Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-24
THE HOLY LAND.
The Ninth of DR.. Talmage's Sc
ries on His Recent Journey.
His First Sleep Indoors Since Leaving
JeruSa!em-In a Catholic Con-
vent at Nazareth.
God With His Left Hand Bull. Palestine, With
HIS Right Wrote the scriptures, the
Two Hands of the same Eeing.
AMONG THE HOLY HILLS.
SPECIAL to the Gazette.

BRookLYS, n. Y, Nov. 23.-Th'
interest in the series of sermons in which
! DR.. Talmage is describing his recent tou
in Palestine and intoxicating gospel les.
cons suggested by his theme. increase
! from week 20 week. There was never 81
large u crowd ut any one of the previou!
eight sermons as there was to-day around
the BROOKLYN academy of music in the
morning aud at the Christian Herald
| service in the evening TO hear the ninth
sermon. It's subject was "Amons the
! Holy Hills, - and the text Luke w., l6:
He came TO Nazareth, where He was
brought up" Following is the ser mon
What q splendid sleep | had last night
in Catholic convent, my first sleep
within doors since leaving Jerusalem
and all of us as Kindly treated rs though
we ha been the pope and his college of
cardinals passing that way. Last even
| ing the genial sisterhood of the convent
! ordered q hundred bright eyed Arab
children brought out TO sing for me, and
| 1t TS12St6+i0us This morning l come
sS189 Oh the steps of the convent aud look
fr BON 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 all Christian travellers must see or
feel that they have not seen Palestine +,
namely, Bethlehem. Jerusalem, NaZa-
reth. Babyhood, boy hood manhood of
Him for whom ! believe there are fifty
million people who would now, if they
were required, march ont and die,
| whether under axe, or down III the
floods or straight through the fire.
GRAND OLD VILLAGE
is Nazareth, even putting aside its
sacred associations. FIRST of oil, it is
clean; and that can be said of few OF the
Oriental Villages. Its ueighboring town
OF Nablous is the tilthiest town ever
saw, although its chief industry is the
manufacture of soap. They export all
of il. Nazareth WIS perhaps unusually
clean the morning l speak of, for. as we
rode into the village the AFTERNOON be-
fore, the showers which had put our
muckintoshes to the test had poured
floods through all the alleys under COM
mund of the clouds, those thorough
street com listeners. Besides that,
Nazareth has been the scene of battles
passing il from the Israeiite to Moham-
medau and from Mohammedau to
Christian, the most wonderful of the
battles being that in which %, 900
Turks were beaten by POO
French, Napoleon Bouaparte COM
mnuding, that greatest of Frenchmen
walking these very streets through " hich
Jesus walked for nearly thirty years,
the morals of the two, the antipodes,
the SHOWS of Russia and the plaques OF
Egypt appropriately following the one,
the doSologies of earth and the halle
lGjGhs of hea ven appropriately following
the other. And then this town is so
brnutifullv situated in great, green
bowl the sides of the bowl, the sur
rounding fifteen hills.
THE GOD OF NATURE
who is the Goa OF the Bible evidently
scooped out this valley for privacy and
separation from all the world during
three most important decades, the thirty
years of Christ's boyhood and youth,
for of the thirty three years of Christ's
stay on earth, he spent thirty of them in
this town il getting ready-a startling
rehuke 10 those who have no patience
with the long years OF preparation neces-
sary when they enter on any special
mission for the church or the
world. The trouble is with most young
men that they want 10 launch their ship
from The dry -Gock before it is ready,
and hence so many sink in the first cv-
clone. Stay in the store as suborii-
nate until you are thoroughly equipped.
BE good emplOye in your trade until
you are qualified to be an employer. Be
content with Nazareth until you are
rendy for the buffetings of Jerusalem.
You may get so gloriousiy equipped in
the thirty years, that you can do more !
IN three years than most men can &C. |
com plish ia II prolonged lifetime. These
little suggestions ! um apt 10 put into my |
sermon, hoping 10 help people for this /
world, whl!e am chiefly anxious TO have /
them prepnre for the next world.
ALL CHRIST's BoYHooD
was spent III this village and its sur
There Is the very well |
called 1.-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 5000 /
years. This morning we visit it, and
the mothers have their children with
them now as then. The work of draw
lug water in all ages in those countries
has been women work. Scores of
them are waiting for their turu at it,
three great and everlasting springs roll
NIX Jul Illp tudl Ntlt tHtlT their
hogSheads 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 ''evil eye,'' are
plGyiug, and women with their
strings of coin on either side
Of their face, and in skirts of blue, ard
scarlet, aud white, and green, move on
with water lars on their heads. Nary,
suppose, almost always took Jesus the
10y with her, for she had no one she
could leave Him with, being in humble
and having no attendants.
do not believe there was one of the sur
fifteen hills that the boy Christ
lid not range
FROM BOTTOM TO TOP,
DR. one cavern in their sides, he did not
explore, nor one species of bird flying
across tie tops that he could not call by
1ame, or one of all the species of fauna
browsing on those sleeps that He had not
'ecognZed.
You SEE ii all through His sermons. #
| mgu becomes II public speaker, III his
,ratious or discourses you discover his
arly whereabouts. What boy sees
between seven and saventa.n alvux, |