The Forrest City times., 1890-11-08

" k4 C>1 INiAtTUfH fH WNt tN} StHn T Nt VTtl Dt Nulun, wscn in the Bihlc he wiofc. ss1 h char.ots shall rage in the streets. they shnl
 los,le one against aresLcr in the broad
 ways, they shall seem like torches thcl
 shall run like EbtninEs." and our clcctrii
 telegraph was fur. seen by loa. when In tht
 Bihle he wrote, 'tnnst inos, rehd ishtninr
 that they may go and say unso thee. .Htri
 VIC are f'' What Is that alking bs the light.
 ninrs. but the cleo tic tclcsraphl do mol
 know hut that the cleetiic forces now lesng year by year more thoruuShiy har- ncs sed may bayu been employed tn ages ex-
 tinct, and that tho ightnings all up ant
 down the sky, have been running around
 like lost hounds to cni their former master.
 Lmi Rlmment wps a more thorough nrt
 three thousand years ago than today
 lentlstry that We suppose enc of tho im-
 portant arts discoVercu in feScfit centuries,
 Is prov II to be four thousand yea old hy
 the filled teeth of the mummles In the
 museums at Cairo. Egypt. anu artificial
 teeth ,n gold plates found by Belzoni in the
 tombs Of aepsrt, q nations. We have been
 taught that Harvey discovered the circu.
 latton Of the blood so In as the seventeenth
 century. Oh, nu sOl0mon announces it ir
 IecipsiAstes. where hfst having shown that
 he rndor stood the spinal cotd. silver col-
 ored as it is, and that it rclaXcs in old age
 'the silver cord be loosed. goes on to com
 pare the heart to n pitcher at well. foi
 the three canals Of tho heart do receive tho
 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 borny After many centuries of ex-
 plorat on and calcua ion. astionoray finds
 out that the world is round. Why. Isaiah
 knew 1t was round thousands of years bee
 fore when in the bible he said The Lord
 sitteth upon the circle of the earth. V
 scientists ioilcd n fer centuries and found
 out retratti h. or that tue rays of light
 when touching the earth were not straigh;
 but bent CT curved. Why, Job knew that
 when ages before in the Bible he wrote of
 the light; 'it Is turned as clay to the seal
 In the old cathcdrals Of England modern
 painters in the terair Of windows are trying
 to make something as guod IS the window
 pain. ing of four hundred years ago and
 always falling by the unanimous verdict
 of all who examine and C, mpHre. The color of modern painting fndos in fifty years.
 while the color of tho old masters is as we'll rrescrved alter i've hundred years as after cne year. saw lass " nter on the walls Of eNhnmed Pompeli paintings wiih color as ifesh IS though made tife day before. 'hough they were buried eighteen hundred years ego. The making of TyriSp purple IS m iinpossibiiity DOW. In our mode. n polterlcs We arc trying hard to make cups and pitchers and bowls as exquisite as tn SC ~-N-fstsfA'N iANfu fE1EtNitHtufll. anu OUT dJlf~ heers arc attempt ng to mako yewelry for car and neck unsf Grger equal To that brought up from the 15Tusoleums of two thousand years before Giirsst We have in our time glass in all shapes and all cOiors out PIiBy, moro than eighteen hundred years ago, described a mallcablc glass En-, h' if throwu upon the ground and tented could F pounded straight again by he hammer. CT could be twisted around he wrists. and tia t ConfounGs all the giass ,,.uufsc orit $ of tlr own tlnc, l tried in IInTaast u.. eyfia tu buy H Damascus blade. gt,p of tuuss swur. tS that could De bent iouhle or tied in Q mot VIII out hreakinS. could not ge; one, hyY The nineteenth .S,,tury cannot make Hamas us blade If aa go .n cniarslag our ctles we may after l while get cthy a $ iarke as bahylon' which waa nYs tlnies ihe siRe of London
 gheSe a,. ucsurts ~ Sole mon that visit to1av. nudtng flss-s, iii g,sua' condition three thousand years after conet ructl' n make me thtnk that the w0Fd nav nave tor9ot- ten more than il noN s~@w~ me great l,s .tlnr of cur aea k not rsnsisln cry Tor the anf.fents haa some styles C. E soora won- deffni; nor art for the anc.snta haa at' n ore exouislte and durshse. ntF sfShiteV- lure. for Bomtn Coliseum ana Sfeelab NcrnpCi lis surpAss all modern archlt @csare' ntr cities. for some of tho ancient S,fies were larger than ours tn Inc sweep uf l. Nfs AsAfG3n. bftl Ulf HtAfkaffNA must ift ftt iH+'tt and Gus el N.cts ry In that we have already surpassed theni and in that direction let the axes push on. Let ns hrag ipss O. worldly achies eagent, and thaua ( od for moral opportunity. Mere good tien and good women k what tlc world wants. Toward moral elevation and spir5tual attainment let the cbief struggle q. The source of all that wiil shes Soa 0sEars sunduwu If thls day. oa which ws laaSe visited the pools of solomon and the gardens of Hue k ug.
