Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1889 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IG, 1SS9.

IS GOING TO PALESTINE.

DR. TALMAGE SURPRISES HIS PEOPLE. An Extenaive Trip To 11 Taken Thronen the Holy Land A Sermon On th Coming World' Fair Many Interestiu; Ii2eaa Suggested. The Rev. T. De "Witt Talmage preached in the Tabernacle last Sunday morning on the subject: "The Coming World's Fair; j Shall It Fe Made a Blessing or a Curse?" ! After announcing his subject, Dr. Tallage said: "With the hearty consent of the elders and trustees of this church I leave Wednesday morning, Oct GO, on the City of Paria for the holy land, Palestine, to be gone about two months. I am sure all my eonpregation will unite with the officers in giving their consent when I tell you why I po. (1.) My object is educational to myself and congregation. I want to see the places associated with our Lord's life and death. I believe I can make my pulpit work far more efficient when I have Feen with my own eyes Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and a! vary, and all the other places connected with the Savior's ministry. Those places can not be visited healthfully in the suranier and in time of usual vacation. What I learn and see you will learn and see when I come back. My second reason for going is that I am writing the 'Life of Christ,' and I can be more accurate and graphic when I have been an eye-witness of the sacred place. This pulpit will be supplied during my absence by some of the most brilliant and edifying preachers of America. The Rev. Byron .Sunderland, D. D., of Washington; the. Rev. .Moses D. Höge, 1. D., of Richmond; Bishop Newman, D. L. Moody, the Rev. Dr. GritEs of Boston, the Rev. Dr. Beale of Johnstown, Pa., an eye-witness of the great diaster; the Rev. Dr. MilBurn, chaplain of congress and the Rev. Dr. Deems of New York, fco grand an opportunity of hearing consecutively an array of the great preachers of America Las never been afforded any church, and I am sure ttns building wili be thronged every Sabbath, morning and night. 'i airs may le for the sale of goods or for the exhibition of goods on a small ecale or a large scale, for county or city, or one nation or for all nations. My text brings us to the fairs of ancient Tyre, a city that is now extinct. Bart of the city was on an island and part on the mainlaud. Alexander the conqueror was much embarrassed when he found so mnch of the city was on an island, for he had no fchips. But his military genius was not to be balked. Having marched his army to the beach, he ordered them to tear Tip the city on the mainland and throw it into the water and build a causeway L'OO feet wide to the island. So they took that part of the city which was on th'' mainland and wit!: it built a causeway of timber and brick and stone, on which his army marched to the capture of that part of the city which was on the island, as though a hostile army should put Brooklyn into the East river and over it march to the capture ot New York. That Tyrian causeway of ruins which Alexander's army built is still there, and by alluvial deposits has permanently united . the island to the mainland, so that it is no longer an island, but a promontory. The pand, the greatet of all undertakers for Burying cities, having covered up for the most part Baalbee, and Palmyra, and Thebes, and Memphis, and Carthage, and Babvlon and Luxor, and Jtricho, the sand, so small and yet so mighty, is now gradually giving rites of sepulture to what was left of Tyre. But, oh, what a rnagniticent city "it once was! Mistress of the sea! Queen of international commerce! All nations casting their crowns at her feet! Where we have in our sailing vessels benches of wood, she had benches of ivory. Where we have our masts of ships sails of coarse canvas, she Lad sails of richest embroidery. "The chapter from which my text is taken after enumerating the richest countries in all the world says of Tyr-: 'They traded in thy fairs.' Look in upon a world's fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one department and it is a horse fair. Underfed and overdriven for ages, the horses of to-day give you no idea of the Eplendid animals which, rearing and plunging and snorting and neighing, were brought down over the plank of the shin ana led into the world's fair at Tyre until Ezekiel, who was a minister of" religion and not supposed to know much about Lorses, cried out in admiration: 'They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses.' Here in another department of that world's fair at Tyre, led on by by Ezekiel the prophet, we find everything ail ablaze with prec ous stones. Like petrilied fcnow are the corals; like fragments of fallen sky are the sapphires; and here is agate ablush with all colors. What is that aroma we inhale? It is from chests of cedar which we open, and find them filled with all styles of fabric. But the aromatics increase as we pass down this lane of enchantment, and here are cassia, and frankincense, and balm. Led ou by Lzekiel, the prophet, we come to an agricultural fair with a display of wheat from Minnith and Pan nag, rich as that of our modern Dakota or Michigan. And here is a mineralogical fair, with specimens of iron,, und silver, and tin, and lead and gold. But halt, for here is a purple, Tyrian purple, all tints and shades, deep almost unto the black and bright almost unto the blue ; waiting for kings and queens to order it made into robrs for coronation dav; purple not like that which is now made from the Orchilla weed, but the extinct purple, the lost purple which the ancients knew Low to make out of the gastropod mollusk of the Mediterranean. Oh, look at those casks of wine trom Helbon ! tee those snow-banks of wool from the back of sheep that once pastured in Gilead. Oh. the bewildering riches and variety of that world's fair at Tyre! "But the world has copied these bible mentioned fairs in all succeeding ages, and it has had its Louis VI fair at Dagobert, and Henry I fair on St. Bartholomew's day, and Hungarian fairs at l'es'.h, and Easter fairs at Leipbic, and the Scotch fairs at Perth (bright was tne day when I was at one of them) and afterward came the London world's fair, and the Vienna world's fair, and the Parisian world's fair, ami it has been decided that in commemoration of the discovery of America in 14ÜJ there fchall be held in this country in ISfCJ a world's fair that shall eclipse all preceding national expositions. I say God speed the movement! Surely the event commemorated is worthy of all the architecture, and music, and pyrotechnics, and eloquent and stupendous planning, and monetary expenditure, and congressional appropriations which the most sanguine Christian patriot has ever dreamed of. Was any -oyaze that the world ever heard of crowned with euch an arrival as that of Columbus and his men? After they had been encouraged for the last lew days by fliirht of land birds and floating branches of red b rries, and while Columbus was down in the cabin studying the sea chart, Martin Pinzon, standing on deck and looking to the eouthwest, cried: 'Land! Iand Land!' And 'Gloria in Excels:' was sung in raining tears on nil the three ships of the expedition. Most appropriate, and patriotic, and Christian will beacoaiuiemorativo world's

