Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-12

oriental cltseS heard the linking Oh Tue Oeh
of those who sell water can realize what 1t is
to have this divine beverage in abundance.
Water iumbling over the rocks, turning the
mill wheel, saturatng the roots OF the
corn dripping from the buckets, filing the
pitchers OF the household, rolling through the
| fonts or haptistres of holy ordinance, filing
the reservoirs of cities, inviting the cattle to
come down and sake their thirst and tue
birds of heaven to dip their wing, ascending
in robe of mist and falling again in benedic-
ton of shower-water, living water, uod
given water
We are awakened in the morning in Da-
mascus by the song OF those VINO nave
different STYLES of food to sell. 1t is not
street cry as in London or New YORK, but
weird and long drawn out solo, COM
nared with which buzz saw is musical.
1t makes you inopportunely waken, ana
will not let you sleep again. But to those
who understand the exact meaning OF the
song it becomes quite tolerable, for they
sing: God is the nourisher, buy my bread;
! God is the nourisher buy my milk: Tod
is the nourisher, buy my fruit. AS you
| look out of,the window yOu see the Moham-
medans, who are IN large majority IN tne
CITY. at PRAYER And II 10 were put to vote
who should be king OF all the EARTH fifteen
thousand in that city would say Christ, but
one hundred and thirty thousand would say
Mohamned. Looking from the window, you
see on the hOusetOps and on the streets NO
| hammedans at worship. The muezzln or the
| officers of religion VINO announce the time oil
worship, appear high up ON the dlt1erehb
J ninarets or tall towers, AMI walk around the
minaret, inc.osed by railing ana cry IN
sal and mumbling way "God Is great. l
hear witness that there is no God but God.
| bear witness that Mohammed is the
| APOSTLE of God Come to Prayersi Come to
| salvationi Colds great. There Is no other
| hut God PRAYERS are better than sleep
Five times a day must the Mohammedan
engage in worship. AS he begins he turns
his face toward the city Of Mecca, and I'M
rolls upon the ground rug when ne almost
ALWAYS carries. With his thumbs touc ing
the lobes of bis ears, and holding his face
between his hands, be cries God is great"
Then folding his hands across his girdle, he
locks down and saws Holiness to Thee,O
God and praise be to Thee. Great
is Thy name. Great is Thy great
ness. There is no deity but Thee"
Then the worshiper sits upon bis heels, then
he touches his nose to the rug, and then his
forehead these genuhections accompanied
with the cry, Great is God" Then raising
the forefnger Of his right hand toward
heaven. he saws. II testify there is no deity
but God. and | testify that Mohammed is
the servant of God, and the messenger OF
God" The PRAYERS close by the worshper
holding his hands opened upward as II to
take the divine blessing. and then mis- han1s
are rubbed over his face as if to convey the
blessing to his entire body
There are two or three commenda0le
things about Mohammedanlsn. One is that
itsdiscip,es wash before every act Of prayer,
and that is five times day, AMI there IS
a gospel in cleanliness. Another commend
able thing is they don't care who Is looking
and nothing can stop them in their prayer.
Another thing is that by the order OF No
manned and an order obeyed Tor
thirteen hundred years, no Moham
msJan touches strong drink But the
nolvgamv. the many wifehood of Mohomme'
danism, has made That religion the unutter-
I able and everlasting curse OF woman, ana
when woman sinSs the r &c SINKS Inc
nropOsition recently made in high ecclesl-
astical places for the reformation or Moham'
mechanism instead of its ODliteration. Is like
an attempt to improve plague or educate
leprosv There is only one thing that VIII
ever reform Mohammedanism and that Is
its extirpation from the lace OF the eartn by
the rover of the Gospel OF the Son of God,
which makes not only man, hut woman, Tree
for this lie aud free for the life to come
The spirit of the horrible religion winch
nrevades the CITY OK Damascus, along whosl
| make purchases. and IN whose mosques wa
/ stulv the wood carvings and beiHsments,
| were demonstrated as late as ls6D wl-n IN
this CITY it put to death 5000 Christian IN
! forty eight hours and put to the loren JVlJ
| Christian homes AMI those streets we walk
tc-1ay were rel with the carnage, and the
shriels AMI grcans OF the dying and dIsnon.
/ ored men an women made THIS place neil
/ on earth Tuis went on until MOilanme-
U ~. = .Ifr 4 hi nix
| by name. a great soldier, who IN one
war had with 300 troops beaten 10000
of the enemy, now protested against
this massacre and gathered the Cars.
/ tians of Damascus into castles and
private houses and led his own home
with the aifrighted sufferers After while
J the mob cane 20 his door and dsmande1 tls
Christian dog wlOn h was sheltering:
/ And AOd-el -Aa Ter mOuntsd horse ana
irew his sword. and with few OF his oil
! soldiers around him charged on the MOP ana
/ cried 'sWretchesi Is this the way you honor
] the prophet2 Nav his curses be upon YOU
| Shame on YOU Shame! You will yet i've
/ TO repent You think you may do as you
please with the Christians, but the day OF
| retribution will come The Franks will yet
turn your mosques into churches. Not
Christian will give up. They are my
brothers. Stand bacs or will give my men
| the order 10 fire
Then by the might OF one great soul under
| God the wave of assassination rolled back
Huzza for Abd-el-Kaderl Although now We
/ Americans and foreigners pass through the
streets Of Damascus unhindered, there Is IN
many parts Of the city the subdued Kissing OF
/ n hatred for Christianity that If 1t dared
would put to death every man, woman and
| child in Damascus who does not declare al
/ legiance 10 Mohammed. But | am glad 70
say that a wide, hard. splendid turnpike
road has within few years been con-
structed from Beyrout. on re shore OF the
Mediterranean. to this city Of Damascus, ana
| if ever again the wholesale ASSASSINATION Is
! attempted French troops and Englsh troops
would, with jingling bits and lightning
hoofs dash up the hills and down this Da-
mascus main and leave the Mohammedan
,,,urderers dead on the floor of their mosques
| and seraglios. 1t is too late in the history OF
| the world for governments to allow such
things as the modern massacre at Damascus
For such murderous attacks on Christian
missionaries and Christian disciples the Cos
! pel is not 50 appropriate as bullets or saDers
| S arp and heavy enough to cut through Win
one stroke from crown Of head to saddle.
But must sly that this CITY Of Damascus
! as [ see il now is no. as absorbing as tas ia
| nascus of oiden times. ! turn my LACK upon
! the DaZafS, WITH rugs idHC SiIo wy ~
chants from Bagdad. and the Indian textile
fabric Of Incompatible make, AM the manu-
featured saddles and brides gay enough for
prime. of the orient to ride an pull and
! baths where abut,Ou becomes inspiration,
and the homes Of those bar gain makers OF
to-day. marbled and divaned and foun' aimed
and upholstered aud mosaicet and araoes-
Gned ana colonaCel until nothing can be
added and the sp,en i'd remains OF the great
mosque OF John, originally bailt with gates
so heavy that it required five men TO turn
them. aud columns OF porplyry AM Kneel-
ing places framed in diamond and seventy
four ia ne glass windows and SIX hun red
lamps of pure gold, a single prayer offered
in this mosque "a 4 TO be worth thirty thou
sand prayers offered in any other place.
turn my back on all these AMI see Damascus
as it was when this narrow street, which the
Bible calls Straight. was a great WIDE street,
a New York Broadway ora Partisan Champs
Elysees. a great thoroughfare crossing the
CITY from gate 10 gate, along Which tramped
and rolled the pomp OF all nations