CAIM'IAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, DECKMUEK. 13, 1890
A SERMON ON DAMASCUS.
on. TALMAOC CONTINUES HIS SCniCS
ON PALESTINE.
Ttic Trtl .Iris l, III "A lln .Imimcjnt
lli Osmn Npnr llniiuoriu" 1'nll lln
lnri of n Mol Admirable ninriiurao
Itrrrullh I'tcMitt-d.
HllOflKI.Ytf, Deo 7.-Tint Now York Acad
emy of Music was lilted with an nuillcncn
of iioarlyslx thousand personsntTliot'hrls
linn llrrnltl service this evening when Dr.
TnliimK'1 loHiTtl tint eleventh senium of
liln scries on Palestine anil I lie adjoining
countries. The same sermon, as on pro
rlous Sundays, I1111I U'imi prenehed In t ho
morning tnunnthcr largo nuillonco In tho
Brooklyn Acntloiuy of Muslr. Tlio sub-
icctwns "Dninnsous," nnd the text, "An
10 Journeyed ho ramo near Damascus,"
ActsW, il Dr. Tulmngosnld:
In Palestine wo spout I111I night In A
mild hovel of one story, lint camel mill
sheep In llni Imsoincnt. Yrt never (llil tlio
most tirllllnnt hotel on any root Incut scorn
jtontt'rnctlvo to inn as Unit structure. If
wo hnd Uh'Ii obliged tostny in a tent, nt wo
expected toiln Hint night, wo must havo
IhtIpiIuhI. A violent storm hud opened
upon tin Its volleys of hull ami snow ami
ruin nml wind an If to lot us know what
tho lllltlo mentis when prophet anil evan
gelist ami Christ himself spoke of tho fury
of tint elements. Tho atmospheric winth
broke npoti iih ahont 1 o'clock In tho after
noon anil wo worn until night exposed to
it. With bunds ami fret bonumlxsl, ami
our bodies chilled to tlio Ismc, wo iiiiiiIo
our slow way. Whllo high up on tho
.rocks, nml tho gale blowing tlio hardest, a
itlgnnf of distress halted tho party, for
ilnwn in tho ravines one of tho homes had
fallen nml IiIn rider must not In' left nlouo
amid that wilderness of Kcenery and horror
of storm. An tho night approaehed tho
tempest thlekened ami hlackeneil and
st lengthened. Soiuu of our attendants
going ahead had gained permission for its
to halt for the night In tho mini hovel I
npnko of. Our first duly on arrival was
tlio resuscitation of the exhausted of our
party. My loom was without a window,
nml an iron Movo without any top in tho
renter of tho room, tlio smoke selecting
my eyes In tlio a I we mo of a ehlniney.
Through an opening In tho Moor Arali
faces wero several times thrust up to nee
how 1 was progressing. Hut tho tomtcst
ceased during tho night, and heforo It was
fully day wo wero feeling for tho stirrups
of our saddled horses, this being tlio day
whoso long march will hrlng iih to that
city whoso niiino cannot Ihi pronounced in
tlio hearing of tho Intelligent or tho Chris
tlati without making tho blood tlnglo and
tho nerves to thrill, and putting tho best
emotions of t hosoul Ititongltatlnu Damas
cus! C.K8AIIKA l'lltl.trTI.
During tho day wo passed Oiesnren
Phlllppl, tho northern terminus of Christ's
Joiirneylngs. North of that ho never went.
Wo lunch at noon, seated on tho fallen
columns of one of Herod's palaces.
At 4 o'clock in tho afternoon, coining to n
hill top, wo saw on tho broad plain u city,
which tho most fumotis camel driver of all
time, afterward called Mohammed, tlio
prophet and tho founder of tho most stu
pendous system of error that lias over
cursed tho earth, refused to enter boeauso
ho Raid Hod would allow no man to enter
but one paradise, nml ho would not enter
tills earthly paradise lest ho should Ihj de
nied entrance to tlio heavenly. Hut no
city that I oversaw mi plays hide and seek
with tho traveler. Tho air Is so clear tho
distant object seem closo by. You coino
on Hie top of n hill and Damascus seems
only u II tt lu way o IT. Hut down you go
into ii valley and you sou nothing for tlio
next half hour but barrenness and rocks
regurgitated by tho volcanoes of other
nges. Up another hill nml down again.
