The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-11-20
DIR. TALMAGE'S JOURNEY.
WONDERFUL ITINERARY OF CHRlST'S
WALK 70 NAZARETH.

Bcthcl and tho Scu of GnIIicc--Farcwoll
snIem-AwruI Tragedies OF tho OIdon
Times.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.--To-day DR.. Tai
mage preached the seventh Of his course
of sermona on lis recent tour in PaleS-
tine. The following is the sermon from
the text, go lifted up mine eyes the
way tOWall The north (EZcklel viii,
81
At 1 o'clock Oh a December after
noon through Damascus gate we are
passing our of Jerusalem for journey
northWard 10. for Bethel, with it's
stairs, the bottom step of which was a
stone pillow; and Jacobs well, with it's
immortal colloQuy; and Nazareth, with
it's divine 10y in his fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that
ever ripplcd or liaShed-
Blue Calico, sweet Gallicc,
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
and Damascus, with its crooked street
called Straight. and Il hundred places
charged and Surchargcd with apostolic,
evangelisti,, prophetic, patriarchal,
kingly and ChriStly "reminiscences.
estine / am impressed. as | could not
otherwise lave been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot.
We find him occasionally on q boat,
and once riding in q triumphal process
sion, as it is sometimes called, although
it seems to me that the hoSannas of the
crowd could not have made u ride on 4
stubborn, unimprcSSive and funny
creature like that which pattered with
linn into Jerusalem very much OF Il
triumph. Hut we are made to under
stand that generally he walked. How
much that means only those know who
have gone over the distance traVcrsCd
by Christ.
We are accustomed to read that
Bethany j. two miles from Jerusalem.
Well, any man in ordinary health can
walk two miles without fatigue. But
not more tan one man out Of Il thOuS-
and can walk from Bethany to Jcrll-
salem without exhaustion. 1t is over
the Noun of Olives, and You must
climb up among the rolling stones and
descend Were eXCrtiOn is necessary to
keep you f.1m falling PROSTATE. I,whO
am accustcnc to walk fifteen or twen-
" miles without laSSitude, tried part
Of this roaG over the Mount Of Olives,
and confess. ! would not want to try it
often, such demand does it make upon
ones physical energies. Yet Christ
walked it twice q day-in the morning
from bethany TO Jerusalem, and in the
evening from Jerusalem to Bethany.
VIEW FROM MOUNT SCOpUS.
Likewise it seemed small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to NaZ;l-
rcth. But It will take us four days Of
h":d horseback riding, sometime IN Il
trot and sometimes on Il gaEop, to do
4 ~ l.. iC, ,f,,iy
in the extreme. TO those who went up
60 the Tip N'op house on Mount Wash
ington before The railroad was laid
will say u.at this journey from Jeru-
salem to Nazareth is like seven such
American journeys. SO all up and
down and across and rCcrOSSing PalcS-
tine, Jesus walked. Ahab rode. David
rode. Solomon rode. IIcrOd rode. An
tony rode. BUS Jesus walked. With
swollen ankles and sore muscles Of the
legs, and l.ruiS"d heel and Stiff joints
and painting lungs and faint head,
along the roads and where there were
no roads at all Jesus walked.
We tried to get new horse other
than that IN which we had ridden on
the journey to The Dead sea, for he had
faults Which our close acquaintance
ship had developed. But after some
experimenting with other quadrupcds
of that species, and finding that all
horses, like their riders, have faults,
we concluded to choose 4 saddle on
that beast whose faults we were most
prepared to pity or resist. We rode
down through the valley and then up
on Mount S3Opus and, as our dragoman
tells us thai this is the last opportun-
ity we shall have Of looking at j cru
salem, we tNrn our horses head toward
1,n IttSr ~ fnlv nj
ing look at the religious capital Of our
planet. Thjs is the most impressive
view Of the most tremendous city Of
all time.
On and AZ ound this hill the armies OF
the crusaders at the first sight Of the
city threw themselves on their faces in
worship. Here most Of the heseglng
armies enc8mped the night before open
ing their volleys Of death against Jcru-
salem. Our last look Farewell,
Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount of
Olives, Mount Calvary viii we never
sec them again? Never. The world
is SO large and 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. Farewell, yOndcr thrones
Of gray rock, and the three thousand
years of architecture and battleiiclds
Farewell, sacred, sanguinary, triumph
ant, humib atcd Jerusalem Across
this valley of the Kcdron with my
right hand throw thee a kiss Of vale
dictory. Our last look. like our first
look, an agitation Of body, mind and
soul lndcscribable.
THE CORPSE CJTINTO TWELVE PIECES.
And now. like Ezekiel in my text, |
lift up nine eyes the way toward the
north. Near here was one Of the worst
tragedies OF the ages mentioned in the
I'lble. a hospiJable old man coming
home at cvcntid9 from his work in the
helds nnds two strangers, a husband
ana wlic, proposing to lodge in the
street because no shelter is offered
them, and invites them to come in and
spend the night in his home. During
tho night tho rUflians Of tho ncighbor,
hood conspi"ed together. and surround
ed the house. and lett the woman dead
on the doorstep. and the husband, to
rally in revenge the twelve tribes, cut
the corpse Of the woman into twelve