The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-10-11

tiny of a nation, the destiny of a world.
1t was a Marathon, an Arbela, a Water
loo, q Blenheim, a Sedan, ~concentered
into two right arms. Here are two
ridges of mountains five hundred feet
high, the Phillistines on one ridge, the
~Israelites on the other ridge. The
fight is in the valley between, at that
season shaded, and sweet with terebinth
and acacia. David, the champion for
the Israelites. Goliath, the champion
for the Phillistines. David understood
and almost effeminate, only q mouthful
for Goliath, who was nearly ton feet
high.
They advanced to meet each other,
but the Bible says that David made the
first step forward. Nearer and nearer
they come, but | do not think David
will wait until no comes within reach
of Goliath's sword, for that would be
fatal, and David has a weapon with
which he can fight at long range. Closer
and closer they come, but David adj
vances the more rapidly. Come to
me-" said the giant, and will give thy
flesh INTO the fowls of the air and to
the beasts of the field" David re-
sponded: II como to thee in the name
OF the Lord of Hosts" Aha, that is the
right kind OF battle shout: I'm the
name of the Lord of Hosts!' He who
fights in that spirit wins the day. The
almost Israelitish dwarf enlarges into
omnipotent proportions.
The moment to strike Is come. David
takes his sling with a stone in it and
whirls it round his head, until he has
,~,] tha ,aannp into cnfHpinnt norman
tum, and then taking sure aim, hurls it.
The giant throws up his hands and reels
back and falls. The stone sank into his
forehead. That was the only available
point of attack.
But we must hasten on, for the danger
now is that night will be upon us be-
fore we reach Jerusalem. o! we must
see it before shutdown. We are climbing
the hills which are terraced with olive
groves, uplands rising above uplands,
until we come to an immensity OF bar
renness, gray rocks, where neither tree,
nor leaf, nor bush, nor grass blade, can
grow. The horses stumble, and slip,
and pull, till it seems the harness must
break. Solemnity and awe take posses
sion of us. Though a vivacious party,
and during part of the day POPULARITY
had reigned, now no one spoke a word
except to say to the dragoman: Tell
us when you get the first glimpse of the
CITY," never had such high expecta-
ton of seeing any place as Of seeing
Jerusalem. l think my feelings may
have been slightly akin to that Of the
Christian just about to enter the
heavenly Jerusalem.
Over another shoulder of the hill we
go, and nothing in sight but rocks
and mountains and awful gulches be-
tween them. which make the head swim
IL you look down. On and up. on and
up, until the lathered and smoking
horses are reined in and the dragoman
rises in front and points eastward, cry
ing "Jerusalem!" 1t was mightier than
an electric shock. We all rose. There
it lay. the prize of nations, the termi-
nus of famous pilgrimages, the object
of Roman and crusading vars, and for
it As~syrians had fought, and Egyptians
had fought, and the world had fought;
the place which the Queen Of Sheba
visited and Richard Ceur de Lion had
conquered. Home of Solomon. Home
of Ezekiel. Home Of jeremiah. Home
Ol l5ildH. LlOIno u 1 OdLdulu. HiOuhI
Zion of David's heartbreak and Mount
Moriah where the sacrifices smoked,
Mount of Olives where Jesus preached,
and Gethsemane where He agonized,
and Golgotha where He died, and the
Holy Sepulcher where He was buried.
o, Jerusalem, Jerusalemi Greatest city
on earth and type OF the city celestial.
An Arab on a horse that was like Q
whirlwind, bitted and saddled and
spurred, it's name and TANKS jet as the
highland there are no horsemen as
Arab h~orsemen-had come far out tC
meet us and invite us to his hotel inside
the gates. But arrangements had been
made for US to stay at a hotel outside
the gates. In the dusk Of evening we
halted in front Of the place and entered,
but l said: mo. thank you for your
courteous reception, but 1 must SLEEP
tonight inside the gates of Jerusa'
lem. / would rather have the poorest
place inside the gates than the
best place outside" So we remounted
our coach and moved On amid a clamol
OF voices, AMI between camels gruntine
with great beams and timbers on theil
back, brought in for building purpores
for 1t is amazing how much a came
can carry-until we came to what /!
called the Joppa gate of Jerusalem.
1t is about forty feet wide, twenty
feet deep and sixty feet high. There 1.
a sharp turn just after you have entered
so planned as to make the entrance u
armed enemies the moro difficult Or
the structure of these gates the safety
of Jerusalem depended and all the Bibl,
writer's used them for illustrations
Within five minutes walk of the gatt
we entered David wrote: Enter int
thy gates with thanks, giving. Lift VI
your heads, O, ye gates!' ''The Lore
loveth the gates of Zion, ""Open to me thu
gates of righteousness" And Isaial
wrote: go through, go through the
gates" And the Captain Of the Patino
wrote: "The city had twelve gates.
Having passed the gate we went OF
through the narrow streets, dimly light
ed, and passed to our hating place ant
sat down by the window from which W,
could see Mount Zion, and said: Her
we are at last, in the capital of tn
whole earth" And thoughts Of tn
past and the future rushed through m,
soul in quick success on, and l though
OF that old hymn, sung by so many as
cending spirits;
Jerusalem. my happy home,
Name ever dear to mel
When shall my labors have an end,
In Joy and peace and thee2
When shall these eyes thy heaV'n- bull
walls
And pearly gates beholdP
, Thy ~bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets OF shining gold2
And so with our hearts full of graft
, II to God for j%ourneying mercies al
, the way from Joppa to Jerusalem, an
, with bright anticipation of our entranc
into the shining gate of the Heavenl
City when earthly journeys are ovel
q my second day in Palestine is ended.
+ Expensive PIay
Recently a Bavarian paper rave a.
> impressive account OF the experience
OF an English family at Oberammergau
I The worthy p~sterfamilias appears t
have telegraphed from Paris for lodg
: ings and tickets for the play. He re
ceived in reply q promise of both. II
came and stopped for two days and wa
= then presented with a bill amounting I
> 437 marks, or nearly f22, and made u
|, OF items like these: Sitting-room, tire
b. days, so marks; two bedrooms, with 81
beds, 1870 marks; bed for courier, /
+ marks; bed for maid, 81 marks; boar
. for six persons, two days, ~ marks
y twelve dinners, az 4 marks, As marks
fire and lights, IL marks; board 10
courier and maid, 16 marks; and so or
I'm tho tom nf thia Tho maid fa1I II