Connecticut western news., 1890-11-12
CANAAN CONN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1s9o

JOURNEY TO NAZARETH. DR. TALMAGE BIDS JERUSALEM GOOD-
 BY AND JOURNEYS NoRThwARD.
 Where the Blue Waves Roll Nightly
 on Deep Galilee'-Last Look at Mount Zion, Mount Calvary and the Mount
 of Olives.
 BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.-Today Dr. Tal- mage preached the seventh of his course of sermons on his recent tour in Palestine. As on previous Sundays the sermon was preached before two large audiences. In the morning 1t was preached in the Academy of Music in this city, and at night Dr. Tahnage preached it again in the New York Academy of Music which The Chris tian Herald continues to rent for these services During the six meetings thus far held in New York, go, 900 people have endeavored to hear Dr. Talmage preach. Of these 30, 600 have been ad- mitted and 60,000 have been turned away for lack of accommodation. Fol lowing is the sermon from the text, ''So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north" Ezekiel viii, B.:
 At 1 o'clock on December after noon through Damascus gate we are passing out of Jerusalem for journey northward. Hol for Bethel, with its stairs, the bottom step of which was a stone pillow; and Jacobs well, with it's immortal colloquy; and Nazareth, with its divine boy in his fathers carpenter shop, and the most glorious lake that ever nppled or fashed-
 Blue Gallee. sweet Ganlee.
 The lake where Jesm loved to be; and Damascus, with it's crooked street called Straight, and hundred places charged and surcharged with apostolic, eyangelistic, prophetic, patriarchal, kingly and Christly "reminiscences.
 In travelling along the roads of Pal. estine am impressed, as could not otherwise have been, with the fact that Christ for the most part went afoot. We find him occasionally on boat, and once riding in triumpha pro cession, as it is sometimes called, al- though it seems to me that the hosan- mas of the crowd could not have made a ride on stubborn, unimpressive and funny creature like that which battered with him into Jerusalem very much of triumph. But we are made to un- derstand that generally he walked. How much that means only those know who have gone over the distance haversed by Christ.
 We are accustomed to read that Bethany is two miles from Jerusalem. We'll, any man in ordinary health can walk two miles without fatigue. But not more than one man out of a thou sand can walk from Bethany to Jeru- salem without exhaustion. It is over the Mount of Olives, and you must climb up among the rolling stones and descend where exertion is necessary to keep you from falling prostrate. I, who am accustomed to walk fifteen or twcn- ty miles without lassitude, tried part of this road over the Mount of Olives, and confess would not want to try it often, such demand does it make upon one's physical energies. Yet Christ walked it twice a day-in the morning from Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the even ing from Jerusalem to Bethany.
 CHRIsT's WALK TO NAZARETH.
 Likewise it seemed 8 small thing that Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza- reth. But it will take us four days of hard horseback riding, sometimes on trot and sometimes on gallop, to do it this week. The way is mountainous in the extreme. To those who went up Ito the Tp-Top house on Mount Wash ington, before the railroad was laid, I will say that this journey from Jerusa- lem to Nazareth is like seven such American journeys. So, all up and down and across and recrossing Pales- tine, Jesus walked. Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon rode. Herod rode: Antony rode. But Jesus walked. With swollen ankles and sore muscles of the legs, and bruised heel and stiff joints and painting lungs and faint head, along the roads, and where there were no roads at all, Jesus walked.
 i We tried to get a new horse other than that on which we had ridden on the journey to the Dead sea, for he had faults which our close acquaint- Ianceship had developed. But after some experimenting with other quad Irupeds of that species, and finding that all horses, like their riders, have faults we concluded to choose 8 saddle on that beast whose faults we were most prepared to pity or resist. We rode down through the valley and then up lon Mount Scopus and, as our drago- man tells us that this is the last oppor- tunity we shall have of looking at Je- rusalem, we turn our horses head to- ward the city and take a long, sad and thrilling look at the religious capital of our planet This is the most impress i've view of the most tremendous city of all time.
 On and around this hill the armies of the crusaders at the first sight of the city threw themselves on their faces in worship. Here most of the besieging armies encamped the night before open ing their volleys of death against Jeru- salem. Our last look! Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount Calvary! Will we never see them again2 Never. The world is so large and time is so short, and there are so many things we have never seen at all, that we cannot afford to dupi- cate visits or sec anything more than once. Farewell, wonder thrones of gray