The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-12-11


oy pen and that the pen OF the keenest
dipiomat'st OF the century. Lord Bca.
consheld, who. under n lease which
was rs good as purchase. set Cyprus
among the jewels OF Victorin's crown.
Ne went out into tho excavations from
when ID Cesnola has enriched our
American museums with antiquities.
ana with no better weapon than our
loot we stirred up the ground deep
enough TO get tear-bottlc in which
some mourner shed his tears thousands
OF years ago and lamp which, before
/ christ was born, lighted the feet OF
some poor pilgrim on his way. That
island OF Cyprus has enough 10 set an
antiquarian wild. The most OF its
glory is the glory OF the past, and the
typhoid fcvers that sweep its coasts and
the clouds of locusts that often blackcn
its skies Though $780, 600 were expcnd-
ed by the British empire in the year for
the extirpation of these noxious insects,
yet falling To do the work., and the fire.
qucnt change of governmental masters
binders prosperity. But when the
Islands of the sea come to God, Cyprus
Will come with them. and the
agricultural and commercial opulcnce
which adorned il in ages past will be
ecl'pscd 10y the agricultural and COM
mcrclal and religious triumphs OF the
ages to come. Why is the world so
stupid that it can not see that nations
arc prospcrcd in temporal things in
proportion as they are prospcrcd in re-
ligious things Goodness is profitable
not only for individuals, but for ma.
tons
Questions of tariff, questions ot'silvcr
bill, questions OF republic or monarchy
have not so much to do with a nations
temporal welfare as questions of rclig-
ion. Give Cyprus TO Christ. give Eng
land to Christ, give America 10 Christ,
give the world to Christ, and he will
give them all n prosperity unlimited.
Why is Brooklyn one OF tho queen cities
OF the earth? Because it is the queen
city OF churches Blindfold me and
lead me into any city Of the earth SO
that | can not see street or n ware
house or a home, and then lead me into
the churches and then remove the band |
age from my eyes, and | will tell you
from what sec INSIDE the consccratcd
walls having seen nothing outside.
what is that city'S merchandise, its lit !
crature, its schools, its printing presses, |
its government, its homes, its arts, its |
sciences, its prosperity, or its dcprcs-
sion, and ignorance, and paupcriSm, |
and outlawry. The altar of God in the |
church is the high.watcr mark Of the |
worlds happiness. The Christian re-
ligion triumphant, all other interests !
triumphant The Christian religion |
low down, and all other interests low
down. SO | thought rs on the evening |
Of that day we stepped from the filthy |
streets OF Larnaca, Cyprus, onto the
boat that took us back to the steamer
Minerva which had already begun -
paw the waves like courser impatient
to be gone. and then we moved ON and
up among the islands of this gospel /
archipelago.
Night came down on land and sea
and the voyage became to me more
and more suggestive and solemn. II
you are pacing it alone, a ships deck
N the darkness and at sea is weird
place, and an active imagination may
,onjurc up almost any shape he will,
and il shall walk the sea or confront
him 10y the smollestack, or meet him
under the captains bridge. But here |
was alone on ships deck in the Gospel
archipelago, aud do you wonder that
the sea was populous with the past, aud
that down the ratlincs Bible memo
ries descended? Our friends had all
gone To their berths Captain" ! said,
when will we arrive At the Island OF
Rhodcs?" Looking out from under his
glazed cap, he responded in scpulchral
voice, About midnight"
Though II would be- keeping unrea-
,onablc hours, concluded 10 stay on
lccll. for must see Rhodes, one Of the
Islands associated with the name of the
greatest missionary the world ever
saw or ever will see. Paul landed
there, and that was enough To make it
famous while the world stands and IA
nous in Heaven when the world has
become charrcd wreck.
This is and has had wonderful his
tory. With 6 900 Knights Of ST. John
Il at one time stood out against 100000
under "Solyman tho MaSnit.
cent" The city had 8. 900 statues, and
4 statue 10 Apollo called Colossus,
which has always since been considered
,nc OF the seven wonders OF the world.
Il was twelve years in building and
was seventy cubits high, and had n
winding stairs To the top 1t stood
ifty-six years, and then was Frustrated
by an earthquakes
After lying in ruins for nine hundred