The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-11-29
AT NAZARETH.
DR.. Talmage Continues His Leo
lures on the Holy Land.
The Scene of the s~aviour's Youth Described
The Famous Well Vlsited-Lessons
Taught Ry the Life of
Christ.

In the ninth sermon on his visit to the
Holy Land, delivered at Brooklyn, Rev.
7. Dewitt Talmage took for his subject
among the Holy Hills" and the text
was from Luke iv. 16: He came to
Nazareth, where he was brought up"
Following is the ermon
What q splendid sleep | had last night
in q Catholic convent, my first sleep
within doors since leaving Jerusalem,
and all of US as kindly treated as though
we had been the Pope and his college of
cardinals passing hat way. This morn
ing l 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
lehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth-babyhood,
boyhood, manhood of Him for whom l
believe there are so. 900. 600 people who
would now, II it were required, march
out and die, whether under axe or down
in the floods or straight through the
fire.
Grand old village is Nazareth, ven
putting aside its sacred associations
First OF all, 1t is clean; and that can be
said OF few OF the Oriental villages.
Its neighboring town of Nablous is the
hlthiest town l ever saw, although its
chief industry is the manufacture of
soap. They export all Of it.
Besides that, Nazareth has been the
scene of battles passing it from the
Israelite to Mohammedan and from Mo-
hammedan to Christian, the most won
derful Of the battles being that in which
%, 900 Turks we're beaten by 2, 100
French, Napoleon Bonaparte command
ing; that greatest of Frenohmen 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
lelujahs OF Heaven appropriately
following the other. And then this
town is so beautifully situated in
. 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
world during three most important dec
AIDES, the thirty years Of Christ's boy,
hood and youth, for of the thirty
three years of Cbrist's stay on earth he
spent thirty OF them in this own in
getting ready-a startling rebuke to
those who nave no patience with the
long years of preparation necessary
when they enter On any special mission
for the church or the world. The trou-
BILE is with most young men that they
van to launch tn cir ship from the dry
dock before it is ready, and hence SO
many sink in the first cyclone. Be a
good employe in your trade until you
are qualified to be an employer. Be
content with Nazareth until you arc
ready for tho buffetings Of Jerusalem.
ALI Christ's boyhood was spent In this
village and its surroundings. There Ia
the very we'll called 1.-THE Fountain of
the Virgin" to which by His mothers
side He trotted along, holding her hand.
No doubt about it; 1t is the only we'll in
the village, and 1t has been the only we'll
for 3. 900 years. This morning we visit
it and tho mothers have their children
with them now as then.
Tho work OF drawing water in all ages
In those Countries has been women's
work. Scores Of them are waiting for
thor turn at 1t, three great and ever
lasting springs rolling out into that well
in foods g~lorionsly abundant. The well
is surrounded by olive groves and wide
spaces in which people talk and chill
dren, wearing charms on their heads as
protection against the ''evil eye" are
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
with, being in humble circumstances
and having no attendants. do not be-
lieve there was one of the fifteen sur.
rounding hills that the boy Christ did
not range from bottom to top, or one
cavern in their ides He did not ex-
plore, nor one species Of bird flying
across the tops that He could not call by
name, or n Of all the species Of fauna
browsing on those sleeps that He had
not recognized.
You see it all through His m
II o man becomes a public speaker, in
his o~rations or d~iscourses you discover
his early whereabouts. What q boy sees
between seven and seventeen always
sticks to him. When the apostle Peter
breaches you see the fishing nets with
which he had from his earliest days
been familiar. And when Amos deliv-
ers his prophecy you hear in 1t the
bleating Of the herds which he had in
boyhood attended. And in our Lords
sermons and conversations you see all
the phases of village life and the
mountainous life surrounding it They
raised their own chickens In Nazareth,
and In after time he cries: 'Oh, JeFuss-
lem! JerusalemIhow often would / have
gathered thee as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wingsr' He had
seen his mother open the family ward
robe ut the close OF the summer and the
moth miilers flying out, having des-
troyed the garments, and in after years
he said: Lay not up for yourselves
treasures on earth whore moth doth
corrupt" In childhood he had seen q
mile OF flowers, white as the snow, or
red as the fame, or blue as the sea, or
green as the tree tops, and no wonder
In His manhood sermon He said: Con
slider the lilies"
He had in boyhood seen the shepherds
get their hocks mixed up. and to one
not familiar with the habits Of shep-
herds and their iocks, hopelessly mixed
mp. And q sheep stealer appears on the
scene and dishonesty demands some Of
those sheep, when he owns not one OF
them. swell" says the honest shep-
herds. 1--WE will soon settle this natter"