The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-17
JoPPA TO JERUSALEM.
Dr.. Talmage Continues His Dis
courses on the Holy Land.
The Journey From Joppa to Jerusalem
Many Points In Sacred History Fully De-
tatled-Scenes Of samson's Exploits
Entry Into Jerusalem.

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Entry Into Jerusalem.
In continuation of his sermons at
Brooklyn on the Holy Land Rev.. 7. De
Witt Talmage took his text from Gala
tians T. Is: 81 went up to Jerusalem"
He said:
My second day in the Holy Land. We
are in Joppa. It is six o'clock in the
morning, but we must start early, for
by night we are to be Jerusalem, and
that city Is forty-one miles away. We
may take camel or horse or carriage
As to-day will be our last opportunity
in Palestine for taking the wheel we
choose that The horses with harness
tassled and juggling. are hitched and
with dragoman in coat with many COL
ors seated in 'front.' we start on road
which unveils in twelve hours enough
to think of for all time and all eternity.
We start out of the city amid barri-
cades of cactus on either side. Not
cacti in boxes two or three feet high,
but cactus higher than the top of the
carriage plant that has more swords
for defense, considering the amount Of
beauty 1t can exhibit, than any thing
created. We passed out amid about
four hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges lem
ons, figs, olives. citron and pomegran-
stes, and which hold up their censers Of
perfume before the Lord in perpetual
praise. We meet great professions Of
camels loaded with kegs of oil and with
fruits and some wealthy Mohammedan
with four wives-three too many.
Here we meet people with faces and
arms and hands tattooed, as in all lands
sailors tattoo thir arms with some favor
lite ship or admired face. 1t was to this
habit Of tattooing among the Orientals
that God refers in figure when He says
of His church: Il have craven thee on
the palms of my hands"
Many of these regions are naturally
sandy, but by irrigation they are made
fruitful and as in this irrigation the
brooks and rivers are turned this way
and that to water the gardens and farms,
SO the Bible says: The Kings heart is
in the hands of the Lord and He turneth
1t as the rivers of water are turned
whithersoever He will"
AS we pass out and on we find about
800 acres belonging to the Universal
Israelitish Alliance. Montefore, the
Israelitish centenerian and philanthro-
pist, and Rothschild, the banker, and
others of the large-hearted have paid
the passage to Palestine for many of the
Israelites and set apart lands for their
culture, and il is only beginning of
the fulfillment of Divine prophecy when
these people take possession of the Holy
Land. The road from Joppa to Jerusa-
lem and all the roads leading to Nazsr-
eth and Gallilee we saw lined with pro-
cessions of Jews going to the sacred
places either on holy pilgrimage or as
settlers. All the fingers of Providence
nowadays are pointing toward that re-
sumption of Palestine by the Israelites
] do not take it that the prosperea Is
realities of other lands are to go there.
They would be foolish to leave
their properties in our American
cities where they are among our
best citizens, and cross two seas
to begin life over again in strange
land. But the outrages heaped upon
them in Russia, and the insults offered
them in Germany, will soon quadruple
and centuple the procession of Igrael-
ties from Russia to Palestine. Facili-
ties for getting there will be multiplied,
not only in the railroad from Joppa to
Jerusalem, to which l referred last Sab
bath as being built, but permission for
road from Damascus to the Bay Of
Acre has been obtained, and that of
course will soon connect with Joppa and
make one great ocean shore railroad
So the railroad from Jerusalem to Joppa,
and from Joppa to Damascus will soon
bring all the Holy Land within a few
hours of connection. Jewish colonial
ton societies in England and Russia
are gathering money for the transporta-
ton of the Israelites to Palestine and
for the purchase for them of lands and
farming implements, and so many de-
sire to go that it is decided by lot as to
which families shall go first They
were Gods chosen people at first and
He has promised to bring them back to
their home and there is no power in
1000 or 5000 years to make God forget
His promises.
Those who are prospered in other
lands will do we'll to stay where they
are. But let the Israelites who are de-
preciated and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces toward the rising sun
of their deliverance. God will gather
in that distant land those of that race
who have been maltreated, and He will
blast with the lightnings of His omnip-
otence those lands on either side Of the
Atlantic which have been the instru-
ments of annoyance and harm to that
Jewish race, to which belonged Abra-
ham and David and Joshua and Baron
Hirsch and Montefiore and Paul the
Apostle, and Mary the Virgin, and
Jesus Christ the Lord.
On the way across the plain Of Sharon
we meet many vailed women. 1t is not
respectable for them to go unvailed,
and it is vail that is so hung as to make
them h:deous. A man may not even
see the face OF his Wife until after be-
trothal or engagement of marriage
Hence the awful mistakes and the un-
happy homes, for God has made the face
an index OF character. and honesty or
dishonesty is usually demonstrated in
the features l do not see what God
made fair face for if it were not to be
looked at. But here come the crowds OF
disfigured women down the road on
their way to Joppa, bundles of sticks for
irewood on their heads They started
at three o'clock in the morning to get
the fuel. They stagger under the bur
dens Whipped and beaten will some
of them be if their bundle OF sticks
is too small All that is required for