Up ngalu and down again. Hut after your
patience Isalmost exhausted jou reach tho
last hill top, ami tho city of Damascus, tho
oldest city under tlio wholu heavens ami
built .by Noah's grandson, grows upon
your vision. Kvery inllo of tho Journey
now becomes more solemn and suggestive
and tremendous,
i Tills Is t lie very road, for It has been tho
only road for thousands of years, tho road
from .Jerusalem to Damascus, along which
cnvalcadoof mounted officers went, about
1,954 years ago, In tho midst of them a llcrco
little mail who made up by magnitude of
hatred for Christianity for his tllnilnutlvo
stature, and was tho lending spirit, and,
though suffering from chronic Inllamma
tion of tho eyes, from tho.su eyes Hashed
inoru Indignation against Christ's followers
than any one of tho horsed procession. Tills
littlo man, before Ids name was changed to
Paul, was called Saul. So many of tho
mightiest natures of nil ages are condensed
intosiiinllucssof stature. Tho Frcuchmmi
who wns sometimes called by his troops
"Old One Hundred Thousand" was often,
bocaubo of ills abbreviated personal pres
ence, styled "I.lttlo Nap." Iml Nelson,
wltli Insignificant stature to start with and
one ejo put out nt Calvl and Ids right nrm
tnkeu off at Tenerilfe, proves himself nt
Trafalgar tho mightiest hern of tho En
glish navy. Tho greatest of American theo
logians, Archibald Alexander, could stand
nndcr tho elbow of many of his contempo
raries, lM)k out for littlo men when they
start out forsomo especinl mission of good
or evil. Tim thunderbolt is only a coiidcn
.wition of electricity.
SVItlA'S KOOMIAV SU.V.
Well, that galloping group of horsemen
on tho road to Damascus wero halted
quicker than bombshell or cavalry charge
ever halted n regiment. Tho Syrinn noon
day, U'caiiM) of tho clarity of tho atmos
phere, is tho brightest of all noondays, and
the noonday sun In Syria is positively ter
rific for brilliance. llutHUildouly that noon
there Hashed from the heavens a light
.which mado thut Syrian sun seem tamo as
a star in comparison. It wits tho face of tho
slain and ascended Christ looking from
the heavens, and under tho dash of that
overpowering light all tho horses dropped
with their riders. Human face mid horse's
mane together lu tho dust. Ami then two
claps of thunder followed uttering the two
words,theM:coudwordllkotholrit: "Snull
Saull" for three days that fallen eques
trian vruk totally 'blind, for excessive light
will sometimes extinguish tho eyesight.
And what cornea and crystalline lens could
endure n brightness greater than tho noon
day Syrinn sunr I had read It n hundred
tlmcri, but it never so impressed me !eforc,
nnd probibly will never so Impress me
galu, us I took my Hible from the saddlu
bags and rend aloud to our comrades In
spIm'n arrive lefom night. Tlio evening Is
nvnr nt liauil, nml ns we leave snowy Her
ninu Isdilml us nnd approach the shadow
of tho cuHihis of two hundred mosques wo
rut through n clrruinfcrcumof many miles
of garden which cmliowcr the city. Ho
luxuriant are these gardens, mi opulent lu
colors, so luscious of fruits, so glittering
with fountains, so rich with bowers nml
kiosks that the Mohammedan's heaven was
fashioned after what are to 1st seen hero of
bloom nml fruitage. Hero lu Damascus at
the right season nro cherries and nmlls'rrlo
nnd apricots and alum ds ami pistachios
nml pomegranates nnd pears and apples
mid plums and citrons ami nil the richness
of tho round world's mmnlogy No won
der Hint .Julian called this city "Hie ejo of
the east," mid that tho poets of Syria have
styled It "tho luster on tho neck of doves,"
nnd historians mild, "It Is tho golden clasp
which couples the two sides of tho world
together."
