Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-10
THE HOLY LAND.
The Seventh Of DR.. Talmage's Sc
ries on His Recent Journey.
Passing Through Damascus Gate Out OF
Jerusalem for Journey North
ward for Bethel.
"reminiscences from the Life of Christ Inter-
probation to be Placed on the
Stories Of the Bible.
Special to the Gazette.

BRooKLYS, n. Y, Nov. 9.-To-day
DR.. Tainage preached the seventh of
his course of sermons on his recent tour
In Palestine. AS on previous Sundays
the sermon WAS preached before two
large audiences. In the morning 1t was
preached IN the academy OF music in this
city. and at night Dr.. Talmage preached
il again in the New York academy of
music, which the Christian Herald con-
tinues TO rent for these services. During
;he SIX meetings thus far held in New
York, 30, 900 prople have endeavored TO
hear DR.. Talrrage preach. OF these,
30 600 have been admitted and 80, 900
have been turned away for lack of sc-
com nodatiOn. Following is the sermon
from the text. $50 l lifted up mine
eyes the way toward the nortu.'' (Eze-
kiel SOD
At O'Clock on December afternoon,
| through Damascus gate We are passing
out of Jerusalem for u journey north
ward. Ho! for Bethel with its stairs, the
seHpttom step OF which was stone pillow.
| and Jacobs well with its immortal COLO
guy, and Nazareth with its Divine boy
IN his fathers carpenter shop. and the
most glorious lake that ever rippled or
flashed:
Blue Galilee. sweet Galilee,
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
| and Damascus with its crooked street
called Staight, and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic,
evangelistic, prophetic, patrisrchal,
kingly and Christly rem uisences.
In travelling along the roads Of Pales-
tine, | am impressed as l could not 9TH
erwise have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot. We
find him occasionally on boat, aud once
riding in triumphal procession, as it Is
sometimes called, although 1t seems to
me that the hosannas of the crowd coul
not have made ride on stubborn, un-
impressive aud funny creature like that
which battered with Him into Jerusalem,
very much of a triumph. But we are
made 10 understand that generally He
walked. How much that means only
those know who have gone over the dis
lance traversed by Christ. We are
accustomed to read that Bethany
is two miles from Jerusalem. Well,
any man in ordinary health can walk
two miles without fatigue. But not
more than one man out of 1000 can walk
from Bethany to Jerusalem without eX-
Lauston. 1t is over the Mount of Olives,
duu you lGSl uinOtIss tue
stones and descend where eXertion is
necessary to keep you from falling pros
trate. l, who am accustomed to walk
fifteen or twenty miles without lassitude,
tried part of this road over the Mount of
Olives ana confess | would not want to
try it often, such demand does it make
upon one g physical energies. Yet Christ
walked it twice day-in the morning
from Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the
evening from Jerusalem to Bethany.
Likewise II seemed q small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to NaZa-
reth. But 1t will take us four days of
hard horseback riding. sometimes on
trot and sometimes on gallop to do it
this week. The way is mountainous in
the extreme. To those who went up to
the Tip-Top house on Mount Washington
before the railroad was laid 1 will say
that this journey from Jerusalem to Naz-
areth is like seven such American jour-
neys. So, all up and down and across
and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked.
Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon rode.
Herod rode. Antony rode. But Jesus
walked. With swollen ankles and sore
muscles of the legs, and bruised heel
and stiff Joints and painting lungs and
faint head, along the roads, and where
We tried to get a new horse other than
that on which we had ridden on the
Journey to the Dead Sea, for he had
faults which our close Rcquantanceship
had developed. But after experimenting
with other quadrupeds of that species,
and finding that all horses, like their
riders, have faults, we concluded 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 dragomen tells us that this is the
last opportunity We shall have of looking
at Jerusalem, we turn our horses head
towards the city and take long, sad
and thrilling look at the religious capital
of our planet. This is the most impress
sive view of the most tremendous city of
all time On and around this hill
the armies of the crusaders at the
first sight of the city threw them
selves on their faces In worship.
Here most of the besieged armies
encamped the night before opening their
volleys of death against Jerusalem. Our
last look! Farewell, Mount Zion. Mount
Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount CAL
ysryl Will we never see them again?
Never, The world is so large and time
IL SO short, aud there are 80 many things
we have never seen at all, that we can
not afford to duplicate visits or see any
thi more than. once. Farewell yon-
der thrones of gray rock, and the 5000
years of architecture and 5attlefelds.
Farewell sacred, sanguinary, triumph
ant. Inundated Jerusalem! Across this
valley of the Kedron with my right hand
1 throw thee kiss OF valedictory. Cur
last look. like our first look, an agita-
ton of body, mind and soul, indecriba-
BILE.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text. lift
up mine eyes the way toward the north.
Near here was one of the worst tragedies
of the ages mentioned in the Bible. A
hospitable old man coming home ut even
1sde from his work in the fields. finds
two strangers. a husband and wife,
proposing to lodge in the street because
no shelter is offered them, and invites
them to come IN and spend the night in
his home. During the night. the ruf1ians
of the reighborhood conspired together
aud surrounded the house and left the
woman dead upon the doorstep and the
husband, to rally in revenge the twelve
tribes, cut the corpse Of the woman into
twelve parts and cent twelfth OF It to
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