Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-10
JOURNEY TO NAZARETH.
DR.. TALMAGE BIDS JERUSALEM GOOD
BY AND JOURNEYS NORTHWARD.

BY AND JOURNEYS NORTHWARD.
where the Blue Waves Roll Night,
Deep GaIiIee"-Last Look at Mount
Zion, Mount Calvary and the Mount
of Olives.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.-Today DR.. Tai
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 il
was preached in the Academy of Music
in this city, and at night Dr. Talmage
preached it again in the New York
/ Academy of Music which The Chris
tan Herald continues to rent for these
services. During the six meetings thus
| far held in New York, 80, 900 people
1 have endeavored to hear Dr. Talmage
preach. OF these 80, 900 have been ad-
mitted and 10000 have been turned
away for lack of accommodation. Fol
lowing is the sermon from the text, so
/ lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north" ezekiel viii, 81:
At 1 o'clock on a December after
noon through Damascus gate we are
passing out of Jerusalem for a journey
northward. Hol for Bethel with its
stairs, the bottom step of which was a
stone pillow; and Jacobs well, with its
immortal colloquy; and Nazareth, with
its divine boy in his fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed
Blue Galilee, sweet GaIilee,
The lake where Jesus loved to be:
and Damascus with its crooked street
called Straight, and q hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic
evangelistic, 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 a triumphal pro
cessiOn,> as it is sometimes called. al
though it seems to Inc 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
a triumph. But we are made to I'M
derstand that generally he walked.
How much that means only those
know who have gone over the distance
traversed by Christ.
We are accustomed to read that
Bethany is two miles from Jerusalem.
Well, 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 1t 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 PROSTATE. I, who
am accustomed to walk fifteen or TWEEN
ty miles without lassitude, tried part of
this road over the Mount of Olives, and
confess l would not want to try it often,
such demand does it make upon ones
energies Yet Christ walked
it twice a day-in the morning from
Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the even
ing from Jerusalem to Bethany.
CHRISTS WALK TO NAZARETH.
Likewise it seemed a small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But it will take us four days of
hard horseback riding, sometimes on a
trot and sometimes on a gallop, to do it
this week. The way is mountainous in
the extreme. To those who went up
to the Tip-Top house on Mount Wash
ington, before the railroad was laid, 1
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 |
,ode. Solomon rode. Herod rode.
Antony rode But Jesus walked. With |
swollen ankles and sore muscles of the |
EGGS, and bruised heel and stiff joints
md painting lungs and faint head, |
along the roads, and where there were |
no roads at all, Jesus walked.
We tried to get new horse other
than that on which we had ridden on |
The journey to the Dead sea, for he |
lad faults which our close acquaint-
anceship had developed. But after |
some experimenting with other quad |
rupeds of that Species and finding that
all horses, like their riders, have faults
we concluded to choose a saddle on
that beast whose faults we were most
to pity or resist. We rode
Down through the valley and then up
On Mount Scopus and, as our drago-
man tells US that this is the last oppor-
unity we shall have of looking at Je-
-usalem, we turn our horses head to-
ward the city and take long, sad and
thrilling look at the religious capital of
DUR planet This is the most impress
we view of the most tremendous city
IF 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
Here most of the besieging
armies encamped the night before open
ne their volleys of death against Jeru-
salem. Our last look! Farewell, Mount
Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount of Olives,
Mount Calvary Will we never see
hem again? Never The world is so
arge and time is so short, and there
ire so many things we have never seen
1t all, ClaC we cannot AFFORD TO QupU--
cate visits or see anything more than
once. Farewell, yonder thrones of gray
rock, and the three thousand years of
and battlefields Fare
well, sacred, sanguinary, triumphant,
Inundated Jerusaleml Across this val
ey of the Kedron with my right hand
[ throw thee kiss of valedictory. Our
last look. like our first look, an agita-
ion of body, mind and soul indescrib
able.
WHEN ISRAEL WAS IN ANARCHY.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text, /
lift up mine eyes the way toward the
north Near here was one of the worst
of the ages mentioned in the
Bible. A hospitable old man coming
nome at eventide from his work in the
ields finds two strangers, husband
md wife, proposing to lodge III the
street because no shelter is offered
hem, and invites them to come IN and
spend the night in his home. During
the night the ruffians of the neighbor-