DIsAITOINT.MKNT AT llAMAMTR.
Many travelers express disappointment
with Damascus, but tho trouble Is they
hare carried In their minds from boyhood
the Isiok which dii..Ica so many joung
people, "Tho Arabian Nights," and they
como Into Damascus looking for Aladdin's
lnmp mid Aladdin's ring mid tho genii
which appeared by rubbing them. Hut as
I linvii never read "Tlio Arabian Nights,"
such htuir not being allowed around our
houso lu my boyhood, and nothing lighter
lu tlio way of rending than "Haxter's
Saints' Kverlnstlng Host" and D'Aublg
ny's "History of the Hefonnntlon," Da
mascus appeared to mo at sacred ami seen
lar histories have presented it, mid mi tho
city was not a disappointment, but with
few exceptions a surprise.
Under my window to-night lu the hotel
at Damascus I hear tho perpetual ripple
ami rush of tho river Abaua. All, the so
cret Is out I Now I know why all this
Mora nml fruit, ami why over) thing is so
green, and Hut plain one great emerald.
Tlio river Alumn! And not far olT the river
Pharpar, which our horses waded through
todaj! Thank tho rivers, or rather tho
Hod who made thorlversl Deserts to the
north, deserts to tho south, deserts to the
east, tU'M'its to the west, but hero a para
dise. And as tho rivers Olliiin and Plsou
nml Hlddekel and Euphrates mado the
other paradise, Abaua ami Pharpar imiko
this Damascu-i a paradise. That is what
mado Ceu. Nnainau of this city of Damas
cus so mad when ho was told for the euro
of his leprosy to go nml wash lu Hut river
Jordan. Tho river .Jordan Is much of tlio
year a muddy stream and It is never so
clear as this river Abaua that I hearriiuib
ling under my whitlow to-night nor as the
river Pharpar tliat wo crossed today. They
nro as clear as though they had been
sieved through miuiu especial sieve of tho
mountains, Hen. Naaman had great ami
patriotic prldo lu these two rivers of Ids
own country, mill when Klisha tho prophet
told him that If ho wanted to get rid of his
leprosy ho must go and wash in tlio .Jor
dan, ho felt as wo who llvo on the magnifi
cent Hudson would feel If told that wo
must go ami wash In tho muddy Thames,
or as If those who llvo on tho transparent
lthinowero told that they must go mid
wash lu the muddy Tiber,
So Hen. Naaman cried out with n voice
as loud as over ho hail used lu command
ing his troops, uttering those memorable
words which every minister of tho gospel
sooner or later takes for his text: "Are not
Abaua ami Pharpar, rivers of Damascus,
better than tho waters of Israel? May I
not wash in them and Ihj clean?" Thank
(lod, wo llvo Inn land with plenty of rivers,
mid that they bless all our Atlantic roast
and nil our Pacific const, aiul rotlculnttyill
the continent between tho coasts. Only
those who havu traveled in tho deserts of
Syria, or Kgypt,or havo lu tlio oriental cit
ies heard tho tinkling of the Istll of those
who sell water can reall.o what It Is to
have this .ilvlue leverage In abundance.
Water rumbling over tlio rocks, turning
tho mill wheel, saturating tho roots of tho
corn, dripping from the buckets, tilling
the pitchers of tho household, rolling
th igh the fonts or baptistries of holy or
dinance, tilling tho reservoirs of cities, In
vltlug the cattle to come down nml slaku
their thirst and tho b'nlsof heaven to dip
their wing, ascending In robe of mist ami
falling again lu lieucdlctlnu of shower
water, living water, (iotl given waterl
AWAKKNINO IN TIIK MOItMSIl.
Wo aro awakened lu tint morning In Da
mascus by tho song of those who have
different styles of food to sell. It is not a
street cry as in Loudon or New York, but
n weird and long drawn out solo, com
pared with which a biu. saw is musical.