fair in America in 1S02. Leaving to others the discussion as to the site of such expositionand I wonder not that some ÜV2 or six of our cities are struggling to have it, for it will give to any city to which it is assigned an impulse of prosperity for 100 years I say, leaving to others the selection of the particular locality to be thus honored. I want to say some thiugs from the point of Christian patriotism which ought to be Faid, and the earlier the better, that we get thousands of people. talking in the right direction, and that will make healthful public opinion. I beg you to consider powerful'y what I feel called upon of God as an American citizen, and as a preacher of righteousness to utter. "My first suggestion is that it is not w ise, a9 certainly it is not Christian, to continue this wide and persistent attempt of American cities to belittle and depreciate other cities. It has been going on for years, but now the spirit seems to culminate in this discussion as to where the world's fair shall be held, a style of discussion which has a tendency to injure the success of the fair as a great moral and patriotic enterprise, after the locality has been decided upon. Thero is such a thin? as healthful rivalry between cities, but you will bear me out in saying that there can be no good to come from the uncanny things said about each other by New York and Chicago, bv Chicago and St. Louis, bv St. Faul and Minneapolis, by Tacoma and Seattle, and all through the states by almost every two proximate cities. All cities, like 'individuals, have their virtues ami their vices. All our American cities should bo our exultation. What churches! What public libraries! What asylums of mercy! What academies of music! What mighty men in law, and medicine, and art. and universities! What, women radiant and gracious and an improvement on all the generations ot women since I've! What philanthropists, who do not feel satisfied with theirown charities until they get into the hundreds of thousands and the millions! What 'God's acres' for the dead, gardens of beauty and palaces of marble for tho.?e who sleep the last sleep! Now, stop your slander of American cities. Do you say they are the centers of crime and political corruption? Please admit the fact that they are. centers of intelligence and generosity and the mightiest patrons of architecture and sculpture, and painting, and music, and reservoirs of religious influence for all the continent. It will be well for the country districts to cease talking against the cities, and it will be well for the city of one locality to stop talking against the cities of other localities. New York will rot get the world's fair -by depreciating Chicago, and Chicago will not pet the world's fair by bombarding NewYork. "A nether suggestion concerning the corning exposition ; let not the materialistic and monetary idea overpower the moral and religions. During that exposition, the first time in all their lives, there will be thousands of people from foreign lands who will see a country without a state religion. Let us by an increased harmony among all denominations of religion impress other nationalities as they come here that yerr with the superior advantage of having all denominations equal in the sight of government. All the rulers and etiief men of Europe belong to a state religion, whatever it may be. Although our last two presidents have been presbytenan, the previous one was an episcopalian; and the two previous method ist s ; and going further back in that line line of presidents we find Martin Van Buren a Dutch reformed and John Quincy Adams a unitarian ; and a man's religion in this country is neither hindrance nor advantage in political elevation. All

