The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-10


personal rights are better respected.
| and I am glad to believe that in our
country. from the Atlantic ocean to the
Pacific ocean, there is not place to-day
where man is not safer without pis-
| toll than with one But all through our
| journeys to Palestine we required fire.
| arms While the only weapon / had
on my person was a New Testament we
went through the region where said
| to the dragoman: David, are you
armed?'' and be said: Yes" and L
said: Are those fifteen or twenty
muleteers and baggagemen and attend
ants armed?" and he said: yes" and
1 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 Christendom
and throughout all ages
Yonder. little to the north as we
move on is the plain of Ono The Bible
mentions it again and again The Wiz
lage standing on this plain of Ono is a
N I'D 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 in
the Bible read of 1t, was reminded of
the vast multitude of people who now
dwell in the plain of Ono. They are.
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lack of faith in God, always in the mega.
tive. Will you help to build a church?
| o. mol Will you start out in some new
| Christian enterprise? o. mol Do you
/ think the world is getting any better?
o, mol They lie down in the path of
| all good movements, sanitary, social.
| political and religious. They harness
their horses with no traces to pull ahead
| but only breeching straps to hold back.
| For all Christian work l would not give
a Thousand of them the price of a
clipped ten cent piece These are in
the plain of o, no! May the Lord null
tiply the numbers of those who. when
any thing good is undertaken, are found
to live in the plain of o. Yesl
Here now We como whore stood the
| fields into which Samson fred the foxes
| The foxes are no rarity in this land. L
counted at one time twenty or thirty of
| them in one group and the cry all along
the. line was "Foxesl Look at the
foxesl" and at night they sometimes
bark until all attempts to sleep are an
absurdity. Those 1 saw and heard in
Palestine might have been descendants
| of the very foxes that Samson em-
| ployed for an appalling jncendiarism.
The wealth of that land was in the har-
vests and it was harvest time and the
straw was dry. Three hundred foxes
are caught and tied in couples by some
| flames can not divide, and hrebrands
are fastened to those couples OF foxes
| and the frightened creatures are let
loose and run every whittier among the
harvests, and in the awful blaze go
down the corn shocks, and the vine
| the valleys and over the hills and
among the villages is heard the cry of
| ''Firei" And in the burnt pathway walk
Hunger. and Want and Dissolution.
All this for spite. And some theolo-
gians learn one thing, and some another:
But 1 learn from it that q great man
| may stoop to a very mean piece of bust
ness, and that if men would use as much
| ingenuity in trying to bless as they do
| to destroy, the world all the way down
| would have been in better condition
| Yet the fire of the foxes kindled that
night in Palestine has not gone out. but
| has leaped the seas, and the sly foxes
| the human foxes, are now still running
| every whittier kindling political fires,
fires of religious controversy, fires of
hate, worldwide fires and whole har-
| vests of righteousness perish
| Brace up your nerves now, that you
may look while point them out Yon-
der is Kirjath Jearim, where the ark of
| God stayed until David took it to Jeru-
salem. Yonder John the Baptist was
| born. Yonder is Emmaus, where Christ
| walked with the disciples at eventide
Here are men blowing, only one ham
die to the pillow, showing the accuracy
of Christ's allusion. Whom we pillow in
America or England there are two hands
on two handles, but in Palestine only
one handle. And so Christ. uses the
singular saying: No man having put
his hand to the pillow and looking back
is fit for the Kingdom" Tho OK is urged
on by a wooden stick pointed with sharp
iron, and the OK knows enough not to
kick, for he would only hurt himself in
stead of breaking the goad. Ana the
Bible. refers to that when it says to
Saul: SIT is hard for thee to kick against
the goads-"
Here is the valley of Ajalon, famous
for Joshua's pursuit of the five Kings
and the lunar arrest And in imagina-
ton see the moon in day time halt
Who has not sometimes seen the moon
divide the throne with the sun? But
when the king of day and the queen of
| night who never before Joshua's time
nor since then stopped a moment in
| their march, halted at Joshua's COM
mand it was scene enough to make
the universe SILVER. Moon, stand thou
still in the valley of Ajaloni"
| And there is the cavern of Makkedah,
where they fled for safety and where
they. were afterward locked in, and
from which they were taken out to be
slain, and in which they were afterward
buried; and you do we'll to examine that
cavern, for within a few hours it became
three things which no other cave ever
was; Fortress. prison, sepulchre.
Now we pass the place where once
lived one of the greatest robbers of tn g
century, Abou Gosh by name. From
this point you see he could look over all
the surrounding country and long be-
fore the travellers came up to him the
plan for the taking of their money or
their life. or both, was contaminated.
he one day found a company of monks
who would not pay and he smothered
them to death in u hot oven In mis- last
days he lived here like an Oriental
Prince and had his attendants and ad-
mirers to whom he told the stories of
brigandage and assassination So late
as when our eminent and beloved Amer
lean, William C. Prime, passed through,
Abou Gosh, the scoundreliy Bedouin,
sat at his doorway smoking his pipe.
His descendants live in this village and
probably are no more honest than their
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