It makes you Inopportunely waken, ami
will not let you sleep again. Hut to those
who understand the exact meaning of the
song It becomes quite tolerable, for they
slug: "Ood Is tlio noiirlsher, buy my bread;"
God Is the noiirlsher, buy my milk;"
"God Is tlio noiirlsher, buy luy fruit." As
you look out of the window you eo the
Mohammedans, who aro In large majority
In tho city, at prayer. Anil if it wero put
to vote who should bokiugof all the earth,
llfteeii thousand in that city would say
Christ, but one hundred ami thirty thou
sand would say Mohammed. I diking
from the window, you see on tho house
tops aiul on the streets Mohammedans at
worship, Tlio muezzin, or tho olllcers of
religion wlio announce tho time of wor
ship, appear high up on the different min
arets or tall towers, and walk nrouiid the
minaret, Inclosed by a railing and cry in a
sad ami mumbling way; "God is great I
bear witness that thoru Is no God but God.
I bear witness that Mohammed is the
npostlo of God. Come to prayers! Come
to salvation! Ood Is great. There is no
other but God. Prayers aro better than
sleep," Five times a day must the Mo
hammedan engage in worship. As he
begins he turns his face toward the city
of Mecca, ami unrolls upon the ground a
rug which ho almost always carries. With
his thumbs touching the lobes of Ids ears.
nnd holding his face lietwecn his hands, he
cries: "God is great." Then folding his
hands across his girdle, he looks down anil
says: "Holiness to thee, O God, and pralso
bo to thee. Great is thy name. Great is
thy greatness. There Isnodelty but thee."
Then the worshiper sits upon his heels,
then he touches his nose to the rug, ami
then ids forehead, these genuflections ac
compauled with the cry, "Groat is God."
Then, raising the forefinger of his right
hand toward heaven, he says: "I testify
there is no deity but God, and I testify
that Mohammed Is the servant of God, ami
tho messenger of God." Tho pra ers close
by the wordilcr holding his hands opened
upward as If to take tho divine blessing,
ami then his hands aro rubls-d over his
face as If to conwy the blessing to his en
tire body
jMilygainy. Hie uwuiy wifehood of Moham
medanism, has mado that religion tho tin
iitterable ami everlasting curse of woman,
mid when woman sinks tho race sinks.
Tho proposition recently made In high ec
clesiastical places for Hut leformntlou of
Mohammedanism, Instead of its oblitera
tion, Is like an attempt to Improve a plague
or educate a leprosy. Theru Is only one
thing that will ever reform .Mohammedan
ism, and Hint Is Its extirpation from Hit
face of I he earth Ii) tho power of the gospel
of the Son of God. which makes not old)
man, but woman, free foi this life and fiee
for the life to come
The spirit of the horrible religion which
pievades the city of Damascus, along
whose streets we walk mid out of whose
baarswe make purchases, ami In whose
mosques we study the wood cartings mid
Is'illeumeuts, was demonstrated as late as
I Mai, when in this city It put to death ll.inn)
Christ latis in forty eight hours and put to
Hie liucli il.tKK) Christian homes, ami those
streets we walk today were led with the
carnage, ami the shrieks nml gioaus of the
d)lug mid illshouoied men mid women
made this place a hell on eat Hi. This went
on until a Mohammedan, better than his
religion, Alsl-el Kader by name, a great
soldier, who In one war had with y,.'K)
troops Is-aten !),(XK) of tlio enemy, now pro
tested against this massacre and gathered
the Christians of Damascus Into castles
ami private hoilsosaud tilled Ids own home
with the affrighted sufferers. After a
while the mob rami) to Ills door and tie
uiunilcd tho "Christian dogs" whom ho was
sheltering. Ami Abd el Kader mounted a
horse anil drew his swortl, mid with a few
of his old soldiers around him charged on
the mob mid cried. "Wretches! Is this the
way you honor the prophet? May his
lie
iiimiiIoiis persecutor He was a great
nature crushed Ho had started for tho
city of Damascus for the one purpose of
nssassliiatlng Christ's followers, hut since
, that fall from Ids horse ho has entirely
1 changed. Ananias steps up to the sight
less man, puts his right thumb o;i one ejo
nnd the left thumb on the other eye, ami lu
nu outburst of sjmpathy ami Into ami
faith sajs: "Hrother Saul! Ilrother Saul!
