Beside The Ohau.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1911, Page 3

Beside The Ohau.

■\ TALK OK SA'I I'RDA'Y

An i it e.iine tu pa- a in ;•:.(• first year of the Kinpcror (lcorgiiis, wlton was |>rai tor in Israel and lliLs lieut.iiaiit. Agriciila. pi ;.sidv.-d in (o;iih : '. that rhe wieie land e.boul .liirdan wa • idled uinh dissentions •and tuniiilt.s, an 1. the inaiket-plaees and tho. o'.i 1. resound with loud execrations and e;iant

"loiiifiie-haaeiu :>" livm lie.- lasin;; of ihe sen e\ .1 i-i ik • «_o 1s 11 li; iinw.i thereof. i'.ir biditdd, w.iiik .!0.-ap-ilms Awarua was mighti'y upholding tho iiitert sts ■~! ids pr >viii.'-- in t lie councils of i moire wiiii-ii took uhuv in tho days of the coronation of the a foresaid (J- 1 .;:' : ; y. .. v. i:'/.. ■! that very time did tho Jlerudiaus •and tin' Pibari-ee; make ..ureal head undei' a new 1 a ':'■•:. mi- '■':;: -,:!iii.-. .Vmhitiosiis, and waxed, confident and mad--- ■.■.:vai play >. \\h tdieir I'iri'xaex in lhe ab.-eueo o: i,ho I'raotm-.

In binsc da \ s f.-a-in-' one Aioiilonius. who had dwelt in st.raniie and y.w»<rv lands (and sojourned in a small town near the city of Lovi, in Galilee), out that he. wou'ld' toll .wondrous foilos of the u-iideruess. of tho worshipper of Baal, of Da<j;oii and of Ahitur of the- Mountains. .NWort'holoxs. 'he did' n;;f fail to send his liirfiiiiLis into the hedges and Iho ditches to till. the followers of Massed;! us to rally to his house. Hut., >1(). when divers persons u'eri'j;af!i:'Tcd tie'ether. t'hen spn'ke unto them .of Oho evils u'roiyjji!. in ih:> land of tho. Ohaldocs by a. o«n----t'lMiioiis nf Josephus. Tlirani.trh the ovil do wis of this iiia.ii that .stifineekod peop'e \v.vl forvikoti tho lain .amd had bmvod down to .sundry idols introduced hy loin (called "'Sihaodytcaft','' "Rnmpiiiuoh." and: ' '"Whiskey Ooektail"j. This wicked .servant of an unrighteous master had also dis-mis-av] mimdry uioVrliues that were not ploasiuL'; in his siudd. Jlo also snaki' to them, and -ai'd that the n.vnes of divers sons and d an''liters of the friends of Josop'h'us h:\rt hee.n ~. a I tod in the lamd a.nd "' T ..;>." said ■}>■'. " have led. wo jlvrodiaivs mux and; f"hn<xlitors?" N'n.v it chanced that many tenders of cattle a.nd fillers of the o'art-h had come to hearken to the strtrnzer. for thev wished to be comforted with the tales nf rich land's .an<tl*vl_ .holdings premised to liis faithful followers hy iUassellirs. But wibem Mon-t-nicu.s discoursed unto them only <■!' Icer-hilibiiLS barbarian and! pecul: •!• promotion, thev mirnmured and -; I tho m"> {~ the other. "Beho'd. I; I net tin's sfrnie'r. with <he vaiee d'f'eill to hear. pramNo us bread': • ' ' li'H h h-> net v-.'vilv e;i\ en ns a ■ v "d ther all sat r>e"d a.nd! 'iinvv !'e:l at the man. And so thev •••at empiv .;vav and lille I t>V> V'V 1 with choir miirmur.s.