The Forrest City times., 1890-11-22

tht tufs noouttucs VeOpAt Eutu9lc0 2fQuut and sad; What . useless expense you are going to. whom rolling down from
 yonder Mount Gcrlsim and down from
 wonder Mount Ebal. and out yonder in the
 valley Is plenty of water!" "Oh, replied Jacob, that Is all true, but suppose my nelghbors should get angered against me and cut on my supply of mountain bver- age. what would do. and what would my family do. and what would my nocks and herds dol Forward, ye brigade pf pick-axcs and crowbars, and go down in to the depths of these rocks and make me independent of all except Him who fills the bottles of the cloudsl 1 must have my own welli'
 Young man, drop cigars and cigarettes, and wine cups, and the sunday excursions and build your own house and have your own wardrobe and be your own capitalist Why, l have only five hundred dollars
 Income year. says some ono. Then spend four hundred dollars ,f it in living and ten per cent of il, or fifty dollars, in bencvolence and the other fifty in begin nlng to dig your own well. Or, If you have a thousand dollars q year. spend eight hundred dollars of it in living. Nn per cent, or one hundred dollars. in bencvo- lence. and the remaining one hundred in beginning to dig your own well. The iarg- est bird that ever flew through the air was matched out of ono egg, and the greatest estate was brooded out of one dollar.
 l suppose when Jacob be gan to dig this well ou whose curb we are now seated this December noon. 1t was a dry season then as now, and some one comes up and say; Now. Jacob suppose you get the well fifty feet deep or two hundred feet deep and there should be no water to i'll it, would you not feel sillyy" People passing along the road and looking down from Mount Gerizim or Mount Ebal near by would laugh and say: That is Jacobs we'll a great hole In the rock. Illustrating the mans folly" Jacob replied. There never has been a well in Palestine or any other country, that once thoroughly dug was not sooner or later filled from the clouds. and this will be no exception" For months after Jacob hud completed tho well people went by and out of respect for the deluded old man put their hand over their mouth 10 hide snicker. and the well re- mained as dry us the bottom of kettle that had been hanging over the tire for three hours. But ono day the sun was drawing water, and the wind got round to the east and it began to drizzle and then groat drops splashed all over the well-curh, and the heavens opened their reservoir and the rainy season poured its floods for stS weeks, and there came maldens to the well With empty pals and carried them away full, and the camels thrust their mouths
 
 water was in the well three foot deep, and fifty feet deep, and two hundred feet deep, and all the Bedoulns of the ncighborhood. and all the passefs-by realized that Jacob was wise In having his own we'll My nearer, 1t is your part to dig your own well aud Ii Is God's part to fill it. You do your part an He will do His part.
 Much is said about good luck" but pco- pic who are industrious and sclf-donying almost always have good luck. You can afford to be laughed at because of your ap- plication and economy, for when you get your well dug, and filled. 1t will be your turn to laugh,
 But look up from this famous well. and see two mountains and tho plain between then. on which was gathered tho largest religious audience that ever assembled on earth. about five hundred thousand people, Mount Gerixlm. about eight hundred feet high. on one side, and on tho other. Mount Ebal. the former called the Mount of Bless ing and the latter called the Mount of Curslng. At Joshuas command six tribes stood on Mount Gerizim and read the bless ings for keeping the law, and six tribes stood on Mount Ebal reading the curses foi breaking the law, while the Ave hundred thousand people on the plain cried Amen with au emphasis that must have made the earth tremble. ''I do not believe that ' says some one, flor those mountain tops art two miles apart, and how could voice b, heard from top to topY' My answer Is that while the tops are two miles apait. tht bases of the mountain are only bali a mli, apart, and the tribes stood on the sides oi the mountains, and the afr is So clear and the acoustic quall,i of ihis great natural amphitheatre 70 ?, rfect that voiccs can be distinctly heard from mountain tt mountain ns has been demonstrated bS
 travellers fifty times in the last fifty years
 Can you imagine anything more thrilling and sublime, and overwhelming than wha transpired on those two mountain sidos, ant In the plain between, when tho resi- onsiv, service went on, and thousands of voices oi Mount Gerixim cried. Blessed shalt tho, he in the city. and blessed shalt thou be ii ! he fields, blessed shall be thy basket ans thy stoic'' and from Mount Ebal thousand, ef voices responded crying Cursed be h, that removeth hls pelghhor t landmark Cursed he he that makcth the blind to wan. Ger out Of the way" and then there rolled up frc m all the spaces between the noun. ia!ns that one word, with which the dovoui 1T earth close their prayers, and the glori- fed Of heaven finish their doNologies '' Amen, Ameni'-that sccno only 10 D, serpas sed by the times which arc coming ' hen the churches and the academies ol music, and the audltorioiGs of earth. nc ] lDgcr large enough 10 hold tho worship. pers of God, the parks, the mountain sides I he great natural amphlthcatres of the val liys. shall be filled with the ut-pouriug populations of the earth, and mountain shali reply 10 mountain, as Mount Gerixin to Mount Ebal, and all the people between shall ascribe riches and honor, and glory ead dominion and victory 10 God the Lamb and there shall arise an Amen ilko tht booming of the heavens mingling with tn, thunder of the seas
 pu and on we ride until now VIC hayt come to shiloh, deed city on n hill sur. rounded by rocks, sheep. goats, olive gar aens and vineyards. Here good Eli fel backward and bro ( his neck, anu lay dea, at the news from his bad boys phincas ant ilophni; and life Is not worth living aftel one's children have turned out badly, ant aaote fortunate was Ell. Instantly cNpirin U nd.r such tldiugs, than those parents who thelr children recreant and pronigate. liy, oa with broken hearts, to SC, them going down into deeper an, Geeper plunge There are fathers nns mothers itere today 10 whom death would Q, happy release because of their rccrcani sons And If there be recreant sons her present, and your parents oe far away wh, not bow your head in repentance, and at tn, close of this service 20 10 the telegraph oiice and put it on the wing of the lighinlng that you have turned from your es,i ways heforo another twenty four hours havt lasssi- lAhe your fert pV Inc sud hearts At tho old homestead Home to thy God, c prodieal'
 Many, many letters do l get in purport saying; My son is In your city; We have not heard from him for some tinie; we fear something is wrong; hunt him up and say a sos'd word to him. his mother Is aliac,si crazy about him he is child of many prayers. But how can hunt him up unless he te iu this aadieneey Where arc you. my hayf Un tbe main floor, or on this platform pr in thesc boAes,or la thesc great gallcri ss Where are yauf Lift your right hand | have message from homc. Your father is anxious about you, your mothcr is praying Tor you Your God is calling for you. Or Nill yoa walt until Ell falls back iifeless, and the heart against which you lay in h. 'ancy ceases to beatf What a story to toll n eternity that you killed bcri My God Avert that eatastrope.
 But turn from this shiloh of Eli's sud len deceasa under Lad news from his boys md Ind close by, what is called the 'Mea- low of the FeasL'' While this ancient city sas in the height of it's prosperity, on this 'Meadow of the Feast" there was An anuu- Il ball where the maidens of the city, amid Tapping cymbals and hlare of trumpcts, lanccd In glce, upon which thousands of pectators gaxed. But no dance since no world stood ercr broke up in such u trange way as tho one the Bible tcscribee Inc night Whiie hv the light of tho la n, ,s