tho IOld, cten .le.stis that appeared unto
thee In the way as thou eainokt, has sent
me that thou inuysl receive thy sight and
1st tilled with the Holy Ghost." Instantly
something like scales fell from the blind
man's c)cs, mid ho arose from that seat the
mightiest evangel of all the ages, a Sir
William Hamilton for mctaph) steal analy
sis, a .John Milton forsuhliinlty of thought,
n Whltelleld for popular eloquence, a John
llowaul for widespread philanthropy, but
more than all of t hem put togot her inspired,
thutidcrlioltcd, mtiltlnilcnt, apostolic Did
Judas, the kind host of tills blind man, or
Ananias, the visitor, see scales drop from
the sightless eves' I think not. Hut Paul
knew the) had fallen, ami that Is all that
happens to mi) of us ivliiu we aro convert
ed. The Minding scales d lop from oil ro)cs
ami we see things differently.
A Chiistlan woiuan, missionary among
a most degi ailed tribe, whose religion was
never to wash or improve personal appear
once, was tr lug to persuade one of those,
heathen women not only of need of change
of heart but change of habits, which
would result lu change of appearance but
tint effort failed until tho missionary had
placed lu her own hallway a looking glass,
and when tlio barbaric woman passing
through the hall snw herself In the mir
ror for tho first time, she exclaimed, "Can
it he possible I look like that"" ami ap
palled at her own appearance she i enounced
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think you may dons you please with tho ' 'ie cnrisia n leug on. iiUso we reel
travel, "As he Journeyed he came near i itkAMiSb roll 1'IIAISIXU MoilAMMi:i)AMSM
Daiuiircii", and suddenly thorohhlned round
nliout him u light from heaven, and lie fell
to the em th and heard a voice haying unto
him, 'Saull Saul! Why perweutest thou
mef ami lie said, "Jio art lliou, lnl
Yhcro aro two or three commendable
tf.lngs about Moh.imuu-daiiisiu. One Is
that Its diKi'lplcs wash lie fore. ec-ynctof
prayer, mill that Is live times a day, ami
then ' it gospel In cleanliness Another
' Aud the, lord said, Mam Jesus whom thou coiuiivmbilile thing Is they don't cure, who
n:fcClltcht., " Is looking and nothing inn ntqpthemln
Hut we cannot htop longer tin this toad, 'their pra) v. Another tlibijf ts that by
for we shall wo this unhorsed eiiuesirian the order of Mohammed, and an order
luterln Damascus.toward which his horse's olsjyed for thlruen hundred years, no Mo
head Is turned aud at which wo must our . unmmcihin touches strong drink Hut the
Christians, but tho day of retribution will
come. 'I ho Pranks will yet turn )our I
mosques into churches. Not n Christian
will I give up. They aro my brothers.
Stand hack or I will give my men Hie or i
der to lire."
Then by tint might of one great soul tin i
der God the wave of assassination rolled
back, llu..a for Abd-el-ICader! Although
now wo Americans nml foreigners pass
through tint streets of Damascus unhin
dered, there Is in many parts of the city the
sulsluetl hissing of a hatred for Christian
ity that if It dared would put to death every
man, woman nnd child In Damascus who
does not deetaro allegiance to Mohammed.
Hut I am glad to say that a wide, hard,
splendid turnpike road has within a few
years Won constructed from Heyrout, on
the shore of the Mediterranean, to thiselty
of Damascus, and if ever again that whole
sale assassination Is attempted French
troopsmul Kugllsh troopswoiild, with Jin
gliug liltHum! lightning hoofs, dash up the
hills and down this Damascus plain and
leave the Mohammedan murderers dead on
tlntlloorof their mosques and scruullo. I
It Is too late in tho history of the world for
governments to allow such tilings as tho
modern massacre at Damascus, Fur such
murderous attacks on Christian mission,
aries ami Christian disciples tho gospel H
not so appropriate as bullets or sabers sharp
and heavy enough to cut through with one
stroke from crown of head to saddle.
