Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-11-14

other In the broad ways they shall seem like
torches they shall run like lightning and
our electric telegraph was foreseen by job,
when in the Bible he wrote, 'Canst thou send
lightnings that they may go and say unto
thee, Here we arern What is that talking
by the hghtnings but the electric telegraph
do not know but that the electric forces now
being year by year more thoroughly har-
messed may have been employed in ages ex-
tinct and that the hghtnings all up and down
the sky have bean running around like lost
hounds to find their former master.
Embalment was more thorough art three
thousand years ago than to-day. Dentistry
that we suppose one OF the important arts
discovered In recent centuries, is proven to
be four thousand years old by the filled
teeth Of the mummies in the museums at
Cairo, Egypt and artificial teeth on gold
plates found by Belzoni in the tombs Of de
parted nations We have been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation of the
blood so late as the seventeenth century.
oh, mol Solomon announces IL in Ecclesias-
ties, where first having shown that he UNI
derstood the spinal cord, silver colored as it
is and that 1t relaxes in old age-'the silver
cord be loosed," goes on TO compare the
heart to a pitcher at a well, for the three
canals Of the heart do receive the blood like
pitcher, Tor the pitcher be broken at the
fountain" What Is that but the circulation
OF the blood, found out twenty-six hundred
years before Harvey was bornt After many
centuries of exploration and calculation as
tronomy finds out that the world was round
Why, Isaiah knew 1t was round thousands Of
years before when in the Bible he said: "Ihe
Lord stitch upon the circle Of the earth
Scientists toiled on for centuries and found
out refraction or that the rays of light when
touching the earth were not straight, but
bent or curved. Why, Job knew that when
ages before in the Bible he wrote Of the light:
1T is turned as clay to the seal"
In the old cathedrals of England modern
painters in the repair OF windows are trying
to make something as good as the window
painting Of four hundred years ago, and
always failing by the unanimous verdict OF
all who examine and compare. The color OF
modern painting fades in fifty years, while
the color of the old masters is as well pre-
served after five hundred years as after one
year. saw last winter on the walls OF ex-
humed Pompeii paintings with color as fresh
as though made the day before. though they
were buried eighteen hundred years ago.
The making Of Tyrian purple is an impossi-
bility now. In our modern potteries We are
trying hard to make cups and pitchers and
bowels as exquisitely as those exhumed from
Herculaneum. and our artiticers are at
tempting to make jewelry for ear
and neck and finger equal TO that
brought up from the mausoleums OF two
thousand years before Christ. We have in
our time glass in all shapes and all colors
but Pliny, more than eighteen hundred years
ago, described q malleable glass which, II
thrown upon the ground and dented, could
be pounded straight again by the hammer or
could be twisted around the wrists, and that
confounds all the glass manufacturers OF
our own time | tried in Damascus, Syria,
to buy a Damascus blade, one of those swords
that could be bent double or tied in knot
without breaking | could not get one.
Why? The Nineteenth century cannot make
a Damascus blade. II we go on enlarging
our cities we may after while get city as
large as Babylon, which was five times the
size of London.
These aqueducts OF Solomon that visit to-
day. finding them in good condition three
thousand years after construction, make ms
think that the world may have forgotten
more than it now knows. The great honor
Of our age is not machinery, for the ancient'
had some STYLES of it more wonderful; nor
art for the ancients had art more exquisite
and durable; nor architecture, for Roman
Coliseum aud Grecian Acropolis surpass all
modern architecture; nor cities, for some OF
the ancient cities were larger than ours in
the sweep of their pomp. But our attempt:
must be in moral achievement and gospel
victory In that we have already surpassed
them, and in that direction let the ages push
on. Let US brag less OF worldly achievement
and thank God for moral opportunity.
More good men and good women is what the
world wants. Toward moral elevation and
spiritual attainment let the chief struggle
be. The source of all that will show you
| before shutdown of this day on which we have
visited the pools of Solomon and the gardens
| of the king.
We are on this December afternoon on thu
way to the cradle Of Him who called Himself
greater than Solomon. We are coming upor
the chief cradle of all the world, not lined
with satin, but strewn with straw; moi
sheltered by palace, but covered by barn
not presided over by princess, but hovereC
over by Q peasant girl; yet a cradle thu
canopy of which is angelic wings, and tn
lullaby of which is the first Christmas caro-
ever sung, md from which all the events Of
the past and all the events of the future have
and must take date as being b. c. or A. ID. -
before Christ or after Christ. All eternity
past occupiedn getting ready for this cradle
and all eternity to come to be employed II
celebrating its consequences.
/ said TO the tourist companies planning
our oriental journey, Put us in Bethle
hem in December, the place and the month
Of our Lords birth, and we had our wish
am the only man who has ever attempted
to tell how Bethlehem looked at the sea
son Jesus was born Tourists and writers
are there in February, or March, or April,
when the valleys ara an embroidered sheet
Of wild flowers, and anemones and ranun'
culus are flushed as though from attempting
l to climb the sleeps, and lark and bull
finch are flooding the air with bird orches
ira. But was there in December, winter
month. the barren beach between the two
oceans OF redolence. l was told l must
not go there at that season, told so before
| started, told so in Egypt; the books told
me so; all travellers that consulted about
it told me so. But l was determined K
see Bethlehem the same month in which
Jesus arrived, and nothing could dissuad'
me. Was not right In wanting to know
how the Holy Land looked when Jesus camt
to itf He did not land amid flowers anC
song. When the angels chanted on thu
famous birthnight all the fields Of Palestine
were silent. The glowing skies were an
swered by gray rocks. AS Bethlehem stool
against a bleak wintry sky climbed up Il
1t, as through a bleak wintry sky Jesus de
scended upon it. His way down was from
warmth to chill, from bloom to barrenness
from everlasting June to sterile December
II / were going to Palestine as botanist ant
to study the flora Of the land would go IL
March; but went as minister OF Christ X
study Jesus and so l went in December.
wanted to SEQ how the worlds front doc
looked when the heavenly Stranger onteret
it,
The town Of Bethlehem, to my surprise, 4
in the shape Of a horseshoe, the houses ex
tending clear onto the prongs Of the horse
shoe, the whole scene more rough and rud
than can be imagined. Verify, Christ dit
not choose u soft genial place IN which to b
born. The gate through which our Lord en-
tered this world was gate of rock, hard
cold gate, ami the gate through which He de
parted was swing gate of sharpened spears
We enter a gloomy church built by Constar
tine over the place in which Jesus was borr
Fifteen lamps burning day and night an
from century to century light our way to II
spot which all authorities. Christian and Je