The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-11-26
AMONG THE HOLY HILLS.
Rev. DR.. Talmage's Ninth Sermon
In the Holy Land Series.
Nazareth. the Scene Of Chrlst's Boyhood,
~ II Looks To-day The Early Inn
pressions that Were Reflected
In the Saviour's Sermon.

The subject of Rev. T. Dewitt Tai.
mage's ninth sermon describing his
journey through the Holy Land was
-AmoAg the Holy Hills" and the text,
Luke w., 10: HE came to Nazareth,
where he was brought up" Following
Is the discourse:
What . splendid sleep had last night
In Catholic convent, my first sleep
within doors since leaving Jerusalem,
and all ofus as kindly treated as though
Ne had been the Pope and his college
of cardinals passing that way. Last
evening, the genial sisterhood OF the
convent ordered a hundred bright-eyed
Arab children brought out to sing for
me, and 1t was glorious! This morning
u como out on the steps Of the convent
and look upon the most beautiful vii
lage Of all Palestine, Its houses OF
white limestone. Guess its namel Naz-
sreth, historical Nazareth, one OF the
trinity Of places that all Christian trav-
oilers must see or feel that they have not
seen Palestine, namely, Bethlehem, Je-
salem, Nazareth. Babyhood, boyhood,
manhood Of Him for whom I believe
there are fifty million people who would
now, II 1t were required, march out and
die whether under axe, or down in the
floods, or straight thro ugh the fire.
Grand old village is Nazareth, even
putting aside its sacred associations
First Of all, 1t is clean; and that can be
said OF few OF the Oriental villages. Its
neighboring town Of Nablous 10 the
hlthiest 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 1t from the Is
raelite TO Mohammedan, and from Mo
hammedan TO Christian, the most won
derful Of the battles being that in which
twenty-five thousand Turks we're beaten
by twenty-one hundred French, Napo-
leon Boneparte commanding. that great
est OF Frenchmen walking these very
streets through which Jesus walked for
nearly 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 hallelujahs OF
heaven appropriately following the
other. And then this town Is 40
beautiful, situated in great green
bowl, the sides OF the bowl, the sur
rounding ffteon hills The God of ma
ture who is the God OF the Bible evil
IDENTIFY scooped out this valley for pri-
vacy and separation from all the world
during three most important decades,
the thirty years Of Christ's boyhood and
youth, for Of the thirty three years OF
Christ's stay on earth, he spent thirty
Of them In this town In getting ready-a
startling robuke TO those who have no
patience with the long years OF prepara-
tion necessary when they enter on any
special mission for the church or the
world. The trouble is with most young
men that they want TO launch their ship
from the dry dock before 1t is ready,
and hence 80 many sink in the first
cyclone. Stay in the store as q subordi-
nate until you are thoroughly equipped.
Be good employe in your trade until
you are qualified TO be an employer.
BE content with Nazareth until you are
ready for the bufetings OF Jerusalem.
You may get so gloriously equipped in
thirty years, that you can do more In
three years than most men can accom-
plish in prolonged lifetime. Those
little suggestions | am apt TO put into
my sermon, hoping TO holp people for
this world, while am chiefly anxious
30 have them prepare for the next world.
All Christ's boyhood was spent in this
village and its surroundings. There ia
the very we'll called THE Fountain OF
the Virgin" TO which by His mothers
ride He trotted along holding her hand.
No doubt about 1t; 1t is the only we'll in
the village, and 1t has been the only
we'll for three thousand 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 wo-
mems work. Scores OF them are wait
Ing for their turn at IL, three great and
everlasting springs rolling out into that
we'll their barrels their hogsheads OF
Eater in floods gloriously abundant
The we'll is surrounded by olive groves
and wide spaces in which people talk
and children, wearing charms on their
heads as protection against the "evil
oye," 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
with water-jars on their heads. Mary,
suppose, almost always took 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 believe there was one OF the
surrounding fifteen hills that the boy
Christ did not range from bottom TO top,
or one cavern in their sides he did not
explore, nor one species Of bird flying
across the tops that lie could not call by
name, or one OF all the species OF fauna
browsing on those stoeps that He had
not recognized.
You see II all through His sermons II
o man becomes public speaker, in his
orations or discourses you discover his
carly whereabouts. What boy sees be-
tween seven and seventeen always
sticks 10 him. When the Apostle Peter
breaches, you see the fishing nets with
which no had from his earliest days boon