Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13
THE HOLY LAND.
The Seventh OF DR.. Talmage's Sc
ries on His Recent Journey.
Passing through Damascus Gate Cut OF
Jerusal m for Jrurnpy North
ward for Bethel.
Rem:n iscencps from the Life of Christ Inter-
rretaiion to be Placed on the
Stories OF the Bible.


the sermon was preached before two
large audiences. In the morning it was
preached III the academy of music in this
city. and ut nj ht DIR. 1Glmase preached
it again in the New York academy of
music, which the Christian Herald con-
tinues to rent for these services. During
The SIX meetings thus far held i'll New
York, SO, 900 pr ople have eudeRvored to
hear DR.. TalmnEe preach. OF these 3,
30 600 have been admitted and 80, 600
have been turned away for lack OF ac-
com mediation. Following is the sermon
from the text. $50 | lifted up mine
eyes the way toward the north. - (Eze-
kirl SD
At ! o'clocll on December afternoon,
through Damascus gate we are passing
ont OF Jerusalem for journey north
ward. Ho! for Bethel with its stairs, the
bottom step OF which was stone pillow
ana Jnrob's we'll with its immortal cole
guy, and Nrzgreth with its Divine boy
IN his father's carpenter shop, and the
most glorious lake that ever rippled or
ti4siiad:
Rlue Galilee. sweet GaiIce.
Inc lake where Jesus loved 10 be;
and Damascus with its crooked street
called Stuight, AMI hundred places
Charged and surchGrged with apostolic,
rvanGels ic, prophetic, patrinrchal,
kiIgiy aud Chrstly rem ui-enres.
In travelling along the roads of Peles-
tine, am Impressed as ! could not 9TH
prwiSe have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afOot. We
find him occasionally on II boat, aud once
riding III triumphnl procession, as 1t is
spmttimoS called, although it seems to
me that the hosAnuGs OF the crowd cuul /
not have mhde Il ride on y stubborn, uu-
impressive aud funny creature ike that
which puttered with Him into Jerusalem,
very much of Il triumph. But We are
made 10 understand that generally He
walked. low much that means only
those know who lave gone over the dis
lance 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 nun out OF 1000 can walk
from Bethany 10 Jerusalem without eX-
haustion II IS over the Mount oil Olives,
and you must climb up among the rolling
stones and descend where eXertion is
necessary To keep you from falling pros
trate !, who am accustomed 10 walk
tried part of this road over the Mount of
Olives and confess | would not want TO
try it often, such demand does it make
npon ones physical energies. Yet Christ
walked it twice q day-in the morning
from Bethany to Jerusalem. aud in the
evening from Jerusalem to Bethany.
Liliewis il 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 gnllop TO do il
this week. The way is mountainous III
tine extreme. To those who went up TO
The T.p-Top house on Mount Washington
before the railroad was laid | will say
that ths Journey from Jerusalem TO Naz-
areth is like seven such american jour
news. SO, all up and down and across
ara recrossiuE Palestine, Jesus walked.
Ahab rode David rode. solomon TO lie.
Iierod rode Antony rode. But Jesus
walked. With = Oilen ankles and sore
muscles OF the leGS, and bruised heel
and stiff joints and pautiEg lungs AMI
iaint head, along the roads, and where
there were no roads ut all, Jesus walked.
We tried to gs. new horse other than
that on which we had ridden on the
journey 10 the Dead Sea, for he had
faults which our close ncquaintanceship
had developed. But after experimenting
with other Quadrupeds Of that species,
and finding that all horses, like their
riders, have faults, we concluded 10
choose saddle on that beast whose !
faults we were most prepared 10 pity or !
resist We rode down through the valley |
and then up on Mount Scopus and, rs
our dragomeu tells us that this is the !
last opportunity we shall have OF looking |
at Jerusalem, we turn our horses head |
towards the city and take IL long, sad |
and thrilling look at the religious capital |
OF our planet. THIS is the most impress
sive view of the most tremendous city of |
all time. ON and around this . hill
The armies of the crusaders ut the
first sight of the city threw them
selves on their faces in worship.
Here most of the besieged armies
aucarnped the night before opening their
volIeys of death against Jerusalem. Our
last look, Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount
Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount Cal
vary, 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 ut all, that we call
lot afford to duplicate visits or see any
hi = more than once. Farewell yon-
Ter thrones of gray rock, and the 5000
rears OF architecture and battlelields.
Farewell sacred. sanguinary, triumph
ant, Illuminated Jerusalem! Across this
valley of the Kedron with my right hand
throw thee kiss of valedictorv. Our
asst look, like our first lock, an agta-
ion of body, mind and soul. indecribs-
Die.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text, l lift
ID mine eyes the way toward the north.
Near here was one of the worst tragedies
# the ages mentioned in the Bible. A
ioSpitabe old man coming home ut even
lIi9 from his work in the fields, finds
10 strangers, husband and wife,
,roposing to lodge in the street because
10 shelter is offered them, and invites
hem TO come IN and spend the night in
rs home. During the night, the rutlians
f the neighborhood coDspired together
nd surrounded the house and left the
roman dead upon the doorstep and the
usband, to rally in revenge the twelve
ribekcut the corpse of the woman into
49, parts and sent twelfth of it to
acR tribe, ana the furv of the nation
a reused, and Il peremptory demand
II nude for the surrender of the