Connecticut western news., 1890-10-08
JOPPA TO JERUSALEM.
OR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SER-
 MON ON THE HOLY LAND.

The Roads Up the Cliff and Over the
 Mountains-Robbers on the Way-The
 Israelites Returning to Their Ancient
 Land.
 BROOKLYN, Oct 5.-Dr. Talmage is continuing in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. his series of sermons on his recent journey to the Holy Land and adjoining countries. The subject this morning was, My Second Day in Pal estine. After the reading of the Script ures and two hearty songs of worship by the congregation the preacher an nounced as his text: Galatians i, IS, 'T went up to Jerusalem"
 My second day in the Holy Land. We are in Joppa. It is 6 o'clock in the morning, but we must start early, for by night we are to be in Jerusalem, and that city is forty-one miles away. We may take camel or horse or carriage. As today will be our last opportunity In Palestine for taking the wheel, we choose that. The horses, with harness tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and with a dragoman in coat of many colors seated in front we start on a road which unveils within twelve hours enough to think of for all time and all eternity. Farewell, Mediterranean, with such blue as no one but the divine Chemist could mix, and such fire of morning glow as only the divine H. luminator could kindlel Hail! noun tains of Ephraim and Juda, whose ram- parts of rock we shall mount in few hours; for modern engineers can make @ road anywhere, and without piling Ossa upon Pelion those giants can scale the heavens. --..
 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-a plant that has more swords for defense, considering the amount of beauty it can exhibit, than anything 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- ates, and which hold up their censers of perfume before the Lord in perpet- ual praise. We meet great processions of camels loaded with kegs of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy Moham- medan with four wives three too many. The camel is proud, myste- rious, solemn, ancient, ungainly, ma- jestic and ridiculous shape, stalking out of the past The driver with his whip taps the camel on the fore leg, and he kneels to take you as rider. But when he rises hold fast or you will fall off backward as he puts his fore feet in standing posture, and then you will fall off in front as his back legs take their place. But the inhabit- ants are used to his ways, although I find the riders often dismount and walk, as. though to rest themselves. Better stand out of the path of the camel-he stops for nothing and seems not to look down; and in the street I saw child by the stroke of cameps front foot hurled seven or eight feet along the ground.
 Here we meet people with faces and arms and hands tattooed, as in all lands sailors tattoo their arms with some fa- vorite ship or admired face It was to this habit of tattooing among the ori- entals that God refers in a figure, when he says of his church, 'I have graven 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 or farms, so the Bible says, '"The kings heart Is in the hands of the Lord. and he turn eth it as the rivers of water are turned whithersoever he will"
 MODERN JEWS IN PALESTINE.
 As we pass out and on we find about eight hundred acres belonging to the Universal Israelitish alliance. Monte fore, the Israelitish centenarian and philanthropist, and Rothschild, the banker, and others of the large hearted have paid the passage to Palestine for many of the Israeltes, and set apart lands for their culture, and it is only beginning of the fulfllment of divine prophecy when these people shall take possession of the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to Jerusalem, and all the roads leading to Nazareth and Galilee, we saw lined with processions of Jews going to the sacred places, either on nil ,sIp,oo cat% 4h1 fingers of Providence nowadays are pointing toward that resumption of Palestine by the Israelites. I do not take it that the prospered Israeites of other lands are to go there.
 They would be foolish to leave their prosperities 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 pro- cession of Israelites from Russia to Palestine. Facilities for getting there will be multiplied, not only in the rail- road from Joppa to Jerusalem, to which referred last Sabbath as being built, but permission for a road from Damas- GUS to the bay of Acre has been ob- tained, and that of course will soon connect with Joppa, and make one great ocean shore railroad. So the rail- road from Jerusalem to Joppa and from Joppa to Damascus will soon bring all the Holy Land within a few hours of connection. Jewish coloniza- tion societies in England and Russia are gathering money for the transpor- tation of the Israelites to Palestine and for the purchase for them of lands and