Connecticut western news., 1890-10-08

 rising sun of their deliverance. God will gather in that distant land those of that race who have been maltreat ed, and he will blast with the light nings of his omnipotence those lands on either side of the Atlantic which have been the instruments of annoy ance and harm to that Jewish race to which belonged Abraham and David and Joshua and Baron Hirsch and Montefiore and Paul the apostle and Mary the virgin and Jesus Christ the Lord.
 THE WOMEN OF PALESTINE.
 On the way across the plain of Sharon we meet many yelled women. It is not respectable to go unveiled, and it is a veil that is SO hung as to make them hideous. A man may not even see the face of his wife until after be- trothal or engagement of marriage. Hence the awful mistakes and the un- happy homes, for God has made the face an index of character, and honesty or dishonesty usually is demonstrated in the features I do not see what God made fair face for if it were not to be looked at But here come the crowds of disfgured women down the road on their way to Joppa, bundles of sticks for firewood cn their heads. They started at o'clock in the morn ing to get the fuel They stagger under the burdens. Whipped and beaten will some of them be if their bundle of sticks is too small. All that is required for divorcement is for a man to say to his wife, Be off, don't want you any more." Woman a slave in all lands, except those in which the gospel of Jesus Christ makes her a queen. And yet in Christian countries there are women posing as skeptics, and men with family deriding the only religion that makes sacred and honor able the names of wife, mother, daugh- ter and sister.
 ROBBERY AND HOSPITALITY.
 What is that? Town of Ramleh, birthplace, residence and tomb of Samuel, the glorious prophet. Near by Tower of Forty Martyrs, so called be- cause that number of disciples perished 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 might have with the wayfarer. There is only one other de- fense that amounts to much in these lands, and thatis the law of hospitality. If you can get an Arab to eat with you, if 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, special friendship after partaking food to- gether. To that custom Walter Scott refers in his immortal "Talisman, where Saladin, with one stroke of the sword, strikes the head from an enemy who stands in Saladin's tent with a cup in his hand and before he has time to put it to his lip, and does it so sud- denly that the body of his enemy, be- headed, 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 to the laws of oriental hos pitality, to give the fatal blow.
 The only lands where it is safe to travel unarmed are Christian lands. Human life is more highly valued and personal rights are better respected, and I am glad to believe that in our coun- try, from the Atlantic ocean to the Pa cific ocean, there is not a place today where man is not safer without a Dis tol than with one. But all through our journeys in Palestine we required fire arms. While the only weapon I had on my person was a New Testament we went through the region where I said to the dragoman, "David, are you armed9' and he said, "Yes," land said, Are those fifteen or twenty muleteers and baggagemen and attendants armed?" and he said, "Yes," and felt safer.
 THE ROSE OF SHARON.
 On we roll through the~ plain of Sharon. Here grew the rose after which Christ was named, Rose of Shar- on, celebrated in all Christendom and throughout all ages. There has been controversy as to what flower it was. Some say it was a marshmallow 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 aromatic and beautiful of them all and twist them into @ garland for the "Name which is above every na1ae."
 Wonder a little to the north as we move on is the Plain of Ono The Bi- ble mentions it again and again. The village standing on this Plain of Ono . , mud village. Two great basins of rock catch the rains for the people. Of more importance in olden time than in modern time was this Plain of Ono. But as the dragoman announced it, and as in the Bible read of it, was remind- ed of the vast multitude of people who now dwell in the Plain of Ono. They are by their nervous constitution or by their lack of faith in God always in the negative. Will you help to build church2 Oh, no! Will you start out