The Forrest City times., 1890-11-15
JESUS OF NAZARETH.
OR TALMAGE FOLLOWS HIS FOOT.
 STEPS TO BETHANY.

1ntrty-ctgh Thousand Ltves.-Tho
 Story of Rizpah and Her Fate Re-
 peated by American Mothers.-Po-
 iiticai Parties Scorcd.-The Infiu-
 cncc of woman's Praysrs.--Ja.
 cob's Dream.
 BROOKLYN. N. r.. Nov. e.-Today Dr. Tal- mage preached the seventh of his course O: sermons on his recent tour in Palestine. As on previous Sundays the sermon was preached before two large audiences. In tho morning 1t was preached In the Academy of Music in this city, and at night Dr. Tal- olage preached it again In tho New York Academy of Music. Daring the six meetings thus far held in New York. o0,oe0 people nave endeayored to hear Dr. Taimage preach. Of these. 30, 900 have been admitted and 6o,o0o hayo been turned away for iacl; of accommodation. Following Is Tho ser mon from the text, "So I lifted tip miuo eyes tho way toward the north" lExekiel s:5)
 At one o'clock on December afternoon through Damascus gate, we are passing out nf Jerus Hem for journey northward. Ho! Tor Bethel with iss stairs, the bottom step ot which was stone pillow, and Jacobs well With it's immortal colioquy, and Nag hreth with its Divine boy in his fathers carpenter shop ani tho most glorious lake that ever rit pied or flashed;
 Blue Calico. sweet Galllee
 Tho lake where Jesus loved to te. and Damascus with It's crooked street called straight. and a hundred places charged and surcharged with Apostolic, cvangellstic, prophetic, patriarchai kiugly ana Christly "reminiscences.
 In traveling along tho roads of Palestine. | in1nrp<Sp6 ns | not hcH .f1s, havo been, with the fact that Christ for the most part went afoot. We find him occasion ally on boat, and once riding in a trlum- phAl procession, ns 1t is sometimes called. although 1t seems to me that the hosannas of the crowd could not have made ride on stubborn. unimpressIve and funny crea- lure like that which battered with Him into Jerusalem, very much of tr umph. But we nre made to understand that generally ue walked. How much that means only thoso know who have gone over the distance frAversed by Christ, We are accustomed tt read that Bethany Is two miles from Jeru- salem We'll, my man in ordi health ran walk two miles wthout fatigue. But not more than ono man out of a thousano ran walk from Bethany to Jerusalem with out eXbaa>tl Jn. It Is over the Mount Of Olives and you must climb up among the rolling stonos and descend whero exertion is necessary to keep you from falling pro strate. "hS hui usNNNlOtHfu tb WAlk UitttH or twenty ml3s thout lnssitude, tried part ot this road over the Mount of Olives and confe would not want to try 1t often. such demand docs 1t make upon one s phy si. cal energies. Yet Christ wall it twice n day in tho morning fir m Bethany to Jeru- salem and In the evening from Jerusaleni to Bethany.
 Like~iss it seemed n small thing that Christ walked from Jerusalem to Ma areth But tt will take Us four days of hard horse. pack riding metimes on a trot and soms- times on gallop, to do 1t this week. 1ho way is mo ntainous In the extreme. Tu those who went up to the Tip-Top house on Mount Washington, before tho railroad was built, will say that this Journey from Jer. usalem to Ma areth is like seven such American ourneys. So. all up and down and across and recross ng Palestine, Jesus walked. Ahab rede. David rode. Solomon rcic Herod rodc, Anthony rode, But Jesus walked. With swollen ankle and sore muscles. of the legs, m bruised heel an | stf joints and pauting lungs and faint head. along the roads ant where there were no roads xt all Jesus walked.
 We tried to get new horse other than that on which wo had iidden on tho uurngy 10 the Dead Sea, for he had faults which our close acquaintanccshiph had developed. Bu, after some experimenting with other quad rupeds of that species and finding that Il horses. like their riders have faults, we con cluded to choose saddle on that beast whost Tau Is we were most prepared 10 pity or re- sist. We rode down through the valley and then up on Mount Scopus and IS our drago- man tells ns, that this is the last opportun- fly We shall have Of booking at Jerusalem. we turn our horses head toward the city and take long, sad ana thrilling look at the religious capital of our planet This is the most impressive view of the most tre- mendoas city of all tlne. On and around this h!li the armies of the crusaders at the first sight of the city throw themsSlvcs on their faces in worship encamrei tho night before openlns their volleys of death against Jerusalsln. Our last lCokl Farewell, Mount Zion Mount Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount Calvary, Will we never see them aganl Never. The world Is so large end time Is SO short and there are so many things we have never seen at all, that We cannot afford to duplicate visits or see anything more than once. Fare we'll wonder thrones of gray rock and the three thousand years of architecture and battlchelds. Farewell sacred, sanguInary irium pAnnt. bumiliated Jerusalem, Across this valley of the kcdron, with my right haDd-l throw thee kiss of valedietory Our last look, like our first look. an agitgl- ton Of body. mind and soul. lndescrihabla.
 And now. like Ezekiel in my text. lis, up mine eyes the Way toward the north Near here was one of the worst tragedies ol the ages, mentioned ln the Bible A hosplt- abie old man coming home at cyentime from hts work i'll the fields. finds two strangers husband and wife, prop sing 10 lodge in the street because no shelter is offered then, and invites them to come in aud spend the night In his home. During the ght the ruffans of the ueghborh ioi cousplral to- gethcr and surrounded the house and left he woman dead on tho doorstep and the hus band 10 rally in rovengo the twelve tribes cut tho corpse of the woman Into twelve parts Nnd sent twelfth of lt to each trtbe and the fury of the nation was rnused and peremptury demand was made for the sur. render of tho assassius and the demand re- fused, in one day twenty thousan D sople were left dead on the ileld and the nuxt tay eighteen thousand Wherever our horsa to- day plants hls foot. in those ancient times corpse lay, and tho roads wose crossed by red rivuleis of carnage.
 Now we pass on where seven youths were put to death and their sadles gtbbeled pr hung in chsius. not for auything they ha themselves done, but Rs Il reparatlon foi what their father and grandfather. Saul. had done. Burial was denied these youths iron May until November Ri1pah, the motheeo two of these dead b ,ys. appoints herself n, sentinel to guard Che seven carpses from bcak Of raven and tooth Of wolf and paw ,,, aion- she pltcGes black tent or the rock close ey the gihhets, RiSpah by day sits on the ground ln front of her tent and when vulture haglns to lower out al the monday sky seeking its prey among the sibteis, Ri'pah rises, her long haii flying In tho wind, and, swin slny her arms wildly about. shoos away the bird of prey until it retreats to its eyrie. At night she rests under the shadow af her tent and sometimes falls iato a druwa.avss oY hait sleep. hut the step of jaeSal among the dry leaves or the ranting of a hyena arouses hcr, and With tha fury Of nisnlac, she ru shcs out upon the rock rTyinr, Away. Away!N and then cxaminlng the Eioeets to sec that they still kcep thelt burden. returns again to her tent till some swooping wlny from the midnight sky or some Srowling monster on tho rock again wakes her.
 m ther watching her deae children through May, June, July, Aurust, septcm- bcr and octohes' What viz II Painters have tried to put upon canvas the scene and they succeeded in sketching tho hawks In the sky and the panShcfs crawling out rom the jungle but they fall to give the wAnncsss tho carnestness. the supernatural courase. the in inite self sa riace of kis- pAh. the mother. A mother In the quiet - trhf Ax hs