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Sodom And Gomorrah

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
March
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Nile i a NMrod rirdr, and tha 'fiber nous, tuit ilic mos wcred ud tno is r i ver in the world ihe Jordán. Prom tb beginntag to iis end, i hg that myatical charaotet wriicri befiu soch lofly pretenaions ; life i ihe móet vivid and complete, ind it-i death the neat radden and mysleriou-t ili.it e-m ba mafiood. It " lorreotial, and u leavea t !¦ - laokü ¦.! lliTiiian and the inany iii'its liilintkriea w ii ii au eunt preoipitation, : il i bon ¦ misfiion. Froni ita rreatent liefght, -ome huqdred feel sbovo ihc m leftpi downward lili it dicappeaiK in iln1 I '¦ i'l 'Iurt.Tii hu nared iilow il. Ir 1 1 i ¦ J ¦ - iiM-if auiorig oleafliler, tamarink and willow, and Biny m unlamiliar oriental tree, u il tn keep trom profkne eye the word of errmd. itop long tn overflow iti banka and t'ertiliie itn alic ; for it bat ¦ pat dom too tnysticul to waste iuelfeven uuon etn 0 1 I ¦ . . . ¦if bencficence. li i- only rilling lo bc ODme ¦ living barriei ktwocn the dijserl tribes and I uation wlúcli luvod it. No ! :.( li?es on iu bosoin. NU filii Tillen dweil ly its iiiaiL-in , hut It move ¦"'' hi mimi of' nacred water froin id Ie of' sumí tnd cloud, high in the 11, tiil it ilies in n liital lakfl nwaksd 1 ïod, and foraw r a titbjeut - 1 f y nul reverence. It wmiM aeen ¦ ibing ;i;rt and nol ' nfounded wnti volgar watcis, wliidi ilicir peraon il tv iu th botton of the ¦ighty sea, (put exbaling fo boaven likc holy uaewcnjfer wlm periahed in t ti tulfillniciit of ¦luiy. [ubirtfa aoddeath alike Mparate it l'roui ita bister oif '.'.irth, aod only the inouod gl periabed :t f 1 naneles -ii i--. Iribesstatiot ary as if' bidden to hall by nme nuprcnie i aeetiny 01 the past, nr t"o mveil and qtteI lioniog stranger from the nu; ( 'liritian I lauda rhoee baptUm dren íih authority I trom tlie tir-f npriakling of it traten, are mo upon t banks. And tli'.'ti wandered througfa maiqr hil Is, througfa ¦ kiml ofjuogl wheif tenlny aod tle iivrr had aeetningly fought dr the mastery, aod which sbowed "I l'nih; a tangle of btishe, ai it werei titflitinf their way ur, and reat gpaoes ni ban-ennata wkiofa niiiuur woiild ¦oorch to lit'elessnen'. An.t at lail th Daad Sea. Tfaoayh we know t hit 11 sol rolcaoio prigio, and fod ly ín i ut -;ilt, the magination now, fbrarer, lii ooDtenl to Me n i( ¦ ac-oursed. There was a fresh lire. ..¦. an 1 a lelucUuil lit't aml lii-nw tuuble ol ita liiiv braakaní ma4e tliem onlike other wavea, but rather I like thoae ol Dante i infernal aea. There I ni a breath heavy with doom in the air, I anil we wcre fortHDate it wa not more t í - I flinp. Wa it the breath of those lot r I tortured there ? And benemth thal saline I did we nol nee, a in tbe picture of I Dêlaoroix, the agoaizing and twisted tiir I uros of the oondemned .' We did uit batbe in the daad Sea. I OthetS have dose O, aml report of its I buoyancy the name tales tbal are told ol dm I own Salt Lke. Thereu a whimakaleoia I cidence in t ti gcographical relatioa of tlio I Dead Sa and the 1 e of the carlier I prophets, and Briham foaog'a personal I ooBtinaation of the old diKpenoatioo, with I :i private Dead Sea of 1 T - own in lii djI medíate neighborhood. The pooreatewimI nier keepa hti head abave watar , and per I soul have said to me tliat tbir legtooea I to fly 'jp t'mm uoder them. All ipetk of I u u refreshing fter the Kraal heat I of the tropical val li y Birds re said nevcr It') fly ofor it, wlucii in the neraat ntPOTSti I tion, tur 1 1 1 1 ¦ v are r lly oftea asea to do n. IThis lake certainl; baa a brand upoa it, as lof divine vengeanee. The watera are I heavy with sin, the ihoret around blasteil, I and the vrtv Hte &f deHroyed citie apon I its lianks unknown. And thete are nll I tbe applea or' Sodum, mooth and I pretty lo tbe eye and touch, of a pair yrlI low. likc a Miiall oraiiL'i', bal within M Jo I seplms niys, still retaining tbe ashei ol Sodi lom ia livini perpetaity of the divine punlishment. Tbey are like little orangea to I the eye and tonoh, but when proaaod are I like oak appiea, and ezploda like II I lntT of air leaving the shell hollow," with I i Irader poach holdian fine tilaments Ilikesilk, whieh the i.rabsue as matches I lor t fifi froaa.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News