Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-20

the latier called the Mount of Ours
ing. At Joshua's command six
| tribes stood on Mount Geriz!m and
read the blessings for keeping the law,
and six tribes stood gu Mount Ebal
reading the curses for break-
ing the law, while the 500, 0C0
people on the plain cried amen with
an emphasis that must have made the
| earth trem bic. 81 do not believe that,
says some one, 'for those mountain
tops are two miles apart, and how could
Il voice be heard from top to top?' NV
answer is that while the tops are two
| miles apart, the bases OF the mountains
are only half mile apart, and the
| tribes stood on the sides OF the mount
aims, and the air is so clear, and the
acoustic qualities of this great natural
| 1mphitheater so perfect that voices can
| be distinctly heard from mountain TO
! mountain rs has been demonstrated by
! travellers fifty times in the last fifty
years.
Can you imagine anything more thrill
ing and sublime, and overwhelming than
what transpired on those two mountain
sides, ami in the plain between, when
! the responsive service went on, and
thousands of voices on Mount Gerizin
| cried, blessed shalt thou be in the
city, and blessed shalt tlou be in the
fields. blessed shall be thy basket and
thy store.'' ana then from Mount Ebal,
! thousands of voices responded, crying:
Cursed be he that removeth his neigh
! boris landmark. Cursed be he that
maketh the blind TO wander out of the
way aud then there rolled up from all
the spaces betIeen the mountains that
one word with which the devout of
! po ~ fIa hai nd ba u1ori.
fed of heaven finish their doXolUgies:
"AMEN! AMEN,'
that scene only to be surpassed by the
times which are coming, when the
! churches and ths academies of music,
aud the auditoriums of earth, no longer
large enough to hold the worshlpers of
| God, the parks, the mountain sides, the
! great natural amphitheaters of the val
! legs, shall be flied with the outpouring
populations OF the earth and mountain
I shall reply TO mountain, as Mount Gerl-
| Zim TO Mount Ebal, and all the people
/ between shail ascribe riches aud honor,
| and glory, and dominion, and victory to
! God and tho Lamb, aud there shall arise
an Amen like the booming of the heavens
miugling with the thunder of the seas.
On and on we ride until now, we have
| come to shiloh, q dead city OH hill sur
rounded by rocks, sheep, goats, olive
1 gardens and vineyards. Here good Ell
| fell backward and broke his neck, and
! lay dead at the news from his bad boys
Pniueas and Hophni; and lifs is not
worth living after ones children have
/ turned out badly, and more fortunate
! was Eli, instantly expiring under such
/ things, than those parents who. their
| children recreant and prohigate, live on
! with broken hpnrtl them UOiDV
/ down into deeper and deeper plunge.
! There are fathers and mothers here to-
I day to whom death would be happy re-
I lease because OF their recreant sons.
/ And if there bs recreant SOUS here pres
/ ent, and Your parents be far away, why
not bow your head III repentance, and at
the close of this service go TO the tele-
/ graph Office and put II on the wing OF
| the lightning that you have turned from
| your evil ways? Before another twenty
! four hours have passed, take your feet
! of the sud hearts ut the old homestead.
HOME TO THY GOD, 0 PRoDIGAL.
Many. many letters do get in pur-
port sEyiug: NJ son Is in your cities;
we have not heard from him for some
time; we fear something is wrong; hunt
him up and say good word to him; his
mother is almost crazy about him; he is
d child of many prayers. But how can l
hunt him up unless he be in this audi
euce? Where are you, my boy? On the
main floor, or on this platform, or i'll
these boxes, or in these great galleries?
Where are you? Lift your right band.
have message from home. Your
father is anxious about YOU, your mother
Is praying for you. Your God is calling
for Won. Or Will you wait until Eli falls
back ufelpss, and the heart against
which you lay in infancy ceases to beat?
What story 10 tell in eternity that you
killed her? My God! Avert that catus-
! trophe!
But l turn from this Shiloh OF Ellis
sudden decease under bad news from his
boys, and find close by what is called the
| "Mealiow of the Feast While this
ancient city was in the height of its
prosperity, on this ''MeGdow of the
Feast there was an annual ball where
maidens OF the city, amid clappiug Gym
bulls aud blare of trumpets, danced in
u glse, upon which thousands of speuta-
tors gazed. But no dance since the
world stood ever broke up in such
strange way as the one the Bible de-
scribes. One night, while by the light
of the lamps and torches these gaieties
went on, 200 Benjumites, who had
0eeu hiiueu Dtnlud the rocks ana
among the trees, dashed upon the scene.
They came not to injure or destroy, but
wishing to set up households of their
own, the women of their own laud hay.
ing been slaiu in battle, aud By precon-
certed arrangement each one of the 200
Benja ties seized the one whom he had
chosen for the queen of his home, and
carried her away to large estate and
beautiful residence, for these 200 Ben
jamites had inherited
THE WEALTH OF A NATION.
AS to-day near Shiloh We look at the
"Meadow of the Feast,'' where the
naidens danced that night and at the
mountain gorge ND which he Benjamiies
carried their brides, We bethink ourselves
of the better land and the better times In
which we live, when such scenes are an
impossibilty, and amid orderly groups
and with prayer and benediction, and
breath of orange blossoms and the roll of
the wedding march, marriage is solemn
ICED and with oath recorded in heaven,
two immortaIs start arm in arm on
Journey, to last until death do them
part. Upon every such marriage altar
may there come the blessing OF lin
ssN ho setteth the solitary in fa,n;iies