The progress., 1890-11-29
HILLS ABOUT NAZARETH.
DIR. TALMAGE'S HOLY LAND DIS
COURSES CONTINUED.

0ribed.-The VaIme OF the country.
hrad nav 10 Civilization.-The Ser
vrcr or the Notwithstanding Wa
Ger into Wine.
BRooKLrN, M. II, Nov. %, $780, Tho
interest I'm The series Of sermons in which
DIR. Talmage ID describing his recent tour
Ia Palestine and inculcating Gospel lessons
suggested by his theme, increases from
week To week. There was never SO large
a crowd al any one Of the previous eight
sermons as there was today around the
Brooklyn Academy OF Music in the morning
and nc the New York service in the evening
To hear the ninth sermon. The subject was
.sAmong the Holy Hills" and the text
Luke 4:16-"He came to Nazareth where
he was brought up" Following is tho
sermon:
What splendid sleep had last night in
d Catholic. convent, my first sleep within
doors since leaving Jerusalem, and all Of US
as kindly treated as though we had been
the Pope and his college OF cardinals
passing that way. Last evening the genial
sisterhood of the convent ordered hum
dred bright-eyed Arab children brought
out TO sing for me, and it was glorious.
This NorningI come out on the steps Of the
convent and look upon the most beautiful
village Of all Palestine, its houses Of white
limestone. Guess its name. Nazareth.
historical Nazareth. one Of the trinity OF
places that al Christian travellers must see
or feel that they have not seen Palestine,
namely, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth
Babyhood, bo5hood manhood Of Hun 1or
whom believe there arc fifty million peO-
pie who would now, ii it were required,
march out and die whether under axe or
down in the floods or straight through the
fire.
AL Chrst's boyhood was spent in this
village and its surroundings. There is the
q very well called '.The Fountain of the
Virgin" to which by his mothers side he
trotted along holding her hand. No doubt
about it; it is the only well in the village,
and it has been the only well for three
thousand years This morning we visit
( it, and the mothers have their children
with them now as then. The work of
drawing water in all ages in those couh-
tries has been women's work. Scores of
them are waiting for their turn at it,
three great and everlasting springs rolling
out into that well their barrels, their hogs
heads OF water in floods gloriously
abundant The well is surrounded by
olive groves and wide spaces in which
people talk and children, wearing charms
on their heads as protection against the
s'evil eye," arc playing, and women with
their strings OF coin on either side of
their faces, and in skirts of blue, and
scarlet, and white, and green, move on
with water-iars 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 circum-
stances and having no attendants. | do
not believe there was one Of tho surround
ing fifteen hills that the boy Christ did
not range from bottom to top, or, one
cavern in their sides He did not explore,
nor one species Of. bird flying across the
tops that He could not call Ey name. or
one of all the species of fauna browsing on
those sleeps that He had not recognized.
You see it all through His sermons. If
man becomes public speaker, in his
orations or. discourses you discover his
early whereabouts. What o boy sees be-
tween seven and seventeen always sticks
TO him. When the Apostle Peter breaches
you see the fishing nets with which he had
from his earliest days been familiar. And
when Amos delivers his prophecy you hear
in it the bleating Of the herds Which he
had in boyhood attended. And in our
Lords sermons and conversations you see
all the phases of village life, and the
mountainous life surrounding it. They
raised their own chickens in Nazareth,
and in after time he cries: 20
Jerusalem Jerusalem how often would
have gathered thee as hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings " He had
seen his mother open the family wardrobe
at the close of summer and the moth
millers flying out, having destroyed the
garments, and in after years he says; LAY
not UP for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth doth corrupt" In childhood
He had seen mile of flowers, white as the
snow, or red as the fame or blue as the
sea, or green as the tree tops and no
wonder in His manhood sermon He said,
ssConsider the lilies" While one day on a
high point where now stands the tomb of
Neby Ismail, he had seen winging past
Him so near as to furry His hair, the
partridge and the hoopoe, and the thrush,
and the osprey, and the crane, and the
raven, and no wonder afterward in His
manhood sermon He said,s ''Behold the
fowls of the air." In Nazareth and on the
road to 1t there are great many camels
can see them now in memory making
their slow way up the zig-zag road from the
plain of Esdraelon to Nazareth. Familiar
was Christ with their appearance, also
with that small insect the gnat which He
had seen His mother strain out from a cup
of water or pail Of milk, and no wonder he
brings afterward the large quadrupcd and
the small insect into His sermon and, while
seeing the Pharisees careful about small
sins, and reckless about large ones, cries
out: tsWoe unto you blind guides which
strain out gnat and swallc !. . camel"
In ho1 fnA IN0vhnn1 rann In cbnnhnrlc
get their flocks mixed up, and to one not
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