Connecticut western news., 1890-10-01
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 The prisoners of war by his order are taken out on the sands and put to death-one thousand of them, two thousand of them, three thousand of them, four thousand of them, mas sacred. And the blood pours down into the sea, the red of the one min gling with the blue Of the other, and making an awful maroon which neither God nor nation can ever forget. Ye who are fond of vivid contrasts put the two scenes of Joppa side by side, Dorcas with her needle, and the i'm mortal butcher with his knife.
 CEDARs OF LEBANON.
 But standing on this Joppa house top I look off on the Mediterranean, and what is that strange sight see9 The waters are black, seemingly for miles. There seems to be great multitude of logs fastened together. Oh, yes, it is a great raft of timbers They are cedars of Lebanon which King Hiram is fur nishing King Solomon in exchange for 20, 900 measures of wheat, 10000 baths of oil and 20, 900 baths of wine. These cedars have been cut down and trim med in the mountains of Lebanon by the 70, 900 .axmen engaged there, and with great withes and iron bolts are fastened together, and they are float ing 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 rafts of cedar are guided into what is called the Moon Pool, an old harbor south of Joppa, now filled with sand and useless. With long bikes the timber is pushed this way and that in the water, then with levers and many 8 loud, long "Io, heave" as the cart CTS get their shoulders under the great weight, the timber is fastened to the wagons and the lowing oxen are yoked to the load, and the procession of teams moves on with crack of whip and drawled out words which, translated, I suppose would correspond with the Whoa, haw, gee!" of modern team sters, toward Jerusalem, which is thirty miles away, over mountainous dis tances which for hundreds of years de- fled all engineering. And those rough cedars shall become carved pillars, and beautiful altars, and rounded bannis- ters, and traceried panels, and sublime ceiling, and exquisite harps, and kingly chariots.
 As the wagon train moves out from Joppa over the plain of Sharon toward Jerusalem I say to myself, what vast numbers of people helped build that temple of Solomon, and what vast numbers of people are now engaged in building the wider, higher, grande1 temple of righteousness rising in the earth. Our Christian ancestry toiled at it, amid sweat and tears, and hun dreds of the generations of the good, and the long train of Christian workers still moves on; and as in the construc ton of Solomon's temple some hewed with the ax in the far away Lebanon and some drove wedge, and some twisted withe, and some trod the wet and slippery rafts on the sea, and some yoked the OK, and some pulled at the load, and some showed the plane, and some fitted the joints, and some heaved up the rafters, but all helped build the temple, though some of these never saw it, so now let us all put oul hands, and our shoulders, and oul hearts to the work of building the tenn pie of righteousness, which is to fill the earth; and one will bind wound, and another will wipe away tear, and an other will teach class, and anothe, will speak the encouraging word, and all of us will be ready to pull and lift, and in some way help on the work un. til the millenial morn shall gild the pin nacle of that finished temple, and al its shining gates tho world shall put down it's last burden, and in it's lavers wash off it's last stain, and at it's altars 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 behold! greater thar Solomon is here"
 AND NOW FOR JERUSALEM.
 But my first day in the Holy Land i ended The sun is already closing hi eye for the night. stand on the bal cony of hotel which was brought te Joppa in pieces from the state of Maine by some fanatics who came here ex pecting to see Christ reappear in Pal estine My room here was once occu pied by that Christian hero of the cen turies-English, Chinese, Egyptian worldwide General Gordon, a mar mighty for God as well as for tht world pacification. Although the frs of December and winter, the air is ful of fragrance from gardens all a-bloom and under my window are acacia an6 tamarisk and mulberry and centur, plants and orange groves and oleander From the drowsiness of the air and tn, fatigues of the day feel sleepy. Goot night! Tomorrow morning we star for Jerusalem.
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