Europe needs that. All the world needs that. A man's religion is something between himself and his God, and it must not, directly or indirectly, be interfered with. "Furthermore, during that exposition Christian civilization will confront barbarism. We shall as a nation have a greater opportunity to make an evangelizine impression upon foreign nationalities than would otherwise be afforded us in a quarter of a century. Let the chnrches of the city w here the exposition is to be held be open every day and prayers be offered, and sermons preached, and doxologies sun sr. In less than three years between this and that world's convocation let us get a baptism of the holy ghost, so that the six months of that world's fair shall be fifty Tentecosts in one, and instead of S,00() converted, as in the former Pentecost, hundreds of thousands will Ihj converted. You must remember that the Pentecost mentioned in the bible occurred when there was no printing press, no books, no Christian pamphlets, no religious newspapers, and yet the influence was tremendous. How many nationalities were touched? The account says: 'Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites that is, people from the eastern countries; Thrygia and Pamphylla,' that is, the western countries; 'Cyrene and strangers from Rome, Gretes and Arabians, that is, the southern countries, but they were all moved by the mighty spectacle. Instead of tho sixteen or eighteen tribes of people reported at that Pentecost f 11 the chief nations of Europe and Asia, North and South America will be represented at our world's fair in 1S02, and a Pentecost here and there would mean the savation of the round world. "But, you say, we may have at that fair the people of all lands and all the machinery for gospelization, the religious printing-presses and the churches, but all that would not make a Pentecost; wo must have God. Well, you can have him. Has He not leen graciously waiting? and nothing stands in the way but our own unbelief, and indolence, and sin. May God break down the barriers! The grandest opportunity for the evangelization of all nations since Jesus Christ died on the cross will be the world's exposition of 1st 2. God may take us out of tho harvest field lefore that, butlet it beknown throughout Christendom that that year, between May and November, will be the mountain of Christian advantage, the Alpine and Himalayan bight of opportunity, overtopping äll others for salvation. Instead of the slow process of having to send the gospel to other lands by our own American missionaries, who have difficult toil in acquiring the foreign language and then must content with foreign prejudices, what a grand thing to have able and infb.'.ential foreigners converted during their visit in America and then have them return to their native lands with the glorious tidings! Oh, for an overwhelming work of grace for the vear ls'.yj, that work beginning in the autumn of 18S' "Among those who come there will be, as at other expositions, lordly people who will bring their vices with them. Among the dukes, and duchesses, and princesses of other lands are some of the beet men and women of all the. earth. Remember earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns, and Lord Shaftesbury. But there is a snobbery and flunkeyism" in American society that runs after a grandee, a dule, a lord or a prince, though ho ii. ay be a walking lazaretto and Ins breath a plague. It makes the fortune of some of our queens of society to dance one cotillion with one of these princely lepers. Some people can not get their hat off quick enough when they see such a foreign lord approaching, and they do not care for the mire into which they drop their knees as they bow to worship. Let no splendor or pedigree or any pomp and paraphernalia of circumstances make him attractive. There is only one set of ten commandments that I ever heard of and no class of men or women in all the world aro excused from obediencö to those laws

written by finger of lightning on the granite surface of .Mount Sinai. Surely we have enough American vices without making any. drafts upon European vice for IS! 2. "By thissermon I would have the nation made aware of its opportunity and pet ready to improve it, and of some perils and get ready to combat them. I rejoice to be ieve that the advantage will overtop everything in that world's fair. What an introduction to each other of communities, of states, of republics, of empires, of zones, of hemispheres! What door of information will beswungwide oien for the boys and girls now on tho threshold! "What national and international education! What crowning of industry with sheaves of grain, and what imperial robing of her with embroidered fabrics! What scientific apparatus! What telescopes for the infinitude above and microscopes for the infinitude beneath and instruments to put nature to the torture until she tells her last secret! What a display of tho munificence of the God who has k'rown enough wheat to make a loaf of bread largo enough for the human race, and enough cotton to Btocking every foot, and enough timber to shelter every head, making it manifest that it is not God's fault, but either man's oppression, or indolence, or dissipation if there be any without 6upp!y. "Under the arches of the chief building of that exposition let capital and lubor, too long estranged, at last be married, each taking the hand of each in pledge of eternal fidelity, while repr sentatives of all nations stand round rejoicing at tho nuptials, and saying: 'What God hath joined together let not man put asunder,' Then shall the threnody of the needlewoman no longer bo heard: "Work, work, wori: Till the brain becins to swüni; Work, morlc, work! Ti 1 thf eris are heavy and dim. Seam, and Ktiwt, and band, i'ind. and gusset, and an). Till over the buttons I nsiepp. And sew thf m on in a dream.' " "O, Christian America! Make ready for the grandest exposition ever seen under the 6un ! Have bibles enough bound. Have churches enough established. Have scientific halls enough endowed. Have printing presses enough si t up. Have revivals of religion enough in full blast. I believe you will. 'Hosanna to the son of David ! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!' " 'TU rough tho harsh rMocsof our day A low. sweet prcluda tiuds it way; Through clouds of doubt an i creeds of fear A light is breaking calm and clear.' " That song of love, now 'ov and far, Kre lone shall swell troiu star to snr;

