The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-20
JERUSALEM TO JERICHO.
REV. TALMAGE's FOURTH SERMON
ON THE HOLY LAND.


The Horse OF the orient-Memorabls
Jehosaphat VeIley-rhe story OF the
Good Sameritan-Ihe Brook Cherith
Where Elijah wes Fed by the Ra-
vens-The Plains Of Jericho, the vai-
ley of Jordan and the Dead Sea-
The Ruins of Jericho.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct 19.-The wide--
spread and absorbing interest in DR.. Tall
IMAGES course Of sermons on the Holy Land
and adjoining countries is demonstrated by
the thousands who are turned away from
the doors Of the Brooklyn Academy of
Music on Sunday mornings and from tha
Christian Herald services in the New York
Academy OF Music on Sunday evenings,
unable TO gain even standing room in those
immense auditoriums. To-day the fourth
sermon Of the series was preached as before,
in this city in the morning and in New
York at night Having announced as
his text Luke 10: 80, "a certain man went
down from Jerusalem to Jericho" DIR. Tal-
mage said:
It's the morning of Dec. 5, in Jerusalem,
and we take stirrups for the road along
which the wayfarer Of old fell
among thieves who left him wounded and
half dead. Jobs picture of the horse in the
orient as having neck clothed with thun-
der" Is not true OF most horses now In Pal
estine. There Is no thunder on their neck,
though there is some lightning in their
heels. Poorly fed and numerically
whacked, they sometimes retort. To Amer
leans and X glish, who are accustomed to
guide horses by the bri lie, these horses OF the
Orient, guided ly by foot and voice, make
equestrianism an uncertainty, and the pull
ON the bride that you intend for
slowing up Of the pace may be mis-
! taken for hint that you
want TO outgallop the wind or wheel ia
swift circles like the hawk. But they can
climb sleeps and descend precipiuss with
skilled foot, and the one chose for our
journey in Palestine shall have the praise of
going for weeks without one stumbling step.
amid rocky sleeps, where an ordinary horse
would not for an hour maintain sure-footed-
ness. There were eighteen OF our party,
| aud twenty-five beasts of burden carried
our camp equipment We are led by an
| Arab sheik with his black Nubian servant
carrying oaded gun in full sight, but it is
| the fact that this sheik represents the Turk
ish government which assures the safety Of
| the caravan.
We cross the Jehoshaphat valley which,
| IL it had not been memorable In history and
were only now discovered, would excite
the admiration OF all who look upon IT,
IL is like the gorges of the Yosemite or the
| chasms of the Yellowstone Park. Tue sides
| of this ehoshaphat valley are tunneled with
graves and overlooked by Jerusalem walls
--an eternity of depths overshadowed by
AN eternity of architecture Within sight
Of Mount Olivet and Gethsemane and with
the heavens and earth full of sunshine, We
start out on the very road mentioned In the
| text when ID says "A certain man went
| down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell
among thieves" No road tnat ever saw
was 80 well constructed for brigandage--
deep gulleys, SHARP turns, caves
on either side. There are fifty
places on this road where a highwayman
might surprise and overpower an unarmed
| pilgrim. His cry for help his shrek OF
| pain, his death groan would be answered
| only by the echoes. Ga this road to-day
we met groups Of men who, judging from
their countenances. have in their veins the
blood of many generations OF Rob Roys.
| Josephus says that Herod at one time dis
charged from the service Of the temple
40,O0J men, and that the great part OF them
| became robbers. So late 1890 Sir Fred
erick Henniker an English tourist, was at
tackled on this very road from Jerusalem to
Jericho. aud shot and almost slain. There
has never been any scarcity of bandits
along the road we travel to-day
With the fresh memory OF some recent
violence in their minds, Christ tells the peo-
pie Of the good Samaritan who came along
| that way and took care of poor fellow
that had been set upon by villainous Arabs
and robbed, and pounded and cut. We EN-
cnmped for lunch that noon close by on old
stone building, said TO be the tavern where
the scene spoken of in the Bible culmina-
ted. Tumoled in the dust and ghastly with
wounds, the victim Il this highway rob-
| berry lay in the middle OF the road-a fact
OF which / am eitain, because the Bible
says the people passed by ON either
side. There were 1900 priests
living at Jericho and they had
to 20 to Jerusalem TO. oficlate at
the temple Aud one of these ministers OF
religion, / suppose, was on his way 10 the
temple service and he was startled as be
sees this bleeiing victim in the middle OF
the road. "Oh. he says, 'here is man
that has been attacked Of thieves" why
don't you 70 homer says the minister. The
man in a comats sc state makes no answer,
or, with half.dazed look, putshis wounded
hand to his gsshed forehead aud drawls OUT
"Whatg' "Well,n says the minister. "L
| must hurry on to my duties at jerusalem.
have TO kill lamb and two pigeons
In sacrifice to-day. | cannot spend
any more time with this unfor-
tunate. / guess somebody else will
take care of him. But tnis is one Of the
things that cannot be helped. anyhow. Be-
side that, my business is with souls and not
with bodies. Good morning When you
get well enough to sit up, will be glad to
see you at the temple" And the minister
curves his way outtoward the overhanging
sides of the road and passes You hypocritef
One of the chief ofices OF religion is to heal
wounds You might have done here a
kindness that would have been more accept
able to God than all the incense that will
smoke up from.your censer for the next three
weeks, and you missed the chance. Go on
your way Execrated by the centuries.
Soon afterward a Levite came upon the
scene. The Levites looked after the mus O
OF the temple and waited upon the priests
and provided the supplies OF the temple
This Levite passing along this road where
we are to-day, took q look at the mass OF
bruises and laceraton in tho middle OF the
road. my mym says the Levite, "this
man Is awfully hurt and he ought to be
helped. But my business is to sing in the
choir at the temple. IL am not there, no
one will carry my part. Beside that there
may not be enough frankincense for the
censers and the wine or oil may have given
out, and what a fearful balk in the service
that would make. Then one OF the priests
might get his breast-plate on crooked. BUD
it seems too bad 10 leave this
man in this condition. Perhaps | had bet
ter try to stanch this bleeding and give
him little stimulant. But, mol The cere-
| nfor, k,ff lfnr