Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-12-04
JEWELLERS IN TENTS.
DR. TALMAGES PILGRIMAGE To
THE LAND OF PROMISE.

Beautiful Descriptions Mingled with
Words of Advice and Consolation.
A Famous Battlefield Visited
Drops from j acob's Well.-Thc FIJI
nal Battle Between Right and
Wrong.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov. 1C. 1S90.-This
morning in the Academy of Music in this
Guy ana this evening at the services in
inc New York Academy of Music, DR..
ialmage preached the eighth of the series
OF sermons he is giving on his tour in Pal
estine. At both services tho respective
buildings We're crowded to their utmost Ca
paclty In five minutes after the doors were
opened, and all who came later were unable
70 get in. DR.. Talmage's subject was
among the Bedouins," and his text.
Numbers 1O:31-''Forasmuch as thou know
cst now we are to cncamp in the wilder
uess.-
Night after night we have slept in tent In
Palestine. There are large villages OF Be
douins without house, and for three thou
sand years the people of those places have
lived In black tents. made out of dyed SKINS
ana when the winds and storms wore out
ana tore out those coverings, others of the
same kind took their places. Noah lived in
tent. Abraham in a tent. Jacob pitched
ms tent on the mountain. Isaac pitched
MS tent1n the valley, Lot pitched his tent
toward sodom In a tent the woman Jael
nailed Sisera, the general. to the ground.
nrst having given him sour milk called
''.eben' as sOporifc to mako him soundly
sleep. that being the effect OF such nutrition.
as modern travellers can testify. The Syrian
army In tent. The ancient BATTLE shout
was ITO your tents, o Israeli" Paul was
tent-maker. Indeed, Isiah, magnificent
~ poetic. indicates that all the human raco
1--we under blue tent wien he says that
GOD "stretcheth out the heavens as cur
tain and spreadeth them out rs a tent to
owell In and Hezekiah compares death to
the striking OF u tent, saying. MY age Is
removed from me as a shepherds tent"
In our tent in Palestine tonight hear
something ! never heard before and hope
never to hear again. 1t is the voice Of
hyena amid the rocks near by. When you
nave seen this monster putting his mouth
between the iron bars Of menagerie, he is
captive and he gives a Inundated and
suppressed cry. But yonder in the midnight
on throne OF rocks he has nothing to fear
and he utters himself in loud. rcsounding,
terrific, almost supernatural sound. split
Ting up the darkness into deeper midnight.
1t begins with a howl and ends with q sound
something like horses whining. In the
hyena's voice are defiance and strength and
biood-thirstiness and crunch Of broken
Zones and death.
am glad to say that for the most part
Palestine Is clear OF beasts OF prey. The
lcopards which jeremiah says cannot
change their spots, have all disappeared
and the lions that once were common all
through this land and used by all the
prophets as illustrations of cruelty and
wrath, have retreate before the discharges
OF gunpowder OF which they have an indes-
cribable fear. But for the most part Pales-
tine Is what it originally was. With the one
exception of wire thread reaching from
Jol'1a to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to
Nazareth and from Nazareth to Tiberias
ant from Tioer.as to Damascus, that one
nerve OF civilization the telegraphic wire
(for VIC found ourselves only few minutes
or from Brooklyn and New York whilc
standing by Lake Galilee) with that one exc
ccption, Palestine Is just as 1t always was
Nothing surprised me so much as the per-
sistence OF everything. A sheep or horse
falls dead. and though the sky may one
minute before be clear of all wings. in Ave
minutes after the skies are black with eagles
cawiny. screaming. plunging, fighting for
room. cOntending for largest morsels OF the
extinct quadruped. All, now understand
the force Of Christ's illustration when He
said; "Wheresoever the carcase is there
will the eagles be gathered together Tho
longevity OF those eagles Is wonderful.
They live fifty or sixty and sometimes a
hundred years. All. that explains what
David meant when he said: ''Thy youth Is
renewed like the eagles" I saw a shep-
herd with the folds of his coat far bent out
ward and wondered what was contained
in that amplitude OF apparel and said to
the dragoman. ''What has that shepherd
got under his coat?" And the dragoman
said:' 1t Is very young lamb he Is carrying.
1t Is too young and too weak and too cold to
keep up with the flock" At that moment
saw the lamb put its head out from the
shepherd S bosom and I said "There it Is
now. 1siah's description Of the tenderness
OF Gcd-'He shall gather the lambs with
His arm and carry them in His BOSOM"
Pas sing by a village home, in the Holy
Land. about noon. l saw u great crowd in
and about private house, and said to the
dsagoman. David. what is going on there?"
He said: Somebody has recently died there
and their neighbOrs go in for several days
attor to sit down and weep with the be-
rca~ed." There 1t is, said. the old scrip
tural custom: "And many OF the Jews came
to Martha and Mary, to comfort them con-
cernin, their brother" Early in the morn
Ing passing by cemetery in the Holy Land
Isaw among the graves about fifty women
Or sied in black. and they were crying:
"Oh. my child" "Oh. my husband.' "Oh,
my father" ''Oh. my mother" Our drago-
man told us that every morning very early
for three MOI nings after a burial. the wom-
| en- 80 to Che sepulchre, and after that every
! week very early for year. As saw this
| group. Just after daybreak, l said: There
| 1t Is again, the same old custom referred to
| in uke. the evangelist. where he says:
certain women which were early at the
sepulchre."
But here we found ourselves at Jacobs
| we'll. the most famous we'll in history most
| distinguished for two things, because It be-
longcd TO the old patriarch after whom 1t
was named. and for the wonderful things
which Christ said. seated on this well-curb,
| to the Samaritan woman. We dismount
| from our horses In drzzlng rain. and our
diagoman climbing up to the we'll over
| slippery stones, stumbles and frightens us
| all by nearly falling into 1t, measured the
! we'll ut the top and found 1t six feet from
| edge to edge. Some grass and weeds and
| thorny grOwths over ha ng 1t. In one place tho
roof is broken through. Large stones embank
| the wall on oil sides. Our dragoman took pcb-
| bfes and dropped them In, and from the time
they leftfis hand to the instant they clicked
| on tho bottom you could hear 1t was deep,
though not SO deep as once, for every day
| travellers are applying the same test, and
| though In tho time of Maundrell, the
| traveller. the well was hundred and sixty
| uve feet deep, now IL il only seventy-fiye,