Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-24

surroundings. The bridegroom had put
on his head bright turban, and
GARLAND OF FLOWERS,
and his garments had been made fra
grant with frankincense and camphor,
an odor which the Oriental especially
| likes. Accompanied by groomsmen,
aud preceded by band of musicians
! with flutes and drums, and horns. aud
| by torches IN full blaze, he starts for the
brides home. This river of fire Is met
| by another river OF fire, the torches OF
/ the bride and bridesmaids; hambeau an
| swering hambeau. The bride Ia in white
! robe and her veil not only covers her
face but envelopes her body. Her trous-
| seau is as elaborate as the resources of
! her fathers house permit. Her attend
| ants are decked with oil the ornaments
they own or can borrow: but their own
| personal charms make tame the jewels,
| for those Oriental women eclipse in at
| tractiveLess all others except those OF
our own land. The damsun rose is IN
their cheek, aud the diamond in the
! lustre of their ewes. and the biackness OF
| the night In their long locks, and in
their step is the grac.fulness OF the
morning.. At the first sight of the
torches OF the bridegroom aud his
attendants coming over the hill
the cry rings through the home of the
bride: "They are in sight! Get ready!
Behold the bridegroom cometh! Cove
out to meet him. AS the two pro-
cessions approach each other, the tim
brels strike aud the songs com ningIs,
and then the two professions become
one, and march toward the bridegroom
house, and meet third p ocession which
is made up of the friends of both bride
and bridegroom. Then all enter the
house,
AND THE DANCE BEGINS,
and the door is shut. And al this Christ
uses to illustrate the joy with which the
REASONED of earth shall meet Him when
He comes Earlanded with clouds, and
robed in the morning and ,rumpeted by
the thunders of the Last Day. Look!
There he comes down off the hills of
heaven, the Bridegroom! Aud let us
start out TO hail Him, for l hear the
voices of the Judgment Day sounding:
'Bshold the Bridegroom cometh. Go
ye out to meet Him!' And the disap-
pointment of those who have declined
the invitation to the Gospel welding is
presented under the figure of door
heavily closed. You hear it slam. Too
late, The door is shut!
But we must hasten on, for l do not
mean to close my eyes tonight until l
see from mountain top, Lake Galilee,
on whose banks, next Sabbath, We will
worship, aud on whose waters the fol-
lowing morning we will take q sail. On
and up We 20 in the severest climb of all
Palestine, the ascent of the Mount OF
Beatitudes, on the top of which Christ
preached that famous sermon on the
bl esseds-biessed this and blessed that.
Up 10 their knees the horses plunge in
mole hills, and a surface that gives way
at the first touch of the hoof, and again
and again the tired beasts halt. US much
as to say to the riders, ''It is unjust for
you TO make US climb these sleeps - On
and up over mountain sides where in the
later season, hyaciuths aud daisies, and
phloxes, and
ANEMONES KINDLE THEIR BEAUTY.
On and UP until on the rocks of black
baselt we dismouut, and climbing TO the
highest peak look out on an euchautmefs,
of scenery that seems to be the Beati-
tubes themselves arched into skies, and |
rounded into valleys and silvered into |
waves. The view is like that OF Ten |
nessee and North Carolina from the top !
of Lookout Mountain, or like that OF |
Vermont and New Hampshire from the
top of Mount Washington. Hail hills of |
Galilee! Hail Lake Gennesaret, only |
four miles away! YnnGer, clear up and |
most conspicuous, is Safed. the very city
TO which Christ POINTED for Illustration in
the sermon preached here, saying: "a
city set on a hill cannot be hid.' There
are rocks around me on this Mount of
enough to build the highest
pulpit the world ever saw. Aye, IL Is
the highest pulpit. 1t overlooks all time
AMI eternity. The valley of Hattin be-
tween here and Lake Galilee is an amphi-
thea;er, as though the natural contour
of the earth had invited all nations to
rome and sit down, and hear Christ
preach sermon. III which there were
more startling novelties than were ever
announced in all the sermons that We're
ever preached. To those who heard Him
On this very spot, II $ words must have
seemed the contradiction of everything
that they had ever heard or read or eX-
perienced. The world $ theory has been:
Blessed are the arrogant; blessed are the
blessed are the fearless;
blessed are they that have everything
heir own way; blessed are the war
eagles: blessed are the persecut0rs;
blessed are the popular; blessed are the
derods, and the C;esars, and the Ahabs.
s'NO! NO! NO!'
ays Christ, with u voice that rings over
hese rocks, and through yopder valley
If Hattin, and down to the opaline lake
IN one side, and the sapphire Med,ter-
anean on the other, and across Europe
u one way, and across Asia in the other
way, and around the earth both ways,
ill the globe shall yet be girdled with
he nine beatitudes: Blessed are the
,oor, blessed are the mournful, blessed d,
re the meek, blessed are the hungry, .
blessed are the merciful, lessed are the :
'ure, blessed are the peacemakers, ,
'lessed are the prosecuted, blessed are .
he falsely reviled. !
Do you see how the Holy Land and the
1oiy Book fit each other? God with His
eft hand built Palestine, and with HIS
light wrote the scriptures, the two hands
{ the same Being. And in proportion
s Palestine is brought under close in
pection, the Bible will be found more
lorlous and more true. Mightiest book ,
( the past! Mightiest book of the fu-
urei Monarch of all llterature!
he proudest works O. genius shall decay,
nd reason S brig htest luster fade away; 8
he sophiGt's art, the poets boldest flight,
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