The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-02-12
THE ARMY FALLS TO PIECES
BY HER SMILES, THE OTHER
BUILDS AN INDUSTRIAL ARMY
AND HAS AN ANNIVERSARY In
THE LIFE OF HER PEOPLE.
tBy N. wv. IIarI1ee.l

| lister ola not luCluue III his narrdUOn
in his visit to Joppa. While he was
relating his story of an annual GUS
tom in Joppa, / thought of Cleopatra
whom | wish to contrast with Dorcas
of Joppa So you see am to talk
about two women, Cleopatra and
/ Dorcas, one mentioned in circular
history, the other in the Holy Scrip
lures. l shall call Cleopatra a queen
and also Dorcas a queen. Let us
, talk about Cleopatra first. l sup
pose you have read Of her, / read
about her before l was ten years of
age; read in what was called in that
day Universal History, a book with
questions and answers
Cleopatra Queen Of The Nile.
History says that woman was most
beautiful. She was charming, and
possessed a power over men, a kind
of feline power that the cat renders
bird helpless, or snake draws
it's prey into it's deadly grasp. When
she wished to charm anyone she had
the power only to cast her bewitching
smiles and sparkling eyes in such
an enticing manner and the victim
was hers She captured the Roman
army by this feline quality of in
sidiousness, that is, she captured the
general of the Roman army, and thus
threw the army into confusion and
rendered it useless, while the gem
eral spent the time in her presence
instead of at the head of his army.
Here was a case where an army was
captured without a struggle, but by
the insidious smiles of Cleopatra.
The great Roman army fell to pieces
while the general INDUCED in the
volupous smiles and the steel like
caresses of the woman, the Queen of
the Nile. Her beauty drove men mad,
the same beauty brought death to
her, for she died by self destruction
and without regret. No one observes
the anniversary of Cleopatra, her
anniversary ended with her life. But
not so with Dorcas. We die as we
live, and are buried as we die; that
is, our deeds either live or are in
tered with our bones.
DOrcaS, The Queen of Living Deeds.
AS DR.. Jackson spoke of the affirm
ative qualities of Dorcas, spoke of
her living qualities, / thought of the
negative qualities of Cleopatra,
thoughts of her dead qualities, and
the purposes for which the two wo-
men lived. l thought of the effect
of their lives in the transformation
of men and women of other days
Cleopatra lived for a day, Dorcas
lived for all times. CleOpatria's an
niversary ended with her life, while
the anniversary of Dorcas lives on
nearly two thousand years we are
through the ages as exemplary. For
informed by DR.. Jackson on his re-
turn from Joppa that the anniversary
of Dorcas is still observed. The peo-
pie of Joppa pay homage to the
memory of Dorcas as the woman who
lived for others, as the woman rails
ed from the dead, after she had died,
made alive on account of her good
deeds, made to live again for the
very work sake, the bright star in
the Industrial up-lift of her people |
AS she lay dead, her pupils and fol-
lowers show Saint Peter the empo-
rum of the many garments she had
directed in making for the poor, told
him of her power of hand and heart
training, and the spiritual side of
her life, and that her life was a |
necessity in the life of others, then
it was that Peter through the higher
power brought her back to life.
Nearly Two Thousand Years of An
niversary.
At each re-occurring anniversary,
the people of Joppa are moved as
by magic, the whole populace is
stirred, there is an awakening, the
young, the aged, the children run to
and fro with flowers, with evergreen
entwined about their heads, shouting |
the name OF Dorcas who lived for
others; she first In death, the first |
in industrial art, the first in the
hearts OF the people of Joppa. But
Dorcas welded not the sword, con-
Quered no army by insidious smiles, |
but taught few girls frugality, les |
sons of usefulness, lessons, the high |
est, the best, piety, chastity and wo-
manly virture, and because she did |
this, her name and deeds may not be
chiseled in marble nor brass, for
time and the elements may corode |
them, but her acts implanted In the
lives of the living, and in each gen.
GRAFTON these take on new life.
The Cry On Each Re.0ccurring An
niyersary.
AS the memory of Tabitha is re-
called. all the people joined in with
the children, Crying Aloud, ooh,
Spirit of Dorcas, Spirit of Tabitha,
come again to us as in days of old,
come re-kindle in us the love of the
handiwork of the hand, heart and
head. Come, live in our lives the
new life that brought you again from
the dead, Oh, come, lovely Tabitha,
we shall again be your disciples of
amsgiving and good works.