The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-10
TALMAGE In THE SADDLE
HIS START FROM JERUSALEM ON
THE WAY TO DAMASCUS.

charged with Biblical "reminiscences
Along the Route-Christ's Journe!
Made Afoot - The Last Look a
Jerusalem-His Text from Ezekiel.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.-To-dsy DR.. Talmag
preached the seventh of his course of ser
mons on his recent tour in Palestine. A
on previous Sundays the sermon wa
preached before two large audiences. II
the morning il was preached in the Academy
of Music in this city. and at night DIR. Tai
mage preached it again in the New York
Academy Of Music. which the ChriStid,
Herald continues to rent for these services
During the six meetings thus far held IL
New York, 10000 people have endeavoreC
TO hear DR.. Talmage preach. OF these 35,
900 have been admitted and 5000 have
been turned away for lack of accommoda
ton. Following is the sermon from thu
text, 80 / lifted up mine eyes the way
toward the north" Ezekiel viii, 5.
At l O'Clock on December afternoon
through Damascus gate we are passing out
OF Jerusalem for journey northward. 10
for Bethel with its stairs, the bottom step OF
which was a stone pillow, and Jacobs well
with its immortal colloquy, and Nazareth
with its Divine boy in his fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that ever
rippled or Dashed
Blue Galilee, sweet Galilee,
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
and Damascus with its crooked street called
Straight, and q hundred places charged and
surcharged with apostolic, sevangelistic,
prophetic, patriarchal, kinglV and Christly
"reminiscences.
In rox yalipor a apcy fha rOQda Of Palestine
| 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 a boat, and once riding in
triumphal procession, as it is sometimes
called, although it seems to me that the no
sannas Of the crowd could not have made a
ride on stubborn, unimpre 3sive and funny
creature like that which battered with him
into Jerusalem, very much of a triumph.
But we are made to understand that gener-
ally he walked. How much that means
only those know who have gone over the dis
lance traversed by Christ We are accus-
toned to read that Bethany is two miles
from Jerusalem. Well, any man in ordin-
airy health can walk two miles
without fatigue. But not more than one
man out of a thousand can walk from Beth
any to Jerusalem without exhaustion. It
is over the Mount of Olives, and you must
scend where exertion is necessary to keep
you from falling PROSTATE. l. who am
accustomed to walk fifteen or twenty miles
miles without lassitude tried part of this
road over the Mount of Olives, and confess
j would not want to try it often, such
demand does it make upon ones physical
energies. Yet Christ walked it twice day
in the morning from Bethany to Jerusa-
lem, and in the evening from Jerusalem to
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 a trot
and sometimes on a gallop, to do it this
week. The way is mountainous in the ex-
IRENE. To those who went up to the TIP
Top house on Mount Washington, before
the railroad was laid, | will say that this
journey from Jerusalem 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. Antony
rode. But Jesus walked. With swollen
ankles and sore muscles of the legs, and
bruised heels 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 a new horse other than
lIeib Ou WHICH We nhQ on Ule 1OurQeV
to the Dead Sea, for he had faults which
our close acouaintanceship had DEVELOPED
But after some experimenting with other
quadrupeds of that species, and, finding
that all horses, like their riders, have faults.
we concluded to choose a saddle on that
beast whose faults we we're most prepared
to pity or resist. We rode down through
the valley and then up on Mount Scopus.
ano, as our dragoman tells us that this is
the last opportunity we shall have of look
ing at Jerusalem, we turn our horses head
toward the city and take a long, sad and
thrilling 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 besieged
armies encamped the night before opening
their volleys of death against Jerusalem.
Our last lookl Farewell, Mount Zion.
Mount Moriah, Mount of Olives. Mount
VIII we never see them again9
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 ANYTHING
more than once. Farewell, yonder thrones
of gray rock, and the three thousand wears
of architecture and battlefields. Farewell,
sacred, sanguinary, triumphant, humil-
lated Jerusaleml Across this valley of the
Kedron with my right hand l throw thee a
kiss of valedictory. Our last look, like our
first look, an agitation of body, mind and
soul, indescribable.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text, lift
up mine eyes the way toward the north.
Near here was one of the worst tragedies of
the ages, mentioned in the Bible. A hospi-
table old man coming home at even-tlde
from his work IN the fields, finds two
strangers, a 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 ruff1ans of the neighborhood
conspired together, and surrounded 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 it to each tribe.
ana 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
were left dead on the field and the next day
eighteen thousand. Wherever our horse
to-day plants his foot. in those ancient
tunes corpse lay, and the roads we're
crossed by red rivulets of carnage.
Now we pass on where seven youths were
put to death and their bodies gibbeted or
hanged in chains, not for anything they had
themselves done, but as a reparation for
what their father and grandfather. Saul.
mad done. Burial was denied these Youths
from May until November. Rizpah, the
mother of two of thaSa daod how, ao,,o;v, =.