That light, the broaklnj day, which tips The Roiden spirod Apocalypse! Among the places at which Dr. Talmage will probably preach during this extended ( trip are Rome, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Beth- j lehm, Hethany, Samaria, Joppa, Aiheus, and Corinth. The Mason of find. Snz of the Coral. "Ever in the depths of the great ocean there is a silent, sleepless builder the coral that Mason of God in the billowy soa." Prof. Su ing. Down in the depths of th lonely sea, I work atjiny mystic masonry ; Ages bvhold my ceaseless toil. When the ocean is calm or thß waters boil; The kraken glides from my prickly bomo, And here the tribes of the deep ne'er come; O: who can fashion a work like me, "The Mason of God iu the billowy sea?" I'Te criit'd the plants of the deep with stone, And g'ven them coloring not their own. And now on the ocean fields they spread Thf i fan-like branches of white and red. And then, when the tempests wildly rave Above the mariner's coipse, they wave Like bending palms o'er the Persian's tomb, Where flowers in ct.rnal summer bloom. I build in silenca my circling wall, And pierce the waves with its. turrets tall, But when the sun from hu path on high Looks down with bis fierce and burning eye, I sink to sleep in tho ocean's gloom And find in the giant wall my tomb; The wild waves break on the lonely shore And sing my dire with their ceaseless roar. The atoms thrown from the boiling deep, The i aim tree torn from its distant steep, The graiu by the wandering wild bird sown. The seeds of flowers by the tempests strown, The sea-weed forced from its ocean bed, And the cocoanat on the waters shed, All father around my rocky Ice, And form the isle in the lonely sea. Turrets of stone, though huge and gray. Have crumbled and past in dust away; Cities that sank in tho sea of yore. Have turned to slime by the feted shore; But when shall crumble the coral wall That parts the waves so hright and tall? O! who can fashion a work like me, "The Mason of God in the billowy sea?" Indianapolis, Oct. 10. Jjstpti F. Brows. A Flenrattve Infelicity. Munsey's Weekly. Mr. Jenkins (about to declare himself) "Well, Miss Grace, October is near at hand, aud one hears Good-bye on every side. We have been together all this summer riding, driving, sailing, and pleasuring generally and do you know. Miss Grace, what I have been thinking about? I have been asking myself and 1 ask you what is it all going to amount to?" Miss Grace (scandalized) "Mr. Jenkins, I am not so mercenary as to have thought of that phase of our intercourse. That is a question tor you and your father to settle." Ou Life's Track. Exchange. lie "Do you know, my love, you remind me of a railroad?" She "Why, how silly! In what way?" He "Well, you are, in the raain, straight; your figure is full of graceful curves, and your head, if the truth were known, is covered with switches." Then they compromised by terming her a rain, and he was elected conductor. Ones is Enough. Lawrence American. Graduate (to critic, who has been looking over his essay) "What do you think of it?'' Critic "Well, the first time I read it I was favorably impressed; the second time less so, and after the third perusal I put it down as bosh." Graduate "That's all right, then. I've only got to read it once, you know." To Liquor. Yonkers Gazette. Jones "Why, how is this Ilrimmer? I never saw you indulging in malt liquors before. Has anything occurred to impel you to the change?" Itriinnier "Yes. I got married last month." Jones "And what has that got to do with it?" Ilrimmer "Everything! When a man takes a wife doesn't the law compel him to sup-port'er?" Autumn in the Country. X. Y. Weekly. Mrs. Simpkins (sentimentallyr "Oh, how lovely it is in the country at this season ot the year. Do you not prefer October to all other months for summer tours?" Mr. Simpkins (enthusiastically) "Yes, indeed. We get board at half rates now." The Poet' QvrrT Answered. London Exchange. Poetic caller (who has just come downV "What is that balmy, spicy odor that wafts in at the casement and seems to send new life spinning through my northern blood? i Practical caller bo has heeu there three ; weeks) "Onions." I Coul. 1 n't Corup r With Ulm. 1 Ito heater 101-' s press. J tfagley "I saw a man to-day that John L. i Sullivan couldn't hold a csnille to." j Ilailey-"Vhy cau't he?" ; 15ng y "Because he'd eat it The man was l an lrjuimau." Plenty Wlier It I Not Needed. Puck.J "There is ice in Greenland 6,000 feet thick, read Mr. Mumble in his evening paper. "That's just the way," commented his wife. "I suppose it's so cool there they don't need it, rithe.."

THE SHORT-HAND CLASS.

EIGHTH LESSON THIS MORNING. Our Popnlaf Conine of Ten Leisoni Began Seven Week Ago An Lasy, Practical Course in the 1'ltman System.The Eighth Lesson. Prepared especially for Tub Sbtihel by Prof. Eldon Moran of M. Louis, author of the "lleporting Btyle" eries of stenographic instruction books. Copyrighted. Every student who is a member of the shortband class, or has given any attention to this

LESSON VIII. XTT TO TLATC 8. 1 Ptitnp BTr.ple sympathy empire rymbol thump lamp. 5 fuses paces neressary success faces loses causes. 2 bubiFt exercise system Mibfis&ippi necessity races houses. 4 You-may do-you I say-so shall-never you-will-nevcr you-are have-time. 8 Does-it-niaKo wiil-you-comn how-long-have you theymny shall-have we hive-no. 6 Will you-take as-you-likc H-is-so BhalM-havo as manyas as-long-as do-we-knov. 7 I-was I-do-tUink I have-no-time I-will-never I-wrlte-you he-may he-would be-is be-has-no. 8 To-be may-bo Just ice-of the-peace as-wcll-as do-as-you have-his-name for-tbe-sakeof Just-so. 9 Takcs-u gives-ns as-sooa-as this-systera znakcs-t:s United-States Is-as as-is. 10 A-day a space a long a-common a-coil you-and-I ho-and-rou ihis-and-that. 11 Tbe-advantage to the of the all-tho for-the on-the should-the of-R to-a have-a, ITord siqn. 13 Important-ce Improve-mert simple ly Impossible trroperance December post-oüce become. Translate Ls 13, 14 and 15. EXPLANATION. The syllables ce, els, sit, im, m, etc. are expressed by thelarje circle, about five times larrer than the small . Words grammatically related are usually Joined together, providing the phraet thus formed are angular, and not too long. Words, when phrased, may be written out of their usual position. Observe 1st, only half the is written, whichever tici makes the best angle; 2nd, he is the same as tbo last tick of , excepting that it is abrays struck dotrnwerdt; 3rd, the is precisely like either he or ; 4th, a, an and are expressed by a vertical or horizontal tick. See Ls 7 to 11. A hyphen between words indicates that they are to te Joined together. Proper phrasing increases both speed and legibility. ExercUe-C&mp lump damp pieces noses mazes noises scamp Jump Texas Moses. Makes time has-no-iimo for-a-long give-me it-Is necessary I-thlck you-will and-lt-was and you-may-think a-desk the-bell. You-will always have time enough if-you-wlll hut use your time to-advantage. Give to each thing no-time but-that-is necessary. 18