TIIK MOIICItN CITV.
Hut I must say that this city of Damas
cus as I see It now Is not as absorbing as
the Damascus of olden times. I turn my
buck upon the bazars, with rugs fascinat
ing the merchants from Hagtlad, and the
Indian textile fabric of Incomparable make,
and the mautlfactuied saddles ami bridles
gay enough for princes of tho otlent to
ritlo and pull, and baths where ablution
becomes inspiration, ami the homes f
those bargain makers of today, marbled
mid dlvmied nml foiiutuiucdmid upholster
eti and niosalcetl nml urahesiutsluuil colon
muled until nothing can be added, and the
splendid leinalus of the great mosque of
John, originally built with gates so heavy
that It required live mou to turn them, mid
columns of porphyry and kneeling places
framed In diamond and seventy-four stain
ed glass windows nml six hundred lamps
of punt gold, a single prayer offered in this
mosque said to lie worth thirty thousand
prayers offered In any other place. I turn
my back on all these a"tl we Damascus as
It was when this narrow street, which tho
Hible calls Straight, was n great wide street,
a New York Hroadwuy or a Parisian
Champs Klysees, a great thoroughfare
crossing tint city fmin gato to gate, along
which tramped and rolled tho pomp of all
nations.
Theru goes Abraham, the father of all
the faithful, no has in this city been pur
chasing a celebrated slave. There goes
Hen llailadof Hible times, lending thirty
two conquered moiiarehs. There goes Da
vid, king, warrior and sacred poet. There
goes Tamerlane, the conqueror. There
goes llaroiiu al Itasehid, once the com
mander of an army of uluety-llvu thousand
Persians and Arabs. There comes a war
rlor on his way to the barracks, carrying
that kind of sword which the world has
forgotten how to make, , Damascus blade,
with the interlacing of color changing at
every new turn of the light, many colors
coming and going and interjoiuing, the
blade so keen it could cut lu twain an oh
Ject without making the lower part of the
object tremble, with .111 elasticity that
could not Ih) broken, though you brought
the point of the sword clear back to the
hilt, aud having a watered appearance
which made the blade seem as though just
dipped in 11 clear fountain, a triumph of
cutlery which a thousand modern foundry
men mid chemists have attempted in vain
to Imitate. On Hie side of this street
damasks, named after this city, llgures of
animals aud fruits mid landscape here
iK'ing llrst wrought Into silk damasks.
And specimens of damaskeening by which
In this city steel aud iron were llrst graved,
and then tlio groves filled with wire of
gold dumnskeenlug. Hut stand back or
l-t run over, for here nro at the gates of tho
city laden caravans from Aleppo in one
direction, ami from Jerusalem In another
direction, and caravans of all nations pay
lug toll to this supremacy Great Is Da
mascus!
WHAT MOST BTIItS TIIK Mil'!
Hut what most stirs my soul is neither
chariot nor caravan nor ba.ar nor pal
are, but a blind man passing along the
street, small of stature mill insignificant lu
personal appearance. Oh, yes; we have
seen him before. Ho was one of thut caval
cade coining from Jerusalem to Damascus
to kill Christians, nml we saw him ami Ids
horse tumble up there on the road some
distance out of tho city, ami he got up
blind. Yes, it is Saul of Tarsus now going
along tills street called Straight He Is led
by his friends, for he cannot see his hand
before Ids face, unto the lioiiso of Judas;
not Judas tho bad, but Judas tho good. 1 11
another part of tills city one Ananias, not
Ananias the liar, but Ananias tlio Cluls
Han, is told by tho l.oid to go to this house
of Judas on Straight street ami put his
hands on the blind e)csolSnul that his
hlght might return. "Oh," said Ananias,
"I dare not go; that Saul is it terrible fel
low. Ho kills Christians mid he will kill
WUDGE Sc MORK
No. 1 1 zi N Sl'&KT.
