The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-11-19
DIR. TALNAGE'S JOURNEY.
WONDEHFUL ITINERARY OF CHRlST'S
WALK TO NAZARETH.

WONDERFUL ITINERARY OF CHRlST'S
WALK TO NAZARETH.
Bethel and the Sea of Galliee-Farswell
to the Historic Mountains AroUnd Jeru-
salem-Awful Tragedies of the oldsn
Times.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.-To-day DR.. Tai
mage preached the seventh of his course
of sermons on his recent tour in Pales-
tine. The following is the sermon from
the text. so lifted up mine eyes the
way toward the north" ezekiel win,
59
at l o'clock on a December after
noon through Damascus gate we are
passing out Of Jerusalem for a journey
northWard. Ho. for Bethel, with its
stairs, the bottom step Of which was a
stone pillow; and Jacobs well, with its
immortal colloQuy; and Nazareth, with
It's divine boy IN his fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed
Blue Galliee, sweet Galliee,
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
and Damascus, with its crooked street
called Straight. and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic,
evangelistic, prophetic. patriarchal,
kincly and Christly "reminiscences.
In travelling along the roads of Pal
estine ! am Impressed, as l could not
otherwise have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot.
We find him occasionally on boat,
and once riding in trlumphal process
sion. as it is sometimes called, although
it seems to me that the hosannas OF the
crowd could not have made ride on
stubborn, unimpreSslve and funny
creature like that which pattereo with
him into Jerusalem very much OF
triumph. But we are made to under
stand that generally he 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 Jerusalem.
Well, any man in ordinary health can
walk two miles without fatigue. But
not more than one man out of thous-
and can walk from Bethany to Jeru-
salem without exhaustion. 1t IS over
the Mount of Olives. and you must
climb up among the rolling stones and
descend where exertion is necessary to
keep you from falling PROSTATE. l, who
am accustomed to walk fifteen or tWen-
ty miles without lassitude, tried part
of this road over the Mount Of Olives,
and confess would not want to try 1t
often, such demand does it make upon
ones physical energies. Yet Chrlst
walked it twice a day-ln the morning
from Bethany to Je1 usalem, ana ID the
evening from Jerusalem to Bethany.
VIEW FROM MOUNT sCoPUs.
Likewise it seemed small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to NaZa.
reth. But it will take us four days OF
hard horseback riding, sometimes on
trot and sometimes on gallop, to 90
it this week. The way is mountainous
in the extreme. To those who went up
to the Tip Top house on Mount Wash
ineton before the railroad was laid l
will say that this journey from Jeru-
salem to Nazareth is like seven such
American Journeys. SO all up and
down and across and recrossing Pales-
tine, Jesus walked. Ahab rode. David
rode. Solomon rode. Herod rode: An
r tony 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 at all Jesus walked.
We tried to get new horse other
than that on which we had ridden on
the Journey to the Dead sea, for he had
faults which our close acquaintance
ship had developed. But after some
experiuenting with other Quadrupeds
of that species. and finding that all
horses, like their riders, have faults
we concluded to choose saddle on
that beast whose faults we were must
prepared to pity or resist. we rooe
down through the valley and then up
on Mount Scopus and, as our dragoman
tells US that this is the last opportun-
ity we shall have OF looking at Jeru-
salem, we turn our horses head toward
the city and take a long, sad and thrill
ing look at the religious capital OF our
planet. This is the most impressive
view of the most tremendous city OF
all time.
On and around 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 besieglng
armies encamped the night before open
ing their yolleys of death against Jeru-
salem. Our last look Farewell,
Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount of
Olives, Mount Calvary! VIII we never
see them again? 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 yisitss or see anything more
than once. Farewell, yonder thrones
of gray rock, and the three thousand
wears of architecture and battlehelds.
Farewell, sacred, sanguinary, triumph
ant, humiliated Jerusalem Across
this valley of the kedron with my
right hand throw thee a kiss Of vale
dictory. Our last look. like our first
look, an agitation of body, mind and
soul lEdescribable.
THE CORPSE CUT INTO oTWELvEPIECEs:
And now, like Ezekiel in my text, l
lift up mine eyes the way toward the
north. Near here Was one OF tue WORST
tragedies of the ages mentioned IN the
Bible. 4 hospitable OLD man coming
home at eventide 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 home. During
the night the ruffianS of the nelghbor-
hood conspired together, and surround
ed the house, and left the woman dead
on the doorstep. and the husband, to
rally in revenge the twelve tribes, cut
the corpse of the woman into twelve
parts ana sent twelfth of 1t to each
tribe. and the fury of the nation was
reused, and a peremptory demand was
made for the surrender of the assas-
sins, and. the demand refused, IN one
day twenty thousand people were left