Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-10
;1pPA TO JERUSALEM.
rAlMAcE CONTINUES HIS
Ds r1uoN ON THE HOLY LAND.

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p0auoN ON THE HOLY LAND.
Roads Up the c'tfr and Over tn.
e. ',nntains Robbers ON tho way-The
s'0' ,..os Returning to Their Ancient
- Talmage is continuing d the
Dr. l,vn Academy of Music his series
S : .crnions on his recent journey to the
9a,Iv Land and adjoining countries. The
HOY soct Of his second sermon was, "My
:lo 9ynd Day in Palestine" After the
seV une of the Scripture and two hearty
'sa aa. Of worship by the congregation
s s Tnreacher announced as his text:
70, ,,. Inns i, 10, 81 went up to Jerusa.
Fa w. second day in the Holy Land. We
WY. ~" ,Joppa. 1t is o'clock in the
~ SWING, but we must start early, for by
p ish i've we are to be in Jerusalem; and
l l,s1' city is forty-one miles away. We
s Nsv take camel or horse or carriage. Az
.ad,y will be our last opportunity in Pal
.tne for taking the wheel, we choose
e ssat The horses, with harness tasseled
. ..d iingling, are hitched, and with n
a s+u in coat of many colors seated
!" in front we start on road which un-
r IA within twelve hours enough to
Mini. ,S, Of for all time and eternity. Fare
~sll, Mediterranean, with such a
Nine as no one but the divine
Chemist l could mix, and such a fire of
morning glow as only the divine Illumi-
actor could kindle! Hail! mountains of
Enhraim and Juda, whose ramparts of
mex We shall mount in few hours; for
modern engineers can make road any
where, and without piling Ossa upon
peljon those giants can scale the
heavens.
We start out of the city amid barri-
esdcs of cactus on either side. Not
cacti in boxes two or three feet high, but
cactus higher than the top of the car
,iasc-a plant that has more swords for
defense, considering the amount of
beauty it can exhibit, than anything
created. We passed out amid about
four hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges,
lemons, figs, olives, citron, and pomc-
eranatc, and which hold up their censers
Of perfume before the Lord in perpetual
praise. We meet great professions of
camcs loaded with kegs of oil and with
fruits, and some wealthy Mohammedan
with four wives-three too many.
The camel is proud, mysterious,
solemn, ancient, ungainly, majestic,
and ridiculous shape, stalking out of
the past. The driver with his whip
taps the camel on the fore leg, and
he kncels to take you as a rider.
But when he rises hold fast or you will
fall off backward as he puts his fore feet
( in standing posture, and then you will
+ fall oil i'll front as his back legs take their
T pare. But the Inhabitants are used to
/ his ways, although, I find the riders often
| liSmount and walk, as though to rest
themselves. Better stand out of the
path of the camel-he stops fornothing
and seems not to look down; and in the
street | saw q child by the stroke of a
lamci's front foot hurled seven or eight
feet along the ground.
Here VIC met people with faces and
arms and hands tattooed, as in all lands
sailors tattoo their arms with some IA
yorito ship or admired face. 1t was to
this habit of tattooing among the orr
entails that God refers in a figure, when
Hf says of His church, 81 have craven
.aor Gil the palms Of my hands,"
Many OF these regions are naturally
sandy. but by irrigation they are made
iraitful. as i'll this irrigation the brooks
ard rivers are turned this way and that
TO water the gardens or farms, so the
Bible says, 'srhe Kings heart is in the
hands of the Lord, and He turneth it as
the rivers of water are turned WHITTIER
sewer He will
AS we pass out and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging to the
Universal Israelitish alliance. Monte
fore, the Israelitish centenarian and
philanthropist, and Rothschild, the
banker, and others of the large hearted
have paid the passage to Palestine for
many of the Israelites, and set apart
lands for their culture, and it is only a
beginning of the fulfllment of divine
prophecy when these people shall take
possession of the Holy Land. The road
from Joppa to Jerusalem, and all the
roads leading to Nazareth and Galilee,
we saw lined with professions of Jews
going to the sacred places, either on holy
pilgrimage or as settlers. All the fingers
Of Providence nowadays are pointing
toward that resumption of Palestine by
the Israelites. I do not take it that the
prospered Israelites of other lands are to
go there.
They would be foolish to leave their
properties in our American cities,
where they are among our best citizens,
and cross two seas to begin life over
again in a strange land. But the out
RACES heaped upon them in Russia, and
the insults offered them in Germany,
will soon quadruple and centuple the
procession of Israelites from Russia to
Palestine. Facilities for getting there
will be multiplied, not only in the rail-
road from Joppa to Jerusalem, to which
referred last Sabbath as being built,
out permission for a road from Damas-
Gus to the bay of Acre has been obtained,
and that of course will soon connect with
Joppa, and make one great ocean shore
railroad. So the railroad from Jerusa-
lem to Joppa and from Joppa to Damas.
Gus will soon bring all the Holy Land
within few hours of connection. Jewish
Colonization societies in England and
Russia are getting money for the trans
portation of the Israelites to Palestine
and for the purchase for them of lands
ana farming implements, and so many
oeslre to go that it is decided by lot as te
which families shall go first.
They were Gods chosen people at the
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