The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-29
BIBLE LANDS IN WINTER.
THE FOURTH SERMON OF DR.. TAI
IMAGES ITINERARY SERIES.

THE FOURTH SERMON OF DR.. TAI
MAeE's ITINERARY SERIES.
The Brook Of Cherith, the Good Samari.
tain, the Rams Horns Of Jericho, and
Ma Other Inspiring Scenes and
Themes-The Fountain of Elisha.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 19.-The widespread
and absorbing interest ID Dr.. Tai
mage's course OF sermons on the Holy
Land and adjoining countries is de,
monstrated by the thousands who are
turned away from the doors of the
Brooklyn Academy Of Music On Sun
day mornings, and The Christian Her
aid services in the New York Academy
Of Music on Sunday evenings, unable
to gain even standing room in those
immense auditoriums. To-day the
fourth sermon OF the series was preach
ed as before, in this city in the morn
ing and in New York at night. Hav-
ing announced as his text Luke x, 80
ga certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho" DR.. Talmage
said:
1t is the morning of December 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 clothed with thunder" is not
true Of most borses now in Palestine.
There is no thunder on their necks,
housh there is some lightning in their
heels. Poorly fed and unmerclfuIiy
whacked, they sometimes retort. 10
Americans and English, who are ae-
cIstomed to guide horses by the bride,
these horses of the orient, guided only
bg foot and voice, make equestr1anlsm
an uncertainty, and the pull on the
bride that you intend for slowing up
of the pace may be mistaken for hint
that YOU want to outgallop the wind or
wheel in Witt circles Ike the hawk.
But they can climb steps and descend
precipiceS with skilled foot, and the
one | chose for our journey in Pales-
tine shall have the praise OF going for
weeks without one stumbling step
amid rocky sleeps. where an ordinary
horse would not for an b Ut maintain
surefootedness. There were eighteen
of our party, and twenty-five beasts OF
burden carried our camp equipment.
We are leo by an Arab sheik, with his
black Nubian servant carrying a load
ed gun in full sight, but it is the fact
that this sheik represents the Turkish
government which assures the safety
of the caravan.
"HE FELL AMONG THIEVES"
We cross the Jehoshaphat valley,
which, if it had not been memorable IN
history and were only now discovered,
would excite the admiration of all who
look cpon it. It is like the gorges OF
the Yosemite or the chasms OF the Vel
lowstone park. The sides of this Jehos-
haphat valley are tunneled with graves
and overlooked by JerHsalega IMsalllS-ao
eternity of DEPTHS UverShaooWeo ey an
ETERNITY Of architecture. Within sight
of Mount Olvet and Gethsemane and
with the heavens and the earth full of
sunshine, we start out on the very Eoad
mentioned in the text when it says ::
"a certain man went down from Jeru-
salem to Jericho and fell among
thieves" No road that ever saw was
so well constructed for b1igandage-
deep eulleys, sharp turns, caves on
either side. There are fifty places on
this road where highwayman might
surprise and overpower an unarmed
pilgrim. His cry for help, his Shrek
of pain, his death groan would be ans
wered only by the echoes. On this road
to-day we met groups Of men who
Judging from their countenances have
in their veins the blood of many genera
tions of Rob Roys. Josephus says that
Herod at one time discharged from the
service Of the temple forty thousand
men, and that the great part Of them
became robbers. So late as 1920 Sir
Frederick Henniker, an English tour
lists. was attacked on this very road
from Jerusalem to Jericho and shot
and almost slain. There has never
been any sacrcity OF bandits along the
road we travel to-day.
With the fresh memory of some re-
4 cent violence in their minds Christ tells
a the people Of the good Samaritan who
4 came along that way and took care OF
8 a Door fellow that had been set upon
by yillainous Arabs and rebbed and
pounded and cut. We encamped tol
lunch that noon close by an old stone
building, said to be the tavern where
the scene spoken of in the Bible culmi-
mated. Tumblei in the dust and ghast-
" with wounds the victim Of this high
way roll berry lay in the middle of the
road-a fact Of which am certain be-
cause the Bible says the people passed
by on either side. There were 1900
! priests living at Jericho, and they had
! to 90 to Jerusalem to ohSclate at the
temple. And one of these ministers Of
religion, ! suppose, was on his way to
j the temple service, and he is startled as
8 he sees this bleeding victim in the mid.
die of the road. "On," he says, "here is
a man that has been attacked of thieves.
Why don't you go home? says the
minister, The man, in comatose state,
makes no ans uer. or, with a half dazed
look. puts his wounded haud to his
1 sashrd forehead and drawis out,
sWhat?" We'll" says the minister, Il
/ must hurry on to my duties at JeruSa,
lem. ! have to kill lamb and two
pigeons in sacrifice to-day. cannot
spend any more time with this unfor,
tunate. guess some one else will take
care Of him. But this is one Of the
things that cannot be helped. anyhow
BesiC e that, my business is with souls
and not with bodies. Good morning
When you get well enough to sit up
win be glad to see you at the temple"
rHE NEGLEcTFUL PRIEST.
And the minister curves his way out
toward the oyerhanging sides of the
road and passes. You hypocrite! One
Of the chief Offices of religion is to hea
wounds. You might have done here
kindness that would have been more
acceptable to God than all the incense
4 that will smoke up from your cense
q for the next three weeks, and you miss