Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-02
Discourse by DR.. Talmage in the
City OF Brooklyn Yesterday.
First OF His Series of Sunday Morning
Sermons on His Recent Trip to
the Holy Land.
NY FIRST Day in Palestine" the subject; The
Half Was Not Told Me-" the Text
Beautiful and Interesting.
special to the Gazette.

Brooklyn academy Of music to-day DIT.
TaImage began q series OF sermons on his
rece Mt journey to the Holy land. The
subject of to-day's sern N was: "My
First Day in Palestine. After appro-
pirate passages of scripture were read F.,
the congregation sang with great spirit:
we praise thee, 0 God, for The Son of thy love,
For Jesus who died and is now gone above"
The text was: l. Kings 10: Z, 1.-THE
half was not told me.
This is che frat sermon in course of
Sabbath morning sermons on "My Re-
cent Journey Through the Holy Land and
Neighboring Countries-Wh l Saw and
what / Learned. - out of the Ga 900, 900
of our present American population and
the millions of our past, only about
900 have ever visited the Holy land. OF
all those who cross to Europe, less than
uer cent. ever get rs far as Rome, and
less than per cent. even get 10 Athens
tnrd less than quarter of l per cent.
ever get to Palestine. OF the less than
quarter of per cent. who do go to the
Holy land, some see nothing but the nox-
ious insects and the Nth OF the oriental
cities and come back wishing they had
never gone. OF those who see much of
interest anu come home, only small
portion can tell what they have seen, the
tongue unable to report the eye. The
rarity of a successful, intelligent and
happy journey through the Holy land is
very marked But the time approaches
when
JOURNEY TO PALESTINE
will be common. Thousands will go
where now there are scores. Two loco
motives were recently sent up from
Joppa to Jerusalem and railroads are
about to begin in Palestine and the day
will come when the CRY will be, "All
out for Jerusalem!' Twenty minutes
for breakfast mt TiberiasI'' "Change
cars for Tyre!'' ''Grand Trunk june
lion for Ninevah!'' IAN out for
Damascus!' Meanwhile the wetlocks
of the Atlantic ocean and Adriatic and
Mediterranean seas are being shorn, and
not only is the voyage shortened, but,
after while, without crossing the ocean
you or your children will visit the Holy
Land. A company of capitalists have
gone up TO Behring Straits where the
American and Asiatic continents come
within thirty-sjx miles of meeting
These capitalists or other will build q
bridge across those Straits, for midway
are three islands called 1.-the
Diomedes and the water is
not deep and Is never disturbed
with iceberEs. Trains Of cars will
run from America across that bridge and
on down through Siberia, bringing under
more immediate observation the Russian
n)u;rages a-.aint eXlles and consequently
SabolishinR them, and there are persons
here to-day, who, without one qualm of
sea-siCkness, will visit that wonderful
lund where the Christ-like, AbrAhamic,
Mosaic, Davidc, SolOmonic and Herodic
histories overlap each other with such
power that by the time / took my feet
out Of the stirrups at the close of the
journey, l felt so wrung out with emotion
that it seemed nothing else could ever
absorb my feelings again.
THE CHIEF HINDERANCE
for going to Palestine with many is the
dreadful sea and though have crossed |
il ten times it is more dreadful every
time, and | fully symputhize with what
was said one night when Mr.. Beecher
and | went over to speak in New York at
the anniversary of the Seamen's Friend /
society, and the clergyman making the |
opening prayer quoted from St. John: |
"There shall be no more sea - and Mr..
Beecher, seated beside me, III memory of |
recent ocean voyage, said: "Amen,
am glad Of that. - BY the partial aboIi-
tiou Of the Atlantic ocean and the put
ting down of railroad tracks across every
country in the world, the most sacred
lnmd on earth will come under the OBJ
servation OF so many people, who Will
be ready to tell of what they saw. that
inhdeliiy will be pronounced only an
other form of insanity, for no honest
IN u
main an inhdel. The Bible from
which preach has almost fallen apart,
Tor read from it the most of the events
in it recorded on the very places where
they occurred. And some of the leaves
got wet US the waves dashed over our
boat on Lake Galiee and the book was
josilei IN the saldlebags for mauy
weeks, but it is new book to me, newer
than any book that yesterday came out
OF any of our great printing houses, All
my life had heard of Palestine and |
had read about it, and talked about II,
and preached about II, and sung about
il, and prayed about il, and dreamed
about il until my anticipations were
piled up into something like Hilnalavan
and vet have to cry out.
Ms did the Queen of Sheba when she first
visited the Holy Land,
''THE HALF WAS NOT TOLD ME. -
IN order TO make the more accura-e
and vivid book l have been writing. a
life of Christ, entitled From Mauger
10 THRONE l left home last October.
and on the last night of November we
were walking the decks of the Senegal. n
steamer. 1t was a shin
of immense proportions. There were but
few passengers, for 1t is generally rough
at that time of year, and pleasurists are
not apt TO be voyagiug there and ihen.
The stars were all out that night. Those
armies of light seemed TO have had their
shields newly FURNISHED. We walked
The polished deck. Not much was SAID,
for in all our hearts was the dominant
word Tomorrow. - Somehow the
Acropolis, which a few days before had
thrilled us at Athens, now in our minds
lesSened in the height of Its columns and
the glory of its temples. And the Egyp-
tlan pyramids in our memory lessened
thelr wonders OF obsolete masonry, aud
the Coliseum of Rome was not so vast o
rum as It Il few weeks before had seemed ,
10 be. And all that we had seen and heard
u"lndled in Importance. for to-mor-
row. tomorrow We shall see the Holy {