The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-11-20
TAIN AGEYS TRIP,
What He Saw Along the
Country Roads i'm Pales-
tine.
Scriptural Events Treated
Like Ordinary Modern
Affairs.

BROOKLYN Special.-Dr. Talmage took for
his text: So lifted up mine Dyes the way
toward the north. Ez. VIII. 81 and said:
In travelling along the roads of Palestine,
am impressed as Icould not otherwise have
been, with the fact that Christ for the most
part went afOot We find Him Occa-
sionally on boat, and once riding on Il tri-
umphal procession, rs it is sometimes
called, although it seems to me that the
hosannas of the crowd could not have made
q ride on q stubborn, unimpressive and
Eunny creature like that which battered with
Him into Jerusalem, very much of q triumph.
But we are made to understand that general
those know who have gone over the distance
traversed by Christ. We are accustomed to
read that Bethany is two miles from Jer-
nsalem. Well any man with ordinary health
can walk two miles without fatigue. But
not more than one man out Of q thousand
can walk from Bethany to Jerusalem without
exhaustion. 1t is over the Mount of Olives
and you must climb up among the rolling
stones and descend where exertion is 'neces-
Bary TO keep you from falling PROSTATE. ],
who am accustomed to walk Is or 20 miles
without lassitude, tried part of this road
over the Mount of Olives aud confess would
not want to try it often, such demand does
~
Christ walked it twice day-in the m orning
from Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the even
Ing from Jerusalem to Bethany
Likewise it seemed a small thing that Christ
walked from Jerusalem to Nazareth But it
Will take us four days Of hard horseback
; :idlng' sometimes Oh trot and some
times on u gallop to do it this week.
The way is mountainous in the extreme
10 those who went up to the Tip,Top
House on Mount Washington, before the
railroad was laid, I will say that this Journey
from Jerusalem to Nazareth is like seven
such American journeys. So, all up and down
nnd across and recrossing Palestine, Jesus
walked. Ahab rode David rode. solomon
rode. Herod rode. Antony rode. But Jesus
walked: With swollen ankles and sore mus
ties of the legs, and bruised heel and stiff
oints and painting lungs and faint head,
along the roads, and where there were no
roads at all, Jesus walked.
Wetrled to get Il new horse other than hat
on which We had ridden on the Journey TO
the Dead Sea. for he had faults which our
close acquaintanceship had developed. But
hitter some experimenting with other quad
rupeds Of that species. and finding that all
horses, like their riders, have faults, we con-
GUIDED to choose a saddle on that beast
whose faults we were most prepared to pity
Or resist We rode down through the valley
and then up on Mount Scopus and. as our
dragoman tells US that this is the last op.
portunity we shall have of looking at Jerusa.
lem, we turn our horses head towards
the, city and take long, sad and thrilling
Look at the religious capital of our planet
inns is the most impressive view of the most
tremendous city of all time On and around
this hill the armies of the crusaders at the
first sightof the city threw themselves on
their faces in worship. Here most of the
beseiged armies encamped the night before
opening their volleys OF death against Jeru-
salem. Our last look! Farewell Mount
Mount Calvary! viii we never see them
again? Never. The world is SO large and
time is 50 short, and there are so many
things we have never seen at all, that we
cannot afford to duplicate visits or see any
thing more than once. Farewell yonder
thrones Of gray rock, and the 5000 years of
architecture and battefelds. Farewell
sacred, sangunary, triumphant, Inundated
Jerusalem Across this valley of the Ked-
| ron with my right hand throw thee a kiss
OF yaledictory. Our last look, like our first
look, an agitation OF body, mind and soul,
indeScribable
Up mine eyes the way toward the north
Near here was one Of the worst tragedies of
| the ages, mentioned in the Bible A hos.
pltable old man coming home at eventide
from his work in the fields, finds two
strangers, husband and wife, proposing
to lodge in the street because no shelter is
OF them, and invites them to come
home: During the night, the rufians OF the
neighborhood conspired together, and sur.
rounded the house and left the woman dead
on the doorstep and the husband to rally
in revenge the II tribes, cut the corpse OF the
woman into ~ parts and sent twel TIL of
1t to each tribe, and the fury OF the nation
was aroused and a peremptory demand was
made Tor the surrender of the assassins and,
the demand refused, in one day 20, 900 peo-
pie were left dead on the field and the next
day $4,000. Wherever our horse to-day
plants his foot, in those ancient times a
corpse lay, and the roads were crossed by
red rlvulets sol carnage.
NOW we pass on to where seven youths
were put to death and their bodies gibbeted
or hung in chains, not for an thing they had
| themselves done, but as a reparation for
what their father and grandfather Saul had
done. Burial was denied these youths from
May until November. Rizpail, the mother
OF two OF these dead boys. appoints herself
as sentinel to guard the seven corpses from
beak ofraven and tooth of wolf and paw OF
lion. She pitches a black tent on the rock
close by the gibbets. Rizpah by day sits on
the ground in front of her tent, and when a
vulture begins to lower out OF the MONDAY
sky seeking it's prey amcng the glib
BETS, Rizpah rises her long hair flying
| 49, 'AAAN' e1iA", S"lHSluH her iTus
wildly about Shoes away the bird of
prey until it retreats to it's eyre Alright
she rests under the shadow ofhe tent and
sometimes falls into drowsiness of half
sleep. But the step Of jackal among the
dry leaves or the painting of a hyena arouses
her, and with the fury OF maniac she rushes
out upon the rock crying. Away! uway!''
end then examining the gibbets to see that
they still keep their burden, RETURNS again to
her tent till some whooping wing from the
midnight sky or some growing monster on
the rock again wakes her
mother watching her, dead children
through May, June, July, August, Septem-
per and October! What a vigil! Painters
have tried to put upon canvass the scene and
they succeeded in sketching the hawks in
me sky and the panthers crawling out from
the Jungle but they fail to give the wanness,
the earnestness, the supern atural courage,
the, infinite self.sacritice Of Rizpah, the
mother. A mother in the quiet home watch
ing ny the casket Of dead child for one
night exerts the artist to his utmost. but
who IS sufficient to put upon canvass m 9TH
er for six months of midnights guarding her
whole family, dend ind gibbeted upon the
mountains? Go home, Rizpah! You must
be awfully tired. You ore sacrificing your
reason and your life Tor those whom you
can never bring back again to your bosom.
AS l say that. from the darkest midnight oil
the century Rzpah turns upon me md cries;
How dare you tell me to go home? am
mother | am not tired. You might as