The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-11-05

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his ships and robbed the gardens OF the
whole earth for flowers and planted
these exotics here, and these particular
flowers are direct descendants OF the for
eign plants he imported. Mr.. Meshul-
lam, Christian Israelite, on the very
site Of these royal gardens has in our
day, by putting in his own spade dem
onstrated that the ground Is only wait-
ing for the right call to yield just as
much luxuriance and splendor eighteen
hundred years after Christ, as it yielded
Solomon one thousand years before
Christ. So all Palestine is waiting to
become the richest scene OF hortfcul-
ture, arboriculture and agriculture.
Recent travellers in the Holy Land
speak of the rocky and stony surface OF
nearly all Palestine, as an impossible
barrier to the future cultivation Of the
soil. But IL they had examined minute
ly the rocks and stones Of the Holy
Land, they would find that they are be-
ing skeletonized, and are being melted
into the soil, and being for the most part
limestone, they are doing for that land
what the American and English farmer
does when at great expense and fatigue
he draws his wagon load OF lime and
scatters 1t on the fields for their enrich
ment The storms, the winters, the
great midsummer heats of Palestine, by
crumbling up and dissolving the rocks
are gradually preparing Palestine, and
Syria to yield product like unto the
luxuriant Westchester farms Of New
York, and Lancaster County farms Of
Pennsylvania, and Somerset County
farms of New Jersey, and the other mag
nifcent farm fields Of Minnesota and
Wisconsin, and the opulent orchards Of
Maryland and California Let the Turk
be driven out and the American or En-
glishman, or Scotchman go In and Mo-
hammedanism withdraw its idolatries,
and pure Christianity build its altars,
and the irrigation Of which Solomon's
pools was only suggestion will make
all that land from Dan to Beersheba fer
tile, and aromatic and resplendent, as
on the morning when the king rode out
TO his pleasure grounds in chariot so
swift and followed by mounted riders
30 brilliant that 1t was for speed like
h urricane followed by cyclone.
AS | look upon this great aqueduct Of
Palestine, wondrous specimen OF an
cient masonry, about seven feet high,
two feet wide, sometimes tunneling the
solid rock and then rolling its waters
through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct
doing its work ten miles before 1t gets
to those three reservoirs, and then gath
ering their wealth OF refreshment and
pouring 1t on to the mighty city Of Jeru-
salem and filling the brazen sea Of her
temple, and the bathrooms OF her pal
aces, and the great pools OF Sloan, and
Hezekiah, and Bethesda, / find that
our century has no monopoly Of the
worlds wonders, and that the conceited
age in which we live, had better take in
some Of the sails OF its pride when it
| remembers that IL Is hard work in later
ages to get masonry that will last fifty
years, to say nothing Of the three thou
sand, and no modern machinery could
lift blocks OF stone like some OF those
standing high up in the walls OF Baal-
bee, and that the art Of printing claimed
for recent ages was practiced by the
Chinese fourteen hundred years ago,
and that our midnightlightning express
train was forseen by the prophet Ma
hum, when in the Bible ho wrote: 1.-THE
chariots shall rage in the streets, they
shall jostle one against another in the
broadways, they shall seem like torches,
they shall run like lightnings," and our
electric telegraph was foreseen by Job
when in the Bible he wrote: "Canst
thou send lightnings that they may 90
and say unto thee here we areP" What
is that talking by the lightnings, but
the electric telegraph do not know
but that the electric forces now being
year by year more thoroughly harnessed
may have been employed in ages ex-
tinct, and that the lightnings all up and
down the sky, have been running around
like lost hounds to find their former
master.
Embalmment was more thorough
art three thousand years ago than to-
day. Dentistry that we suppose one of
the important arts discovered in recent
centuries, is proven to be four thousand
years old by the filled teeth OF the mum
mics in the museums at Cairo, Egypt,
and artificial teeth on gold plates found
by Belzoni in the tombs OF departed ma
tions We have been taught that Harvey
discovered the circulation OF the blood
so late as the seventeenth century. o,
no? Solomon announces 1t in Ecclesi-
astes, whore first having shown that he
understood tho spinal cord, silver-col-
ored as II is, and that 1t relaxes in old
age, "the silver cord be loosed, "goes on
to compare the heart to a pitcher at a
we'll, for the three canals OF the heart
do receive the blood like pitcher, ''or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain"
What is that but the circulation OF the
blood, found out twenty-six hundred
years before Harvey was born? After
many centuries OF exploration and cal
culation astronomy finds. out that the
world is round. Why, Isaiah know 1t
was round thousands OF years before,
when in the Bible he said: "The Lord
sitteth 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 whom ages before in the
Bible he wrote Of the light: "It is
turned as clay TO the seal"
In the old cathedrals OF England mod
ern 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