Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-10-10

| At that call Peter left Joppa for Cesarea.
The dream he had just had prepared him to
preach, for Peter learned by it to reject no
people as unclean, and whereas he previously
thought he must preach only to the Jews,
now he goes to preach TO the Gentiles, who
were considered unclean.
| Notice how the two dreams meet-Peter's
dream on the housetop, Cornelius dream at
C@sarea. So l have noticed providences
meet, distant events meet dreams meet.
Every dream is hunting up some other dream,
and every event IL searching for some other
event. In the Fifteenth century tl492l the
| great event was the discovery of America.
| The art Of printing born In the same century,
| goes out TO meet that discovery and make
| The New World an intelligent world. Tho
| DecIarauon or Independence, announcing
| equal rights, meets Robert Burnss
m,nss man for a. that
The United States was getting too large to
| he managed by one Government and tels-
! gra ply was invented to compress within an
hour the whole continent. Armies in the
| Civil War were to be fitted out with clothing
and the sewing machine invention came out
| to make It possible. Immense farming acre.
| age is presented in this country, enough TO
support millions OF our native born and
millions OF Foreigners; but the ell style Of
| plow aud scythe and reaper and thresher
| plows, steam barrows steam reapers, steam
rakes, steam threshers and the work is &C.
complished. The forests of the earth fail to
| Afford sufficient fuel and 50 tho coal mines
surrender a suf1ciency. The cotton crops
were luxuriant, but OF comparatively little
value for they could not be managed; and
80, at just the right tune, Har5reaves came
with bis invention OF the spinning Jenny,
then Arkwright with his roller, and Whitney
with his cotton GIN. The world, after pot
tering along with taliow candles aud whale
oil, was crying for better light and more OF
1t, and the hill OF Pennsylvania poured out
rivers Of oil, and kerosene illumined the M.
tions. But the oil wells began to fail, and
then the electric light comes forth TO turn
night into day.
80 all events are woven together. and the
worid Is magnificently governed, because IL
Is divinely governed. We crit!ciss things
and think the divine machinery is going
wrong, and put our fingers amid the wheels
only to get them crushed. But say hands
of Things are coming out gloriously. Cor
nelius may be in CRSarea, and Peter in
Joppa, but their dreams meet. II is one
hand that Is managing the world and that Is
Gods hand: aud one mind that Is planning
all things for good, and that is Gods mind;
/ and one heart that is filed with love and
pardon and sympathy, and that Ia Gods
nave ldlLH T1lD1 TGot dUSus nOlu'
| ing. Things ere not at loose ends. There
| are no accidents All will come out right in
your history and in tho world As you are
| waking from one dream UP stairs an e&-
plsnatory dream will be knocking at the gate
down stairs
Standing here in Jopp1 ! REMAINDER that
wnere we this morning uisemoarKed the
prophet Jonah embarked. For the first time
| In my life fully understood that story.
! (..l told Innah . % 70 Ninauah httf fho
prophet declined that call and came here TO
Joppa. Twas for weeks, while in the Holy
Land, consulting with tourist companies as
| TO how could take Nineveh In my journey.
They did not encourage the undertaking. 1t
Is q most tedious ride to Nineveh amid q
desert. Now see an additional reason why
Jonah did not want to SO to Nineveh. He
! not only revolted because it was a long way
and tough, and bandit infested, 50 he came
here to Joppa and took ship. But alas. for
the disastrous voyage He paid his fun fara
for the whole voyage, but the ship company
did rot fill their part Of the contract. To
this day they have not paid back that pas
sage money. Why people should doubt the
story of Jonah and the whale is more Of a
mystery than the Bible event itself. do
not need the fact that Pliny, the historian,
records that the skeleton Of a whale forty
feet long and with hide a foot and half
thick, was brought from Joppa to Rome.
| The event recorded In the book Of Jonah
has occurred thousand times. The Lord
| always has whale outside the habor for q
man who starts in the wrong direction. Rec
reant Jonah do not wonder that even the
whale was 81 ok Of him. This prophet was
put In the Bib'e not as an example, but as
warning, because the world not only needs
lighthouses, but buoys, TO show where the
rocks are. The Bible story Of him ends BY
showing the prophet in q fit OF the sulks. He
was mad because Nineveh was not destroyed,
and then he went out to pout an 4 sat under
big leaf, using 1t for shade from the tropi
! cal sun and when worm disturbed that
lear, and IL withered, ana the sun smote
| Jonah, he few into great rage, and said
"ft Is better for me to die than TO live A
prophet In rage because he had lost his
umbrella Beware OF petulance.
But standing here on the housstop at Jop-
| pa, look off upon the sands near ths beach,
and almost expected to find them Grim.
soued and incarnadined, But no; the rains
long ago washed away the last sign OF the
Napoleonic massacre. Napoleon was march
ing on through the coasts. He had here at
Joppa four thousand Albanians, who had
been surrendered as prisoners OF war, and
under promise Of protection. What shall
he do With them' II will be impossible for
him TO take them along, and lie cannot afford
TO leave soldiers enough to guard them from
escape. IL will not be difficult for the man
who broke Che heart OF loy ely Josephine, and
who, when asked II the great losses OF life In
his battles wore not too dear prics to pay
mirthfully ana said, "lou must nreas III,
Eggs II you want TO make On oms.ct 81
lt will not be difficult for him to decide
The prisoners of war by his order are taken
out on the sands and put 20 death-one tnou-
sand Of them, two thousand of them three
thousand OF them, four thousand OF them,
massacred. And ths blood pours down into
the soa, the red OF the one mingling with the
blue Of the other, aud making an awful
maroon which neither God nor nation can
tver forget Ye who are fond of vivid con-
trasts put tho two scsnes OF Joppa sido by
side, Dorcas with her needle, and the i'm
mortal butcher with his knife.
But standing on this Jpppa house top
look of on tho Mediterranean. and what Is
that, strange sight see' The wntars ars
black, seemingly for miles There seems to
be great multitude OF logs fastened to-
gether. oh. yes, 1t Is great raft Of TIMBER.
They are CEDAR OF Lebanon, wnich King
Hiram is furnishing King Solomon In OK
change Tor ~, ,UJU measures or wneat, A,UJJ
baths OF oil and 20, 900 batha OF wine. These
csdars have, been cnt down and trimmed Ia
the mountains of Lebanon by tho 10000 M.
men engaged there and with great withes
and iron bolts are fastened together. and they
are floating down % Joppa 10 be taken across
the land for sc.omon'a tsmI le, now building
40 Jerans ,en, for we hsve lost our hold ol
The NInetssath century aud are clear back III
the ages.
This rzftA OF esdar are guided Into what 4
called the Moon Pool. an old harbor south
OF JJppa, now allsd with sand and useless.
With long pixies the timber 10 pushed this
way and that in the water then with divers
and many loud, long "Io. hsayer' as this
weight ths timber IL fastened 10 the wag-
Ons and the lowing oxan are yoked h. tho
load, aud tho procession OF taanis moves on
with crack of whip aud drawled out word
which, TRANSLATED l suppose would oorre
spond with the "Whoa. haw. gesF ~ mod
srn tasmsisrs, toward Jerusalem, which Il