Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-11-29
AMONG THE HOLY HILLS:

AMONG THE HOLY HlLESs
SERMON PREACHED DY REV. T.p ,l:;
WITT TALMAGE. SEC. ssSlss
Continuation of tho Series of Discourses
Describing the Noted Divine'a Visit to
the Land of Eoly writ-Great Interest
Manifested. ~ sa
BROOKLYN. n. Y, Nov. 23.-The
interest in the series OF sermons 10
which DR. Talmane is describing his
recent tour in Palestine, and inculcat
ing gospel lessons suggested by his
theme. increases from week to week..
| There was never so large crowd at
any one of the previous eight sermons
as there was today around the Brook
lyn Acadeny.of Music in the morning
and at Tie Christian Herald service IN
the evening to hear the ninth sermon.
Its subject ives among the Holy
Hills" and the text Luke iv, If: e"He
came to Nazareth, Where he was
brought up Following is tho sermon:
What a splendid sleep | had last
right in a. Catholic convent, my first
sleep within doors since leaving Jeru-
salem. and ell of us as kindly treated
as though we had been the pope and
his college of cardinals passing that
way. Last evening the genial sister
hood of the convent ordered hundred
bright eyed Arab children brought out
to sing for me, and it was glorious
This morning colae out on the steps
CT the conyc-.t and look upon the most
beautiful village of all Palestine, its
houses of white limestone. Guess its
name. Nazareth, historical Nazareth;
one of the trinity of places that all
Christian travellers must see or feel
that they have not seen Palestine,
namely. Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Nazar
reth. Babyhood, boyhood, manhood
of him for whom | believe there are
fifty million people who would now, If
it were required, march out and. die
whether under AK, or down in the
foods or straight through the fire.
GRAND CID NAZARETH.
Grand old Village is Nazareth, even
putting aside its sacred associations.
First of all, it is clean; and that can
be said of few Of the oriental villages.
It's neighboring town of Nablous is the
filth:est town ever saw, although its
chief industry is the manufacture of
soap. They exnortnll 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 lnacintoshes to
the test had poured floods through all
the alleys under command of tue clouds,
those thorough street commissioners.
BESIDES that, Nazareth has been the
scene Of battles passing it from
Israelite to EIohamiacdan and from
Mohamlnedan to Christian, the most
wonderful of the battles being that in
which twenty-five thousand Turks were
beaten by twenty-one hundred French,
Napoleon Bonaparte commanding, that
|, greatest of Frenchmen walking these
very streets through Which Jesus walked
for nearly thirty years, fife morals of
the two, the untipodcs, the SHOWS of
Russia and the plaques Of Egypt ap-
propriatcly following the one, the dox-
ologies of earth and the halle!ajahs of
heaven appropriately following the
other.
And then this town is so beautifully
situated in great green bowl, the
sides of the bowl the surrounding fif-
teen hills The God of nature, who is
the God of the Bible, evidently scooped
out this valley for privacy and separa-
ton from all the world during three
most Important decades, the thirty
years of Christ's boyhood and youth,
for of the thirty-thrce years of Chlist's
stay on earth he spent thirty of them
in this town getting ready-a startling
rebuke TO those who have no patience
with the long years of preparation
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 drydock before it is ready,
and hence SO many sink in the first cy-
clone. Stay in the store rs subordi-
nate until you are thoroughly equipped.
Be good employee in your trade until
you are qualified to be an employer.
Be content with Nazareth until you are
ready for the bu1fetings of Jerusalem.
You may get so gloriously equipped in
the thirty years that you can do more
in three years than most men can
accomplished in prolonged lifetime.
These little suggestions l am apt to put
into my sermon, hoping to help people
for this world, while 1 am chiefly anx-
ious to have them prepare for the next
world.
All Christ's boyhood was spent in
this village and its surroundings. There
is the very we'll called "The Fountain
of the Virgin" to which by his mothers
side lie trotted along holding her hand.
No doubt about it; it is the only well
in the village, and it has been the only
we'll for. three thousand years. This
morning we visit it, and the mothers
have their children with them now as
then. Tie work of drawing water in
all ages in those nuntries has been
wonen's work. Scores of them are
waiting for their turn at it, three great
and everlasting springs rolling out into