The Forrest City times., 1890-10-11
IN JERUSALEM.
OR. TALNAHR's SECOND SERMON
 ON THE HOLY LAND.

A 0saphie Description of Sccncry,
 Plaess aad People That Came
 Uaaer His Observation.
 BnooxtsH. N. Y., Oct. 5, 1sso.-Dn Tal- aase h continuing In the Brooklyn acade- my of music hls scrics of sermous on his re- cent Journey to the Holy Land and adjoilql' ins couatrlss. Tho subject this morning vas' '-My Second Day in Palistine." After tae reading of the Scriptures and two hearty scass of worship tho prcacher announced as his text: Citations 1, 1s. VI weut up to Jerusalem."
 Ny sscoad day h the Holy Land. We arc ts JepeA. It is six o'clock in the morning, bat VI must start carly. for by night we are se - iA Jcrusalam, and that city is % miles away. Wc may take camel. or horse, or sNsriagc. As today will be our last oppor- tunity in Palistine for taking tho wheel, we choose that The horses with harness tAsseied and Sinsling. are hitchod, and, with N dragoman in coat of many colors seated in frcns we ssArt vn road which unveils within i2 hours enough to think of for Al time and all cscrnity. Farewell Mediterranean with such bluo as no ono but the Divine chem ist could mix, and such . fire of morning g.ow. as ooly the Divine illuminator could xsndie' Han' Mount of Ephraim and suoah whose ramparts of rock we shall mount tn . few hours. for modern engineers cea make road anywhere, and without piatug Ossa upon pclion, those giants can sceie the heavens.
 We start out of the city amid barrlcades of cactus on either side, Not cActi in boxes two or three feet high, but cactus higher th00 the of ho sxax Nia ax,1a hAs moro swords for defense, considering sne amoontof beauty it can exhibit, than anything created. We passed out amid about 900 gardens, seven or eight acres to ees garden. from which at the right seasohs are pluckcd oranges, lemons, figs, olives, citron and ponegranatcs. and which hold up their censofs Of perfume before the Lord In perpetual praise. Wemcet great process sions of camels loaded with kegs of oil and with fruits, and somo wealthy Mohamme- dNns with, four wives-thrce too many. The camel is proud, mysterious, solemn, ancient, ungainly, majestic, any ridiculous snape, stalking out uf tho past. The driver with his whip taps the camel on the fore ecE, and he kneels to take you as n rider. But when he rises hold fast or you will fall on backward as he puts his forc-feet in ssAnding posture, and then you will fall on tn front as his back-legs take their place. But the inhabitants are used to his ways, although find that the riders often dis mount and walk as though to rest them. selves. Better stand out of tho path of the camel; he stops for nothing and seems not so look down, and In tho street saw raiid by one stroke of a camcPs foot, hurled seven or eight feet along the ground.
 Here we meet people with faces, and arms and hands tattooed, as In till lands sailors tattoo their arms with some favoritc ship or adnaired face. It was to this habit of tat tooing among the Orientals that God refers In hgurc, when He says of His church.: "l have gravcn tbce on tho palms of my hands."
 Many of these regions are naturally sandy, but by irrigation they are made sruitfut and. as in this irrigation the brooks and rivers are turned this way and that to water tho gardens pr farms, SO the bible says: "The kings heart Is in the hands of the Lord. nnd he turns 1t as the rivers of water are turned whithersocvcr He will"
 As we pass out and on we find about 500 acres belonging to the Universal 1sraelit- ish Alliance. Montcfore, tho Israclitish centenarian and phiianthropist, and Roths- child, the banker, and others of the large hearted have paid tho passage to Palestine, Tor many of the Israelites, and set apart lands for their cultures; and 1t Is only a be- ginning of the fultilment of divine prophecy, when these people shall take possession of the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to
 
 Nazareth and Gaililee we saw lined with processions of Jews, going to the sacred places either on pilgrimage or as settlers. All the fingers of Providence now-a-days arc pointing toward that resumption of Palestine by the 1sraelitcs. I do not take it that the prospered Israelites of other lands are to go there. They would be fool tsh to leave their prosperities In our Amor tcan cities where they arc among our best citixens and cross two seas to begin life over again In strange land. But the out rages hcapcd upon them in Russia, and the insults offered them In Germany, will soon qaadruple and centuple the procession ot israelites from Russin to Palestine. racil- ties for getting there will bc multiplied not only in the railroad from JoppA to Jerusa- lem. to which referred last Sabbath as be- Ing built. but permission for road from Damascus to tho Bay of Arc has been ob- tained, and that of course will soon connect with Joppa. and make one great ocean shore railroad. So the railroad from Jcru- salem to Joppa. and from Joppa to Damas- GUS, VIII soon bring all the Holy Land with In few hours of connection. Jewish colon- nation societies in England and Russia, are gathering money for the transportation of the lsraelites to Palestine. and for the pur. chase for them of lands and farming irnple- meats and so many desire to go, that it Is decided by lot as to which families shall gc hrst. They were Gods chosen people n, the drst, and He has promised to bring them back to taeir home, and there is power in 1000 or 1000 years to make God forget His promises. Those who arc prospered in other lands. will do well to stay where they arc. But let the Israelifes who arc depreciated. and attacked and perse- cuted turn their faces towards the risina sun ot their deliverance. God will gather In that distant land those of that race who have been maltrcated, and He will blast with the lightnIngs of His omnipotence those lands on either side of the Atlantic. which have been the instruments of annoy, ance and harm. to that Jewish race, to l which belonged Abraham, and David, and l Joshua, and Baron Hlrsch. and Montcdore 1 and Paul the Apostle. and Mary the Virgin. and Jesus Christ the Lord.
 on the way across the plain of sharon we | meet many yelled women. It is not | respectable for them to go unveiled, and | 1t is vcIl that is so hung as to make them hideous. A man may not even see the | face of hts wifc until after bethruthalI | or engagement of marriage. Hence the awful mistakes. and the unhappy homes for God has made the face an index of char Arter. and honesty or dishonesty usually iy demonstrated In the features. I do not see what God made fair face for. if it were not | to be looked at But hero come the crowds of dishgured women down the road on thci, way to Joppa. bundles of sticks for flrewood on their beads. They started nt three o'clock In the morning to get the fuel. They stasgcr under the burdens. Whipped anS beaten will some of them be if their bundl, of sticks ia too smali. All that is required for dtvcrcement ia for . man to say to hi, siIs; "he on. dou't want you any more,s | woman slave In all lands. except these ir which the Gospel of Christ makes her sl queen. And yet in Christian countries there are women posing as. skcptics. and men with family deriding the only religion That makes sacred, and honorable the names af wife, mother. daughter and sister.
 What ia that ! Town of Ranleh. birth. place. residence aud tomb of samuel. the IIorious prophet. Near by. Tower of Forty Martyrs, 50 called because that number ot disciples perished thcre for Christ's sake: but If towers had been built for all those who In the time of war as in the ages ot ,cAee, have fallen On this road during the lSes past, you might almost walk on turrets rom Ioppa to Jeru saien.
 Now wc pass guard houses which ars 'astles of chopped straw and mud where n, |. 'lsht and rartiv through the day. armed crs- In the caves of these mountains tus aen so whan, massacre would he high pla 'ao parss with . few penniss would 0ul o~Ht tisSn epo,.s<A f.,s. sa<. |