Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-11
A SERMON ON DAMASCUS.
DIR. TALMAeE CONTINUES HIS sERies
81 81 ~ ON PALESTINE. 9'''27 i'i

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The Text Acts tx, o. As He Journeyes
BE Came Near Dapascqs,,';77rrFn Full Re
port Of q Most Admirable Adm ,piseopr,.
Herewith Presented. ,e;,I.gn,na iTe M
BRooKLYN, Dec. 1.-THE New York Acad
envy Of Music was filled with an audience
ofnearlysiS thousand persons AZ Tue Chris
tiah Herald service this evening when DR..
Ialniagedeliveredt the eleventh. isertnbrli 81
his series on Palestine and the adjoining
countries. The same sernonsi asi on pre-
vious Sundays. bad beer, preached in the
morning to another, large audience ia the
Brooklyn Academy Of Music. The sub
iect was Damascus, Wand the text, ,rAs
he journeyed he game near qDaniaseus.ii-
Acts tx, 3 pr. Talmage said:h . 4 e4ut
q In Palestine we spent last night. in a
mud howell Of oiie story; but cameiss and
sheep in the basement. Yet never did the
most bril- liant. hoteLop any eontiRept seem
80 attfscfsv6 TO me az 1 hat Nstract1fe. III
we had bsenobiiged t6stay ID tsnf. as we
expected to dothat night, we must have
perished a violent storm had opened
upon us It's Yollcys Of hail and snow and
rain ana wind us Tito let US know what
the Bible means when prophet and evan
gelist aud Christ himself spoke of the fury
of the elements. The atmospheric wrath
broke upon us about o'clock in the after
noon aud we were until night exposed to
it. With hands aud feet benumbed. and
our bodies chilled to the bone, we made
our slow way While high up on the
81 Ia he I.,
signal of distress halted the party ,f for
down in tie ravines one OF the horses had
fallen and his rider must not be left alone
amid that wilderness of scenery and horror
of storm. As the night approached the
tempest thickcpsd ansl hlaekenedf and
strengthened Some Of our attendants
going ahead had gained permission for US
TO halt for the night in the mud hovel |
spoke cf Car first duty on arrival was
the resaseitation Of the exhausted of orr
party Ny room was without a window,
and an iron stove withou. any top in the
center Of the room, the smoke selecting
my eyes in the absence of chimney.
Through an opening iD the floor Arab
faces were several times thrust MP to see
how was progressing But the tempest
ceased during the night, and before it was
fully day we were feeling for the stirrups
Of our sadded horses, this being the day
whose long march win bring us 70 that
cty whose name cannot be pronouneetl in
tie hearing 81 the intelligent or the Chris
tian without making Che blood Jingle aud
the nerves to thrill, and putting the best
emotions ofthesoul into observation-disclosures
Gus t arf yfr4iaesy fp9Ig
c.EsAREA piIIiIPPi. 8
During the day we passed Cmsarea
philippi, the northern terminus of Christ's
iourneyings North of that he never went.
We lunch at noon, serted on the fallensl
columns OF one OF Herod's palaces.
At o'clock in the afternoon. coming to a
hill top, we saw on the broad plain "A city,
which the most famous camel driver Of all
ime, afterwgrdh cflRd glioiianHfRd,9 the
prophet and tlle foanllerof the most stu |
pendous system of error that has ever
cursed the earth, refused to enter because
he said God would allow no main to eater
but one paradise, and be would not enter |
this earthly paradise lest he should be de |
MED entrance 10 the heavenly. But no |
city that ever saw so plays hide aud seek /
with the traveller. The air is3soelear the
distant objects seem close by. You come 4
On the top Of a hill and Damascus seems
only little way oil. But down. gopgo5 |
INTO a valley and you see nothing for the
next half hour but barrenness and rocks
mby7tber volcanoes offs other
ages. Up another Till and down again.
Up again and down again sHilt after Your
patience is sdrnostek hhrsted sou reach the
last hill top, and Che city ofDhihiAeus, the
oldest city under the whole iheavens and
luilt by Noah's grandson, grows upon
'0ur vision Every mile Of the journey
low becomes more solemn and suggestive
nh trefneutleus --as-sa'''.s -i''a''' ~
This is the very road, for it has been the
,aiy road Cor theusands Of years, thesrqad Il
rom ,lerusalemfo Damasetis, dong whifh VI
geaFalcailepf mounted officers went, Ab6nt
~ d Is ago. ID It midst5f them 4 fierce
itilenaH eiie made up ~ t4slgGitHaedofs
lWreil for Christianity for his dminutive
stature. and was the leading spirit, and
hough suffering fn0nl Slroaid infia rfmas1
ion 81 de evess.}frofn th5se ewes flashed \
more indignation against Christ S followers
hun any one Of the horsed procession -Lis
title man, lefore his pFtne WAS changed to
'sakswas chIled SUIT 50 many 81 theA
~ b iist natIire' of III Ages are condensed L
~ slnalnessnf stature The Frenchrlanil
no WIS sometimes called by lbs Troops
Old One Hundred Thousand" was often,
eeause Of his abbreviated personal pres
nee. styled Little Nap lord Nelson,
nh Insignificant statnfe 70 startwii 4 aud !
ne eye put ont at Calvi and his right arm
Zen or at Teneriffe, proves himself AT
t'fgg7,r the migltiest hero Of the En-
li>h navy. The greatest of American theo-
'gans, Archibald AleSdnder, could Stand
Rderthe e.boiv of nlallI ofshis cbutsmpo
ires Look out for little men when they /
art out for some especial mission Of good :
evil. The thnnderbolt is onlya conden- [
'tion Of electricity
sYRiA's MONDAY sun a
Well, tina; galloping group of hossemen
the road to Iy1fHsc,ts, wee ihalteH lic
licker than bombsheli or cavalry charge 5
Ter halted a regiment The Syrian noon /
" because of the clarity VI the atmoss !
here. is the brightest OF alf i6ofst, IS, and Q
e MONDAY sun in Syria-ls I5osl a. ~ teri r
tic for brilliance. But stisfdeffy char noon b
ere flashed from the heavens "A light a
hich made that Syrian sun seem time as &
star Ia comparison. 1t was the face of the i
ain and assembled Christ looking from 8
e heavens. and under the dash of that b
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