Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-09


and rattle and bang the anchor dronned in
the roadstead half mile from land. for
though Joppa is the only harbor of Pales-
tine 1t is the worst harbor ON all the coasts
Sometimes for weeks no ship stops there
Between rocks about seventy-fve feet
apart a small boat must take the passen-
gers ashore. The depths are strewn with
the skeletons Of those who have attempted
TO land or attempted to embark. Twenty
seven pilgrims persisted with one crash of
boat against the rocks Whole fleets of
Crusaders, of Romans, of Syrians, of Egyp.
tians have gone TO splinters there. A
writer eight hundred years ago said he
stood on the beach in a storm at Joppa.
and out of thirty ships all but seven went
to pieces on the rocks, and a thousand of
the dead were washed ashore
Strange that with few blasts of powder
like that which shattered our American
He'll Gate, those rocks have not been up
rooted and the way cleared, so that great
ships instead of anehoring far out from
land, might sweep up to the wharf for pas
sengers and freight But you must re-
member that land is under the Turk and
what the Turk touches he withers. Mo
hammedanism is against easy wharves
against steamers, against rail trains
against printing presses, against civiliza-
ton. Darkness is always opposed to light
The owl hates the morn. Leave those
rocks where they are practically cries
the Turkish government; 1--WE want no
people Of other religions and other habits
to land there. II the salt seas wash over
them, let il be warning to other invaders.
Away with your Nineteenth century, with
is free thought and its modern inven-
ions That Turkish government ought
20 be hlotted from the face Of the earth,
and it will be.
OF many of the inhabitants of Palestine
asked the question, HAS the sultan of
Turkey ever been here?" Answer, mo"
why don't he come when il belongs to
his dominionf" And after the man inter
rogated looked this way and that, so as TO
know be would not be reported, the an.
swer would invariably be- Gle dare not
come" ! believed IT, If the sultan. of
Turkey attempted to visit Jerusalem he
would never get back again. All Pales.
tine hates him | saw him 60 to the
mosque for prayers in his own city of Con
stantinople, and saw seven thousand armed
men riding out to protect him Expensive
prayersl OF course that government wants
no better harbor at Joppa. May God re-
move that cnrse Of nations that old bag Of
the centuries-the Turkish government
| For its everlasting insult to God and
woman let it persist And so those rocks
at the harbor remain the jaws Of repeated
destruction
VIVID MEMORIES OF JoPPA-
As we descended the narrow steps at the
side Of the ship we heard the clamor and
quarrel and swearing OF fifteen or sixteen
/ different races Of men of all features and
coors aud all vernaculars, all different in
appearance. but all alike in desire to get
our baggage and ourselves at eXhorbitaht
prices Twenty boats and only ten passen.
gers TO 20 ashore, - man having charge
Of us pushes aside some, and strikes with
"A heavy stick others, and by vioences that
would not be tolerated in our country, but
which seem 20 be the only manner Of max
4 ing any impression there, clears our way
! into one of the boats which heads for shore
1 We are within fifteen minutes of the Christ
land Now we hear shouting from the
/ beach, and in five minutes we will be
! landed
/ The PROV Of the boat is caught by men
who wade out TO help US in We are
tremuous with suppressed excitement
/ our breath is quick, and from the side of
/ the boat we spring to the shore, and Sun
day morning, Dec. l, 1889. about o'clock,
our feet touch Palestine. Forever TO me
and mine will that day and hour be com
memorated for that pre-eminent mercy.
| Let IL be mentioned in prayer by my chill
dren and children's children after we are
gone that morning we were permitted to
enter that land, and gaze upon those holy
hills, and feel the emotions that rise and
fall and weep aud laugh and sing and
| triumph 40 such Decentralization.
On the back of hills one hundred and
fifty feet high Joppa is lifted toward the
skies II is as picturesque as it is quaint,
and as much unlike any city we have ever
seen rs though it were built in that star
Mars, where a few nights ago this very
September astronomers, through unparal-
leled telescopes, saw a snowstorm raging.
How glad we were TO be in Joppa Why,
this is the city where Dorcas. that queen
of the needle, lived and died and was res
urrected. You remember 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;n "Dorcas hemmed that"
According to Iightfoot, the commenta
tor. they laid her out in state in a public
room, and the poor wrung their hands and
cried and sent for Peter, who performed a
miracle by which the good woman came
back to life and resumed her benefactions
An especial resurrection day for one wo-
mani She was the model by which many
women Of our day have fashioned their
lives. and at the first blast of the horn of
the wintry tempest there appear ten thou
sand Dorcases-Dorcases of Brooklyn, Dor
cases Of New York, Decreases of London,
Decreases of all the neighborhoods and
towns and cities OF Christendom, just as
good as the Dorcas of the Joppa which
visited. Thank God for the ever increas
ing skill aud sharpness and speed and gen
erosity of Dorcas' needle!
"What is that man doing?" ! said to the
dragoman in the streets of Joppa "Oh,
he is carrying his bed" Multitudes of the
people sleep out Of doors, and that is the
way so many in those lands become blind
Il is from the dew of the night falling on
the eyelids. As a result of this, in Egypt
every twentieth person is totally blind. In
Oriental lands the bed is made of a thin