Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-17

Ing. At Joshua's command six
| tribes stood on Mount Gerizim and
read the blessings for keeping the law,
and six tribes stood on Mount Ebal
reading the curses for break
| ing the law, while the 500, ZOO
people on the plain cried amen With
! an emphasis that must have made the
earth tremble. 81 do not believe that,
says some one, 'for those mountain
! tops ere two miles apart, and how could
voice be heard from top to top?' Ny
answer IL that while the tops are two
miles apart, the bases of the mountains
are only half a mile apart, and the
tribes stood on the sides of the mount
ains, and tho air is so clear, and the
| acoustic qualities of this great natural
amphiiheateT so perfect that voices can
! be distinctly heard from mountain to
! mountain as has been demonstrated by
/ travellers fifty times in the last fifty
years.
Can you imagine anything more thrill
! ing and sublime, ana overwhelming than
| VIVA: transpired OH those two mountain
! sic es, and in the plain between, when
| the responsive service went OF, and
thousands of voices on Mount Gerizim
| cried :Blessed shalt thou be in the
/ city, and blessed shalt thou be 10 the
| fields, blessed shall be thy basket and
/ thy store.'' AID then from Mount Ebal,
! thousands OF voices responded, crying:
Cursed be he :hat remoyeth his neigh
| boris landmark. Cursed be he that
/ maketk the blind to wander out of the
way. and then there rolled up from all
| the spaces between the mountains that
| one word, with which the devout of
earth close their prayers, and the glori-
90 n fln:ap their 1OXOlDpios-
! "AaiEN! AMEN.'
that scene only to be surpassed by the
/ times which ars coming, when the
| churches aud the academies OF music,
| and the auditosiums of earth, no longer
| large enough to hold the worsh,pers Of
| God, the parks, the mountain sides, the
! great natural amphitheaters of the val
! legs, shall be filed with the outpouTing
! populations of the earth and mountain
| shall reply to mountain, as Mount Geri-
! Zim 10 Mount Fbai, and all the people
| between shall ascribe riches and honor,
| and glory, and dominion, and victory to
| God and the Lamb, and there shall arise
| an Amen like the booming Of the heavens
mingling with he thunder Of the seas.
On and on we ride until now, we have
come to Shiloh, dead city On hill sur
rounded by rocks sheep, goats, olive
E!TUeuS anu vineyards. mere EOOu ELL
fell backward and brooks his neck, and
lay dead at the news from his bad boys
Phiueas and Hophnl; and life ia not
worth living after ones children have
turned out badly, and more fortunate
was Eli, instantly expiring under such
tidings, than those parents who, their
children recreant sud protigate, 1--we on
with broken hearts to ses them going
down into deeper and deeper plunge.
There IRE fathers and mothers here to-
day TO whom death would bs happy re-
lease because of their recreaut sons.
And if there be reCreant sons here pres
ent, and your parents be fer away, why
not bow your head III repentance, and at
the close of this service go to the te!s-
graph office and put il on tho wing OF
the lightning that you have turned from
your evil ways? Before another twenty
four hours have passed, take your feet
of the sad hearts at the old homestead.
HOME TO THY GOD, PRoDiGAL.
Many many letters 60 l get in pur-
port saying: Ny son Is In your cities;
we have not heard from him for some
time; we fear something is wrong; hunt
him up and say good word to him; his
mother is almost crazy about him; he is
child of many prayers. But how can
ence? Where are you, my hoy? On the
main floor, or on this platform, or in
these boxes, or i'll these great galleries?
Where are you? Lift your right hand.
| have a message from home. Your
father is anxious about you, your mother
is praying fer you. Your God is calling
for you. Or Will you wait until Eli falls
back llfeless, and the heart against
which you lay in infancy ceases to beat?
What a story TO tell in eternity that you
killed herr My God! Avert that catas-
trophe
Blu: turn from this Shiloh of Ellis
sudden decease under bad news from his
boys, and find close by what is called the
"Meadow OF the Feast While this
ancient city was IN the height OF its
prosperity, on this ''Meadow of the
Feast there was an annual ball where
maidens OF the city, amid clapping Gym
bnis and biare of trump cts, danced in
q elee, upon which thousands of specta-
tors gazed. But no dance since the
world stood ever broke up in such
strange way as the one the Bible de-
scribes. One night, while by the light
OF the lamps aud torches these gaieties
went on, 200 Benjatn ties, who had
been hidden behind the rocks and
among the trees, dashed upon the scene.
They came not to iujure or destroy, but
wishing to set up households of their
own, the women of their own land hav-
ing been slain III battle, aud by precon-
certed arrangement each one of the 200
Benja uites seized the one whom he had
chosen for the queen of his home, aud
carried her away to large estate and
beautiful residence, for these 200 Ben
iamites had inherited
THE WEALTH OF A NATION.
AS to-day near Shiloh we look at the
"Maadow of the Fesst;'' where the
nadeuS danced that night aud at the
mountain gorge up which the Benjamites
carried their brides, we bethink ourselves
of the better land and the better times in
which We live, when such scenes are an
impossibility, and amid orderly groups
aud with prayer and beneuiction, and
breath OF orange blossoms and the roll of
the wedding march, marriage is solemn
lied, and with oath recorded in heaven,
two imlnortals start Grm in arm on a
journey, to last until death do them
part. Upon every such marriage altar
may there come tine blessing OF Him
'who setteth the solitary in families. -