters do | get in purport
saying; Ny son l. Ia your cities. we have
not heard from him for some time. We
fear something is wrong; hunt him up
and say a good word r. him. his her is
almost crazy about him, he is a child of
many prayers. But how can / hunt him
up unless he be IN this audience; Where
are you, my boy' On tho main floor, or
or this platform, on in these boxes, or in
these great Galleriesf Where are you,
Lift your right hand / have a message
from home. Your father is anxious about
You; your mother Is praying for YOU.
Your God Is calling for you. Or viii you
wait until Eli falls back lifeless, and the
heart against which you lay in infancy
ceases 20 beatt What story 70 tell in
eternity that you killed herr Ny Godl
Avert that cetastrophei
But turn from this shiloh OF Els sud
den decease under bad news from his bows
and find close by what is called the
Meadow of the Feast" While this an
cient city was In the height of its prosper
ity on this Meadow Of the Feast" there
was an annual ball, where the maidens Of
the city amid clapping cymbals and a blare
OF trumpets danced IN glee, upon which
thousands Of spectators gazed But no
dance since the world stood ever broke up
in such 4 strange way as the one the Bible
describes. One night while by the light OF
the lamps and torches these gayeties went
on, two hundred Benjamites, who had been
hidden behind the rocks and among the
trees, dashed upon the scene. They came
not TO injure or destroy, but wishing 10 set
UP households Of their own, the women Of
their own land having been slain in battle.
by preconcertcd arrangement each one
Of the two hundred Benjamites seized the
one whom he chose for the queen of his
home and carried her away 10 large estate
ard beautiful residence, for these two hun
dred Benjamites had inherited the wealth
of nation.
BENJAMITE CoURTsHIP.
AS today near Shiloh we look at tho
"Mcadow Of the Feast" where the maidens
danced that night, and at the mountain
gorge mp which the Benjamites carried
their brides. we bethink ourselves Of the
better land and the better times in which
we live, when such scenes are an impossi-
b;lity, and amid orderly groups and with
prayer and benediction, and breath of
orange blossoms, and the roll Of the wed
ding march, marriage is solemnized and
with oath recorded in heaven, two inn
mortals start arm in arm on journey to
last until death do them part. Upon every
such marriage altar may there come the
blessing of him ''who sctteth the solitary
in famiiespi Side by side on the path OF
lifei Side by side in their graves Side by
side in heavenl
But we must this afternoon, our last day
before reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent
ON the most famous battlefield of all time
the plain Of Esd draelon. What must have
been the feelings of the Prince OF Peace as
he crossed it on the way from Jerusalem
to Nazareths Not O flower blooms there
but has in it's veins the inherited blood of
flowers that drank the blood of fallen ar
mics. Hardly foot OF ground that has not
at some time been quilted with war chari-
OTIS or trampled with the hoofs Of cavalry.
1t is plain reaching from the Mediter-
ranean TO the Jordan. Upon il look down
the mountains of Tabor and Gilboa and
Carmel Through it RACES at certain sea
sons the river Kishon, which swept down
the armies OF Sisera, the battle occurring
in November when there is almost always
a shower Of meteors, so that "the stars in
their courses" were said 10 have fought
against Sisera. Through this plain drove
Jehu, and the iron chsriots OF the Canaan
ties, seythed at the hubs OF the wheels,
hewing down their awful swathes Of death,
thousands in a minute. The Syrian armies,
the Turkish armies. the Egyptian armies
again and again trnmpled it. There they
career across IT, David and Joshua and
Godfrey and Richard Cnur de Lion and
Baldwin and Saiadin-s plan not only IA
nous for the past, but famous because the
Bible says the great decisive battle OF the
world will beafought therc-the battle Of
Armageddon.
THE FIGHT FOR THE HOLY CROSS.
To me the plain was the m-re absorbing
because of the desperate battles here and
in regions round in which the holy cro.e-
the very two pieces Of wood on which Jesus
was supposed TO have been crucifed-was
carried rs a standard at the head
Of the Christian host, and that night
closing my eyes in my tent on the plain of
Esdraslan-for there are come things We
can zee better with eyes shut than open
the scenes Of that ancient war come before
me. The Twelfth century was closing and
Saladin At the head OF eighty thousand
mounted troops was crying. "Hol for
jerusalem "Ho for AL Palestinei" and
before them everything went down. but
not without unparalleled resistance. IN
one place one hundred and thirty Chris
tains were surrounded ~ many Thousands