 Wearc on this December afternoon on the way ta t.ie crslats of hina who called Hin,- self greater than solomon, We arc eontiug uron tbe chief cradle Of all the world no' IsGNtf ettH ssAsahs eAst stteWtt mAth etta~ ii 4 sheltered hy nal.ae, but covered py tatn. nat presided cN af hs a princess, huf hoxurcd pv ' hy t qgassk Fitis yet era Gle the caecWy ef whsth Is angelic nitFs and the ioliBhx uf whNh is tag trst thFlss- mas ca1ol cveF sung. and fryia ~eleh ati tht eVunts uf the past, and all tAe pssnt~ of Inc future have ard ssissi ts ge date as teInE b C. CT <. b. before hFist ur after Christ All ctqruty past e-c0t led in getting ready for this cradle. aud ali stcri ~ to come te be employed in ceiebsa tps its c.,nscqeeure
 said o sns ton Isf conf ani'ss plann.aa our orieni al 5aarncy. ''iat np ils betltle- hem in ecrnstas ?. tiso place and the month of our Lords hirih.' aad NC had our sh. l nn, inc only man who has ever attempted to tell how Beth ehena hoNed at tho ss sass1n Jesus was born Tuuriss and writers art tsere in February. ar March. pr April. when tho va3ic5 aFo au embroidered sheet oi ssll i iie~csS ana anvmOnes aFed rauunculus A,s luSfles as ihou2h from att nlptsns tc climb iho stc%ps aud lark and bull inch arv ,,,,bding Tho afr with tigi orchestra But ! tsas there in | e rnalrF. winter month thC i,a rrsn beach between the twu cans ui reaalence. l wna told nlasl not go tnere at that season told sn before ' started, told sa in tsypt tho uoeks toiu iae SD: all travellers that censeiteS about II told tne so Bat 1 was dets rin nsS Ia see keth- lehstn the samc lntntb in whics Jesus ar rived, md nothing could di-s1aos isio. Was ! mt rEht in antjng to know aew the ftl fy f.snd iooked when lcsas came 10 lts He did not md aipid flowers and s-sns. N hen tho angela ehAnttd n tho famous birthnisAt all the fields of Palestine were silent Tho slowlns skies were answered by gray rocks Az Bethsehom stood t.... hast hi, ak atatry sky, climbed ap to II, ws through bleak wsntry sky Jesus descended |, rsn it. His way down was from warmth to eiifIl. from tloeu to haF- renuoss from everlasting June so steriie December. 1T were going to Palestine as ,e hotauist aud 10 stuay the Hora of the land ! would ga iu March, but l wsNat as S m mister hrist to study Jesus, and So | went ln feccmhSr. l wanted to seq how tho worlds froNt door looked when the heavenly stranger catered II,
 Tho town pf kcthlrhem to my surprise 10 in fhe shane .f a horse lssir. tne houses e&- ,enuins ciear onto The pronss of the harse- shoo. The ole seen. Is more rough and ru r than ran De inias inea. NerflY, Christ did not hoosc sast. genial place in which ta be hs rn. il he gate throush which our o d snscred thia wur d was ggte St rock 2 hard, co t gate, and the gate through which he departed was q swing gate nf sbarpeucd spears, We tnser gl omy church built by nsantine over the place whrrc Jesus was born. Fifteen lamps, burning day and night and froin century to century. iighsoR way to the spot which all authorities. Christian and Jew and Moham- nledaa agreo ueun IS being tho place Of our Saviour birth. and covered by marble klh. mari ed by silver star sent from Vienna and the words; Here Jesus Christ was born of tae Virgin Mary"
 But standing thero. l thought. though this ts tho place of tho nativity. how differ cat the surroundings of the wintry night in which Jesus came. At ,bat time il was a Khan or a cattle pen. visited one of these khans now standing and looking just as in