COrVJUCIiTfcD. Ai-L KiOHTi FijEKVLD.

CAMP LIFE IN PALESTINE. THE HOLY CITY OF NAZARETH. The Home of Jesas Workshop of the Carpenter's Son fountain of the Virgin Mount Carmel A Terrific Storm by Land and Sea, Etc. Beyhovt, Syria. Special. Nazareth or "En Xasirel" like Tiherias is nowhere mentioned in the scriptural writings previous to the important part which it played in the life of Christ, and its early reputation does not seem to have been of the best, as the w ord "Nazarene" appear" to have been used as a term of reproach long before it began to be applied to the despised followers of the lowly Jesus. "Xozrani" (Nazarine) is still the name by which the Mohammedan contemptuously refers to the hated Christian infidel. Nazareth is beautifully situated on the picturesque sides of the surrounding hills and is a city of some five thousand inhabitants, nearly all ot whom are Christians of the orthodox Greek faith, there being no Jews among them and only a few Mo hammedans. Here, as at Bethlehem, the tourist observes the beneficial effects of Christianity in producing a handsomer and apparently more prosperous people than is generally found in Palestine, the women amongthem being especially noted for their good looks, although to my mind they hardly equal their Christian sisters of Bethlehem in that regard. However, with their pretty white gowns, jaunty head dresses and neatly sandaled feet, they make up a pretty picture when grouped about their favorite resort, the "Fountain of the Virgin" which takes its name from the Virgin Mary who no doubt tame here many times in the same way that these gossiping maidens do now, drinking from its cooling waters or carrying away the well-filled earthen jar upon her head. The Greeks have a "church of the annunciation" built here, as they claim that it was while drawing water at this fountain that the heavenly message was delivered to the holy mother, although this is not the generally venerated scene of the divine event, being rather a latter-day outgrowth of the jealousy existing between the two great catholic churches the Greeks, not being able to get control of the recognized Latin possession, having finally set up an opposition site of their own. The "holy church of the annunciation" belonging to the Latin monastery covers the commonly accepted location where the angel Gabriel appeared before the virgin whose "name was Mary" saying: "Blessed art thou among women" for "thou hast found favor with God and behold thou shalt" divinely "bring forth a 8on and sha't call his name Jesus" (Luke i, 31.) In a chapel or grotto below the church altar two granite columns are pointed out as standing on the exact spots occupied by the anirel and the virgin at the time of the annunciation. One of these columns u broken off in the middle and the monks in charge say it was done by the Mohammedan soldiery in a vain attempt to destroy the structure but the column remained miraculously suspended in air, notwithstanding their sacrilegiousjaction and has since continued to sustain the roof although itself unsupported from below. On the front of the small marble altar here appears the Latin inscription "Hie verbum caro factum est" or "Here the word was made flesh." From this chapel an entrance leads into another grotto, where the kitchen and dwelling rooms of the virgin are likewise pointed out, but as we are told elsewhere that the celebrated "holy house" was miraculously whisked away from here in the night by the angels and carried to far-away Loreto in Italy, it is hard to explain how these apartments are 6till to be seen here alo. However, whatever doubts we may have as to tho precise correctness of the various sacred places shown us here, we can at least be certain that Nazareth was the home of Joseph and Mary; that here they were rcarriel and had their home, and here the Child Jeens spent His youth and grew up to manhood, arl as we walk reverently along the narrow streets of the old city we know that there is not a spot over which we pass that His boyish feet have not trod before us hundreds and hundreds of times in. the days long aso. In the small Mohammedan quarter of tho city there stands a Latin chapel built over what is believed to be the ' workshop of Jost ph" in which the young Jesus labored for many years as an humble carpenter, and a little further on a newer chapel covers an itnmenee stone twelve feet long and four thick, known as the "Table of Christ" irpon which the priestly attendants eay be dined with His disciples both before and after the resurrection. The Greeks, not to be outdone by their rivals, have a chapel which they claim was originally the ancient idaco of worship where "He begaa

