Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-27
JESUS oF'NAzARETH.
DE-. TALMAGE FOLLOWS HIS FOOT
STEPS TO BETHANY.

on previous Sundays the sermon was
preached before two largo audiences. In
tho morning 1t was preached in the Academy
OF Music In this city, and at night DR.. Tai
mage preached it again in the New York
Academy OF Music. During the six meetings
thus far held In New York, 90, 600 people
nave endeavored to hear DR.. Talmagc
preach. OF these, 80. 900 have been admitted
ana 0o,oo0 have been turned away for lac:
OK accommodation. Following is the SER
mon from the text, 80 l lifted up mine
eyes the way toward the north" ezekiel
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AT one O'Clock on a December afternoon,
through Damascus gate. we are passing out
OF Jerusalem for journey northward. Ho.
1or hethel with Its stairs, the bottom step
OF which was stone pillow, and Jacobs
well with its Immortal colloquy, and Naz-
areth with its Divine boy in his fathers
carpenter shop, and the most glorious lake
that ever rippled or flashed:
Blue Galilee, sweet Galilee
The lake where Jesus loved to he:
ana Damascus with its crooked street called
straight. and hundred places charged and
surcharsed with Apostolic. evangelistic.
prophetic, patriarchal, kinsly ana Christly
"reminiscences.
In travelling along the roads OF Palestine,
am Impressed as l could not otherwise
AA"'o oSSA, Win Jnc IaCu thlt Christ Tor the
most part went afoot. We find him occasion
ally on boat. and once riding in "a trium-
pnal procession, as 1t is sometimes called,
a!tnougn IL seems to me that the hosannas
OF the crowd could not have made ride on
stubborn, unimpressive and funny crca-
lure ike mat which battered with Him into
Jerusalem, very much OF a triumph. But
we are made to understand that generally
ne walked. How much that means only
those know who have gone over the distance
traversed by Christ. We are accustomed to
read that bethany is two miles from Jeru-
salem. We'll, any man in ordinary health
can walk two miles without fatigue. But
not more than one man out OF n thousand
Can walk from Bethany to Jerusalem with
out exhaustion. 1t Is over the Mount OF
Olives ana you must climb up among the
rolling stones and descend where exerton is
necessary to keep you from falling PROSTATE.
l, who am accustomed to walk fifteen or
twenty miles without lassitude, tried part
OF this road over the Mount of Olives and
confess would not want to try it often,
such demand does it make upon ones physi-
cal energies. Yet Christ walked it twice a
day-in the morning from Bethany to Jeru-
salem, and in the evening from Jerusalem
to Bethany.
Likewise it seemed small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Nazareth.
But 1t will take us four days OF hard horse
back riding, sometimes on Il trot and some-
way Is mountainous in the extreme. To
those who went up to the Tip-Top house on
Mount Washington. before the railroad was
built, will say that this journey from Jcr-
usalem to Nazareth is like seven such
American Journeys. So, all up and down
| and across and recrossing Palestine. Jesus
walked. Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon
/ rode Herod rode. Anthony rode. But
Jesus walked. With swollen ankles
and sore muscles Of the legs, and
| bruised heel and stiff joints and painting
| lungs and faint head. along the roads and
| where there were no roads ut all, Jesus
| walked.
We tried to get a new horse other than
that on which we had ridden on the journey
| to the Dead Sea, for he had faults which our
close acquaintanceship had developed. But
after some experimenting with other quad
rupeds of that species and finding that all
horses like their riders, have faults, we con-
| cluded to choose saddle ON that beast whose
faults We were most prepared to pity or re-
sist. We rode down through the valley and
then upon Mount Scopus and, as our drago-
man tells US. that this is the last opportun-
fty we shall have OF looking ut Jerusalem,
We turn our horses head toward the city
| and take long, sad and thrilling look at
the religious capital of our planet This is
| the most impressive view OF the most ire
this hill the armies of the crusaders
at the first sight OF the city threw
themselves on their faces in Worship
Here most of the beseiglng armies
encamped the night before opening
their volleys Of death against Jerusalem.
| Moriah. Mount OF Olives. Mount Calvary!
VIII We never see them agan2 Never. The
| world is SO large and time Is SO short, and
there are so many things we have never seen
| at all, that We cannot afford to duplicate
visits or see nything more than once. Faro
NUnvv SNt ~.,lr -
three thousand years OF architecture and
buttlefelds. Farewell sacred, sanguinary,
triumphant Inundated Jerusalem! Across
this valley OF the Kedron, with my right
hand I throw thee a kiss of valcdictory.
Our last look, like our first look. an agita-
ton OF body. mind and soul, indescribable.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text. lif.
up mine eyes the way toward the north.
Near here was one OF the worst tragedies OF
the ages, mentioned in the Bible. A hospit-
able old man coming home at eventime from
his work in the fields, finds two strangers,
husband and wife, proposing to lodge in
the street because no shelter is offered them
and invites them to come in and spend the
night In his homo. During the night, the
ruftans of the neighborhood cOnspired to-
gether and surrounded the house and left the
woman dead on the doorstep and the hus
band orally In revenge the twelve tribes,
cut the corpse of the woman into twelve
parts and sent twelfth of it to each tribe.
and the fury of the nation was reused, and
peremptory demand was made for the sur.
render OF the assassins and, the demand re-
fused. in one day twenty thousand people
werc left dead on the field and the next day
eighteen thousand. Wherever our horse to-
day plants his foot. In those ancient time!
corpse lay, and tho roads were crossed By
red rivulets of carnage.
Now we pass on where seven youths wert
put to death and their bodies gibbetcd O
hung In chains, not for anything they h n
themselves done, but rs u reparation 70
what their father and grandfather, Saul. hat
done. Burial was denied these youths from
May until November. Rizpah, the mother o
two OF these dead boys, appoints herself a
sentinel to guard the seven corpses from
beak OF raven and tooth OF wolf and paw q
lion. She pitches . black tent o.
the rock close by tho gibbets. Rizpah b.
day sits on the ground In front OF her tent
and when vulture begins to lower out o
the MONDAY sky seeking its prey amon
the gibbcts, Rizpah rises, her long hal
nying In the wind, and. swinging her arm
| WIl0lY about RhO0s Way the bird of Dre