The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-03

there came steam plows. steam harroWs
steam reapers, steam rakes, steam
thresherss and the work Is accom-
plished
So all events are woven together, and
the world is magnificently governed
vine machinery is going wrong, and put
our fingers amid the wheels only to get
them crushed But say hands
off Things are coming out giori-
ohsly. Cornelius may be. in Csesarea,
and Peter in joppa, but their
dreams meet 1t is one hand that
is managing the world. and that is Gods
hand, and one mind that is planning all
things for good. and that is Gods mind;
and one heart that is filed with love
and pardon, and sympathy. and that is
Gods heart Have faith in Him
Standing here in Joppa 1 remember
that where we this morning disembarlced
the prophet Jonah embarked. For the
first time in my life fully understand
that story. God told Jonah to go TO
Nineveh, but the prophet declined that
call and came here to Jopps- was for
weeks while in the Holy Land consulting
with tourist companies as to how 1
could take Nineyeh in my journey.
They did not encourage the undertake
ing. 1t is most tedious ride to Nine
veh and desert Now 1 see an addi-
tional reason why Jonah did not want
to go to Nineyeh. He not only fevolted
because of the disagreeable message he
was called to deliver at Nineveh.
but because it was long way and
tough and bandit infested. so he came
here to Joppa and took ship. But alas,
for the disastrous voyage! He paid his
full fare for the whole voyage, but the
ship company d d not fill their part of
the contract To this day they have
not paid back that passage money. Why
people should doubt the story of Jonah
and the whale is more of a mystery than
the Bal BILE event itself. 1 do not heed
the fact that Piiny, the historian. re-
cords that the skeleton of a whale forty
feet long and with hide foot and half
thick was brought from Joppa TO Rome.
Tho event recorded iii the book of
Jonah has occurred a thousand times.
The Lord always has whale outside
the harbor for man who starts in the
wrong direction. Recreant Jonahi lido
not wonder that even the whale was
sick of him. This prophet was put in
the Bible, not as an example, btit as
warming, because the world hot only
needs lighthouse but buoys to show
where the rocks are The Bible story of
him ends by showing the prophet in
fit of the sulks. He was mad because
Ninevah was not destroyed, and then he
leaf Using it for shade from the tropical
sun, and when a worm disturbed that
leaf. and it withered and the sun smote
Jonah; he few into great rage, said;
1T is better for me to die than to live"
A prophet in a rage because he had lost
his umbrella! Beware Of petulancel
But standing on this Joppa house-top,
look off on the Mediterranean, and
wi Q or i0hf
waters are black, seemingly for miles.
There seems to be great multitude of
logs fastened together. o. yes it is a
great raft of timber They are cedars
from Lebanon which King Hiram is
furnishing King Solomon in exchange
for 20, 600 measures of wheat, 20, 600
baths of oil and 90, O00 baths of wine.
These cedars have been cut down and
trimmed in the noun tains of Lebanon
by the 20, 900 axmen engaged there, and
with great withes and iron bolts are
fastened together, and they are floating
down to Joppa to be taken across the
land for Solomon's temple now building
at Jerusalem, for we have lost our hold
of the nineteenth century and are clear
back in the ages. The RATS of cedar
are guided into what is called the Moon
pool, an old harbor south of Joppa, now
filled with sand, and useless.
And these rough cedars shall become
carved pillars and beautiful affairs and
rounded bannisters and tracericd panels
and sublime ceilings and cxuuis. te harps
and kingly chariots
Our Christian ancestry toiled at it
amid sweat and tears, and hundreds of
generations of the good and the long
train of Christian workers still moves
on, and, as in the construction Of Solo
mons temple, some hewed with the axe
in the far away Lebanon. and some drove
a wedge, and some twisted a withe, and
some trod the wet and slippery RATS on
the sea, and some yoked the OK, and some
pulled at the load, and some showed the
plane, and some fitted the points, and
some hewed up the rafters, but all
helped build the temple, though some
of these never saw it, SO now let us all
put our hands. and our shoulders, and
our hearts to the work of building the
temple of righteousness that shall fill
the earth; and one will bind a wound,
and another will wipe away tear, and
another will teach a class, and another
will speak the encouraging word, and
all of us Will be ready to pull and lift
and in some way help on the work until
the millenial morn shall gild the pin
nacle of that finished temple. and at
its shining gates the world shall put
down its last burden and in its LAYERS
wash off its last stain and at its affairs
the last wanderer shall kneel At the
dedication of that temple all the armies
of earth and Heaven will shoulder
arms" and present arms, and ground
arms" for ''behoid a greater than Solo
mon is here"
But my first day in the Holy Land is
ended. The sun is already closing his
eye for the night I stand on the bal
cony of a hotel which was brought to
Joppa in pieces from the State of Maine
by some fanatics who came here expect
ing to see Christ reappear in Palestine.
My room here was once occupied by that
Christian hero of the centuries-En-
glish, Chinese. Egyptian. world wide
General Gordon, a man mighty for God
as well as for the worlds pacihcatiop.
Although the first of December and
winter, the air is full of fragrance from
gardens all a-bloom, and under my win
dow are acacia and tamerisk and null
berry and century plants and orange
groves and oleander. From the drowsi-
ness of the air and the fatigues of the
day 1 feel sleepy. Good night. To
morrow We start for Jerusalem.
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