Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-18

tdht lahd those Of that race who have
Deen maltreated, and He will blast with
the llghtnings Of His omnipotence those
iands on either side of the Atlantic which
nave been the instruments of ANNOYANCE
ana marin 20 that Jewish race to which be-
loEged Abraham and David and Joshua
ana Baron Hlrsch and Montefiore and
Iaul the apostle and Mary the virgin and
Jesus Christ the Lord.
on the way across the plain of Sharon
We meet many yelled women. 1t is not
Respectable 10 go unveiled, and it is a
ven mat is SO hung as to make them
hideous. A man may not even see tho
lace OF his wife until after betrothal or
engagement OF marriage. Henceg the
a"lul mistakes and the unhappy homes,
lor God has made the face an index of
character, and honesty or dishonesty
usually is demonstrated in the features.
do not see what God made fair face
for if it were not to be looked at. But
here come the crowds of disfigured wo-
men down the road on their way to
Joppa, bundles of sticks for firewood on
their heads. They started at o'clock
In the morning to get the fuel. They
stagger under the burdens Whipped
ana beaten will some of them be if their
bundle OF sticks is too small All that
IS required for enforcement is for man
TO say to his wife, ''Be off, don't want
you any more" Woman slave in all
lands, except those in which the gospel
OF Jesus Christ makes her queen. And
yet IN Christian countries there are wo-
men posing as skeptics, and men with
FAMILY derldlng the only religion that
makes sacred and honorable the names
OF wife, mother, daughter and sister.
What is that? Town of Ramleh, birth
place, residence and tomb of Samuel, the
glorious prophet. Near by Tower of
Forty Martyrs, SO called because that
number of disciples persisted there for
Christ's sake, but if towers had been
built for all those who, in the time of
war as in time of peace, have fallen on
this road during the ages past you might
almost walk on turrets from Joppa to
Jerusalem.
Now we pass guard houses which are
castles OF chopped straw and mud where
at night and partly through the day
armed men dwell and keep the bandits
off travellers. In the caves of these
mountains dwell men to whom massacre
would be high play and a purse with a
few pennies would be compensation
enough for the struggle that the savage
NAVE WITH Ll1C WAY ldIci. AACIo is
only one other defense that amounts to
much in these lands and that is the law
of hospitality. If you can get an Arab
to eat with you, ifsonly one mouthful,
you are sure of his protection, and that
has been SO from age to age The
Lords supper was built on that custom,
a special friendship after partaking food
|, together. To that custom Walter Scott
refers in his immortal ''Talisnan,
where Saladin, with one stroke OF the
sword. strikes the head from an enemy
who stands in Saladin's tent with a cup
i'm his hand and before he has time to
put it TO his lip. and does it SO suddenly
that the body of his enemy, beheaded,
stands for a moment after the behead-
ing with the cup still in his right hand.
After the cup had been slipped it would
have been impossible, according to the
laws of oriental hospitality, to give the
fatal blow.
Here now we come to where stood the
fields,into which Samson fired the foxes.
The foxes are no rarity in this land. /
counted at one time twenty or thirty OF
them in one group, and the cry all along
she line was Foxes! Look at the foXes!'
and at night they sometimes bark until
all attempts to sleep are an aDsurd1ty.
Those / saw and heard nm Palestine
might have been descendants OF the very
foxes that Samson employed for an ap-
palling incendiarism- The wealth of
that land was in the harNests, and it was
the harvest time and the straw was dry.
Three hundred foxes are caught and tied
i'm couples by some wire on ineombnstible
cord which tho flames cannot divide, and
tircbrands are fastened to those couple
of foxes, and the affrighted creatures
are let loose and run every whittier
among the haryests, and i'm the awful
blaze down go the corn shocks, and the
VINEYARDS and the olives, and all through
the valleys and over the hills and among
the villages is heard the cry OF "Flre!''
And in the burnt pathway walk Hunger
and Want and Desolation.
All this fer spite. And some theolo-
gians learn one thing and some another.
But learn from it that a great man may
sometimes stoop to d very mean piece OF
business. and that if men would use as
much ingenuity in trying to bless as they
do in trying TO destroy, the world all the
Way down yyould be in better condition.
Yet the fire Of the foxes kindled that
night in Palestine has not gone out, but
has leaped the seas, and the sly foxes,
the human foxes, are now still running
every whittier, kindling political hres,
fires of religious controversy, fires OF
hate, world wide fires: and the whole
harvests of righteousness perish.
Brace up your nerves now, that you
NAV look while point them out. 4on-
der is Kirjath-Jearim, where the ark OF
God staid until David took it to Jerusa-
lem. Yonder John the Baptist was
born. Yonder is Emmaus, where Christ
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