The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-31

Iullabys Of mothers which keep sounding on,
though the lips that sang them forty years
churches and country meeting houses, and
| psalms I'm Rouse's version In Scotch kinks;
the anthem In English cathedralsj the roll Of
rHBs OF Beethoven s adj die; tie thdmp q hsrps. tho
Of Sabbath schools storpns the besvens, It'd
doxoi9gy Of great blssesSwtH & thou-
Seated by the warmth OF our campfrcs
that evening Of December g amid tho bricks
and yp,t. sc Joricho, and thinking what poor
uG be- a's sSas G Sfss ~ g
God ON good music, said to Inysafi MIN.
isters have been doing q grand work, and
| sermons paYe been blessed, but would It
m@ss sS w 81 fGo % Das
| Irede Oh, for q brigade OF Mount Pts
| gahsl oh. for a cavalry charge OF Corona
tionsr Oh, for an army OF Antiochs and
| st. Martins and Ariels Oh, for enough
orchestral batons lifted to marshal all ma
tionsl AS Jericho was surrounded by poor
music for seven days, and was conquered,
! So let our Garth be surrounded seven days
by good gospel music, and the round planet
will be taken for God. Not a wall Of oppo-
sitop, not a throne of tyranny, not a pal
acc of SIN. not an enterprise OF unrighteous-
ness, could stand the mighty throb Of such
atmospheric pulsstion. MusicI It sounded
at the laying Of creations corner stone
| when the morning stars sang together.
| Musicl 1t will be tho last revorberation,
when tho archangels trumpet shall wake
| the dead Musiol Let its full power be
now tested to comfort and bless and arouse
| and save
While our evening meal is beins prepared
| I'm tho tents we walk out for moment to
the Fountain Of Elisha" the ono into which
| tho prophet threw tho salt because the
| waters werc poisonous and bitter, and lot
they became sweet and healthy; and ever
! since with gurgle and laughter, they have
rushed down the hill and leaped hom the
/ rocks. the only cheerful object In all that
| region being these waters. =
Now on this plain Of Jericho the sun is set
| ting, making the mountains look like balus-
trades and battlements of amber and maroon
and gold; and the moon, just above the crests,
| seems to be u window OF heaven through
which immortals might be looking down up
beside tho camp fire at tho door Of
my tent, their low conversation in
strange language all night long.
! soothing rather than an interruption.
| l had dream that night never to be for
| gotten, that dream amid the complete ruins
of Jericho. Its past grandeur returned, and
| l saw the city rs 1t was when Mark Antony
| gave 1t to Cleopatra and Herod bought it
| from her. And l heard tho hoofs of its swift
steeds and the rumbling of its chariots and
the shouts OF excited spectators in its amphi-
] theatre.
/ And thero was white marble amid green
| groves of palm and halsam; cold stone
! warmed with sculptured foliage; hard pillars
| cut into soft lace; Iiads and Odysseys in
granite; basalt jet as the night mounted by
| carbuncle flaming as the morning; upholstery
| dyed US though dipped in the blood Of battle
fields robes encrusted with diamond mo-
gayeties which tho sun saw by day rivaled by
! rcvcls the moon saw by night; blashphemy
| built against the sky; ceilings stellar as the
midnight heavens; grandeurs turreted,
SO oeppalling that established vocabulary fails
and we must make an adjective and call it
| Hcrodic.
The region round about the city walls
seemed to me white with cotton such as
Thenius describes as once growing there
and sweet with sugar cane, and luscious with
! orange and figs and pomegranates, and redo
| lent with such flora rs can only grow where
! tropical sun kisses the earth. And the hour
came back to Inc when in the midst Of oil
! that splendor Heroi died, commanding his
| sister Salome Immediately after his death to
| secure the assassination OF all the chief Jews
whom he had brought to the city and shut
| mp in n circus for that purpose, nnd the news
! camo To the audience in tho theatre as some
one took tho stage and announced to the ex-
citc,l multitude: "Herod is deadI Herod Is
dcadr
Then in my dream all the 7S,mp of
Jericho vanished, and gloom was added to
gloom, and desolation to desolatioh and woe
to Woo, until, perhaps tho ripplintr waters
of tho fountain of Elisha suggesting it-as
sounds will sometimes give direction to a
trcam-I thought that the waters;of Christ's
and uncleanness" were rolling Through 'rGap'
plain and across the continent, and rolling
round the earth, until on either side Of their
banks all the thorns became flowers, aud
all tho deserts gardens and all the
novels mansions, and all the fu-
nerals bridal professions and all the blood of
turned into dahlias and all the
| groans became anthems, and Dants's "In-
fcrno" became Dante's "Divina Commedia,"
and Paradise Lost" was submerged by
"P - Regained," and tears became
crystals, cruel swords came out of foundries
| glistening plowshares and in my dream ut
the blast Of trumpet the prostrated walls
OF Jericho rose again.
In Joshua's time at the sounding trumpets
of doom went down, now at the sounding
trumpet of the gospel they come up
again. And thought a man appeared at
the door OF my tent, and said, "Who are
you and from whence have you comeT'
and he said, ~ am the Samaritan you heard
of at the tavern on the road from Jerusalem
to Jericho, as taking care of tho mar,
who fell among thieves, and I have
just come from healing the last wound Of the
last unfortunate in all the EARTH" And
rose from my pillow in the tent to greet him,
and my dream broke and realized Il =, was wss
como glorious reality as surely as God Is
I true and Christ's gospel is tho worlds Ca
tholicon. 'Hlory be to the Father, and tc
thcSon and to the Holy Ghost, as it was al
tho beginning, is now and ever shall be-
world without end. Aman"