The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-10-30
BIBLE LANDS IN WINTER.
THE FOURTH SERMON OF DR.. TAIL
MAGE'S ITINERARY SERIES.

tain, tho Rams Horns OF Jorioho, and
Mn Othor Inspiring scsnos and
Themcs-The Fountain of Elisha.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 10.-The widespread
and absorbing interest In DR.. Tai.
IMAGES 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 OH 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 K. 80
"a 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 "ClotEcd with thunder" is not
true OF most horses now in Palestine.
There is no thunder on their necks.
hOugh there is some lightning in their
heels. Poorly fed and numerically
whacked, they sometimes retort. 10
Americans and English, who are ac-
,lcfn 10 h,.f I, L., i
these horses OF the orient, guided only
by foot and voice, make equestrianism
an uncertainty, and the pull on the
bride that yoE intend for slowing up
of the pace may be mistaken for a hint
that You want to outgallOp the wind or
wheel in wifi 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 hNur maintain
EurefootedEcss. There were eighteen
of our party, and twenty-five beasts of
burden carried our camp equipment
We are led hy aE 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.
Gle FELL AMONG THIEVES"
We cross the Jehoshaphat valley,
which, if 1t had not been mem orable in
history and were only now discovered.
would excite the admiration of all who
look upon it. 1t Is like the gorges of
the Y OScmite or the chaSms of the Yel-
lowstone park. The sides of this Jehos-
haphat valley ere tunneled with graves
and overlooked 10y Jerusalem walls-an
eternity of depths overshadoWed by an
eternity Of architecture. Within sight
of Mount Ouvct 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 ::
IA certain man went down from Jeru-
salem to Jericho and fell among
thieves" No road that | ever saw was
SO we'll constructed for brigandage-
deep gulleys, 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 shriuk
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
Frederick 1lenniker, 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-
cent violence In their minds Christ tells
the people Of the good Samaritan who
came along that way and took care OF
q poor fellow that had been set upon
by villainous Arabs and robbed and
pounded and cut. We encamped tor
lunch that noon close by an old stone
building, said to he the tavern where
the scene spoken of in the Bible culmi-
ly with wounds the victim of this high
way robbery 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 $4,000
priests living at Jericho, and they had
to go to Jerusalem to oficlate 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 mid
die of the road. "Oh," he says, "here Is
man that has been attacked of thieves.
Why don't you go home?' says the
minister. The man, in comatOse state,
makes no answer, or, with half da2ed
look, puts his wounded hand to his
gashed forehead and drawls out,
what ?" "Well." says the minister, II
must hurry on to my duties at Jerusa-
lem. have to XIII a lamb and two
pigeons in sacrifice to-day. l cannot
spend any moro 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,
BesiCe that, my business is with souls
and not with bodies. Good morningl
When you get we'll enough to sit M I
will be glad to see you At the temple"
THE NEGLECTFUL PRIEST.
And the minister curves his way ont
toward the overhanging sides of the
road and passes. You hypocritei One