The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-11-06

the conceited age in which we live had better
take in some of the sails of its pride when il
remembers that Il is hard work in later ages
to got masonry that will last fifty years, to
say nothing Of the three thousand. and no
modern machinery could lift blocks of
stone like some of those standing
high up in the walls of Bnalbec
and the art OF printing claimed for
recent ages was practiced Ivy the Chimes,
fourteen hundred years ago and that our
midnight lightning express rail train was
roreseer by the prophet Nahum, when in the
Bible he wrote, "The chariots shall rage in
the streets, they shall iostle one against an
other in the broad ways, they shall seem ~ q
torches, they shall run like lightning and
our electric telegraph was foreseon by job
when in the Bible he wrote, "Canst thou send
lightnings that they may go and say unto
by the lightnings but the electric telegraph'
1donot know but that the electric forces now
being year 10y year more thoroughly har.
messed may have been employed in nrcs OK.
tinct and that the lightnings all up and down
the SKY have been running around like lost
hounds TO find their former master
Embalnent was n more thorough art thrao
thousand years ago than to-day. Dentistry.
that we suppose one of the important arts
discovered in recent centuries, is proven TO
be four thousand years old by tho fllcl
teeth of the niummies in the museums at
Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth ON gold
plates found by Belzoni in the tombs of de-
parted nations. We have been taught that
Harvey discovered the circulation of the
blood so late as the seventeenth century.
Oh, mol Solomon announces il in Ecclcsias-
t'S, where first having shown that he uu-
dcrstuod the spinal cord, silver colorcd as IL
Is aud that " relaSes in old ngc-"the silver
cord he loOsed," goes on 10 compare the
heart TO pitcher ut a well, for tho three
canals Of the heart do receive tho blood like
n pitcher, "or the pitcher ba broken at tho
fountain" What is that but the circulation
of the blood, found out twguty-six hundred
years before Harvey was borns After many
centuries Of exploration nni calculation as
trOnOmy finds out that III, world was round.
Why, Isaiah knew It was round thousands OF
years before when in the Bible he said: "Tho
Lord sitteth upon the circle Of tue earth
Scientists toilcd on for centuries and found
out refraction or that the rays of light when
touching the earth were not straight but
bent or curved. Why, job knew that when
ages before In the Bible no wrote of the light:
ut is turned ns clay TO the soal.'
In the old cathcirals OF England modern
painters in the repair of windows are trying
To make something rs good as the window
painting of four hundred years ago, and
always failing 10y tha unanimous verdict ut
all who examine aud compare The color OF
modern painting fades in hfty years while
served after five hundred years as after ono
year | saw last winter on the walls oi ey-
hum"d Pompeli paintings with color rs ir'sh
ns though made the day before, though they
werc buried eighteen hundred years ago.
Tho making of fyriau purple * an imppssi-
bi,.ty now. In our modern pptteric, we ara
trying hard to make cups and pitcher, nui
bowels as cSluSit'ly as those eNnumcl fron
Hercuan um. and our artilicers ara at.
tempting to make jewnlry for car
lud neck and finger equal to that
brought IN from the mausOlcums o' two
thousand years before Christ. We have In
our time glass in all shapes and all Colors,
but Pliny more thnn eighteen hundred years
ago, described mnllcable glass which, II
thrown upon the ground and dcnted, could
oe pounded straigtN again 10y the hammer or
could be twisted around the wrists, and that
confounds all the glass manufacturers OF
our own time. | tried in Damascus, Syria,
to buy Damascus blade, one of those swords
that could be bent double or tied in knot
without breaking. | could not get one.
Whyg The Nineteenth century cannot make
Damascus blade. IL we 20 on cnlarging
our cities we may after wl'!r Cet, , city "a
large as Babylon, which was five times tho
size of London.
These nuueducts OF Solomon that visit tl-
day, finding them in good condition thrro
thousand years after construction, make NJ
think that the world may have forgotten
more than il now knows. The great honor
of our age is not machinery, for the ar".ents
had some styles of 10 more wonderful, nor
art. for the aucieltS had art more exquisite
and durable; nor architecture, Tor Roman
Coliseum and Greciau Acropoh, surpass all
modern architecture; nor cities, fo~ sump Of
the ancient cities were larger Than ours in
the sweep of their pDmp. But our attempts
must be in moral achievement aud gospel
victory In that we have already surpassed
them, and in that direction let the ages push
on. Let us brsg less of worldly achievement
and thank God for moral opportunity,
More good mon and sool women is what the
world wants. Toward moral elevation and
spiritual attainment let the chief struggle
BE-. The source of all that | will show You
before sundown Of this day on which wc have
visited the pools OF Solomon and the gardens
OF the king.
We are on this December afternoon on tho
way 10 the cradle OF Him who called Himself
greater than Solomon. We are coming upon
the chief cradle of all .he world, not lined
with SATIN, but strewn with straw; not
sheltered 10y palace but covered by Il barn;
not presided over by princess, but hoyered
over by Il peasant g,ri; yet a cradle the
canopy of which is angelic wing, and tho
lullaby OF which Is the first Christmas carol
ever sung, AMI from which all the events Of
the past aud all the events of the future have
and must take date rs being B. {. or \. D.
before Christ ov after Christ. All eternity
past occupied IN getting ready FOR this cradle
ana all eternity 10 come To Dc empuyed IN
celebrating its cons aqucnces.
l said To tho tourist companies planning
our oriental journey, Put Us in Btthle-
hem ia December the plac, aud the month
OF our Lords birth, and We hal our visa.
1 ans tbs only man who has ever attempta |
10 tell how Bethlehem looked uJ ths saa-
son Jesus was born. Tourist, aud writer's
are there in February, or March, or April,
when the valleys are an embroidered sheet
OF wild flowers, and anemones and ranun-
Cuius are flushed rs though from attempting
20 climb tho sleeps, aud larS and bull
finch are flooding the air with bird or1hes-
ira. But | was IL re in December, winter
month, the barren beach between the two
oceans OF re1olencs. l WAS told l must
not go there at that season, told 50 before
/ started, told 50 in Egypt; tho books told
me so; all travellers that consulted about
IL told mo so. But / was determined TO
see Bethlehem the samS month in which
Jesus arrived, and nothing could dissuade
me. Was l not right In wanting to know
how the Holy Land looked when Jesus came
to ity He did not land amid flowers and
song. When the angels chanted on the
famous birthnight all the fields Of Palestine
were silent. The glowing skies were an-
swered by gray rocks. AS Bethlehem stood
against a bleak wintry sky climbed up 70
IL, as through bleak wintry sky Jesus de-
seconded upon il. His way down was from