Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-10
BOUND FOR BETHEL.
DR.. Talmage's Seventh Sermon in
His Palestine Tour Series.
PLACES SACKED IN BIBLE STORY
Suggest Themes for Stirring Moral Appeals
to Modern Men.
ALIEN CAPITAL IN HOME BREwERIES

Talmage preached the seventh of his course
of sermons on his recent tour in Palestine
During the six meetings thus far held in
New York, $4,000 people have endeavored
TO hear DR.. Talmage preach. OF these 80, 600
have been admitted and 50, 900 have been
turned away for lack of accommodation.
Following are extracts of the sermon from
the text: $50 lifted up mine eyes the way
toward the North" ezekiel $50
At l o'clock on a December afternoon.
through Damascus gate we were passing out OF
Jerusalem for a journey northward. In travel
ing along the roads Of Palestine am impressed
as l could not have otherwise been, with the
fact that Christ for the most part went atoot.
We find Him occasionally on boat, and once
riding in a triumphal procession, as it is some
times called, although it seems to me that the
hosannas of the crowd could not have made a
ride on stubborn, unimpressive and funny
creature like that which pattered with Him
into Jerusalem very much of a triumph. But
we are made to understand that generally He
walked. How much that means only those
know who have gone over the distance ira
Yersed 10y Christ. We are accustomed to read
We'll. any man in ordinary health can walk two
miles without fatigue. But not more than one
man out of a thousand can walk from Bethany
TO Jerusalem without exhaustion. 1t IS over
the Mount of Olives. and you must climb up
among the rolling stones, and descend Where
eNe-tion is necessary to keep you from falling
PROSTATE. Yet Christ walked 1t twice Gay.
JESUS WALKS.
Likewise it seemed 4 small thing that Christ
walked from Jerusalem to Nazareth. But it will
take US four DAYS of hard horseback riding to
do it tins week. The way Is mountainous in
the extreme. SO. all up and down and across
and recrossIng Palestine, Jesus walked. Ahab
rode. David rode. solomon rode. Herod
rode. Antony rode But Jesus walked. We
rode down through the valley and then up on
Mount Scopus and. our dragoman tells us
that this is the last opportunity we shall have
Of looking at Jerusalem, we turn our horses
head toward the city and take a long, sad and
thrilling look at the religious capital OF our
planet. This is the most impressive 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 be-
sieged armies encamped the night before open
lnC their yolleys OF death against Jerusalem.
And now like Ezekiel in nv text. l lift up
mine eyes the toward the north. Near
here was one OF the worst tragedies of the ages,
mentioned IN the Bible. y hnspitabe old man,
coming hCme at even-tide from his work in the
nelds finds Two strangers, a husband and wife,
proposing to lodge in the street because no shell
ter is offered them. and invites them to come in
and spend the night in his home. During the
night the ruffians of the neighborhood con-
sPlred together. and surrounded the house and
LETT the woman dead on the doorstep, and the
husband, to rally in revenge the IL tribes. cut
the corpse of the woman into u parts and sent
twelfth of it 20 each tribe, and the fury of the
nation was aroused and peremptory demand
wss made tor the surrender of the assassins
ana, the demand refused in one day D. 600 peo-
ME we're left dead on the field, and the next
-ay 5000. Wherever our horse to-day plants
MS foot. in those ancient times a corpse lay,
and the roads were crossed by red rivulets of
arnGge.
RlzPAH'S CHILDREN.
Now we pass on where seven youths were put
to death and their bodies giDbeted or hung in
chains. not for anything they had themselves
done, but as a reparation for what their father
and grandfather, Saul, had done. Burial was
denied these youths from May until November.
Rlzpah. the mother of two of these dead bows,
appoints herself as sentinel to guard the seven
oorpSes from beak OF raven and tooth of wolf
ard paw Of lion. She pitches black tent on
the rock close to the gibbets. Rizpah by day
sits on the ground in front of her tent and
when vulture begins to lower out of the noon
Gay sky seeking its prey among the gibbets
Rlzpah rises, her long hair flying in the wind,
and, swinging her arms wildly about, Shoes
away the bird of prey until it retreats to It's
eyrle. At night she rests under the shadow of
her tent and sometimes falls into a drowsiness
or half sleer But the step of a jackal among
the dry leaves OF the painting OF a hyena arouses
her. and with the fury Of a maniac, she rushes
out upon the rock crying, Away! AwayI' and
then examining the gibbets to See that they
stli|keep their burden, returns again to her
. tau9t Till some Swooping wing from the mid
rI- ht sky some growing monster on the
rock again wakes her
WATCHING MOTHERS.
mother in the quiet home watching by the
ca sket of a dead child for one night exerts the
hist TO his utmost. but who is sufficient to pu
fpon canvas mother for six months of mid
Night guarding her whole family, dead and
k-ibbeted upon the mountains? You might as
ell expect God TO get tired as for mother to
ct tired.
Right here in these three cities by the Amer
lean sea coast, there are a thousand cases this
moment worse than that Mothers watching
boys that the rum saloon, that annex of hell,
has CiDbeted in living death. Boys hung in
chains Of evil habit they cannot break. The
father may go to sleep after waiting until Il
o'clock at night for the ruined boy to come
home. But mother will not go to bed. 1t is
80 when he comes staggering through the
hall. Do you say that young man is yet alive?
No; he Is dead. Dead to his fathers entreaties.
Dead to his mothers prayers. Dead to the
family altar where ne was reared. Dead to all
the noble ambitions that once inspired him.
Twice dead Only a corpse Of what he once
was. His father is asleep, his brothers are
asleep. his sisters are asleep. but his mother is
watching him, watching him in the night
And what are the political parties of this
country doing for such cases? They are taking
care not to hurt the feelings of the jackals and
the buzzards that roost on the shelves of the
grogshOps and hooU above the dead. / am
often asked to what political party belong,
and now declare my opinion of the political
parties to-day. Each one is worse than the
other, and the only consolation in regard to
them Is that they have putrehed until they have
no more power to rot Oh, that comparatively
same scene upon which Rizpah looked She
looked upOn only seven of the slain. American
motherhood and American wifehood this
moment are looking upon 20 of the slain, upon
200 of the slain, upon 10000 of the slain.
AMERICAN BREwERIEs.
My only consolation on this subject is that
foreign capitalists are buying up the American
breweries. The present owners see that the
doom of that business is coming as surely as
that God is not dead. They are unloading
upon foreign capitalists, and when we can get
these breweries into the hands of people living
on the other side of the sea our political parties
will cease to he afraid of the liquor traffic. and
at their conventions nominating Presidential
candidates viii put III their platform plank
as big as the biggest plank of the biggest ocean
steamer saying: Resolved. unanimously, that
we always have been and always will be op-
poSed to alcoholism
But must spur on ouv Arab steed, and here
we come IN sight of Beeroth SAID to be the
place where Joseph and Mary missed the boy
Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth
l bear down on you to-day with mighty com.
fort Mary and Joseph said: Where is our
Jesus?' and you say, Where is John? or where
is Henry7 or where Is George?" Well l should
not wonder if you found him after awhile
Where? in the same place where Joseph and
Mary found their boy-in the temple What do
/ mean by that? / mean: you do your duty
toward God and toward your child and YOU will
find him after awhile in the kingdom of Christ
Will YOU say: "a do not have any way of infiu-
eDciuC my child / answer you have the most
tremendous line of influence open right before
Won As YOU write a letter, and there are two
or three routes by which 1t may go, but you
,yantit to 90 the quickest route. put on YOUR
wishes about your child, via the throne of