Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10

tie rocks, and Thousand of the dead were
washed ashore.
Strange that with few blasts Of powder
like that which shattered our American Hell
Gate those rocks have not been uErooted and
the way cleared. SO that great ships instead
Of anchoring far out from land might sweep
up to the wharf for passengers and freight.
But YOU must remember that land is under
the Turk, and what the Turk touches he
withers. NoheC2rae5aHisu Is against easy
wnarves, against steamers, against rail
trains, against printing presses. against CIV
ilization. Darkness is always opposed to
light. The owl hates the morn. Leave
those rocks where they are practically cries
the Turkish Government: 1--WE want no Deo-
pie of other religions and other habits to
land there; if the salt seas wash over them let
it be a warning to other invaders: away with
your nineteenth century, with its free
thought and its modern inventions" That
Turkish Government ought to be blotted
from the face of the earth, and it will be-
OF many Of the inhabitants of Palestine I
asked the question, HAS the Sultan of Tur-
key ever been here!" Answer, No" ''Why
don't he come, when it belongs to his do
minion% And, after the man interrogated
looked this way and that, so as to know he
would not be reported, the answer would in
variably be, He dare not come" believed
it: II the Sultan OF Turkey attempted to
visit Jerusalem he would never get back
again. All Palestine hates him. Isaw him go
Constantinopie, and saw seven thousand
armed men riding out to protect him. Expen-
sivc prayerg OF course that Government
wants no better harbor at Joppa. May God
remove that curse of ne lions, that OlG bag of
the centuries the Turkish Government! For
its everlasting insult to God and woman let
it perish! And so those rocks at the harOo-
remain the jaws of repeated destruction
As we descended the narrow steps at the
side Of the ship heard the clanor and
quarrel and swearing Of fifteen or sixteen
different races Of men of all features and
all colOrS and all vernaculars; all different in
appearance, but all alike in desire to get our
baggage and ourselves at exorbitant prices.
Twenty boats and only ten passengers to go
ashore. The man having charge of us pushes
aside some, and strikes with a heavy stick
others, and by violences that would not be
tolerated in our country, but which seem to
be the only manner OF making any impress
sion there, clears our way into one of the
boats, which heads for the shore. We are
within fifteen minutes of the Christ land
Now we hear shouting from the beach, and
in five minutes we will be landed. The prov
of the boat is caught by men who wade out
to help US in.
We are tremulous with suppressed excite
ment, our breath is quick, and from the side
of the boat we spring to the shore, and Sun
day morning, December l, 1889, about eight
o'clock, our feet touch Palestine. Forever
to me and mine will that day and hour be
commemOrated for that pre-eminent mercy.
Let it be mentioned in prayer by my chill
dren and children's children after we are
gone, that morning we were permitted to
enter that land and gaze upon those holy
hills and feel the emotions that rise and fall
and weep and laugh and sing and triumph at
such Decentralization.
On the back Of the hills one hundred and
fifty feet high Joppa is lifted toward the
skies. 1t is as picturesque as it is quaint. and
a wal
as though it were built in that star Mars.
where few nights ago this very September
astronomers, through unparalleled telescopes,
saw snow storm raging. How glad we were
Dorcas, that queen of the needle, lived and
died and was resurrected. You remember
that the poor people came around the dead
body Of this benefactress, and brought speci-
mems of her kind needlework and said:
'Dorcas made this" "Dorcas sewed that"
"Dorcas cut and fitted this" ''Dorcas
hemmed that"
According to Lightfoot the commentator.
they laid her out in state in public room,
and the poor wrung their hands and cried
and sent for Peter. who performed a miracle
by which the good woman came back to Life
and resumed her benefactions. An especial
resurrection day for one womanI She was
the model by which many women of our day
have fashioned their lives, and at the first
blast Of the horn of wintry tempest there ap--
pear Zen IHOuSdnU Observation-Disclosures OF
Brooklyn, Decreases OF New York, Decreases
of London, Decreases Of all the neighborhoods
and towns and cities of Christendon-iust as.
good as the Dorcas Of Joppa which L visited.
Thank God for the ever increasing skill and
sharpness and speed and generosity of Dor
cas's needle.
''What is that man doing?" said to the
dragOman in the streets of JopDa.. "Oh, he
is carrying his bed" Multitudes Of people
sleep out Of DOORS and that is the way so
many in those lands become blind. 1t is from
the dew of the night falling on the eyelids. AS
result Of this, in Egypt every twentieth
person is totally blind. In Oriental. lands
the bed is made of thin, small mattress,
blanket and q pillow and when the man rises
in the morning he just ties up the three into
a bundle and shoulders it and takes it away.
said to the sick man: Take up thy bed and
walk" An American couch or an English
couch would require at least four men to
carry 1t. out one oriental can easily manage
his slumber equipment.
But inhale some of the odors of the large
tanneries around Joppa. 1t is there to this
day, prosperous business, this tanning of
hides. And that reminds me of Simon, the
tanner, who lived at Joppa and was<the host
of Peter, the apostle. L suppose the olfac-
tories of Peter were as easily lnsulted by the,
odOrs of tannery as others. But the Bible
says, lie lodged with one Simon, the tan
ner.' People who go out to do reformatory
and missionary and Christian work must not
be too sensitive. Simon no doubt brought
to his homestead every night the malodors
of the calfskins and OK hides in his tannerY,
but Peter lodged ia that home, not only be-
cause he may not have beer invited to the
houses of merchant princes, surrounded by
redolent gardens but TO teach all men and
women engaged in trying to make the,wox4d