Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-16

way 70 Joppd- DuuuAeo VI Sums ~ -
wosd On their heads. They started at
o'1s )ck in the morning to get the fuel;
They stagger under the burdens. Whipped
and beaten will some of them be II theii
bundle of sticks is too small All that is
required for enforcement is for man 20
saw 70 his wife. "Be off, | don't want you
any more" Woman a slave in all LANDS,
except those in which the gospel OF Christ
makes her a queen. And yet IN CHRISTIAN
countries there are women posing as skep-
tics, and men with family deriding the
only religion that makes sacred and non
orable the names of wife, mother, daugh-
ter and sister.
What is thatS Town of Ramleh, birth
place, residence and tomb OF Samuel, the
glorious prophet. Near by Tower OF Forty
Martyrs, so called because that number oil
disciples persisted there for Christ's sake;
but II 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 of
Travellers In the caves Of these mount
aims dwell men to whom massacre would
be high play and a purse with few pen
mics would be compensation enough for
the struggle that the savage might have
with the wayfarer. There is only one
| other defense that amounts TO much in
| these lands and that is the law of hospi-
/ tally. If you can get an Arab to eat with
! you, II only 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 Tails
man, where Saladin, with one stroke OF the
sword strikes the head from an enemy
who stands in Saladin's tent with cup in
| his hand and before he has time to put II 70
! his lip, and does it so suddenly that the
body of his enemy, beheaded, stands for
moment after the beheading, with the cup
still in his right hand. After the cup had
been slipped it would have been impossible,
according 10 the laws Of oriental hospital
ity TO give the fatal blow.
CHRISTIAN LANDS ARE SAFEST
The only lands where it is safe 10 travel
unarmed are Christian lands. Human
life is more highly valued and personal
rights are better respected, and | am glad
10 believe that in our country from the
Atlantic ocean TO the Pacific ocean, there
Is not place today where man is not
safer without pistol than with one But
all through our journeys in Palestine we
required firearms. While the only weapon
| had on my person was New Testament
we went through the region where said
TO the dragoman, David, are you armedtn
and he said Eyes, and said Are those
fifteen or twenty muleteers and baggage
men and attendants armedf" and he said
Eyes" and felt safer.
On we roll through the plain OF Sharon
Here grew the rose after which Christ was
named, Rose of Sharon, celebrated in all
Chrstendom and throughout all ages.
There has been controversy as TO what
flower il was. Some say il was marsh.
mallow that thrives here. and some claim
this honor for the narcissus, and some for
the blue iris, and some for the scarlet
anemone, for you must know that this |
plain Of Sharon is a rolling ocean OF color
when the spring breezes move across it. |
But leaving the botanists in controversy |
as TO what it is, would take the most arc l
matte and beautiful Of them all and twist /
them into a garla- for the name which /
is above every e." lr."
Yvnder, little % . north as we move /
Oh IS the plain O. o.. The Bible men. |
tions il again and gaia The village /
standing on this plain OF Oao is mud /
village. Two great basins OF rock catch /
the rains for the people. OF more i'm /
portance in olden time than in modern /
time was this plain of ono. But as the 4
dragoman announced il and in the Bible |
read Of it was reminded Of the vast multi |
tude Of people who now dwellin the plain OF l
Ono. They are, by their nervous constitu.
ton or by their lack of faith in God al
ways in the negative. viii you help L
build Il church, Oh, no. Will you start
out in some new Christian enterprisei
Oh, mol DO you think the world is getting
any betterY Oh, mol They lie down IL
the path Of all good movements sanitary,
social, political and religious. They har
ness their horses with no traces to pull
ahead, but only breeching straps to hole
back. For all Christian work would not
give for a thousand of them the price of
clipped ten cent piece. They are in thu
plain Of Oh, mol May the Lord multiply
the numbers of those who when anything
good is undertaken are found TO live il
the plain of Oh, yesl Will you support
this new charity? Oh, yesl Do you think
that this victim OF evil habit can be re
formed? Oh, yesl Are you willing to dc
anything, whether obscure or resounding
for the welfare of the church and the sal
walton of ruined worlds Oh, yesi But
| am sorry to say that the most populous
plain in all the earth today is the plain Of
Ono.
sAMsoN's DESTRUCTIVE WRATH.
Here now we come where stood the field.
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 the line
was "FoXes Look at the foxes!n and al
night they sometimes bark until all at
tempts TO sleep are an absurdity. Those
saw and heard in Palestine might have
been descendants of the very foxes that
Samson employed for an appalling incen
diarism. The wealth of that land was ii
the harvests, and it was harvest time anC
The straw was dry. Three hundred foxes
are caught and tied in couples by somt
wire or incOmbustible cord which the
flames cannot divide, and frebrands ar,
to those couples of foxes, and the