The Red Cloud chief., 1890-12-05
AT NAZARETH.
d.. Talmage Continues His Lao.
lures on the Holy Land.


ly Land. delivered At BROOKLYN, Rev.
I. Dewitt Talmage took for his subject
Among the Holy Hills," and the text
WAS from Luke iv. l6: He came To
Nazareth. where he was brought up"
Following is the sermon:
What a splendid sleep had last night
in a Catholic convent my first sleep
within doors since leaving Jerusalem.
and all OF us as kindly treated as though
we had been the Pope and his college of
cardinals passing that way. This morn.
ing l come out on the steps of the con.
vent and o upon the most beautiful
village OF all Palestine, its houses of
white limestone. Guess its name!
Nazareth. historical Nazereth, a of
the trinity Of places that all Christian
%raveiers must see or feel that they
ave not seen Palestine. namely, Beth.
lehem, Jerusalem. Nazareth-babyhood.
~boyhood. manhood Of Him for whom /
believe there arc 80. 600. o people who
would now. IL it were required, march
out and die. whether under axe or down
in the floods or straight through the
fire.
Grand old village is Nazareth, even
putting aside its sacred associations
First OF all. it is clean; and that can be
said Of few Of the Oriental villages.
Its neighboring town OF Nablous is the
fithiest town ! ever saw, although its
chief Industry is the manufacture Of
soap They export all of it. Nazareth
was perhaps unusually clean the morn
ing speak OF, for, as we rode into the
village the afternoon before, the show
ers which had put our mackintoshes to
the test had poured floods through all
the alleys under command of the clouds;
those thorough street commissioners.
BESIDES that, Nazareth has been the
scene OF battles passing it from the
lsraeiite TO Mohammedan and from Mo-
hammedan to Christian. the most won.
derful OF the battles being that in which
$4,000 Turks were beaten by 9. 100
French, Napoleon Bonaparte command
ing; that greatest OF Frenchmen walk
ing these very streets through which
Jesus walked for ncar.y thirty years.
the morals OF the two. the antipodes.
the SHOWS of Russia and the plaques Of
Egypt appropriately following the one,
the doxologies OF earth and the hal
lelujahs of Heaven appropriately
FOL lowing the other. And then this
town is go beautifully situated in
a great green bowl, the sides OF tho
bowl the surrounding fifteen hills The
God OF nature. who is the God Of the
Bible. evidently scooped out this valley
for privacy and separat on from all the
world during three most important dec
AIDES, the thirty years OF Christ's boy.
hood and youth, for Of the thirty.
three years OF Christ's stay on earth be
spent thirty OF them in this town in
getting ready-a startling ,ebuke to
those who have no patience with the
long years of preparation necessary
when they enter on any Specia! mission
for the church or the world. The trou-
bic is with most young men hat they
want to launch their ship from the dry
dock before it is ready, and hence so
many sink in the first cyclone. BE a
good employe in your trade until you
are qualified to be an employer. lie
content with Nazareth until you are
ready for the buffetings Of Jerusalem.
You may get SO gloriousiy equipped in
the thirty years that you can do more in
three years than most men can accom-
plish in a prolonged lifetime.
All Christ's boyhood was spent in this
village and its surroundings. There is
the Virgin" to which by His mothers
side lie trot;ed along. holding her hand.
No doubt about it; It is the only we'll in
the village. and 1t has been the only we'll
for 3. 600 years. THIS morning We visit
II and the mothers have their children
with them now as then.
The work of drawing water in all ages
In those countries has been women's
work. Scores OF them are waiting for
their turn at il, three great and ever
lasting springs rolling out into that we'll
the r barreis, their hogsheads OF water
in foods ~gloriously abundant The well
is surrounded by olive groves and wide
spaces in which people talk and chill
aren, wearing charms on their heads as
protection against the ''evil eye" are
playing, and women with their strings
Of coin on either side of their face, and
in skirts Of blue. and scarlet and white.
and green. move ON with water jars on
their heads Mary. suppose. almost
always Ook Jesus the boy with her, for
she had no one she could leave Him
with. being in humble circumstances
and having no attendants. do not be-
l.eve there was n OF the fifteen sur
rounding hills that the boy Christ did
not range ron bottom to top. or n
Tavern in their sides lie did no ex-
plore. nor one species of bird flying
across the tops that He could not call by
name. or m Of all the species Of fauna
browsing on those sleeps that He had
not recognized.
You see il all through His sermons.
II a man becomes a public speaker. in
his orations or discourses you discover
his early whereabouts What q boy secs
between v and seventeen always
sticks to him. When the apostle Peter
breaches you see the fishing nets with
which he had from his earliest DAYS
been familiar. And when Amos deliv-
ers his prophecy you heal in it the
beating Of the herds which he had in
boyhood attended. And in our Lords
sermons and conversations you see all
the phases of village life and the
mountainous life surrounding it They
raised their own chickens in Nazareth,
and in after t me he cries: oh. Jerusa-
lem! Jerusalem!how often would I have
gathered thee as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her Wings He had
seen his mother open the family ward
robe q: the close OF the summer and the
moth miilers flying cut having des.
troyed the garments. and in after years
he said: Lay not up for yourselves
treasures on earth where moth doth
corrupt" In childhood he had seen a
mile Of flowers, white as the snow, or
red as the fame. or blue As the sea, or
green as the tree tops. and no wonder
in II S manhood sermon He said: Con
s.der the lilies" While one day on .
high point where now stands he tomb
Of Neby Ismail. lie had Eel winding
past Him SO near as almost to furry His
hair. the partridge and the hoopoe. and
the thrush. and the osprey. and the
crane. and the raven, and no wonder
afterward in His manhood sermon He