News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-02

itself. with roar an rattle and bang
the anchor dropped in the roadstead
half mile from land, for though Joppa
is the only harbor of Palestine it is the
worst harbor on all the coasts. Some
times for weeks no ship stops there.
Between rocks about seventy-five feet
apart small boat must take the pas
sengers ashore. The depths are strewn
with the skeletons of those who have
attempted to land or attempted to EN-
bark Twenty-sevc0 pilgrims persisted
with one crash of boat against the
rocks. Whole fleets of Crusaders, of
Romans. of Syrians, of Egyptians have
gone to spIinters there. A writer eight
hundred years ago said he stood on the
beach in storm at Joppa, and out of
thirty ships all but seven went to pieces
on the rocks, and thousand of the
dead were washed ashore.
THE STUMBLING BLOCK OF MoHAM-
Mechanism.
Strange that with a few blasts of
powder like that which shattered our
American He'll Gate those rocks have
not been uprooted and the way cleared,
so that great ships, instead of anchor
ing far out from land, might sweep up
to the wharf for passengers and freight.
But Won must remember that land is
under the Turk, and what the Turk
touches he withers. Mohammedanism
is against easy wharves, against steam
ers. against rail trains, against printing
is always opposed to light. The owl
hates the morn. Leave those rocks
where they are, practically cries the
Turkish government; I'VE want no
people of other religions and other hab-
its to land there; if the salt seas wash
over them let it be warning to other
invaders; away with your Nineteenth
century. with its free thought and its
modern inventions" That Turkish
government ought to be blotted from
the face of the earth, and it will be-
OF many of the inhabitants of Pales-
tine | asked the question, HAS the
sultan of Turkey ever been here"
Answer, No" why don't he come,
when it belongs to his dominion?"
And, after the man Intercepted looked
this way and that, SO as to know he
would not be reported, the answer
would invariably be, He dare not
come" | believed it, If the sultan of
Turkey attempted to visit Jerusalem
he would never get back again All
Palestine hates him. | saw him go to
the mosque for prayers in his own city
of ConstantinOple, and saw seven thou
sand armed men riding out to protect
him. Expensive prayers! OF course
that government wants no better har-
Dor at JOppa. May God remove that
curse of nations, that old bag of the
centuries, the Turkish government
For its everlasting insult to God and
woman let it perish! And 50 those
rocks at the harbor remain the Jaws of
repeated destruction.
THE END OF THE VOYAGE.
As we descended the harrow steps
at the side of the ship y, heard the
clamor and quarrel and swearing of
fifteen or sixteen different races of men
of all features, and all colors and all
vernaculars; all different in appearance,
but all alike in desire to get our bag
gage and ourselves at exorbitant prices.
Twenty boats and only ten passengers
to go ashore. The man having charge
of us pushes aside some, and strikes |
with a heavy stick others, and by vio- !
lences that would not be tolerated in |
our country, but which seem to be the
only manner of making any impression |
there, clears our way into one of the |
boats, which heads for the shore We |
are within fifteen minutes of the Christ |
land. Now we hear shouting from the |
landed. The prov of the boat is
caught by men who wade out to help |
US in.
We are tremulous with suppressed |
excitement, our breath is quick, and |
from the side of the boat we spring to |
the shora and Sunday morning, Dec.
1, 1889, about s o'clock, our feet touch
Palestine. Forever to me and mine
will that day and hour be commence
rated for that pre-eminent mercy. Let
it be mentioned in prayer by my chill
dren and children's children after we
are gone, that morning we were per-
mitted to enter that land and gaze
upon those holy hills and feel the emo
tions that rise and fall and weep and
laugh and sing and triumph f,s such
VIEW OF JoPPA.
On the back of hills one hundred
and fifty feet high Joppa is lifted to-
ward the skies. 1t is as picturesque as
it is quaint, and as much unlike any
city we have ever seen, as though it
were built in that star Mars, where
few nights ago this very September
through unparalleled tel
Escapes, saw snow storm raging.
How glad we were to be in Joppal
Why, this is the city where Dorcas,
that queen of the needle, lived and
died and was resurrected. You remem-
Der that the poor people came around
the dead body of this benefactress,
and brought specimens of her kind
needlework and said, 'Dorcas made
this" 'Dorcas sewed that" ''Dorcas
cut and fitted this" ''Dorcas helnmed
that"
According to Lightfoot, the com
mentator, they laid her out in state in
a public room, and the poor wrung
their hands and cried and sent for Pc
ter, who performed a miracle by which
the good woman came back to life and
her benefactions An especial
resurrection day for one womanl She
was the model by which many women
of our day have fashioned their lives,
and at the first blast of the horn of
wintry tempest there appear ten thou
sand Dorcases-Dorcaseso of BROOKLYN,
Decreases of New York, Decreases of
London, Decreases of all the neighbor-
hoods and towns and cities of Christen-
dom-just as good as the Dorcas of
Joppa which ! visited. Thank God for
the ever increasing skill and sharpness
and speed and generosity of Dorcas'
needle.
CARRYING HIS BED.