Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-20

tine and syria Ia yield Il product ike unto
the luNuriant Westminster farms Of New
York. and Lancaster county farms OF Penn
sylvana, and Somerset county farms OF
New Jersey, and the othcr magnificent farm
fields OF Minnesota ana Wisconsin,. aud the
opulent orchards II Maryland and Califor-
mia. Let the Turk 10 driven out and the
American or EnglIshman or Scotchman go
in and Mohammcdanism withdraw its idol
tarieS. and pure Christianity build its affairs
and the irrigation OF which solomon pools
were only Il suggestion will make all that
land from Dan 10 Becrsheba as fertile and
aromatic and Respondent. as on the morn
Ing when the king rodo out to his pleasure
grounds in chariot so swift, and followed by
mounted riders SO brilliant that 1t was FOR
speed like hurricane followed by
cyclone.
AS looked upon this great aqueduct of
Palest a wondrous spcCimt Of ancient
masonry, about seven t,et high. two feet
wide. sometimes tunnelling the solid rock
and then rolling It's waters through stone
ware pipes, an aqucduct doing It's work ten
miles before ii gets to these three reservoirs
and then gathering their wealth OF refresh
ment and pouring 1t on to Inc mighty city OF
Jerusalem ard filing the braztn sea OF her
temple, and the bathrooms of her palaces
and the great pools of SLOAN and Hczekiah
and Bethesda. find that our century has
no monopoly OF the world wonders.and that
the conceltcd age in which we live had
better take in some OF the sails Of its pride
when 1t remembers that 1T is hard work in
later ages to get masonry that will last fifty
years, to say nothing of the three thousand.
and TO modern machinery could lift blocks
OF ST ono like some of those standing high In
the walls OF Baalbec, and that the art OF
printing claimed for recent ages was prac-
ticcd by The Chinese fourteen hundred
years ago, and that our midnight lightning
express railtrain was forseen by the prophet
Nh w hon in Ia ht.v vrstn hn
charots shall rage IN the streets, they shall
jostle one against another in the broad
ways, they shall seem like torches. they
shall run like lightnings," and our electric
telegraph was forescen by dob, when In tho
Bible he wrote, ''Canst thou send lightnings
that they may go and say unto thee. Here
we are Z" What is that talking by the light
nings, but the electric telegraph! l do not
know but that the electric forces now
being yearly year more thoroughly har-
messed may have been employed in ages x-
tinct, and that the lightn!ngs all up and
down the sky, have been running around
like lost hounds to find their former master.
Embalmment was moro thorough art
three thousand years ago than today.
Dentistry that We suppose ono of the i'm
| portant arts discovered In recent centuries,
| Is proven to be four thousand years old by
! the filed teeth OF the mummies in the
museums at Cairo Egypt. and artificial
teeth on gold plates found by Belzoni in the
tombs OF departed nations. We have been
| taught that Harvey discovered the circu-
| lation OF the blood so late as the seventeenth
| century. Oh, no! Solomon announces it in
| Ecclesiastes, where first having shown that
| he under stood the spinal cord, silver col
| ored as it is. and that it relaXes in old age.
| "thc silver cord be loosed," goes on to COM
pare the heart to pitcher at we'll, for
| the three canals OF the heart do receive the
| blood like IL pitcher, ''or the pitcher be
| hrpl.nn nj tho fountain - What Is that Int
the circulation OF the blood. found out
| twenty six hundred years before Harvey
was born? After many centuries OF ex-
| ploration and calculation. astronomy finds
out that the world is round. Why. Isaiah
knew it was round thousands OF years be-
fore when in tho bible he said: 1.-The Lord
stitch upon the circle OF the earth. !"
| Scientists toiled on for centuries and found
out refraction, or that the rays OF light
when touching the earth were not straight
but bent or curved. Why. Job knew that
| when ages before in the Bible he wrote OF
the light; "It is turned as clay to the seal. !"
In the old cathedrals OF England modern
| painters In the repair OF windows are trying
| to make something as good as the window
painting OF four hundred years ago. and
always failing by the unanimous verdict
| OF all who examine and compare. The color
of modern painting fades in fifty years,
while tho color Of the old masters is as we'll
| preserved after five hundred years as after
one year. / saw last winter on the walls OF
exhumed Pompeii paintings with color us
fresh as though made tho day before.
though they were buried eighteen hundred
years ago. The making of Tyrian purple
is an impossibility now. In our modern
potteries we are trying hard to make cups
and pitchers and bowls as exquisite as those
exhumed from Herculaneum. and our arti-
fcers arc attempting to make jewelry for
ear and neck and finger equal to that
brought up from the mausoleums Of two
thousand years before Christ. We have in
our time glass in all shapes and all colors.
but Pliny, more than eighteen hundred
years ago, described malleable glass
which. If thrown upon the ground and
dented could Ee pounded straight again by
the hammer. or could be twisted around
the wrists, and that confounds all the glass
manufacto cries of cur own time. tried in
Damascus, Syria, to buy Damascus blade
one of those swords that could be bent
double or tied into knot without breaking
could not get one. Why? The nineteenth
century cannot make Damascus blade
If we go on enlarying our cities We may
after while get u city as largo as Babylon
which was five times the size of London.
These aqueducts OF Solomon that l visit
today, finding them in good condition three
thousand years after construction, make
me think that the world may have forgot
ton more .han it now knows. The grea
honor Of our age Is not machinery, for thu
ancients had some styles of 1t more won
derful; nor art, for the ancents had ar
more exquisite and durable: nor architec
ture. for Romun Coliseum and Grecial
Acropolis surpass all modern architecture
nor cities, for some of the ancient citie
were larger than ours in the sweep of thci
pomp. But our attempts must be in mora
achievement and Gospel victory. In tina
we have already surpassed them. and i
that direction let the ages push on. Let u
brag less OF worldly achievement. and than
God for moral opportunity. More goo
men and good women Is what the worl
wants. Toward moral elevation an
spiritual attainment let tho chief struggl
be. The source OF all that will show 20
before shutdown of this day, on which "
have visited the pools Of Solomon and tn
gardens of the king.
We are on this December afternoon on til
: way to the cradle of Him who called Hin
self greater than Solomon. We are comm
upon the chief cradle Of all the world. NJ
lined with satin, but strewn with stray
, | not sheltered by q palace, but covered by
barn. not presided over by princess, bt
lowered over by q peasant girl; yet crs
| 0Io tho n nOnv NJ which ia angelic wing