The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-28
AT NAZARETH.
DR.. TaImage Continues His Leo.
lures on the Holy Land.
She sessle OF ti.e savIour's Youth Described
-The Famous Well YIsited-Lsssons
Taught ny the Life OF
Christ.

OSliNeE60 at bEOOkiYn, Kew.
Il. Dewitt Talmage took for his subject,
''Among the Holy Hills" and the text
was from Luke iv. 10: HE came to
Nazareth, where he was brought up"
Following is the sermon:
What splendid sleep had last night
In a Catholic convent my first sleep
within doors since leaving Jerusalem,
and all of US as kindly treated as though
K We had been the Pope and his college of
.eardinais passing that way ThiE morn
1ngsF come out on the steps of the con-
vent and look upon the most beautiful
village of all Palestine its houses of
white limestone. Guess its nameI
Nazareth, historical Nazareth, one of
the trinity of places that all Christian
travellers must see or feel that they
have not seen Palestine, namely, Beth
1ehem, Jerusalem, reth-baby hood.
hoyhood, manhood of Him for whom 1
believe there arc So 900 coo people who
would now, II it were required, march
out and die, whether under axe Ordown
In the floods or straight through the
FIRE.
Grand old village is Nazareth, even
putting aside its sacred associ atoms
First OF all. 1t is clean; and that can be
said or-few of the Oriental villages
Its neigh Boring town of Rablous is the
hlthlest town ever saw al though its
chief lid ustry is the manufacture of
soap They export all of it Nazareth
was perhaps unusually clean the morn
ing speak of, for. as we rode into the
village the afternoon before. the sho G-
-ers which had put our mackintoshes to
the test had poured floods through all
the alleys under command of the clouds;
those thorough street comm issioners-
Besides that Nazareth has boon the
scene of battles passing it from tho
1sraeltte to Mohammedan and from Mo
shammedan to Christian, the most won
ffarFul n hn heinz haf inv 1ffsl,
$4,000 Turks were beaten by 2. 100
French Napoleon BoEapaFte command
ing; that greatest of Frenchmeu walk
ing these very streets through which
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 dOxOlogies of earth and the hal
ielujahS of Heaven appropriately
following the other. And then this
town is SO beautifully situated in
a great green bowl, the sides of the
bowl the surrounding fifteen hills The
God of nature, who is the God of the
Bible, evidently scooped out this valley
for privacy and separation from all the
woEld during three most important dec
AIDES the thirty years of Christ's boy
hood and youth, for of the thirty
three years of Christs stay on earth he
spent thirty of them in this town in
getting ready-a startling Iebuke to
those who have no patience with the
long years of preparation necessary
when they enter on any special mission
for the chit rch or the world Tho trou-
BILE is with most young men that they
want to launch their ship from the dry
dock before it is ready, and hence so
many sink in the first cyclone Be
good employe in your trade until you
are qualified to be an employer. BE
content with Nazareth until you are
ready for the buhetings of Jerusalem.
You may get so gloriou5ly equipped in
tho thirty years that you can do moro in
three years than most men can accom-
piish in a prolonged life time
All Christ's boyhood was spent in tn is
vintage and its surroundings There Is
the very we'll called ''rhe Fountain of
z the Virgin" to which by His mothers
side He trotted along. holding her hand.
No doubt about it; it is the only wolf in
the Y5Esge, RDd 1t has been the only we'll
for & coo years. This morning we VisIt
1t and tho mothers have their children
with them now as then.
The Vorlcof drawing water in all ages
in those cauntries has been womens
work Scores of them arc waiting for
their-turn at4it. three great and ever
lasting springs rolling out into that we'll
their barrels. their hogsheads of water
in floods gloriOus!y abundant Tho well
is surrounded by olive groves and wide
T-5P1Cc5-Au which people lath ana chill
dren, wearing charms on their heads as
protection against the ''evil eye," arc
playing, and women with their strings
of coin on either side of their face, and
in skirts of blue. and scarlet and white,
and green, move on with water jars on
their heads Mary suppose, almost
always took Jesus the boy with her, for
she had no one she could leave Him
O. with, being in humble circumsta
and-haytng no attendants do not be-
lieve there was ono of the fifteen sur
rounding. hills that tho boy Christ did
not range from bottom to top. or one
cavern in their sides He did not ex-
spiore, nor one spessips of bird flying
ACROSS 1he tops thet.He could not call by
name. or one of all the species of fauna
- browsing on those steeps that He had
not recognized.
You see it all through His sermons.
If q man becomes a public speaker, in
his crations or discourses you discover
his early whereabouts What q boy sees
between seven and seventeen always
AstiGks to him. When the apostle Peter
breaches you see the fishing nets with
which he had from his earliest days
been familiar. and whom Amos deliv-
ers his prophecy you hear in it the
oleating OF the herds which no had in
boyhood attended. And in our Lords
sermons and conversations You see all
the phases of village life. aud the
mountainous life surrounding it They
raised their own chickens in Nazareth,
and in after time he cries: .Oh, Jerusa-
lem! Jerusalem thow often would have
:. gathered thee as R-hen gathereth- her
chickens under her wingsF" He had
seen his mother open the fanny ward
robe at the close OF tho summer and the
moth miiiers flying out having dos
troyed the garments, and in after years
he said: 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 flame, or blue the sea, or
green as the tree tops. and no wonder
in His manhood sermon He said: Con
slider the lilies" While one day on q
high point where now stands the tom b
of Neby Ismail- He had seen winding
past Him so near as almost to Hurry al
hair. the partridge and the -hoopoe. and
the thrush. and the osprey. aud the
er20R- and the ravan- and M uyou1a-