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

Turkish Government ought TO be blotted
from the face OF the earth. and twill be.
OF many OF the inhabitants Of Palestine
asked the question, "Has the Sultan Of Tur-
sey ever been herei' Answer, mo" why
ion't he come, when II belongs TO his do
niniony' And. after the man interrogated
DoKed this way and that, 50 as to know he
would not be reported, the answer would in
Eariably be. He dare not come" believed
4. u the Sultan OF Turkey attempted to
Eisit Jerusalem he would never get back
'gnin. All Palestine hates him. saw him go
v the mosque FOR nrnvers In his own citv of
UonssantIuOpie. aiu snw seven unousanu
lrmed men riding out to protect him. Expen-
i've prayers! or course that Government
wants no better harbor at Joppa. May God
remove that curse Of nations, that old hag Of
the centuries the Turkish Government! For
It's everlasting insult TO God and woman let
Il perish! Aud 80 those rocks at the harbor
remain the jaws OF repeated destruction.
As we descended the nn-sov stems mt the
noe OF tn, snip We nraIu cIaI:or ana
quarrel and swearing OF fifteen or sixteen
different races OF men OF all features and
all colors and all verpacuIars; all different in
appearance, but all ahke In desire to get our
baggage and ourselves at exorbitant prices.
Twenty boats and only ten passengers to 60
ashore. The man having charge Of us pushes
asida some, and strikes with a heavy stick
others, and by vio!ences that would not be
tolerated in our country. but which seem to
oe the only manner or making any impress
sion there, clears our way into one OF the
boats, which heads for the shore. We are
within fifteen minutes OF tho Christ land
Now We hear shouting from the beach, and
In five minutes We will be landed. The prov
of the boat Is caught by men who wade out
TO help US In.
We are tremulous with suppressed excite
uaent, our breath Is quick, and from the side
of the boat we spring to the shore, and Sun
day morning December l, 1859, about eight
o'clock, our fest touch Palestine. Forever
to me aud mine will that day and hour be
commemorated for that pre- eminent mercy
Let 1t be mentioned In prayer by my chill
dren and chtldren's children after we are
gone, that morning we we're permitted to
enter that land and gaze upon those holy
hills and feel the emotions that rise and fall
ana weep ana iaugu ana sing ana triumph at
such o Decentralization.
On tho back OF the hills one hundred and
Gfty feet high Joppa is lifted toward the
skies. II is as picturesque as It is quaint, and
ss much unlike any city we have ever seen,
as though 1t were built In that star Mars.
where few nights ago this very September
astronomers through unparalleled telescopes,
to be In Joppa Why, this is tho city where
Dorcas, that queen Of the needle, lived and
died and was resurrected. You remember
that the poor people came around the dead
body OF this bcnefactress, and brought speci-
inens Of her kind needlework and said:
"Dorcas made this" "Dorcas sewed that"
"Dorcas cut and fitted this ''Dorcas
bemmed that
According 10 Lghtfoot, the commentator,
they laid her out In state in a public room,
and the poor wrupg their hands and cried
and sent for Peter. who performed a miracle
py wnicn the good woman came back 70 life
and resumed her benefactions. An especial
resurrection day for one woman! She was
the model by which many women OF our day
have fashioned their lives, and at the first
blast OF the horn Of wintry tempest there ap-
pear ten thousand Dorcases-Dorcases OF
Brooklyn, Decreases Of New York, Decreases
Of London, Decreases Of all the neighborhoods
and towns and cities Of ChriStendom-just as
good as the Dorcas Of Joppa which visited
Thank God for the ever increasing skill and
sharpness and speed and generosity Of Dor
cas's needle.
what is that man doingy' said to the
dragoman In the streets Of Joppa. 'Oh, he
Is carrying his bed" Multitudes Of people
sleep out OF doors, and that Is the way so
many In those lands become blind II Is from
the dew Of the night falling on the eyolids. As
q result OF this, in Egypt every twentieth
person is totally blind. In Oriental lands
the bed is made OF thin, small mattress O
blanket and pillow. and when the man rises
In the morning he just ties up the three into
bundle and shoulders 1t and takes 1t away.
II was 10 that the Saviour referred when He
said 10 tho SICK man Take up thy bed and
walk" An American couch or an English
couch would REQUIRE at least four men to
xyiL out one Oriental can easily manage
IS slumber equipment.
But inhale some Of the odors of the large
tanneries around Joppa. II is there to this
day, prosperous business this tanning Of
hides. And that reminds me OF Simon, the
tanner, who lived at Joppa and was the host
OF Peter. the apostle 1 suppose the olfac-
tories OF Peter wcrs as easily insultei by tho
odors Of tannery as Others. But the Bible
says HE lodged with one Simon, the tan
ner." People who go out TO do reformatory
and missionary and Christian work must not
be too sensitive. Simon no doubt brought
TO his homestead every night the malodorf
OF the calfskins and or hides In his tannery
but Peter lodged in that home, not only bt
cause he may not have bcen invited to ii
houses OF merchant princes surrounded l. !
redolent gardens but TO teach all men and
women engaged in trying to make the world
better that they must not be squoamish and
fastidious and finical aud over particular in
doing the work OF the world.
The church Of God is dying Of fastidious-
ness We cry over tho suiferings OF the
world in hundred dollar pocket handker-
chiefs and then put cent Ia the poor box.
There are many williug TO do Christian work
among the cleanly, and the refined. and this
elegant. and the educated, but excuse them
from taking loaf Of bread down dirty a..
ley, excuse them from teaching n mission
school among the uncombed aud the unwash.
ed, excuse them from touching tho hand OF
one whose finger nails are In mourning for
departed soap, Such religious precisionists
can toll In atmospheres laden with honey
suckle and rosemary, but not In air floating
up from the mslodorous vats, No, no, no
Excuse them from living with ono Simon, tho
tanner.
During the last war there were in Virginia
some sixty or seventy wounded soldiers In .
barn, on the second ioor, 50 near the ROOT
That the heat of the August sun was almost