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AMONG TIE BEDOUINS.
EIGHTH SERMON or DR.. TALMAGE ON
HIS RECENT TOUR IN PALESTINE.

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Of acknowledgements
BROOKLYN, Nov. IL. --This morning in
the Academy Of Music in this city and
this evening at The Christian Herald serv-
ice in the New York Academy Of Music, DR..
Talnlage preached the eighth OF the series
Of sermons he is giving on his tour in
Palestine. At both services the respective
buildings were crowded to their utmost
capacity in five minutes after the doors
were opened, ana all who came later We're
unable to get in. DR. Talmage's subject
was Among the Bedouins,n and his text
I Mum. x, 81: "Forasmnch as thou knowest
how we are to encamp in the wilderness"
NiQht after night we have slept in tent
in Palestine. There are large villages Of
Bedorins without house, and for three
thousand years the people Of those places
have lived in black tents, made out Of dyed
skins, and when the winds and storms
wore out and tore loose those coverings
Others of the same kind took their places.
Noah lived in q tent; Abraham in tent.
Jacob pitched his tent ON the mountain.
Isaac pitched his tent in the valley Lot
pitched his tent toward Sodom. In a tent
the woman Jael nailed Sisera, tire general,
to the ground, first having given him sour
milk called ''leben'' as soporific to make
him sleep soundly, that being the effect Of
such nutrition, ts modern travellers can
testify. The Syrian army in tent. The
ancient battle shout was "To your tents.
D Israelp' Paul was a tent maker In
deed, Isaiah, magnificently poetic, indi-
Gates that all the human race live under
blue tent when he says that God 'stretch-
oth n,-f ha aq n
spreadeth them out as q tent to dwell in"
and Hezekiah compares death to the strik-
ing of a tent, saving My age is removed
| from me as a shepherds tent"
In our tent in Palestine tonight hear
something / never heard before and hope
never to hear again. 1t is the voice Of a
hyena amid the rocks near by When You
may have seen this monster putting his
mouth between the iron bars of a menag-
erie he is a captive, and he gives a huinil-
lated and suppressed cry. But yonder in
the midnight on a throne of rocks he has
nothing to fear, and he utters himself in
a loud, resembling, terrific, almost super
natural sound, splitting up the darkness
| into deeper midnight. 1t begins with a
howl and ends with sound something like
horses whining. In the hyena's voice are
! defiance and strength and bloodthirstiness
and crunch of broken bones and death.
BEASTS OF PREY NO LONGER THERE
| am glad to say that for the most part
Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The
| leopards, which jeremiah says cannot
change their spots, have all disappeared,
and the lions that once were common all
through this land, and used by all the
prophets for illustrations of cruelty and
wrath, have retreated before the discharges
of gunpowder, of which they have an in
describable fear But for the most part
Palestine is what it originally was. With
the one exception of wire thread reach
ing from Joppa to Jerusalem and from
Jerusalem to Nazareth and from Nazareth
| TO Tiberias and from Tiberias to Damas-
Gus, that one nerve of civilization, the tele-
graphic wire (for we found ourselves only
few minutes off from Brooklyn and New
York while standing by Lake Galilee),
with that one exception Palestine is just as
| it always was.
Nothing surprised me so much as the
persistence of everything. A sheep or
horse falls dead, and though the sky may
one minute before be clear of all wings in
| five minutes after the skies are black with
eagles cawing. screaming, plunging, fight
| ing for ROOM eontending for largest NOR
sells of the extinct quadruped. Ah now !
understand the force OF Christ's illustra-
ton when he said, "Wheresoever che car
cass is there will the eagles be gathered to-
gether." The longevity of those eagles is
wonderful. They live fifty and sixty and
sometimes a hundred years. All, that eX-
plains what David meant when he said,
''Thy youth is renewed like the eagles" ]
saw shepherd with the folds of his coat
far bent outward, and l wondered what
was contained in that amplitude of APP
parel. and l said to the dragoman, ''What
has that shepherd got. under his coat"
| And the dragoman said, 1T is very
young lamb he is carrying; it is too young
and too weak and too cold TO keep
up with the flock" At that moment
saw the lamb put its head out from the
Shepherds bosom and ! said ''There it is
now, Isaiahs description of the tenderness
of God-he shall gather the lambs with
his arm and carry them in his BOSOM"
WOMEN EARLY AT THE sEPULcHER.
Passing by a village home, in the Holy
| Land, about noon / saw a great crowd in
and around a private house, and said
to the dragoman, david, what is going on
thereS" He said, Somebody has recently
died there, and their neighbors go in for
several days after TO sit down and weep
with the bereaved" There it is, | said, the
old scriptural custom, "And many of the
Jews came to Martha and Mary, to COM
fost them concerning their brother" Early
in the morning passing by cemetery in
the Holy Land l saw among the graves
about fifty women dressed in black, and
they were crying: con, my childP' ooh,
my husbandr' ooh, my fatherw "Oh,
my mother" Our dragoman told us that
every morning, very early for three morn
ings after burial, the women go to the
sepulcher and after that every week very
early for year. AS saw this group just
after daybreak said, ''There it is again,
the same old custom referred to in Luke,
the evangelist, where he says, Certain
women which were early at the sepul-
cher"
THE WONDERFUL WELL or JACOB.
But here we found ourselves at Jacobs
well, the most famous well in history
most distinguished for two things, because
it belonged TO the old patriarch after whom
It was named, and for the wonderful
things which Christ said, seated on this
well curb, to the Samaritan woman. We
dismeunt from our horses in drizzling
rain, and our dragoman, climbing up to
the weh over the slippery stones, stumbles
and frightens us all by nearly falling into
it. l measured the well at the top and
found il six feet from edge to- edge
Some grass and weeds and thorny growths
oyerhang it. In one place the roof is
broken through. Large stones efnbnhk
the wall on all sides.
Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped
them in, and from the time they left his
hand to the instant they clicked on the
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