The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-12-04
AMONG THE HOLY HILLS.
DR., TALMAGe CONTINUES HIS HOLY
LIND SERIES.


Interest.
RKOOKLYN, Nov. 23.-The int crest in
the series Of sermons in whic'! DR.. Tai
mage is describing his recent tour in
Palestine and inculcating gospel les
sons suggested by his theme increases
from week 10 week. There was never
SO large crowd at aI.y one of the pre-
ViOuS eight sermons as there was today
around the Brooklyn Academy of
Music in the morning and at The
Christian Herald service in the even
ing, the ninth sermon. It's subject was
Among the Holy Hills and the text,
Luke, iV, Is. lie came to NaXarcth,
where he was brought up" Following
is the sermon:
What a splendid sleep l had last
night in Il Catholic convent, my lirSt
sleep within doors since leaving IcruS-
alem, and all of US as kindly treated aS
though we had been the pope aud his
college Of cardinals passing that way
Last evening the genial slsterhoOd OF
The convent ordered hundred bright
eyed Arab children brought out to sing
for me, and it was glorious. This
morning come ont on the steps of the
convent and look upon the most beau
tiful village Of all Palestine, its houses
of white limestone. Guess It's name.
Nazareth, historical Nazareth, one Of
the trinity OF places that all Christian
travellers must see or feel that they
have not seen Pales,inc-namcly, Beth
lehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth. Baby
hood, loyhood, manhood Of him for
whom believe there are fifty million
i '---u.},lsscI cI"mld now. If it were re-
uuliSh it".rrJ, oCMt and die, whether un-
dcr,,,.;" az cile Goods or straight
thrOl, 7 -. liic
rIiE VILLAGE OF NAZARETH.
Grand ola village IS Nazareth. even
putting aside its Sacred associations
First Of all, it is clean: and that can 80
said OF few Of the oriental villages. It's
nci ghborinc town Of NablOuf is the
lilthieSt town | ever saw, although its
chief Industry is the manufacture Of
soap. They export al OF it. Nazareth
was PERHAPS unusually clean the morn
ing ! speak Of, for us we rode into the
village the afternoon before the show
erS which had put our IuacintOShcS TO
the test had poured foods through all
the alleys under command Of the clouds,
those thorough street commissioners.
BESIDES that, Nazareth has been the
Scepe Of battles passing it from lsrar-
lite to Mohammedan and from MOham-
medan to Christian, the most wonder
ful Of the battles Icing that in which
TWENTY-FIVE Thousand Turks were
Napoleon Bonaparte commanding, that
greatest of FTtnchmen walking these
very streets through which Jesus walk
ed for nearly thirty years, the morat
Of the two the aMtlpodes, the SHOWS O.
Russia and the plaques Of Egypt ap
propriatcly following the one, the doX
ologies Of earth and the hallcluJahs o
heaven appropriately following th'
other. And then this town is SO beau
if, I1rc Gil In tod n iInN
the sides Of the bowl the surrounding
fifteen hills. The God of nature wh'
is the God Of tic Bible evidently scoop
cd out this valley for privacy and sep
aration from all the world during thre
most important decades, the thirt!
years of Christ's hoyhood and youth
for of the thirty. y.thrCe years Of Christ
stay on earth he spent thirty Of then
in this town in getting ready-a start
ling rcbukc to these who have no pa
thence with the long years of prepara
tion necessary when they enter on an
special mission for the church or tn
world. The trouble is with most youn
men that they want to launch thei
ship from the drydocll before it is ready
and hence 50 many sink in the first cA
clone. stay in the store as Il subord
nate until You are thoroughly cqull
ned. BE Il good tlnpiOyc in your trad
until you ale qualified 10 he an employ
cr. BE content with Nazareth unit
you are ready for ;hc builcting OF ,,'
rusacm. You may get SO GlorOuSl
equipped in the thirty years that 80
can do more IN three years than NO!
men can accomplish in Il prol0nge
lifetime. These little suggestions | III
apt to put INTO my sermon, hoping
help people for TINS world while | al
chiefly anxious to have them rrcpa
for the next world.
WHERE CHRIST WAS a BOY.
All ChristS bOyhOod was spent
this village and its surrounding
There is the very well called IN
Fountain Of the Nirg n. to which by h
mothers side he trotted along hoidiT
her hand. No doubt about it; it is Il
only well in the village, and it has bee
the only well for three thousand ycal
This morning We visit it, and Il
mothers have their children with the
now as then. The work of drawn
water in all ages III those countries h
been WOmen's work. Scores OF the
are waiting for thcir turn at it, thr
great and everlasting springs rOlllr
out into that well th, ir barrels, tht
hogsheadS Of water in ii0UGS glorious
abundant. The vail is surrounded
olive groves ana wide spaces III WIN
people talk ard children, Wraril
against the "cNil cyr.' are playing. q
women with their strings OF com
either side of their face. and in ski
OF blue and scarlet and white and grr
move on with water jars on their hra,
Mary, suppose. almost always to
Jesus the boy with her, for she had
one she could 1eave him with, being
humble circumstances and having
attendants. | do not believe there v
one of the surrounding fifteen hills II
the boy Christ did not range f,om h
tom to top, or one cavern in their sic
he did not explore, OF one species of b
flying across the tops that he could
call by name, or one OF al the spec
of fauna browsing on those Sleeps II
he had not recognized.
You see it all through his 3CrmO
III man becomes a public speaker,
his oratiODS or discOurScS you disco
his early whereabouts What a