series, is requested to write a personal letter to his instructor. Address LMon Mornn, 1,522 Olive-tit, bt. Louis, Mo. This letter should be written partly in short-hand that is, you are to wrke in characters all the words and phrases you have learned to this date. The remaining words should be expressed in common lone-han.i writing. You are requested to stat" how much time you can give each day to the study, what other students, if any, you meet with for practice and how often; how you like the study and what your plans and intentions are as to becoming a rapid shorthand writer. Also mention other matters of interest and aak any question you like. An exact copy of this letter written entirely in long-hand should alo be sent. The bhort-hand

i -p to teach in the synagoeue and many hearing Ilim were astonished" (Mark vi, 2.) But to whatever extent lie may have "astonished" them, whether in that structure or elsewhere, there is no evidence that Jesus ever had anything of a following among 1 His fellow-townsmen of Nazareth and none of His great miracles were performed there. In fact the gospel expressly states that "He could there do no mighty work" being a prophet without honor "in His own country and among His own kin" (Mark vi, 5.) They would not accept as divine the meek and lowly one who had grown up among them, and when He aroo before them and "opened the book" with the startling declaration : "The spirit of the Lord is upon me," with amazement and anger "the eyes of all of them that were in the synagogue were fastened on Him," as they said one to another: "Is not this the carpenter?" "Is not this Joseph's son" who sacrilegiously assumes "to E reach deliverance" to us who have nown Him all His life, and then "filled with wrath" they "rose up and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they miaht cast Him down headlong." (Luke" i v.) Judging from the present Light of the "Mt. of Precipitation," which is shown as the hiil from which they sought to "cast Him down," it would not have hurt Him very seriously if they had, but the same account tells us that He escaped in safety and "passing through the midst of them went His way and came down to Capernaum," the new home from whence He never acrain returned, to the unbelieving city of His j'outh. While at Nazareth my tent was pitched north of the town, close to the Greek monastery, where 1 again fell in with English-speaking fellow-travelers, Lady Maginnis and party from London being in camp on the same ground. During th night previous to my departure a terrific storm of wind and rain came up and about 3 o'clock in the morning I was aroused by cries of alarm from my neighbors' tents only to find that one side of my own had been blown in and was in danger of tumbling down on top of me. After loud yells for assistance mv Arab contingent finally came to my relief, and, after hastily digging a rough trench to carry off the stream of water running through the tent, they acrain secured the ropes and stakes as best they could under the circumstances. But so heavy was the down-pour and so dark the night the work was not very effectively done and I was compelled to epend the few hours yet remaining before daylight with my umbrella raised over my bed, a condition of affairs not exactly conducive to pleasant dreams. Upon getting up in the morning I found that my neighbors had bu tiered much more severely than I had, their tents being wrecked to such an extent that they had been compelled in the middle of the night to seek refuge within the hospitable walls of the monastery. But it we who had been better situated were inconvenienced by the war of the elements, what must have been the experience of the poor muleteers, who, following their usual fashion, had slept on the bare ground in the open air. These hardy fellows crawl into a kind of rough camcl's-hair "sleeping sack" completely enveloping their heads as well as their bodies and sleep peacefully anywhere and under any circumstances regardless of wind or weather. This was their last night in my service, as I here bade adieu to the tents and all my camping retinue except one muleteer who was to carry the baggage of Sasoor and myself a3 far as Caifla, where I was to take the Austrian Lloyd steamer for Bey rout, which touches at that out-of-the-way port once every two weeks. The storm which had raged through the night increased to a perfect hurricane as daylight advanced and poor rasoor. who had not been feeling in the betd of condition for several days, appealed to me by all the saints in the Greek calendar not "to attempt the long ride to CaifTa through such a deluge, but as I was oblieed to catch that particular steamer or else change all my plans or wait a fortnight longer in that forsaken country until another one arrived, I announced my determination to make the eilort despite "high water" and that warm and objectionable place usually mentioned in connection therewith, fclasoor called the dragoman of the other party to his aid ; together they tried to convince me that we could never reach there in time; that we should lose our way, and even that the road was dangerous in euch a tempest; but all to no purpose, and so we finally mounted and rolo away from tho memorable old city, living witnesses that even in this degenerate day something exceptionally "good" can "come out of Nazareth." As we continued on our waj'The storm that tor a space did fail Now trebly thundering swelled the gsle," and in all my varied, if not variegated, career I never beheld anything like it before. The experience on Mt. Tabor wa3 bad enough, but it was a summer shower compared to this, and during the entire trip it did not let up for a moment. The heavy rain was accompanied by a fierce howling blast that swept acroes the plain

