Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-12-06
,uONG THE HOLY HILLS.
omoN PREACHED BY REV.
nE WITT TALMAGE.

Iand of Holy W1it-Great Interest
Manifested
The interest in the series of sermons
mich DR.. Talmage is describing his
III tour in Palestine, and intoxicating
It' 1nnI lessons suggested by his theme,
s0p~ncns from week to week, SAYS d
mmn'|iIvn dispatch. The subject of the
:ath sermon was Among the Holy
IIIis and the text Luke iV. Is: ''He
h nn,n TO Nazareth. where He was brought
,n" Following is the sermon:
"twLat splendid sleep | had last night
- . Catholic convent, my first sleep
Ii,biu doors since leaving Jerusalem,
",J all of us as kindly treated as though
a,a had been the pope and his college Of
.ordnals passing that way. Last even
ar tbr genial sstcr-hood of the convent
nrdqred a hundred brght-eyed Arab
,bidrpu brought out to sing for me, and
!; was glorious. This morning | come
'nt ON the steps Of the convent and look
,non fine most beautiful village of all
PALESTINE. its houses OF white limestone.
rnp,s its name. Nazareth, historical
Nazareth: one Of the trinity of places
That all Christian travellers must see on
feed that they have not seen Palestine,
namry Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Naza-
roth. BabyhOod. bOyhood. manhood OF
Him for whom | believe there are fifty
million people who would now, il it We're
rc0uired. march out and die whether
mder AK. or down in the floods, OF
straight through the fire.
Grand old village is Nazareth, even
putting aside its sacred associations.
First of ALL it is clean: and that can be
said of few of the oriental villages. It's
ppighboring town Of Nablous is the filth
est town | ever saw, although its chief
industry is the manufacture of soap.
They export all of it. Nazareth was
perhaps unusually clean the morning |
speak Of for as we rode into the village
The afternoon before the showers which
had put our macintOSheS to the test had
poured floods through all the alleys I'M
der command Of the clouds. those
thorough street commissioners. Besides
that. Nazareth has been the scene of
battles passing it from israelite to
Mohammedan and from Mohammedan to
Christian. the most wonderful Of the
battles being that in which twenty-five
thousand Turks We're beaten by twenty
L
parte commanding, that greatest of
frcncnmen walking these very streets
through which Jesus walked for nearly
thirty years, the morals OF the two, the
autipod@s.' the SHOWS of Russia, "a d the
plaques of Egypt appropriately low
inc the one. the doXologies OF earth and
the hallclltjahs Of Heaven appropriately
following the other
And then this town is so beautifully
situated in great green bowl. the sides
Of the bowl the surrounding fifteen hills.
The God Of nature, who is the God of the
Bible evidently scooped out this valley
for privacy and separation from all the
world during three most important de-
radeS, the thirty years of ChriSt's boy
hood and youth, for of the thirty-three
years Of ChriSt's stay on earth he spent
thirty Of them in this town getting ready
a startling rcbuke to those who have
no patience with the long years of prep
aration necessary when they enter OH
ANY special mission for the church or the
world.
The trouble is with most young men
that they want to latlnch their ship from
the drydoCk before il is ready, and hence
SO many sink III the first cyclone. Stay
IN the store as subordinate until you
are thoroughly equipped Be good
tMploye III your trade until you are
qualified to be an employer. BE content
with Nazareth until you are ready tor
the buttetings OF Jerusalem. You may
get so gloriously equipped in the thirty
years that you can do more in three years
Than most men can accomplished i'll
prolonged lifetime. These little sugges-
ionS am apt to put into my sermon,
hoping to help people for this world.
while | am chiefly anxious to have them
prepare for the next world.
AlI Christ's boyhood was spent in this
Village and its surroundings. There is
the very we'll called THE Fountain of
the Virgin" to which by His mothers
SD" lac trotted along holding her hand.
NO doubt about it: it is the only well III
the village. and it has been the only well
Tor 5000 years. This morning we visit
II, and the mothers have their children
Win them now as then. The work OF
drawing water in all ages in those coun-
ulcS has been women S work. Scores OF
them are waiting for their turn at it,
lhree great and everlasting springs roll
ing out onto that we'll. their barrels. their
hogSheads of water, in floods glorlouSly
abundant. The we'll is surrounded by
owe groves and wide spaces in which
people talk aud children. wearing charms
on their heads as protection against the
,evlI eye, are playing, and women with
'nelr strings of coin on either side OF
their face, and in skirts of blue and
scarlet and white and green, move on
With water jars on their heads
Mary. | suppose. almost always took
Jesus the boy with her, for she had no
one She could leave him with, being in
humble circumstances and having no at
teh1antS. | do not believe there was
one Of the surrounding fifteen hills that