The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-29

at noon.
Holy Land, Canaan orPaleStine
In 81 LETTERS. LETTER NO. 3.
E(Written for Brandon News, by Virgil.)
MOUNT PlSGAH AND MOSES VISIONS.
| The children of Israel, led by Moses,
had Travelled some two hundred and
fifty miles over mountains, deep ravlnes,
through wilderness and plains, meeting
enemies and discouragements by the way,
to finally, foot sore and weary, reach the
plains of Moab. They had met and defeat
ed strong and warlke kings, and were
nearning the promise land. Moses had
stood on Horeb amid roaring thunderings,
and vivid lightning flash, while the tremb-
ling mountain smoked beneath the foot
tread of Israel's God, and received the
great moral code of the universe, and now
at the age of one hundred and twenty
years with unbedimmed eyes and unaba-
ted strength he stands in view of the gand-
eur and lovliness of the Gland of promise"
and the land that flowed with milk and
honey" BALKAN had stood on one of
these lofty peaks to curse Gods people
for Balak, but found it to be vain thing
to try to withstand the movement of Gods
host. Sand it came to pass on the NOR
row, that Balak took BALKAN and brought
him up into the high places of BaaI, that
thence he might see the uttermost part of
the people," And as old Balaam thus
stood on the mountain top of Moab and
looked upon Gods chosen journeying
Israel, he was made to cry out in utter
establishment. saying, "HoW shall curse,
whom God hath not cursed, or how shall
defy whom the Lord hath not defied for
from the top of the rocks | see him,
and from the hills | behold him, lo the
people shall dwell alone, and shall not be
reckoned among the nations, who can
count the dust of Jacob, and number of
the fourth par, of Israel. Let me die the
death of the righteous, and my last end be
like his. ***"H How goodly are thy tents, O.,
Jacob, and thy tabernacle O, Israel. y
But Balaam not being righteous man
never died the death of the righteous.
| Moses, who was born into the
world to meet persecution and attempt
!, ed destruction, now will leave the world
amid anthems of angelic song. He, who
was drawn out" (meaning of Moses of
the water, and from among the flags will
be now borne away, like Lazarus on angel
wings to realms of eternal bliss. Yes, he,
who had been so faithful in this life, will
now fall into the everlasting arms of the
God of nations and be permitted to meet
the God of his fathers and walk the gol-
den streets of the New Jerusalam. He,
who had pitched his tent fifty eight times
| fo fha oin sc
in modern location from Abu Kesheib
to Ghoren Nimrin, will now pitch it in
the open field of the "BeuIah Land -
He, who had heard the voice of God in
the darkness of blackness on Horeb's
trembling crest, will now see his face in
the delectable mountains, under the BEAM
ing smile of the great 81 AM" and with
, | Elijah, be permitted to revisit this earth
and converse with a suffering Savior on
the theme ofredemption and hold heavenly
communion with the son of Mary in the
mount of TRANSPORTATION. The closing
scene Of Moses life and the crossing of
the Jordan by Gods people has given
birth to some of the loveliest poetic inn
aginary the world ever heard or saw.
Who can read the account, as given in
he Bible, and not feel in his heart the
throbbing of divine impulse, and say with
in his own soul, "Could | but climb
where Moses stood and view the landscape
o'er," or "On Jordan's stormy banks |
stand and cast wishful eye"
"All Ger those wide extended plains
shines one eternal day, for thre God le
Son forever reigns and scatters night
away"
Yes brother, sister, we are travelling
through the wilderness of this world and
will soon reach the plains of earth S
Moab" and will ascend the Pisgah of
time, then may we like the meek man of
God, behold with unbecoudedseyes the E.
den of everlasting rest; as our poor mortal
feet shall touch the cold turbulent waters
OF the Jordan of death may our God give
US a view of the vineclad heights of
eternal life: AS we shall pass over this
Jordan to tile promise Canaan of heav-
en-, we are told by Dehass and others who
| have had the pleasure of Standing where
Moses STOOD" that the view is sublime
in the superlative
1t had been the dream of my life that
might be permitted to see these grand
things with my natural eyes, but have
given up. all such hope almost, and can
| but find pleasure in thinking and writing
CT them.
| The place where Moses stood was on
| the Nebo range and known now among
the natives as Jabel-Neby, or mountains
of the prophet" a bold promontory about
five miles west of Heshbon, where the
mountain breaks off abruptly, falling in
rocky terraces down to the salt sea and
plains of Shittim four thousand feet below.
| "And Moses went up from the plain
of Moab unto the mountains of Nebo to the
top of Psgah, that is over against Jericho"
Deuteronomy 34:2.
| Pisgah overlooked the Dead Sea and
| plains of Moab and stood opposite to, or
| facing, Jericho with a ravine separating
Lit from Beth-Pear with springs of water
flowing from it.
| After the Lord showed his servant
"the land which he swear unto Abra-
ham," 1t is recorded that Moses died and
wa" buried in valley over against Beth-
Pear that means the house of "Pear. !"
The prefix Beth, in Hebrew, means
house, hence aBeth-Pear" means house
| Of Pear or place where Baal-Pear, the