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of Zabulon, almost lifting us out of the saddle and blinding us so at times that we could hardly see which way we were going. We stopped at noon for luncheon at an Arab khan about half way distant, and Sasoor again protested that we should remain there and give up the attempt until the conditions were more favorable, but I was obdurate and he resigned himself to his fate, with the remark that we should both "be dead within a week" as a result of that day's experience. As we rode across the ievel plain of Esdraelon, in the afternoon, our horses were constantly stepping into the dangerous holes and washouts made in the soft ground by the numerous pools which had gathered as a result of the continuous rainfall, sometimes going almost up to their bodies and requiring the greatest care to avoid being pitched over their heads into the mud and water as the poor animals stumbled and floundered along. At one point where our path lay through a long shallow stretch of water, "Mahsoud," the donkey that carried our baggage, suddenly fell into one of these holes and disappeared in the dirty pool, carrying with him his rider and my valise and other traveling appurtenances. For the moment I didn't enjoy seeing my possessions thus unceremoniously "doused," but Hamed cut such a sorry figure as he flopped about in the water and spluttered and swore in choice Arabic that even Sasoor smiled like a true Christian for the only time during the entire day, and I roared with delight after the manner of gentle, kindly humanity that always finds such excruciating pleasure in other people's mishaps. Hamed was the only fellow that didn't seem to recognize that the occasion was one for hilarity in fact it wasn't exactly his time to laugh. However, even he was inclined to forgive our smiles and be good-humored as we saw the bold front of Mt. Carmel rising high before us and knew that our trying day's journey was about ended. This grand mountain, so renowned in biblical story, here separates the broad plains of Sharon and Esdraelon, and the little city of Cail.'a or Haifa nestles at its base on the south side of the gulf of Acre. Across the gulf upon the other shore lies the seaport of Acre, famed in the annals of the Crusades, and beyond it, further along the Mediterranean coast, are the ancient rho?nician cities of Tyre and Sidon. Mt. Carmel is frequently spoken of in the scriptures and is especially associated with the history of the Prophet Elijah and his faitnful follower, Elisha, and the natives always refer to it as the "Jebel Mar Elyas" or "Mt. of Elias." The Carmelite monastery that covers the cave in which Elijah is supposed to have taken up his residence stands in a conspicuous position far up the steep mountain path, and the monks assert that this sanctuary has been continuously in tho hands of holy men ever since that time, being occupied by the sons and descendants of the prophet previous to the Christian era. It is said that early profane writers refer to it in this connection and that Pythagoras and Tacitus both paid the site a visit. It was on this 6acred mountain that Elijah triumphed over the heathen "prophets of Baal" after gathering "all Israel unto Mt. Carmel" to witness the sectarian contest in which each "called on the name" of their respective Gods for aid, and when the prayers of the Hebrew seer prevailed and "the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice" upon the altar which he had erected, the muUitude at his command siezed upon the "four hundred and fifty" unfortunato priests of Baal and "Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon," which winds its way through the plains below, "and slew them there." After these pleasant religious proceedings had ended to his satisfaction the prophet gave the king and the assembled people still further confirmation of hi3 miraculous powers by sending "rain upon the earth" "after many days" of "sore famine" and long-continueä and disastrous drought. "And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and lie said to his servant: Go up, now look toward the sea, and he went up and looked, and paid: There is nothing, and he said: Go again seven times, J and it came to pass at the seventh time. that ho said: Behold, there anseth a little cloud out of the 6ea, like a man's hand and it came to pass in the meanwhile that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain." (I Kings xviii.) Judging from our own personal experiences we were strongly inclined to believe that the spirit of the prophet was still at work in that im ediate neighborhood, as this vivid description of "a great rain" exactly fitted the situation on the eventful day that we first sighted the historic mountain. After Elijab's death his prophetic successor, Elisha, came to reside for a time in this same place, and here it was that the priefetricken "Shunaramite" mother, seeking the restoration of her dead son, "came j unto the man of God to Mt. Carmel." (II j Kings iv, 25.) Dismounting at the neat 1 little hotel located in the center of the j German religious colony, which has for eome time been established at Caiffa, I re