Agents for Garland Stoves and !
me." "Go," wild the
went, rl hcio sits tu
Lord mill Ananias
blindness that tie-
that wo aro all right In our sinful nml mi
changed coml'tlou until the scales fall
from our eyes, .ml in the looking glass of
God's woril wo sett oil 1 selves as wo really
are, until dlv iuo grace transforms us.
MANY l'KOl'l.r AUK Ill.tM).
There are many people in this house to
tin) as blind us Paul was before Ananias
touched his c)cs. Aud there aro man)
here from whoso eyes tho scales have al
ready fallen. You see all subjects and all
things differently God and Christ and
eternity, mid your own immortal spirit.
Sometimes tho scales do not alt fall at
once. When I was 11 boy, at Mount Pleas
ant, onu Sunday afternoon reading Dndd
ridge's "Hlso and Progress of iteliglou in
the Soul," t hat afternoon Home of the scales
fell from my o)es ami 1 saw a little. After
I had been in the ministry about a year,
one Sunday afternoon in the village par
soilage reading the Hiblo story of tint S)ro
Pheiiielau's faith, other scales fell fiuin
my eyes mid I saw better. Two Sunday
evenings ago, while preparing for t lie even
lug service in New York, I picked up a
book that I did not rememler to have seen
Is'fore, nml after I hud read a page about
rccDiisccrutioii to G01I I think the remain
iug scales fell from my eyes. Shall not
our visit to Damascus today result, like
Paul's visit, in vision to the blind ami in
creased vision for those who saw some
what before?
I was reading of a painter's child who
became blind in infancy. Hut after the
child was nearly grown a surgeon removed
tho blindness. When told that this could
bo done, the child's chief thought, her
mother being dead, was sho would bo able
to see her father, who hnd watched over
her with great tenderness. When night
came slut was in raptures, and ran her
hands over her father's face, ami shut her
o)es as if to assure herself that this was
really the father whom she hud only
known by touch, nnd now l"King upon
him, noble man as be was in uppcurniifc
as well as in leality, she cried out: "Just
to think that I had this father so many
j ears and never knew him'" As great and
greatei is the soul's joyful sin prise when
the scales fall from the eyes ami the long
spiritual darkness is ended, and we look
up Into our father's face always radiant
ami loving, hut now for the first royealed,
and our blindness forever gone, wo cry,
"Abba father!"
To each one of this vast multitude of
auditors I say as Ananias did to Saul of
Tarsus when his sympathetic fingers
touched tho closed eyelids: "Hrother Saul!
Hrother Saull Tho 1ord, even Jesus that
appeared unto thee lu the way that thou
earnest, hath sent mo that thou uilghtcst
receive thy sight and bo filled with tho
Holy Ghostl"
A frit til of it Nplurge.
Ono of the slickest games ever worked
I))' confidence men is that of buying a
farm. One of the pair looks over the conn
try until he finds the man lie is after, and
lie then buys the faun at the farmer's own
price, pa) iug from fTiU to f'00 down to bind
the bargain. He fore tho papers can lie
made out a confederate comes along, falls
lu love with tlio same farm, aud offers the
farmer W,000 more than the other did. The
agriculturist sees a speculation hero, and
he buys tint first purchaser off with a big
bonus I lien both men drop out of sight,
and the farmer learns something new.
I was stopping overnight with a Con
liectleul farmer who had sold out and
taken f-'OO to hind the bargain. I was theiu
when tlio second man called with his
tempting offer. Ho waited at the barn,
and Uncle Jerry came in aud said to Aunt
Sally:
"Seems like a chance to make a clean
thousand dollars. The first buyer says
he'll take a thousand, and that'll leave us
the same."
"Did we ever havo a thousand dollars all
at oncer" she asked.
"Never."
