Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-08
THE HOLY LAND.
The Eleventh OF DR.. Talmage's Sc
ries on His Recent Journey.
E Night spent in Palestine, and in 4
Mud Rovel. Amid One OF the
Nest Violent Storms.
Noon'ima Lunch, seated on the Fallen Col
Gmns OF enc Of licrod's TsacNs-a
EeauliuI mi Ir 'crrstjnG Discourse.



Special to the Gazette.
BKCoELYN, n. Y. , Dec. THE New
YORK Academy % Music wac filled with
81 audience Of nearly 5000 persons at The
Christian Herald service This evening
when Or. Tulmnge delivered the eleventh
sermon Of MS series on Palestine and the
adjoining countries. TIE same sermon
rs on previous sundays mad been
preached IN the morning 20 another
large audience 81 the brooklyn Academy
Of Nusic. The sui Lrrt was Damascus,
ana the text: 'As he iourneyed ne came
near Damascus. Acts, 9:3. Dr. Tai
mage said:
in Palestine We spent last nicht In Il
mud hovel OF obs sturg, bHt cGneis aud
sheep IN the basement. Ee: never did
the most brilliant hotel On any continent
serul 60 attractive 10 me Gs that strUc-
tIre. Ii We tad heen Obliged TO STAY in
text, rs wr expected 10 40 that night,
We must haze persisted. a violent
storm mad opened upoG us its vol
leys of hail and snow, ana rain. and
wind, ~ il TO IL: US know what the
Bible means when prophet and evangelist
and Christ aimsel: spoke OF the fury of
the elements. The atmospheric wrath
broke upon us about clock in the al
tprnoon and We were until night exposed
10 Il, with banda and feet henumbed,
mud our bodies chilled TO the bone, We
made our slow wav. While high up on
tho rocks, aud the gale blowing the
hardest,
= sIGNALOF DISTRESS
halted the party, for down III the ravlness
one Of the horses had fallen and his rider
must not be left alone amid that wildRess
of scenery and horror OF storm. As the
night approached the tempest thickened,
aud bleckPned and strengthened. Some
OF our attendants going ahead had
gained PERMISSION for ud 10 halt for the
night in the mud howell ] speak OF. Our
Iirst duly on arrival was the resuscita-
lion of the exhausted OF our party. My
room wns without u window. aui an iron
stove wiihou: ANY top, III the center OF
the room, the smoke selecting my eyes
in the absence OF chimney.
Through az o?eninc in the floor, Arab
faces we're several times thrust up TO seq
how was progressing. But the tenn
pest censed during the night aud before
il was fully day we were feeling for the
stirrups o. cur saddied horses, this be ing
the day whose long march VIII bring W.
TO that ely, whose nome cannot he pro-
nouTced in the hearing OF the intelligent
or the Christian Without making the
blood 10 Jingle nud tn" nerves 10 thrill,
ana putting the best emotions OF the soul
into Observation-Disclosures!
During the day we passed C9sorea
Phillppl, the northern terminus OF
Christ's iournevings. North OF that lie
never went. We Lunch ~ noon, seated
on tie fallen columns OF
ONE OF HERuD s PALACES.
At 3o'vlock in the afternoon, coming
TO q hill top. We saw on the broad PLAIN
a citv. which the most famous camel
driver OF al time, afierwnrd called
Mohanmed, the prophet and the founder
ot the most Stupendous system of error
that has ever cursed the earth, refused
To enter because he said God would allow
man TO enter but enc paradise and he
would not enter this earthly paradise lest
~ should be denied entrance 10 the
heavenly. But no city that ever saw
SO PLAYS hide and seek with the traveller.
The MIR is so clear the distant objects
seem close by. You come on the top of
bill and Damascus seems only II little
way OF. But down you go into u valley
end you see nothing for The next half
hour but haIrenness and rocks regurci-
tatPd bY the volcanoes OF other ages. Up
nrotaer hill and down again.
Up again and down again. But after
your patirnre is almost exhausted you
reach the last hill top and ths city OF
Damascus, the Oldest city under the
whole heavens, and built by Noah's
grandson grows upon your vision. Every
mile of the journey now becomes mere
solemn ard suggestive and tremendous.
This is tne verv roRd. for Il has been
the only road for thousands of years,
she road from Jerusalem 10 Damascus,
along which cavalcade of mounted
officers went about 1854 years ago, in
the midst OF them fierce little mau who
made up by magnitude of
HATRED FOR CHRISTI