Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-10
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
subject, "My Second Day In Palestine"
TEXT: 81 lcent up to Jerusalem. Gala
tians, l.. Is.

tldnSt L., 10.
My second day in the Holy Land We aro
! in Joppa. 1t is O'clock in the morning, but
we must start early, for by night we are to
be in Jerusalem, and that city is forty-one
miles away. We may take camel or horse
or carriage As to-day will be our last OPP
pcrtunity in Palestine for taking the wheel
we choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and. with
a dragoman in coat of many colOrs seated in
! front, we start on a road which unveils in
| twelve hours enough to think of for all time
and all eternity Farewell, Mediterranean,
| with such blue as no one but the Divine
| Chemist could mix, and such fire of morning
| glow as only the Divine illumination could
kindle. Hail, mountains of Ephraim and
Judea, whose ramparts OF rock we shall
mount in a few hours; for modern engineers
| can make q road anywhere, and, without
piling Ossa upon Pelion, those giants can
scale the heavens.
We start out of the CITY amid barricadeS
of cactus ON either side. Not cacti in boxes
two or three feet high, but cactus higher
than the top of the carriage-a plant that
has more swords for defense, considering
the amount of beauty it can exhibit, than
J ANYTHING created We passed out anil
about four hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges, lemons,
figs, olives citron and pomegranates and
which hold up their censers OF perfume be-
fore the Lord in perpetual praise. Wemeet
great professions of camels loaded with Kegs
of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mohammedan with four wives--three too
many.
The camel is proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape stalking out of the past The driver
HE xrhip farac tho camel on the fore
leg, and he kneels to take you as rider.
But when he rises hold fast or you will
fall off backward as he puts his fore feet
in standing posture, and then you will fall
off in front as his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are use to his
ways although find the riders often dis
mount and walk as though to rest them
selves Better stand out Of the path OF the
camel-he stops for nothing and seems not
to look down; and in the street saw
child by the stroke of cameis front loot
hurled seven or eight feet along the
ground.
Here we meet people with faces and arms
and hands tattoOed, as in all lands sailors
tattoo their arms with some favorite ship
or admired face. It was TO this habit Of
tattooing among the Orientals that God
refers in figure when he says of his church,
II have craven thee on the palms Of my
hands"
Many Of these regions ere naturally
sandy, but by irrigation they are made
fruitful and as i'm this irrigation the brooks
and rivers are turned this way and that to
water the gardens or farms, 50 the Bible
says, THE kings heart is in the hands OF the
Lord and he turneth it as the riversO Of water
are turned whithersoever he WILL
As we pass out and on we find about eight
hundred acres belonging to the Universal
Jsraeltish alliance. Montefiore, the Israelit-
ish centenaran and philanthropist, and
Rothschild, the banker, and others OF the
large hearted have paid the passage to Pales-
tine for many of the Israeltes, and set apart
lands for their culture and it is only be-
ginning of the fulfllment of divine prophecy,
when these people shall take possession Of
the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to
Jerusalem, and all the roads leading to
! Nazareth and Galilee, we saw lined with pro-
cessionS of Jews going to the sacred places,
either on holy pilgrimage or as settlers. All
the fingers OF Providence nowadays are
pointing toward that resumption OF Pales-
tine by the lsraeliteS | do not take 1t that
the prospered lsraelites of other lands are to
60 there. They would be foolish to leave
their properties in our American cities,
wnere they are among our best citizens, and
cross two seas to begin life over again in
strange lane.
But the outrages heaped upon them in
Russia, and the insults offered them in Ger
many, will soon quadruple and centuple the
procession of Israelites from Russia to Pal
estine. Facilities for getting there will be
multiplied, not only in the railroad from
JOppa TO Jerusalem, to which | referred last
Sabbath as being built, but permission for
road from Damascus to the Bay of Acre has
been obtained, and that of course will soon
connect with Joppa and make one great
ocean Shore railroad SO the railroad from
jerusalem to Joppa, and from JOppa to Da-
mascus, win soon bring all the Holy Land
within few hours Of connection. Jewish
colonization societies in England and Russia
are gathering money for the transportation
of the Israeltes to Palestine, and for the
purchase for them Of lands and farming i'm
plements, and so many desire to go that it
is decided by lot as to which families shallg
first.
They were Gods chosen people at the first,
and He has promised to bring them back to
their home. and there is no power in one
thousand or five thousand years TO make
Goo forget His promises. Those who are
prosD red in other lands will do well TO stay
whore they are. But let the Israelites who
/ are deprecated and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces towards the rising sun OF
/ tleir deliverance. God will gather IN that
/ distant land those OF that race who have
been maltreated, and He will blast with the
J lightnings of His omnipOtence those LANDS on
either side of the Atlantic which have been
the Instruments of annoyance and harm TO
that Jewish race, TO which belonged Abra-
ham and David and Joshua and Baron
/ Hirsch and Montefore and Paul the Apostle
and Mary the Virgin and Jesus Christ the
/ Lord.
On the way across the plain of Sharon we
meet many yelled women. 1t is not respect
able for them to 90 unveiled, and it is veil
that is so hung to make them hideous. A
man may not even see the face OF his vile
/ until after betrothal or engagement Of mar
rage. Hence the awful mistakes and the
unhappy homes, for God has made the face
an index Of character aud honesty or dishon-
esty usually is demonstrated in the features.
| GO not see what God made fair face for II
it were not to be looked at. But here come
the crowds Of disfigured women down the
road on their way to Joppa, bundles of sticks
| for fire. wood on their heads. They started
at three O'Clock in the morning to get the
fuel. They stagger under the burdens.
Whipped and beaten will some Of them be If
their bundle Of sticks is too small. All that
is required for enforcement is for man to
say to his WIFE "Be off, don't want you any
more" Woman a slave in all lands, except
those in which the Gospel Of Christ makes
her queen. Aud yet in Christian countries
there are women posing as skeptics and men
with family deriding the only religion that
makes sacred and honorable the names OF
wife. mother daughter and sister.
What is thatS Town OF Ramleh, birth
place, residence and tomb Of Samuel, the
glorious prophet. Near by, Tower lrty
Martyrs, so called because that numOer Of
disciples persisted there for Christs sake;
but II towers had been built for all those
who in the time Of war as in time of peace
have fallen on this road during the ages
past you might almost walk on turrets from
Joppa to Jerusalem.
Now we passed the guard houses, which
are castles of chopped straw and mud where
at night and partly through the day arme
men dwell and keep the bandits off travellers.
In the caves Of these mountains dwell men
TO whom massacre would be hign play and
purse with few pennies would be com
pensation enough for the struggle that the
savage might have with the wayfarer.
There is only one other defense that amounts
10 much in these lands and that is the law OF
hospitality. II you can get an Arab TO eat
with you, II only one mouthful, you are sure
Of his protection, and that has been so from
age to age The Lords supper was built on
| that custom. a special friendship after par