The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-21
TALMAGE's TRAVELS.
Wondrous Scenes In the Holy Land
Y Graphically Portrayed
Biblical History Made Clear = Lessons
Learned From Many Incidents Related
In the Bible-The Lords
Promises. -,s -

In his seventh sermon on Palestine
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage took his text
from Ezekiel viii 5: so lifted up mine
eyes the way toward the north" He
said:
At one o'clock on q December after
noon, through Damascus gate we are
passing out Of Jerusalem for journey
northward Hol for Bethel with its
stairs, the bottom step of which was a
stone pillow, and Jacobs we'll with its
immortal colloquy, and Nazareth with
its d vine Boy in his I ather's carpenter
shop and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed:
Blue Galiles, sweet Galilee,
The lake where Jesus loved TO be;
and Damascus with its crooked street
called Straight, and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic,
evangelistic, prophetic. patriarchal,
kingly and Christly "reminiscences
In travelling along the roads of Pales-
tine am impressed. as could not 9TH
erwise have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot We
find him occasionally in a boat, and
once riding in triumphal procession,
as it is sometimes called, although it
seems to me that the hosannas Of the
crowd could not have made a ride on q
stubborn, unimpressive and funny Great
ure like that which battered with him
into Jerusalem very much of triumph
But we are made to understand 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 Beth
any 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
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 exertion is necessary to
keep you from falling PROSTATE.
Likewise it seemed a small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But it will take four days of hard
horseback riding, sometimes on trot
and sometimes on gallop. to do it this
week. The way is mount famous 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. With swollen ankles, and sore
muscles of the legs, and bruised heel,
and stiff joints, and painting lungs, and
foir oil ha nd har
there were no roads at all, Jesus walked.
We rode down through the valley and
then up on Mount Scopus and, as our
dragoman tells US that this Is the last
opportunity we shall have Of looking at
Jerusalem, we turn our horses head to-
ward the city and take long, sad and
thrilling look at the religious capital Of
our planet. This is the most impress
sive view of the most tremendous city
Of all time.
Our last look! Farewell Mount Zion,
Mount Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount
Cavalry Will we never see them againf
Never. Our last look, like our first look.
an agitation of the body, mind and soul,
indescribable
And now, like Ezekiel in my text
lift up mine eyes the way toward the
tragedies of the ages, mentioned in the
Bible. A hospitable old man coming
home at eventide from his work in the
fields finds two strangers, husband
and wife, proposing to lodge in the
street because no shelter is offered
them and invites them to come and
spend the night in his home. During
the night the ruffians of the neighbor-
hood conspired together and surround.
ed the house and left the woman
cad on the doorstep, and the hus-
oand, to rally in revenge the twelve
tribes cut the corpse of the woman into
twelve parts and sent twelfth of it to
each tribe, and the fury of the nation
was reused, and 9 peremptory demand
was made for the surrender of the as
sassins and the demand refused, in one
day 90, 600 people were left dead on the
field. and the next day $4,000. Where
ever our horse to-day plants his feet, in
those ancient times corpse lay, and
| the roads were crossed by red rivulets
Of carnage.
Now we pass on to where seven youths
were put to death and their bodies glib
beted or hung in chains, not for any
thing 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. Rizpah, the mother of two
of these dead boys, appoints herself as
sentinel to guard the seven corpses from
beak Of raven, and tooth of wolf and
paw Of lion. She pitches black tent
on the rock close by the gibbets.
Rizpah by day sits on the ground in
front of her tent, and when vulture
begins to lower out of the MONDAY sky
seeking its prey among the gibbets
Rizpsh rises, her long hair flying in the
wind, and, swinging her arms widely
about, Shoes away the bird of prey un
til it retreats to its eyrie AT night she
rests under the shadow Of her tent, and
sometimes falls into drowsiness Oh
half sleep But the step Of jacka,
among the dry leaves or the painting Of
hyena arouses her, and with the fury
of a maniac she rushes out upon the
rock, crying: Away! Away" and ther
examining the gibbets to see that they
still keep their burdens, returns again
to her tent till some swooping wing
from the midnight sky or some growl
ing monster on the rock again wake:
her.
A mother watching her dead children
through May, June, July, August, Sep
TENDER and October! What a vigil
Painters have tried to put upon canva:
the scene and they succeeded in sketch
ing the hawks in the sky and the
panthers crawling out from the Jungle,
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