Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-30
BIBLE LANDS IN WINTER
TIE FOURTH SERMON OF DR.. TAI
MAGE's ITINERARY SERIES.

IMAGES ITINERARY SERIES.
The Brook of Cherith. the Good samari-
tan. the Rams Horns of Jericho. and
Many other Inspiring scenes and
Themes-The Fountain of Elisha.
BROOKLYN, Oct l9-The widespread and
absorbing interest in Dr. Talmage's
course of sermons on the Holy Land and
adjoining countries is demonstrated by the
thousands who are turned away from the
doors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
on Sunday mornings, and The Christian
Herald services in TIE New York Academy
of Music on Sunday evenings, unable to
gain even standing room in those immense
auditoriums Today the fourth sermon of
the series was preached as before, in this
city in the morning and in New York at
night. Having announced as his text Luke
X, 80: "A certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho" Dr. Talmage said;
/ 1t is the morning of Dec in Jeru-
! salem, and we take stirrups for the road
along which the wayfarer of old feH among
1 thieves, who left him wounded and half
/ dead Jobs picture Of the horse in the
/ orient as having neck clothed with thun-
der is not true of most horses now in Pal
estine. There is no thunder on their necks,
+ though there is some lightning in their
heels. Poorly fed and numerically
4 whacked. they sometimes retort. To Amer
leans and English, who are accustomed to
guide horses by the Bride these horses OF
the orient. guided only by foot and voice,
make equestriqnism an uncertainty, and
the pull on the bride that you intend for
slowing mp Of the pace may be mistaken
for hint that you want TO outgallop the
wind or wheel in swift circles like the
hawk But they can climb steps and des-
eend precipices with skilled foot, and the
one | chose for our journey IN Palestine
shall have the praise Of going for weeks
without one stumbling step amid rocky
sleeps, where an ordinary horse would not
for an hour maintain surefootedness
There were eighteen of our party and
TWENTY-FIVE beasts Of burden carried our
camp eqnipment. We are led by an Arab
sheik. with his black Nuhian servant car
rying a loaded gun in full sight. but il is
the fact that this sheik represents the
Turkish government which assures the
safety OF the caravan.
@TTE FELL AMONG THIEVES"
We cross the Jehoshaphat valley, which,
III IL had not been nleItfiAbtt ~ iAl1Abl tAAtA
were only now discovered. would excite the
admiration Of all who look upon it, It is
like the gorges Of the Yosemite or the
cbasns Of the Yellowstone park. The
i sides OF this Iehoshaphat valley are tun
T neled with graves and overlooked byJeru
salem walls-an eternity Of depths over
+ shadowed by an eternity Of architecture
within sight of Mount Olivet and Geth
senane and with the heavens and thu
enrth full Of sunshine, we start out on The
very road mentioned in the text when 1
saws, ~ certain man went down iron
Jerusalem TO Jericho and fell among
thieves" No road thatl ever saw was 50
we'll constructed for brigandage r deel
z qulleys. sharp turns, cave on either SIDE
' There are ffty places on this road where
4 hirhwayInan might surprise and over
mower IN unarmed pilgrim. His cry TO
holm his Shrek Of pain, his death groal
yyorld be answered only by the echoes o.
This road today we met groups Of mel
Who iudring from their countenance
have in their veins the blood Of many gen
erafions OF Rob Roys. .Iosephus says tina
uerod nj one time discharged from IN
service OF nne temple forty thousand men
and that the great part Of them becam
robbers So late as $500 sir Frederic
Henniker. an English tourist, was NJ
tackled on this very road from Jerusalei
10 Jericho and shot and almost siam
There has never been any scarcity OF bar
dits along the road we travel today
with the fresh memory of some receu
violence in their minds Christ tells tn
neople Of the good Samaritan who cam
along thar way and took care Of poor fe
low that had been set upon by villainou
Arabs and robbed aud pounded ana Gu
we encamped for lunch that neon close b
nm old stone building, said TO he the taVer
where the scene spoken Of in the Bible Gu
\ ninuted Tumbled in the dust and ghas
IL with wounds the victim Of this higl
vvnv robbery lay in the middle ot the roa
,e - fact OF which am certain, because II
h. Rible saws the people passed by on eith'
d side There were l@.0lj priests living
Is Jericho and they had TO 20 to Jerusaiel
20 ofliciate AT the temple. And one
tb.sa ministers Of religion, ! suppose, va
=, his way to the temple service, and he
s,ar,led ns ne sees this bleeding victim
the middle of the road ION. he say
..bare * Il man that has been attacked
thieves Why don't you go home
snys the minister. The man, IN coiliile
state. makes 20 answer, or, Win "a
fnzed look. puts his wounded hand 70
eaShed forehead and draws OUT ~.
afv.ll.f' says she minister. - mast hnr'
4 on TO my duties at Jerusalem nave
IN Eill a lamb and two pigeons ih sacFiIce Z
n4 dav cannot spend any more time wal
g. ~. nnfortunate guess somebody Ell
Of viii take ctreof him. But TINS Is one
me things that cannot be helped anyho'
. beside that. my business is WITH souls an
NOT with bodies Good morning n,
~ You get well enough to SIT up VIII
glsd to see you ut the temple
rIIE NEGLECTFCL PrIEsf-
=. And the minister curves his way o.
~ to,var,l fine overhanging sides OF the 70.
"a and masses. You hypocrite! One Of q
ed chief Offices of religion is 70 heal wound
~ Won might have done here kindness ~ =.
nd would have been more acceptable 20 "
%, o. than an the incense that VIII sli'ohe !