Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-10-17
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject, "MY SECOND DAY IN PALEs.
TINE

be In Jerusalem, and that city is forty-on,
miles away. We may take camel or hors,
or carriage. As to-day will be our last op
pcrtunity in Palestine for taking the whes
we choose that. Tho horses, with harness
tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and. with
q dragoman in coat Of many colors seated in
front, we start on n road which unveils iu
twelve hours enough TO think of for all tims
and all eternity. Farewell, Mediterranean,
with such blue as no one but tho Divin,
Chemist could mix, and such fire OF morning
glow as only the Divine Illuminator could
kindle. Hail. mountains of Ephraim and
Judea, whose rampartS Of rock we shall
mount In few hours; for modern engineers
can make a road anywhere and, without
piling Ossa upon Pelion, those giants can
scale the heavens.
We start ont Of the citv amid barricade;
OF cactus on either side. Not cacti in boxe<
two or three feet high, but cactus higher
than the top of the caIriage-a plant tha!
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 pluckei oranges, lemons
hgs, olives, citrOn and pomegranates and
which hold up their censers OF perfume be
fore the Lord in perpetual praise. We meet
great professions OF camels loaded with kegs
Of oil and with fruits. and some wealthy
Mohammedan with four wiyes-three toe
many.
The camel is proud, mysterious. solemn,
ancient ungainly, ma ajestic and ridiculous
shape, stalking out OF tho past. The driver
with his whip taps the camel on the fore
leg and he kneels to take you as 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
of in front Gs his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are use TO his
ways, although l find the riders often dis.
mount and walk as though to rest them.
selves. Better stand out OF the path Of the
camel-he stops for nothing and seems not
to look down; and in the street saw q
hurled seven or eight feet along tine
ground.
Here we meet people with faces and arms
and bands tattooed, as in all lands sailors
sattoo their arms with sonle favorite ship
or admired face. 1t was to this habit Of
.attooing among the orientals that God
crfers in a figure when he says OF his church,
II have craven thee on the palms OF my
hands"
Many Of these regions are naturally
ANDY, but by irrigation they arc mada
fruitful, ard as in this irrigation the brooks
md rivers are turned this way and that to
water the gardens or farms 60 the Billie
nyS ''The kings heart is in the hands of the
Lord, and he turn.tb it as the riversof water
ire turned whithersoever he will.'
As we pass out and OH we find about eight
hundred acres belonging to the Universal
tsraelitish alliance. MontefIore, the lsraclit-
sh centenarian and philanthropist, and
Rothscbild the banker, and others Of the
arge hearted have paid the passage to Paes-
line for many Of the Isrnelites, and set apart
ands for their culture; and it is only be.
ginning Of the fulfllment of divine prophecy.
when these people shall take possession OF
he Holy Land. The road from Joppa to
Jerusalem, and oil the roads leading 20
Nazareth and Galilee, we saw lined with pro-
.essions of Jews going to the sacred places,
ither on holy pilgrimage or as settlers. All
he fingers OF Providence nowadays are
pointing toward that resumption OF Pales.
| line by the Israelites. | do not take il that
ihe prospered Israelites OF other lands are TO
! 20 there. They would be foolish to leave
.heir properties in Our American cities,
where they are among our best citizens, and
ross two seas TO begin life over again in O
orange land.
But the outrages heaped upon them In
| Russia, ard the insults offered them in Ger
many, will soon quadruple and centuple the
| procession OF Israelites from Russia to Pal
estine Facilities for getting there will be
multiplied, not only i'll the railroad from
Toppa TO Jerusalem, to which | referred last
Sabbath as being built, but permission for a
tond from Damascus 10 the Bay Of Acre has
been obtained, and that of course will soon
| connect with Joppa and make one gr at
,cean shore railroad. So the railroad from
Jerusalem to Joppa, and from Joppa TO Da.
nascus will soon bring all the Holy Land
within few hours of connection. Jewish
colonization societies in England and Russia
ire gathering money for the transportation
of the Israelites TO Palestine, and for the
| purchase for them Of lands and farming im'
S decided by lot as to which families shall 60
6rst.
They were Coils chosen people at the first,
md He has promised to bring them back t.
their home, and there is no power in one
thousand or five thousand years to make
| God forget His promises. Those who arr
prosp red in other lands will do we'll to stay
where they are But let tho Israelites who
are deprecated and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces towards the rising sun oi
their deliverance God will gather in that
distant land those Of that race who have
been maltreated, and He will blast with the
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either side Of the Atlantic which have been
the Instruments Of annoyance and harm t.
that Jewish race, to which belonged Abra
ham and David and Joshua and Baror
Hirsch and Monte6ore and Paul the Apostle
and Mary the Virgin and Jesus Christ til!
Lord.
On the way across the plain OF Sharon w
meet many veiled women. 1t is not respect
able for them to go unveiled, and it is vel
that is so hung as to make them hideous. A
man may not even see the face Of his wifi,
until after betrothal or engagement Of mar
riage. Hence the awful mistakes and thu
unhappy homes for God has made the fac
an index Of character, aud honesty or dishon
esty usually is demonstrated in the features
dc not see what God made fair face for /
1t were not to be looked at. But here COM
the crowds Of disfigured women down tn
road ON their way to Joppa, bundles OF stick
for fire wood on their heads. They startet
at three o'clock in the morning to get tn
fuel They stagger under the burdens
Whipped and beaten will some OF them be |
their bundle of sticks is too small. All tha
Is required for enforcement is for man +
say to swifc, "Be of, don't want you an
more" Woman slave in all lands, excep
those in which the Gospel of Christ make
her queen. And yet in Christian countrie
| HIe WOlutn DOSihH uhh thS
with family deriding the only religion thO
makes sacred and honorable the names c
wife mother daughter end sister.
What Is that? Town OF Ramleh, birth
place, residence and tomb Of Samuel, tf
glorious prophet. Near by, Tower Of Fort
MARTYRS, so called because that number {
disciples perished there for Christ's SAKE
but if towers had been built for all thos
who in the time Of war as In time Of psac
have fallen ON this rood during the agt
past you might almost walk on turrCts frol
Joppa to Jerusalem.
Now we passed the guard houses, whic
are castles OF chopped straw and mud wher
at night and partly through the day arme
men dwell and keep the bandits Off travelert
In the caves Of these mountains dwell me
to whom massacre would be high play an
purse with few pennies would be cou
pensation enough For tho struggle that I'll
savage might havo with the wayfnre
There is only one other defense that amour
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