Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-06
THE HOLY LAND.
The Sixth Of DR.. Talmage's Series
on His Recent Journey.
An Eloquent Sermon on the Gardens
and Public Works of Israe's
Magnificent King.
Description OF King Solomon Taking an
Early Outing from Jerusalem to His Gar
dens and Parks "A Contrast.
Special to the Gazette.


Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, n. Y. Nov. DIR. Tai
mage preached the sixth sermon on his
tour in Palestine to-day. After a pastor
ate of twenty-five years in this city It Is
astonishing to see the crowds of people
who throug the Academy of Music every
Sunday morning to listen to his dis
courses. No less remarkable are the
audiences that New York City furnishes
at the Christian Herald services every
Sunday night. To-day's sermon was on
the gardens and public works of Israel's
magnificent king, and the text, Ecoies-
tastes 2: &C: al made me great works,
1 builded me houses, planted me vine-
yards, made me gardens and orchards,
and planted trees in them of all kinds OF
fruits; l made me pools of water to water
Herewith the wood that bringeth forth
trees. - DR.. Talmage said:
A spring morning and before breakfast
at Jerusalem: A king with robes snowy
white in chariot decked with gold drawn
BIZ eight horses, high-mettled. and
Musings as brilliant as if scolloped out
u that very sunrise, and like the winds
Nor speed, $tollowed by a regiment OF
Arohers ~ horse back with hand on
&gilde ed - and arrows with steel points
AHasls66g d the sun, clad from head to
fG6f in T&riGn purple, and black hair
sprinkle} with gold dust ali dashing down
the roadTthe horses at full run, the
reins loon on their necks, and the crack
of whipsSRnd the halloo OF the reckless
cavalcadk quitting the miles at defiance.
Who is it, and what is it?
KING SOLOMON
taking an outing before breakfast, from
Jerusalem TO his gardens and parks and
orchards and reservoirs, six miles down
the road towards Hebron. What con-
trast between that and myself on that
very road one morning last December,
going afoot, for our plain vehicle turned
back for Photographic apparatus forgot
ten, we on the way to find what is called
Solomon's pools, the ancient water
works of Jerusalem, and the gardens OF
a king nearly 5000 years ago. We cross
the aqueduct again and again, and here
We are at the three great reservoirs, not
ruins of reservoirs, but the reservoirs
themselves, that Solomon built three
millenniums ago for the purpose of
catching the mountain streams and pass
iGS them TO Jerusalem TO Stake the thirst
Sd the city. and also to irrigate the most
4 &orious range of gardens that ever
hi oomed with all colors or breathed with
N redolence for Solomon was the great
&t horticulturist, the greatest botanist,
Me greatest ornithologist, the greatest
a. a y inr1ti of ia
century.
Come over the piles of gray rock, and
here we are at the first of the three
reservoirs, which are on three great
levels, the base of the top reservoir
higher than the top of the second, the
base of the second reservoir higher than
the top of the third so arranged that the
| waters gathered from several sources
above shall descend from basin to basin
the sediment of the water deposited in
each of the three, so that by the time
il gets down to the squeduct which is to
take it to Jerusalem, 1t has had three
offerings, and is as pure as when the
clouds rained it.
WONDERFUL SPECIMENS OF MASONRY
are these three reservoirs. The white
cement fastening the blocks of stone TO-
gether is now just as when the trowels
$4,000 wears ago smoothed the layers. The
fanighest reservoir $50 feet by 229: the
#second 423 feet by 100; and the lowest
| Reservoir $50 feet by 1853; and deep
enough and wide enough, and mighty
enough to float an ocean steamer.
On that December morning we saw the
waters rolling down from reservoir to
reservoir, and can well understand how
in this neIghboThood the imperial gar
dens were one great blossom, and the or
chard one great basket OF fruit, and that
Solomon in his palace, writing the song
of songs and Ecclesiastes, may have been
drawing illustrationf from what he had
seen that very morning in the royal gar
dens when he alluded to melons and
mandrakes, and apricots, and grapes,
and pomegranates, and figs, and spike
nard and cinnamon, and calamus, and
campfire. and :apple trees among the
trees of the WOOD and the almond
tree as fiourishIng. and to myrrh and
kfrankincense: auN represented Christ II
|sgone down istd ~sisaHs az
IMhe beds III spices ts@Hed BE-
lie gardsW and ~ gath &
Iiifess = ssssfnI 10 "eyess like ISL
pools, - and 10 Ne voice theRtpthe
dove as heard sthe land.@ l thing it
was When SVeemOn WIS SHOWING tHe
queen of Sheba through these gardenss'
that the Bible says of her: 'Thsfe
remained no more spirit in her. Ehe
gave II up. E ,
But all this splendor did not bake
Solomon happy. one dag after g#tinS
back from his mosneaeuessana es6rs
the horses had yet bees cooledM and
rubbed down by the roEA equefrH 500
mon wrote the memora6ae srord 5fbfl9w
ing my text, like dlxs playe4 Aftfr u
kgrand march, "BehAN, all wa vsaity
md ve1atiou of spiqN and the wa no
Spront under the su1'' IN ott % VOLTS !,
n CIT DFsT PAY!'' We
Would God thaxSse might all learn the
lessnp that thisSworld cannot produce
hg4binessh At Marseilles there is a cas-
.ts&atedsnxuse on high ground crowned
with al stet grove and garden can do.
ansfhe &hole place looks out upon as
enchantES landscape as the world
holds, HEter and hill clasping hands il
q perfsft bewitchment of scenery, but
the owner of that place is totally blind,
and to him ell this goes for nothing,
illustrating the truth that, whether one
be physically or morally blind bril-