Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-08
MEAD SEA AND JORDAN.
a,r0N DELIVERED BY DR.. =.
DEWITT TALMACE.


,oh the Holy Land.
~. TaImage announced his text as
-" w., civ 81: He toucheth the hills
I'D they smoke. lie sald:
'' norid the poet here pictures volcano,
.nL what Church's CotopaXi does on
"oGtrrs canvas this author does in
pTords. Hou see MI, calm and still
fo, aces immOvable, but the Lord
"mt Of the heavens put his myers on the
Wv "nnr if and from it rise thick vapors,
rndprsh0t with fire. He toucheth the
IiIIs and they smoke"
God is the only being who can manage
.,o1.9uo, and again and again has lie
snpoyrd volcanic action. The pictures
~ tLr walls of Pompeii, the exhumed
JtoI;ar riry. as we saw them last NoVem-
:, demonstrate that the city was not
fit to live
!, iLa year 20. On the 4th of August,
hIarI, column rose above the adjoining
,.o,ntain and spread out, Pliny says, as
hn saw it., like a great pine tree, wider
and wider. until it began to rain upon the
.f,y first thin ashes and then pumice
,tonr, and Sulphurous fumes scooped,
and streams Of mud poured through the
Streets till few people escaped and the
ttItN
t,ntS 500 years after We're found EN-
haImrd in the scori;e of that awful doom.
THE Lord called upon volcanic forces to
obitrrate that protigate city. He
toprhrd the hills and they smoked
Nothing but volcanic action can ex-
,Iain what | shall show you at the Dead
Spa anon which looked last December
and Of whose waters | took bitter and
singing taste. Concerning all that re-
zion there has been controversy enough
fo nil libraries. science saying one thing
revelation saying another thing. But
admit volcanic action divnely employed
and both testimonies are one and the
SAME Geology, chemistry. geography,
astronomy, ichthyOlOgy, OrnithOlOgy and
zoology are coming one by one to confirm
the Scriptures. Two leaves of one book
are Revelation and Creation, and the
ppnmanShip is by the same divine hand.
Our horseback ride will not be 50 steep
to-day and you can stay on without
rnging to the pummel OF. the saddle,
but the scenes amid which we ride shall,
if possible, be more thrilling, and by the
time the horses snuff the sulphurous at
moSphcrc Of Lake Asphaltircs or the
Dead Sea we will be ready TO dismount
and read from our Bibles about what was
done that day by the Lord when~lIG
touched the hills and they smoked.
Take Il detour and pass along by the
rocky fortress Of MaSada, where oc-
cured something more wonderful in the
way Of desperation than you have ever
heard of, unless you have heard OF that.
Ilrrod built Il palace amid these heaps of
black and awful rocks which look like
tumblcd midnight. A great band OF
robbcrS-abOut one thousand, including
their families-afterward held the
:, fortress. When the Roman army
%Nrmcd that steep, and the bandits
coUld no, longer hold the place, theil
chloftain,$ %5EleaZar, made powerful
speech. which persuaded them to die be-
fore they were captured.
First the men kissed their families a
loving and fearful goodbye and then
put dagger into their hearts, and the
women and the children were slain.
Then ten men were chosen byzlot to Stay
all the other men, and each man lay
doWu by the dead wife and children and
waited for these cNecutiOners to do their
work. This done, one man Of the ten
killed the other nine. Then the sur
Eyor committed suicide. Two women
aud five children had hid themselves
and. after all was over, came forth to
tell of the nine hundred and sixty slauSh-
tered Great and rugged natural scenery
makes the most tremendous natures fOl
good or evil. Great statesmen ana great
robbers, great orators and great butchers
were nearly all born or reared among
mountain prCcipiceS. Strong natures
are hardly ever born upon the plain
When men have anything greatly good
or greatly evil to do they come down on
the rocks
Pass ON from under the shadow OF
Nasada, the scene of concentrated dl-
ahoiiSm, and come along where the salt
crystals crackle under the horses hoofS.
You are near the most Godforsaken
region of all the earth. You to whom
the word lake has heretofore suggested
those bcwitchments of beauty Luzefne
or tayuga. some great pearl set by a low
ing God in the bosom of the luXurlant
valley, change all your ideas about a
lake, and see this sheet of water which
the Bible calls the Salt Sea, or Sea OF
the Plain, and JOSephus calls Lake AS
qualities. The muleteers will take care
OF the horses while we go down TO the
Drink and dip up the liquid mixture IN
the palm OF the hand. The waters are
rommingling of birthstone and pltch.
ana have six times larger percentage OF
salt than those of the Atlantic ocean,
NE ocean having four per cent. OF SAT-
ana this lake twenty-siX and quarter
per cent.
Lake Sir-i-kol of India is the highest
lake in the world This lake, on the
banks of which we kneel, is the lowest
rake. 1t emptieS into no sea. among
other things for the simple reason that
water cannot RIM IN hill 1t swallows