Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-11


from land, might sweep up to the wharf
Tor passengers and freight. But Won
must remember that land is nnder tho
turk, and what the Turk touches no
winners. MOhammedanism is against
easy Wharyes, against steamers. against
rail- trains, against printing presses
against civilization.
AS we descend the narrow steps at the
side of the ship we heard the clamor
ana quarrel and swearing of fifteen or
sixteen different races of men of all feat
ures, and all colors and all yernaculars:
all different in appearance, but all alike
IN desire to get our baggage and our
serves at exorbtant prices. Twenty boats
anu, only ten passengers to go ashore
Inc man having charge of us pushes
ASIDE some, and strikes with heavy sticks
others, and by violence that would not be
Tolerated In our country, but which seems
TO be the only manner OF making any inn
preston there, clears our way into one
of the bouts. which heads for the shore.
We are within fifteen minutes of the
Christ land. Now we hear shouting
from the beach, and in five minutes we
VIII be landed. The prov of the boat is
caught by men who wade out to help us
in.
we are tremulous with suppressed ex-
cltement, our breath is quick, and from
the side OF the boat we spring to the
shore, and Sunday morning, Dec. l, 1889,
about O'Clock, our feet touched Pales-
tine. Forever to me and mine will that
day and hour be commemorated for that
pre-eminent mercy. Let it be men
toned in prayer by my children and
chlldren'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 and laugh and sing and tri-
umph at such Decentralization.
On the back of hills one hundred and
fifty feet high Joppa is lifted toward the
skies. 1t is as picturesque as it is
quaint, and as much unlike any city we
have ever seen, as though it were built
in that star Mars, where a few nights
ago this very September astronomers,
through unparalleled telescopes, saw
snow storm 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 resurrected.
You remember that the poor people
came around the dead body of this bene-
factress, and brought specimens of her
kind need1ework' and said ssDorcas
made this" ''Dorcas sewed that
"Dorcas cut and fitted this" "Dorcas
hemmed that" .ale-.
According to Lightfoot, the common
tator,, they laid her out in state in a pub
lie room, and the poor wrung their hands
and cried and sent for Peter, who per-
formed a miracle by which the good wo-
man came back to life and resumed her
benefactions. An especial resurrection
day for one woman! She was the model
Inv which ms of dow have
fashioned their lives, and at the first
blast Of the horn of wintry tempest
I there appear ten thousand Decreases
Decreases OF Brooklyn, Decreases of New
I York, Decreases of London, Decreases of
all the neighborhoods and towns and
cities of Christendom-just as good as
the DOrcas of Joppa which visited.
Thank God for the ev, "-increasing skill
and sharpness and speed and generosity
of DOrcaS' needle.
'sWhat is that man doing?' / said to
the dragoman in the streets OF Joppa.
''Oh,. he is carrying his bed" Multi
tudes of people sleep outS0f doors, and
that is the way SO many in those lands
become blind. 1t is from the dew of the
night falling on the eyelids. AS result
/ of this, in Egypt every twentieth person is
totally blind. In Oriental lands the bed
blanket and pillow, and when the man
rises in the morning he just ties up the
three into bundle and shoulders it and
takes it away. 1t was to that the
Saviour referred when he said to the
sick man, Take up thy bed and walk. .
An American couch or an English couch
would require at least four men to carry
it, but one Oriental can easily manage
his slumber equipment
But inhale some of the odors of the
large tanneries around Joppa 1t is
there to this day, prosperous business,
this tanning of hides. And that reminds
me of Simon, the tanner, who lived at
Joppa. and was the host of Peter, the
apostle I suppose the olfactories OF
Peter were as easily insulted by the
odors of q tannery as others. But the
Bible SAYS, s'He lodged with one Simon,
the tanner People who go out to do
reformatory and missionary and Chris
tfan work muot not be too sensitive.
Simon. no doubt, brought to his home
stead every night the mal-odors of the
calfskins and ox-hides in his tannery, but
Peter lodged in that home, not only be-
cause he NAV not have been invited to
the houses of the merchant princes sur 4
rounded by redolent gardens, but TO
teach all men and women engaged In
irving to make the world better, that
they must not be squeamlsh ana 1astld-
ious and finical and over-particular III
doing the work of the world.
Rnt reference to Peter reminds me
that we must go to the housetop In
.Jonpa where he was taught the democ-
,oar Of relioion That was about the