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

fight is in the valley between. at that
season shaded, and sweet with terebinth
and acacia David, the champion for
the IsraelitesL Goliath, the champion
for the Phillistines- David under-sized
and almost effeminate, only a mouthful
for Goliath, who was nearly ten feet
high
They advanced to meet each other,
but the Bible says that David made the
first step forward Nearer and nearer
they come, but I do not think David
| will wait until he comes within reach
of Goliath's sword, for that would be
| fatal, and David has a weapon with
which he can fight at long range. Closer
and closer they come, but David adj
vances the more rapidly. Come to
me-" said the giant land 7 Fiu give thy
flesh unto the fowls of she air and to
the beasts of the field" David re-
| sponded: II como to thee in the name
of the. Lord of Hosts" Aha, that is the
right kind of battle shout: I'm the
name of the Lord of Hostsl'' He who
fights in that spirit wins the day. The
| almost Israelitish dwarf enlarges into
omnipotent proportions.
The moment to strike is come. David
| takes his sling with stone in it and
whirls it round his head, until he has
put the weapon into sufficient momen-
| tum, and then taking sure aim, hurls it
The giant throws up his hands and reels
back and falls The stone sank into his
| forehead That was the only available
point of attack
But we must hasten on, for the danger
| now Is that night will be upon us be-
| fore we reach Jerusalem. OF we must
| see it before shutdown We are climbing
| the hills which are terraced with olive
groves, uplands rising above uplands.
until we como to an immensely of bar
4 renness, gray rocks. whore neither tree.
nor leaf. nor bush, nor grass blade. can
| grow. The horses stumble, and slip,
and pull, till it seems the harness must
| break. Solemnity and awe take posses
sion of u.s. Though a vivacious party,
and during part of tho day POPULARITY
had reigned now no one spoke word
except TO say to the dragoman: Tell
us when you get the first glimpse of the
city" never had such high expecta-
ton of seeing any place as of seeing
have been slightly akin to that of the
Christian just about to enter the
heavenly Jerusalem.
Over another shoulder of the hill we
go. and nothing in sight but rocks
and mountains and awful gulches be-
tween them. which make the head swim
| If you look down. On and up, on and
up. until the lathered and smoking
horses are refined in and the dragoman
rises in front and points eastward, cry
ing 'Jerusaiemp' It was mightier than
an electric shock. We all rose. There
it lay. the prize of nations. the termi-
nus of famous pilgrimages, the object
OF Roman and crusading wars, and for
it Assyrians had fought and Egyptians
had fought and the world had fought;
the place which the Queen of Sheba
visited and Richard Coeur de Lion had
conquered Home of Solomon. Home
of Ezekiel Home of Jeremiah. Home
of Isaiah. Home of Saladin. Mount
Zion of David's heartbreak and Mount
Moriah where the sacrifices smoked,
Mount of Olives where Jesus preached,
and Gethsemane where He agonized,
and Golgotha where He died, and the
Holy Sepulcher where He was buried.
o. Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Greatest city
on earth and type of the city celestial.
An Arab on horse that was like a
whirlwind, bitted and saddled. and
spurred, its name and tanks jet as the
night-and there are no horsemen as
| Arab horsemen-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 a hotel outside
| the gates In the dusk OF evening we
halted in front of the place and entered,
but 1 said: mo, thank you for your
courteous reception, but 1 must sleep
tonight inside the gates of Jerusa-
lem. 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, an between camels grunting
with great beams and tim bers on eheiz
back, brought in for building purpores
for it is amazing how much 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
| n Sharfa tI1rr inst aftRr Won have N tered
SO planned as to make the entrance OF
armed enemies the moro difficult On
the structure of these gates the safety
of Jerusalem depended and all the Bible
writers used them for illustrations
Within five minutes walk of the gate
we entered David wrote: Enter into
thy gates with thanks, giving. p" Lift up
your heads, o, ye gates!' The Lord
loveth the gates of Zion. reopen to me the
gates of Righteousness" And Isaiah
wrote: $50 through, go through the
gates" And the Captain of the Patinos
wrote: "The city had twelve gates
Having passed the gate we went OF
through the narrow streets, dimly light
ed. and passed to our hating place and
sat down by the window from which VIC
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
of that old hymn, sung by SO many as
cending spirits;
| Jerusalem. my happy home,
|. Name ever dear to mol
When shall my labors have end,
In Joy and peace and thee7
When shall these eyes thy heav'n- built
walls
And peariy gates behold?
Thy bu1varks with salvation strong,
And streets OF shining goid7
And so with our hearts full OF graft
tude to GOD Tor journeying mercies all
the way from Joppa to Jerusalem, a nc
with bright antieipation of our entrance
into the shining gate of the Heavenly
City whom earthly journeys are owe r
my second day in Palestine is ended
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