The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-30
THOSE HOLY HILLS.
Ipr. Talmage Continues His
Story About WhatHe Saw
in Jerusalem.
HeStopsat the Place Where the
Man was Relieved by the
Good Samaritan.

BROOKLYN, N. y, Special. - The wide
spread and absorbing interest in DR.. Tai
images course ofsermons on the Holy Land
and adjoining countries is demonstrated
by the thousands who are turned away
from tn" doors of the Brooklyn Academy Of
Music on Sunday mornings and from the
Christian Herald services in the New York
Academy of Music on Sunday evenings, I'M
able to gain even standing room in those i'm
mense auditorums. To-day the fourth SER
mon OF the series was preached as before,
in this city in the morning Having an
nounced as his text Luke ", so. "A certain
man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho"
DR., Talmage said:
1t is the morning of Dec 5, in Jerusalem
and we take stirrups for the road along
which the wayfarer of old fell among thieves
who left him wounded and half dead. Jobs
picture of the horse in the Orient as having
neck "cothed with thunder is not true Of
most horses now in Palestine. There is no
thunder on their neck though there is some
lightning in their heels Poorly eed and un-
nercifully whacked, they sometimes retort.
To Americans and English. who are accus-
toned to guide horses by the Bride these
horses of the Orient guided only by foot and
voice, make equestransm an uncertainty.
and the pull on the bride that you intend
Tor slowing up of the pace may DO mistaken
Tor a hint that you want to out-gallop the
wind or wheel in swift circles like the hawk
But they can climb sleeps and descend preci-
psces with skilled loot, and the one l chose
Ior our journey in Palestine shall have the
praise OF going Tor weeks without one STUN
bling STEP amid rocky sleeps where an
ordinary horse would not for an hour m ain
tain sure, footeClness. There We're Is OF our
party, and % beasts of burden carried our
camp equipment. We are led by an arab
sheik with his black Nuban servant carrying
a loaded gun in ull sight but it is the TACT
that this shiek represents the Turkish gov.
eminent, whish assures the SAFETY of the car
nvnn. ... ..
We cross the Jehoshaphat valley which, if
1t had not been memorable in history and
were only now discovered, would excite the
admiration OF all who look upon it. 1t is
like the gOrges Of the Yosemite or the chasms
of the Yellowstone Park. The sides of this
JehoshaDhat valley are tunneled with graves
and overlooked by Jerusalem walls-an eter-
nity CT depths overshadowed by an eternity
OF architecture. Within sight OF Mt. Olivet
and Gethsemane and with the heavens and
the earth full of sunshine, we start out on
the very road mentioned in the text when it
says: "A certain man went down from Je-
rusalem to Jericho and tell among thieves"
No road that l ever saw was SO well con-
Structed for briganduge-deepg uileys. sharp
turns. caves on,either side. There are so places
on this roai where ahighwayman might sur
prise and overpower an unarmed pilgrim,
his cry for help, his shrek of pain. his death
groan would be answered only by the echoes.
On this road to-day we met groups OF men
who, Judging from their countenan ces, have
IN their veins the blood Of many generations
OF Rob Roys, Josrphus says that Herod at
one time discharged from the service of the
temple 40 600 men and that the great part
Of them became robbers. So late as 1920
Sir Frederick Henniker, an English tourist
was attacked on this very road from .Ierusa-
lem to Jericho and shot and almost slain.
There has never been any scarcity Of bandits
along the road we travel to-da y.
-. WITH the fresh memory OF some recent vo-
lence in their midst, Christ tells the people
OF the good Samaritan who came along that
way and took care OF q poor fellow who had
been set upon by villainous Arabs and
robbed and pounded and cut. We encamped
or lunch that noon close by an old stone
building, said to be the tavern where the
scene spoken of in the Bible eliminated
Tumbled in the dust and gaspin, with
wounds, the victim of this highway robbery
lay in the middle OF the road-il TACT of
which | am certain, because the Bible SAYS
the people passed by on either side There
we're II, 900 priests living at Jericho, and
they had to go to Jerusalem to otfciate at
the temple. And one of these ministers of
religion, suppose, was on his way to the
temple service, and he is startled as he sees
this bleeding victim in the middle of the
road. oh he says, there is man that
iras been attacked by thieves" 'Why don t
YOU go homer says the minister. The man
IN comatose state makes no answer or,
with IL hali-dazed look, puts his wounded
hand to his gnshe1 forehead and drawls out
,'"hnt?' "Well, says the minister, Il must
hurry on to my duties at Jerusalem. have
TO Kill lamb and two pigeons in sacrifice
today. cannot spend any more time with
this unfortunate. l guess somebody else
Will take care OF him. But this is one of the
things that cannot be helped anyhow. Be-
side that. my business is with souls and not
With bodies. Good morning! When you get
well enough to sit up, Iwi be glad to see you
ut the Temple And the minister curves his
way out toward the overhanging sides O. the
road and passes. You hpyocrite! One of
the chief Offices Of religion is to heal wounds.
You might have done here kindness tnat
wonid have been more acceptable to God
thnn all the incense that will smoke ND rom
your censor or the next three weeks and you
missed the chance. Go on your way! Exc.
Grated by the centuries
Soon afterward, u Levite came upon the
scene. The Levltes looked after the music
OF the temple ana waited upon the priests
and provided the supplies of the tenn ple.
This Levite passing along this road where .r9
we are to-day, took look at the mass o
bruises and laceration in the middle of the
road. My! my!'' SAYS the Levite, this
man is awiuIly hurt and he ought to be help.
Gu. but my business IS to sing IN the enc
at the temple. Ii l am not there no one
will carry my part. Beside that, there NAV
not be enough trankincense Tor the cencers
and the wine or oil may have given out
and what fearful balk in the service that
would make. Then one OF the priests might
get his breast-plate on the crooked. But it
seems SO bad to leave this man in this con
dition. Perhaps l had better try to staunch
this bleeding and give him little stim ulant
But, no! the ceremony at Jer nsalem is O
more Importance than taking care OF the
wounds OF man who will probably soon be
dead anyhow. This highway robbery ought
to be stopped for it binders US Levites on
onr way to the temple. There, have lost
five minutes already Go along, you beastr
he shouts, as he strikes his heels into the
aides o the animal carrying him, and the
dust rising from the road soon hides the
iurd -learted official
But a third person is coming along this
road. You cannot expect him to do any
thing by way of alienation. because he anG
the wounded man belong to different nationt
which have abominated each other for cen
turtles. The wounded man is an Israeite
Z and the stranger now coming on this scene
OF suffering is a Samaritan They belonged
70 nations which hated each other with a,
;tbjnrgation anu malediction dnbolic. They
had opposition temples. one on Mount Geri
n m md tho fhnr Af i ~. \