Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-06

He will toast the little whiffet on the top
of his long sword. He will call all the
crows for breakfast. 'Come to me
you contemplate little fellow, and
will make quick work with you. The
idea that fve-footer should come out
against a teh-footer! Let the two armies
looking down from the ridges watch
mei' David responded: al come to
thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts. -
Aha, that Is the
| RIGHT KIND OF BATTLE SHOUT.
Gin the name of the Lord of hosts!'
How that cry rings through the Wady-
es-Sumpt! He who fights in that spirit
wins the day. The almost Israelitish
dwarf enlarges into omnipotent proper
tons. The moment to strike has come.
David takes his sling with a stone in 1t
and whirls II round and roUnd his head,
until he has put the weapon into suffi-
cient momentum, and then, taking sure
aim, hurls it. The giant throws up his
hands and reels back and falls. The
stone sank Tito his forehead. That was
the only available point of attack. But
| how about the helmet on his head? Did
the stone that David flung crush through
the helmet? No; an old rabbi says he
thinks that when Goliath scoffsd at Da-
vid, the giant so suddenly and con-
temptuously jerked up his head that the
helmet fell off. That is like enough.
David saw the bare forehead, foot
| high, and aimed at the center of it, and
| the skull cracked and broke in like an
eggshell, and the ground shook as this
| great oak of military chieftain struck
it. HuZzah for David!
But we must hasten on, for the danger
now is that night Will be upon US before
we reach Jerusalem. OH we must see
it before shutdown. We are climbing the
hills which are terraced with olive
groves, uplands rising above uplands,
until we come TO an immen-
sity of bnrrenness, gray rocks
above gray rocks, where nett her
tree, nor leaf, nor bush, nor grass-blads
| can grow. The horses stumble, and
| slip, and pull, till it seems the harness
must break. Solemnity and awe take
possession of US. Though vivacious
party, and during part of the day jocu-
| larity had reIgned, now no one spoke q
word except TO say to the dragoman,
"Tell US when YOU get the first glimpse
| of the city, l never bad such high ex-
! pectatlon of seeing any place as OF
SEEING JERUSALEM.
I think my feelings may have been
about to enter the heavenly Jerusalem.
| My ideas of the earthly Jerusalem were
bewildering. Had l not seen pictures of
| it? Oh, yes; but they only increase the
| bewilderment. They were taken from
variety of staudpoints. If twenty artists
attempt to sketch Brooklyn, or New
York, or London, or Jerusalem, they will
plant their cameras at different places
and take as many different pictures, but
in a few minutes l shall see the sacred
city with my own eyes. Over another
shoulder of the hill we go, and nothing
in sight but rocks and mountains, and
awful gulches between them, which
make the head swim if you look down.
On and mp, on and up, until the lathered
and smoking horses are reined in and the
dragoman rises in front and points east
ward, crying, 'Jerusalem! 1t was
mightier than an electric shock. We all
rose. There it lay, the prize of nations,
the terminus of famous pilgrimages, the
object of Roman and crusading wars, and
for it AssyrIans had fought, and Egyp-
tians had fought, and the world had
fought; the place which the queen
of Sheba visited, and Richard Ceur de
Lion had conquered. Home of Solomon.
Home of Ezekiel. Home of jeremiah.
Home of Isaiah. Home of Saladin.
Mount Zion of David IS heartbreak, and
Mount Moriah, where the sacrifices
smoked, Mount of Olives, where Jesus
preached, and Gethsemane, whore He
agonized, and Golgotha, where He died,
and the holy sepulchre, where He was
buried. O, Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Greatest city on earth and type of
THE CITY CELESTIAL.
After l have been ten thousand years |
in heaven, the memory of that first view |
from the rocks on the afternoon of De- |
cember will be as vivid as now. An |
Arab on horse that was like a whirl- |
wind, bltted and saddled and spurred, |
its name and tanks jet as the nlght-aud |
there are no such horsemen as Arab |
horsemeu-had come far out to meet US,
and invite us to his hotel inside the |
gates. But arrangements had been
made for us to stay at hotel outside the |
gates. In the dusk of evening we halted
in front of the place and entered, but l
said, ''No, thank you for your courte-
Gus reception, but must sleep tonight
inside the gates of Jerusalem. 1 would
rather have the poorest place inside the
gates than the best place outside. - So
we remounted our coach and moved on
amid clamor of voices, and between
timbers on their back, brought in for
building purposes-for it is amaz-
ing how much a camel can carry
until we came to what is called the Joppa
Gate of Jerusalem. 1t is about forty feet
wide, twenty feet deep and sixty feet
high. There is a sharp turn just after
you have entered, SO planned as to make
the entrance of armed enemies the more
difficult. On the structure of these gates
the safety of Jerusalem depended, and
all the Bible writers used them for illus
trations. Within five minutes walk of
the gate we entered David wrote: "En-
ter into thy gates with thanksgiving,
"Lift up your heads, o, We gatssi'
"The Lord loveth the gates of Zion,"
"Open to me the gates of righteous
ness.' And Isaiah wrote: eco through,
go through the gates!' And the captive
of Patmos wrote: ''The city had twelve
gates.'' Having passed the gate we
went on through the narrow streets,
dimly lighted, and passed to our hating
place and sat down by the window, from
which
WE COULD SEE MOUNT ZION,
and said: "Here we are at last, in the
capital of the whole EARTH And
thoughts of the past and the future
rushed through my soul In quick success