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the champion for the Israelites, Goliath the
champion for the Philistines, David under
sized and almost effeminate, only q mouth
full for Goliath, who was nearly ten feet high.
They advance to meet each other, but the
Bible says that David made the first step
but do not think David will wait until he
comes within reach Of Goliath's sword, for
that would be fatal, and David has weapon
with which he can fight at long range.
| Closer and closer they come but David ad-
vances the more rapidly. "Coms to me-"
said the giant, ''and will give thy flesh
unto the fowls Of the air and to the beasts
Of the field" You see Goliath going to
give David for banquet to the vulturs
and JacxaI. BE, the mountain Of flesh, will
fall over on that little hillock. hear him
laugh through the mouthpiece of his he'll
met. He will toast the little whifPet on the
! top Of his long sword. he will call all the
crows for breakfast. "Come to me, you
! contemplate little fellow, and I will make
quick work with you. The idea that FIVE
tooter should dare to come out against q.
esn-rooterl Let the two armies looking down
| from the ridges watch mep David respond
Lord Of Hostsr Ahal that Is the right
Kind Of battle shout. I'm the name of the
Lord Of Hostsr' ...-F
Row that cry rings through the Wadyes-
Sumptl Ho who fights In that spirit wins
the day. The almost Israelitish dwarf en-
larges into omnipotent proportions. The
moment to strike has come. David takes
his sling, with stone In it. and whirls 1t
round his head until he has put the weapon
| into sufficient momentum, and then, taking
sure aim, hurls it. The giant throws up his
bands and reels back and falls. The stone
sank into his forehead That was the only
available point Of attack. But how about
| the helmet on his head? Did the stone that
David flung crush through the helmet? No.
An old rabbi says be thinks that when Co.
hath scoRed at David the giant so suddenly
and contemptuously jerked up his head that
the helmet fell off. That is like enough.
David saw the bare forehead, foot high. and
aimed at the centre Of 1t, and the skull
cracked and broke in like an eggshsll, and
the ground shook as this great oak of mill
tary chieftain struck it. Huzza for Davidl
But we must hasten on, for the DANCE now
s that night will be upon us before we reach
Jerusalem. Obi we must sec it before sun
down. We are climbing the hills which are
terraced with olive groves uplands rising
above up!ands, until we come to an immen-
ity Of barrenpess, gray rocks above gray
rocks, where neither tree, nor leaf, nor bush.
nor grass blade can grow. The horses stum-
ble, and slip and pull, till it seems the har-
ness must break. Solemnity and awe take
oosssssion Of us. Though O vivacious party,
and during part of the day jocularity had
reigned, now no one spoke word except to
,ay to the dragoman, Tell as when you get
the first glimpse Of the city" never had
such high expectation Of seeing any place as
may have been slightly akin to those Of the
Christian just about to enter the heavenly
Jerusalem. My ideas of the earthly Jerusa-
lem were bewildering. Had not seen pic
lures of it? Oh, yes; but they only increased
the bewilderment. They were taken from
variety Of standpoints.
If twenty artists attempt to sketch Brook
lyn or New York or London or Jerusalem
thev will plant their cameras at different
places and take as many different pictures,
but In few minutes I shall see the sacred
city with my own eyes. Over another shoul-
der Of the hill We go, and nothing in sight but
rocks and mountains and awful gulches be
tween them, which make the head swim II
YOU look down. On and up on and up, until
the lathered and smoking horses are refined
In. and the dragoman rises in front, and
points eastward, crying Jerusalem" 1t was
ruichtier than an electric SHOCK. We oil rose.
There it lay, the prize Of nations the terminus
Of famous pilgrimages, the object OF roman
and crusading wars and for it Assyrlans haa
fought, and Egyptians had fought and the
Of Sheba visited and Richard Ceur de Lion
nad conquered. Home OF Solomon home OF
Ezekiel; home Of Jeremiah; home Of Isaiah;
home Of Saladin. Mount Zion Of David's
heartbreak, and Mount Moriah, where the
sacrifices smoked; Mount Of Olives. where
Jesus preached, and Gethsemane, where BE
agonized, and Golgotha, where He died, and
the holy sepulcher where he was buried. o
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Greatest city on
earth, and type Of the city celestial!
After have been ten thousand years In
heaven the memory Of that first view from
the rocks on the afternoon Of December 2
will be as vivid as now. An A.ab on horse
that was like q whirlwind, bitted and sad
died and spurred, its name and hanks jetcas
the highland there arc no such horsemen
as Arab horsemeu-had come far out to meet
us and invite US to his hotel inside the gates.
But arrangements had been made for US to
stay at hotel outside the gates. In the dusk
Of evening we halted In front Of the place and
entered, but said: mo; thank you for
your courteous reception, but I must sleep
tonight inside the gates of jerusalem 1
would rather have tho poorest place inside
we remounted our coach and moved on amid
O clamor Of voices, and between camels
grunting with great beams and timbers on
their backs brought in for building purposes
for it is amazing how much camel can
carry-untl we came to what is called the
Joppa Gate OF Jerusalem 1t Is about forty
feet wide, twenty feet deep and sixty feet
high. There is a sharp turn just after you
have entered, so planned as to make the en-
trance Of armed enemies the more difficult.
On the structure of these gates the safety
Of Jerusalem depended, and all the Bible
writer's used them for illustrations. Within
Ave minutes walk Of the gate we entered
David wrote, "Enter into thy gates with
Thanksgiving" Lift up your heads, 0 Js
gatesp THE Lord loveth the gates of Zion,"'
''oPen to me the gates Of rishteoarsnesshn BUSINESS
the gates" And tho captive Of Patmos
wrote. "The city had twelve gates" Having
passed the gate we went on through the
narrow streets, dimly lighted, and passed to
our batting place, and sat down by tho
window, from which we could see Mount
Zion, and said: 'Here we are at last, In the
capital Of the whole EARTH" And thoughts
of the past and the future rushed through my
soul in quick succession, and thought OF
that odd hymn, sung by so many ascending
spirits:
jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever Dear TO me!
When shall my Iabors have an enc,
In JOY and peace and thee2
When shall these eyes thy heay'n bull. walls
And pearly gates behold!
Thy bulwa-ks with salvation strong,
And streets OF shining gold7
And so with our hearts full Of gratitude to
God for journeying mercies all the way from
Joppa to Jerusalem, and with bright
anticipation of our entrance into tho shining
gate Of the heavenly city when earthly
Journeys are over, my second day il Pales-
tine Is ended