Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-27
The Ninth Of DR.. Talmage's Sc
ries on His Recent Journey.
His First Sleep Indoors Since Leaving
Jerusalem-ln a Catholic Con-
vent at Nazareth.
God With HIS Left Hand Huilt Palestine, With
His Right Wrote the scriptures. the
Two Hands Of the same Eeing.
AMONG THE HOLY HILLS,
SPECIAL to the Gazette.

interest IN the series of sermons in which
br. Taimage is describing his recent tour
IN Palestine and intoxicating gospel les
sons suggested by his theme. increases
from week to week. There was never sc
large d crowd at any one of the previous
eight sermons as there was to-day around
The BROOKLYN academy of music in tine
morning ana at the Christian Herald
service in the evening to hear the ninth
sermon. Its subject was "Among the
Holy Hills, and the text Luke iv., l6:
He came to Nazareth, where He was
brought up.'' Following il the sermon /:
What splendid sleep l had last nigh,
IN Catholic convent, my first sleep
within doors since leaving Jerusalem
and all of us Us Kindly treated as though
We ha been the pope and his college of
cardinals pHsslnc that way. Last even
ing the genial sisterhood of the convent
ordered hundred bright eyed Arab
children brought out 20 sing for me, and
II was glorious! This morning l come
our on the steps of the convent aud look
upon the most beautiful village of all
Palestine, its houses of white limestone.
Guess LIS nsmei Nazareth, historical
Nazareth, one of the trinity OF places
that all Christian travellers must see or
feel that they have not seen Pales:ine =,
namely, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, NaZu-
reth. Baby hood, boyhood, manhood of
Him for whom | believe there are fifty
million people who would now, il they
were required, march out and die,
whether under axe. or down Ill the
floods or straight through the fire.
GRAND OLD VILLAGE
is Nazareth. even putting aside its
sacred associations. FIRST Of all, 1t is
clean; aud that cen be said of few of the
Oriental villages. Its neighDoriug town
of Nublous is the tilthiest town ever
saw, although its chief Industry Is the
manufacture of sonp. They export ali
OF it. Nazareth was perhaps unusually
clean the morning l speak of, for. rs we
rode into the village the afternoon be
fore, the showers winch had put our
mackiutoshes TO the test had poured
Hoods through ail the alleys under COM
mand of the clouds, those thorough
street commissioners. Besides that,
Nazareth has been the scene OF battles
pns*ing it from the israelite TO Moham-
medan and from Mohammedan to
Christian, the most wonderful of the
battles being TINT in which % 600
Turks were beaten by POO
French, Napoleon Bonapar,e COM
handing, that greatest 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,
lujahs of heaven appropriately following
the other. And then this town IL SO
beautifully situated in great, green
bowl, the sides of the bowl, the sur
rounding fifteen hills.
THE GOD OF NATURE
who is the God of the Bible evidently
scooped out this valley for privacy and
separation from all the world during
three most important decades, the thirty
years of Christ's boyhood ana 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
rebuke TO those who have no patience
with the long years of preparation neces-
smry when they enter on any special
mission for the church or the
world. The trouble is with most young
from the dry dock before it is ready,
and hence so muny sink in the first cv-
clone. Stay in the store as subordi-
nate until you are thoroughly equipped.
Be coed employe in your trade until
you are qualified to be an employer. Be
content with Nazareth until you are
ready for the bufIetings of Jerusalem.
You may get 80 gloriously equipped In
|, huf 10
in three wears than most men can ac-
IA Il prolonged lifetime. These
little suggestions am apt TO put INTO my
sermon. hoping to help people for this
" or. d while l am chiefly anxious to have
them prepare for the next world.
ALL CHRIST S BoYHooD
was spent III this village and its sur
roundings. There is the very well
called 1.-The Fountain of the Virgin -
to which by His mothers side He trotted
along holding her hand. No doubt
about 1t; il is the only well in the village
and it has been the only well for 5000
years. This morning We visit it, and
the mothers have their children with
them now as then The wor.: of draw
Ing water in al ages in those countries
has been women's work. Scores of
them are waiting for their turn at it,
three great and everlasting springs roll
ing out into that we'll their barrels, their
hogsheads of water In Hoods gloricusly
abundant. The well Is surrounded by
olive groves aud wide spaces in which
people talk and children, wearing
charms on their heads as protection
az anst the ''evil eye,'' are
playing, and women with their
strings of coin on either side
OF their face, and in skirts of blue, aud
scarlet, and white, and green, move on
with water Jars on their heads. Mary,
l suppose, almost always took Jesus the
boy with her, for she mad no one she
could leave Him with. being in humble
and having no attendants.
| do not believe there was one OF tbs sur
round iug 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 he could not call by
name, or one OF all the species of fauna
browsing on those sleeps that He had not
You see 1t all through His sermons. II
3 man becomes public speaker, III his
Drntious or discourses you discover his
early whereabouts. What a boy sees
between screen and seventeen ALWAYS