gretfully bade adieu to the companion of a 1 my Iloiy Land wanderings, my dear little Syrian "eteed, "Aman," and turned him over to the tender mercies of Hamed, who was here to leave us, with the horses, and return to Jerusalem. From this point on our route lay outside the boundaries of Palestine and "in the larger confines of Syria proper. The storm that had ravaged the land had likewise 6wept over the pea, and it was feared we 6houId not be able to get on boar 1 the sLanu r when sNe came along late in the evening and anchored out some considerable distance from the shore, as is necessary in nearly all these Mediterranean ports where there are no harbor facilities. In fact at one time it looked as if it would be impossible that the srt.all boat in which we were to go od would ever b? able to keep afloat long enough to reach the vessel, and we were strongly advised not to make the dangerous attempt. However, it was that ship or none for two lonsr weeks, and we determined to risk it, although we found that nit rely getting into the b' at to start was no ea.y matter, as we had t3 catch it just at the right time, as the dashing waves threw it up near the landing. While we stood waiting for a favorable opportunity to make the leap a huge billow swept clean over the platform from wh ch we were to embark, knocking us almost off our feet and completely drenching us, but as both Sasoor and myself were already wet to the skin after our long ride we couldn't be much fnnher injured in that regard. After considerable erf'ort wes managed to jump in and tret away in safety and wero thrown about like cockle she Is by the turbulent waters, until we reached the steamer, and were with much difficulty hauled on board. Hero, after a change to dry clothing, we found that we had for fellow-passengers an English gentleman nud wifei who had come dow n from Alexandria on their way to visit Jerusalem, but owing to the ttorm had leen unable to land at Jali. They had then bored to b able t j get ashore at Cailfa, but found it 6o rough on arriving there that the lady dared not make the etf ort, and so they were compelled to continue on to Beyrout, sadly "disappointed and much against their will. Like Moses of old. they were permitted toview the promised land, but not to set foot upon its sacred soil, but there was no help for it, their time being limited, and trom Beyrout they sorrowfully returned directly back to Enrope. As we stea-ned out to sea the gale increased in violence, and al! night long the good ship rolled and tossed about among the tempestuous waves, her timbers groaning and creaking and at times she seemed standing on her head or about to turn completely over. Of cour.-e, there t&s little sleep for anyone under these circumstances, as it required well-developed seafaring ability to keep in one's berth at a'!, and all were glad when when ti e Ion night was over. About 11 in the morning we arrived off Beyrout, but the storm was still so virulent and the sea so dansrerous that disembarking was entirely out of the question and we were annoyingly obliged to lay there all day in sight of the citv without being able to get on shore. Finally, along about 7 in the evening there was a loll in the tempest sufiicient to permit the attempt being made, and we were soon over the side into a small boat manned by. local Arabs, always on the lookout for backsheesh, who, as usual with these people, kept time while rowing to the monotonous chant of a Mohammedan prayer. The landing here was a repetition of the experience at Caitl'a, and our boat was dahed against the projecting wharf several times with such violence that large Bplinters of wood were knocked off both, and it was with great difficulty that we were able to get safely out on terra firma once more, and I only succeeded after the loss overboard of some of my personal traps, besides being again drenched through and through. After ti:e usual vexatious custom-house and passport inspection I hurriedly sought the friendly and hospitable seclusion of the "Hotel de L'Orient," fully satisfied from my own personal experiences that they know how to get up a double back-action storm in Syria with all the appurtenances thereuuto belonging, just a little more perfectly than in any other country on the globe. Will 11 Esolisit. Is Ilarrifon Itroad Enough? Chicago Time. It is the remark of one of the party organs that "the president wonld cratily a vast number of people by appointing Walter Q. tJreshatn to the vacancy on the bench of the V. IS. supreme court." This is very true. Judge Gresham is in the line of promotion. He is a worthy jnd'cial officer, who goes quite to the heart of thinr$. He is widely esteemed as an able and what is rarer a conscientious publicist. Wherever placed, whether on the battle-field, on the bench at Indianapolis, at the head of the postal or treasury department, or upon the circuit which is now the scene of his dutie. he has given an excellent account of himself. His promotion to the supreme bench would be recognized as fitinir and craceful. but is President Harrison sutiicieutly broad thus to recoenize an. Indianian who was propo-ed in the Chicago convention as his rival? It is supposed thnt he has his law partner in training for the place and that he is neither so wise nor so crneious ni to make an appointment as commendable as (iresham's. If ha could rise to this opportunity the country would have a better impression of him. Lathrr Krimnn in Connecticut.

! Merlden (Conn.) Republican. ' The opera-house Sunday afternoon was filled j to overflowing with people who had assembled j to hear Luther Beon of Indianapolis spt-.ilc j on temperance, under the auspices of the W. ' C T. U. Mr. lensn spoke for one hour and j twenty minnfes with the greatest ease aud the ! utmost rapidity, and gave one of the mo! powI erful temperance lectures ever heard from a platform. Iliosewnose privilege u was n ne present will not readily fonret She man r,ir his words. His word-nainiing. his paihos, his witty anecdotes, his heart-rending plea i r g for kindness and charity and help for tho-e w fu-t-e appetite holds them in the worst of b. i, !a.e, the pathetic story of his own life, all t Id in the most eloquent manner, stamp him as eual to any lecturer ever before the public nu llence is in tears one instant, when f.athcf wit instantly turns the tear to snnlcs. His arguments are logical, his illustrations pertinent, his pathos irresistible. Thlrtinz Fr Knowledge. X. Y. Week y. Tramp (with an old school hock) "Say, mister, will ver kindly tell tne what letter this is?" Pedestrian "Certainly. That is L. Can't you read?'' "Xo. sir; but I'm trvm ter learn, an I shan t rcs-t till 1 do, nuther." "I am delighted tt find 60 laudable an ambition in one of your class. You have taken the right course at last." "Yes, sir. It's mighty rough on a travtler. like me not to be able to tell whether a sign s says 'Beware o' the Dog or 'Free Lunch Opening.' " Out n the My. I-awrenc American.' "Ma," asked little Jimmy, "nurse hasn't any wing-, has she?" "Whv, no, Jimmy," replied his mother. "Why?" "Angels have wings, don t they? "Yes, but nure isn't an angel." "Isn't she? Well, 1 heard pa call her one yesterday." "Although she is not an anpcl, Jimmy," ssid his mother, with a flash in her eye," she will tly to-morrow." Getttii Kven With iter. IIIT re American. Mr. Goodcatch (calling on the eldest iser) "Why, Johnny, how you fire growing! You'll be a man before your sUter if you keep on." Johnny "You bet I will, rss'.er'il never be a man if she keeps on being twenty-one, like she has for the last five years." Then there was trouble in the household. ThfT Wear Vrr L. li e. Lawrence American He "You remind me of an angel." She "O. row you are going to pay me iom bIIIv compliment." lie "Not at all. Yonr dress this evening ii to hke the kind the angels wear."