"Kver have a chance to splurge out and
make fools of ourselvesr"
"No."
"D'ye think we'd do It if we had thfi
money 1 '
"Wall, I was tliiiikln' of u uew watch
mid a broadcloth suit."
"And I was thlnkiii' of a silk dress and
a new bonnet. Uncle Jerry, we dasu't do 1
It. We'd splurge in less'n twenty -four
hours.
"Guess wo would, Aunt Sally, ami so I'll
sell out to the fust man."
lie sternly refused the second off-r, ami
even when a thousand more was added he
was Indexible. Tho first purchaser never
showed up again, aud tu tills day tho old
couple are holding the money and linve
the papers ready for tho trade. New York
Sun.
A ICcttur.l of .lli-iil.
"I Isuight four do.en eggs of you the
other tbl)," he began, as lie cutoicd the
grocery, "aud I found"
"Two do.en bail ones, of course. Well,
I'm not responsible. I can't see through
eggshell."
"I was going to say that"
"I know it; but 1 shan't make up the
loss."
"Won't )ou let me say they wero all
good, every one of tlicnir"
"Oh!"
"Not a bad one in the lot."
"James, put him up another doen lis a
reward for Ijinj;. "Detroit Free Press,
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A TWICE TOLD ? AL
T"be wise man sclectetb the "Bur
lington route" and therefore startetb
aright.
He nrnyetli himself in purple and
line linen, for lo, nnd behold, be is
siiiigh ensconced In a "lower center" on
the famous vestlbuled liver, where
smoke and dust nre never Known.
He providctii himself with n book
fioin the generous library nenr.it hand,
adjusted) Ids traveling "can, aud pro
ceedcth to pass a day of unalloyed
pleasure nnd contentment.
And It came to pass, being hungry
nnd atlilrst, be steppeth into the dining
car, nnd by the beard of the prophet,
'twas n feast fit for the gods. Venison,
liluc Points Hergundy, frog legs.can
vasbneks, Mum's extra dry, English
plum pudding, fruits, nuts, ices, Fiench
coffee. vei II v, the wise man mixcth
fat, and while lie lighted) a
t.iketh time to declare that
was "out of sight."
t occurreth to the wise;n ht
the country through which lie journey
ed was one of wondrous beauty, inso
much that It wns with deep regret he
noted the nlghtl shadows fall. How
ever, tenfold jo leturned as be beheld
the brilliantly lighted car, and the merry
company It contained. Verih, It
afforded u view of Klsium.
"The wise iiian letireth to rest. Ie
lieloiihly unconcerned, he sleeps the
sleep of the righteous nml awakes
much refreshed His train is on time,
Ids join net ended He rejoiceth with
exceeding "gieat jo , as lie holds n re
turn ticket b the saine route, the "Citcat
llurllngton.'-'
"The foolish man buycl
scalper. In the nioiniu
s.iveth fifty cents; and lo,
is out $y. J7. he started
W'tb might and m.iin
the depot, onlv to find I
hours late. The peanut I
up and sellcth him n pnpi
tain date
As lie journeyed! along
new acquaintance, for wl
a check.
Ft f minutes for 1 efresl
lie ruhcdi to the lunch
one stenletli his gripsack,
cars, lo these many tlinc
eth the foolish man tin
get through prttty fast
uioanetb Ids ill luck.
He getteth a cinder in
cigar, he fS "'" ' l "-' nu c
the meal "e exchange I, three pie,
.1 imiiik in .1 sicepor, ami I
time to catch an infernal
lug off with his boots; tl
cme availed! Noting, ai
man stiaightway putteth
der his pillow, that no in
in and steal.
H's train runneth intq
liackman takelh him in
six shillings, and the fool
up his voice in great lair
nnd behold, the tnverr
half a block.
He reneheth home we
sore; his trunk coinetli I
the cover ami one haudl
heionfter to travel only
lliulhigtim "
MORAL: Travel by the liurlingt'
(Sen. Pass.
1"K ANGUS,
ami Ticket Agent,
Omaha.
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