Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-09


and Barnabas walked and preached.
Yea, when at Antioch Paul and Bar
nabas got into a fight--as ministers
sometimes did. and sometimes do. for
they all have imperfections enough
70 anchor them to this world till their
work is done. | say-when because of
that bitter controversy Paul and Bar
habas parted, Barnabas came back
here to Cyprus, which was his birth
place Island wonderful for history
It has been the prize sometimes won
by Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by the
Saracens, by the Crusaders and last of
all, not by sword, but by pen, and that
the pen Of the keenest diplolnatisto of the
century, Lord Beaconsfield, who, under
lease which was as good as pur-
chase, set Cyprus among the jewels Of
Yictoria's crown.
We went out into the excavations
from which Di Cesnola has enriched
our American museums with antiquities
md with no better weapon than our
loot we stirred up the ground deep
enough to get tear bottle in which
some mourner shed his tears thousands
Of years ago and a lamp which before
Christ was born lighted the feet of some
poor pilgrim on his way. That island
Of Cyprus has enough to set an anti
1uarian wild. The most of its glory is
the glory Of the past, and the typhoid
fevers that sweep its coast, and the
clouds of locusts that often blacken the
skies Though two hundred thousand
dollars were expended by the British
empire in one year for the extirpation
Of these noxious insects, yet failing to
do the work., and the frequent change
Of governmental masters, hinder pros
perity.
But when the islands of the sea come
TO God, Cyprus will come with them,
and the agricultural and commercial
opulence which adorned it in ages past
will be eclipsed by the agricultural and
commercial and religious triumphs of
the ages to come Why is the world
SO stupid that it cannot see that
nations are prospered in temporal
things in proportion as they are
in religious things. Godli
ness is profitable not only for individ-
lals but for nations. Questions of tariff,
questions of silver bill, questions of re-
public or monarchy have not so much |
10 do with a nations temporal welfare
rs questions of religion. Give Cyprus
10 Christ, give England to Christ, give
America TO Christ, give the world to |
Christ, and he will give them all pros
perity unlimited. Why is Brooklyn
one of the queen cities of the earth2
Because it is the queen city of churches. |
Blindfold me and lead me into any |
,ity of the earth so that cannot see a
Itreet or a warehouse or home, and |
hen lead me into the churches, and |
hen remove the bandage from my eyes.
md | will tell you from what see in
ide the consecrated walls, having seen
otbjng outside, what is that city's mer-
handise, its literature, its schools, its
rinting presses, its government, its
ONES, its arts, its sciences, its pros
Gritty or its depression and ignorance
nd pauperism and outlawry.
The altar of God in the church is the
igh water mark of the worlds happi
ess. The Christian religion trium-
hant, all other interests triumphant.
he Christian religion low down, all
her interests low down. So thought
J on the evening of that day we
epped from the filthy streets of Lar
aca, Cyprus, onto the boat that took
5 back TO the steamer Minerva, which
ad already begun to paw the waves
Ike a courser impatient to be gone, and
len we moved on and up among the
lands of this Gospel archipelago.
rHE SRA PoPULoUs WITH THE PAST.
Night came down on land and sea
nd the voyage became to me more and
lore suggestive and solemn. II you
re pacing it alone, ships deck In the
arkness and at sea is a weird place,
nd an active imagination may conjure
p almost any shape he will and il
hall walk the sea or confront him by
he smokestack or meet him under the
aptain's bridge. But here | was alone
N ships deck in the Gospel archipel-
Igo, and do you wonder that tho sea
vas populous with the past and that
lown the ratlines Bible memories de.
cendedl Our friends had all gone to
heir berths.
Captain" said, "when will We |
lrriye at the island of Rhodesr Look
ng out from under his glazed cap, he |
In sepulohral voice, about |
midnight" Though it would be keep |
ny unreasonable hours, concluded TO |
tay on deck, for must see Rhodes,
me of the islands associated with the |
name of the greatest missionary the |
world ever saw or ever will see. Paul
anded there and that was enough TO |
make il famous while the world stands |
md famous in heaven when the world |
las become a charred wreck.
This island has had a wonderful his |
ory. With six thousand knights Of |
H. John, 1t at one time stood out
igainst two hundred thousand warriors
lnder 'Solyman the Magnificent. The
'ity had three thousand statues, and a |
tatue TO Apollo called Colossus, which |
las always since been considered one
4 the seven wonders OF the world. Ii |
vas twelve years In building aud was /