Idaho semi-weekly world., 1890-11-07
EoppA TO JERUSALEM.
-, MAGE CONTINUES HIS SER
Y ..on ON the HOLY LAND.


n, the cti8 and Over the
..,,.-Robbers ON the wHy1Ths
-. returning 10 Their Aneisnt
Land.
ov,yS Oct. 5.-Dr. Talnage Is
phv .as.,;ng in the Brooklyn Academy
n ,s.a;s his series Of sermons On his
n.''i ;ourney to the Holy Land and
cens .s,,0 countries. The subject this
s,iag loI' was, my Second Day il Pal
& % Il After the reading Of the Script,
'n nd two hearty songs Of worship
~ congregation the preacher an
unced as his text; Galatians 10
wsnt up to Jerusalem.
M second day in the Holy Land. We
4 Ioppa. It is 8 o'clock in the
..ino but we must start early, for
n;abt we are to be in Jerusalem. and
J. citv Is forty-one miles away We
fake camel or horse or carriage.
today will be our last opportunity
palestine for taking the wheel, we
aose that The horses, with harness
sseled and jingling, are hitched, and
~ a dragoman in coat of many colors
oted in front we start on a road
h;cb unveils within twelve hours
.ouob to think of for all time and all
arnitv Farewell, Mediterranean, with
al blue as no one but the divine
hemist could mix, and such a fire Of
orninp glow as only the divine II
,minator could kindlel Hail noun
.;ns of Ephraim and Juda, whose ram
arts of rock we shall mount in a few
ours. for modern engineers can make
road anywhere, and without piling
,ssa upon Pelion those giants can
rale the heavens.
We start out OF the city amid barri
odes of cactus on either side. Not
octi in boxes two or three feet high,
mt cactus higher than the top of the
ariage-a plant that has more swords
br defense considering the amount of
eauty it can exhibit, than anything
teated. We passed out amid about
bur hundred gardens, seven or eight
cres to the garden. from which at the
ipbt seasons are plucked oranges, lem
Bus, figs, olives, citron and pomegran-
ties, and which hold up their censers
4 perfume before the Lord in perpet-
al praise. We meet great professions
\ camels loaded with kegs of oil and
Nth fruits, and some wealthy Moham-
1edan with four wives three too
hany. The camel IS proud, myste
ious, solemn, ancient, ungainly. ma
estic and ridiculous shape, stalking
but of the past. The driver with his
khip taps the camel on the fore leg,
Ind he kneels to take you as rider.
But when he rises hold fast or you
Fill fall off backward as he puts his
ore feet in standing posture, and then
+ You will fall off in front as his back
legs take their place. But the inhabit-
knts are used to his ways, although
Ind the riders often dismount and
walk, as though to rest themselves.
Better stand out of the path OF the
amel-he stops for nothing and seems
bot to look down. and in the street |
Jaw child by the stroke OF a caimel's
ront foot hurled seven or eight feet
Along the ground.
Here we meet people with faces and
knns and hands tattooed, as in all lands
ailors tattoo their arms with some fa-
Forite ship or admired face 1t was to
his habit of tattooing among the ori-
entals that God refers in a figure, when
Pc says of his church, 81 have craven
fhee on the palms of my hands"
Many of these regions are naturally
sandy, but by irrigation they are made
fruitful, and as in this irrigation the
Brooks and rivers are turned this way
Rnd that to water the gardens or farms,
20 the Bible says, 1.-THE kings heart is
N the hands of the Lord. and he turn
eth it as the rivers of water are turned
whithersoever he will.
MODERN JEWS IN PALESTINE.
a AS We pass out and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging to the
Universal Israelitish alliance. Monte
hore, the Israelitish centenarian and
phllanthropist, and Rothschild, the
banker and others of the large hearted
have paid the passage to Palestine for
many OF the lsraelites, and set apart
lands for their culture, and it is only
"a beginning of the fulfillment of divine
prophecy when these people shall take
possession of the Holy Land The road
IRON Joppa to Jerusalem, and all the
roads leading to Nazareth and Galilee,
we saw lined with professions of Jews
gong to the sacred places, either on
E.ioiy pilgrimage or as settlers. All the
OF Providence nowadays are
& pointing toward that resumption of
faiestlne by the Israelites. | do not
take IL that the prospered Israelites of
other lands are to go there.
& lhey would be foolish to leave their
p'osperltles in our American cities, where
'ney are among our best citizens, and
.'oss TWO seas to begin life over again
~ strange land. But the outrages
aeaped upon them in Russia, and the
Insults offered them in Germany, will
soon quadruple and eentuple the pro
y Tesaon OF lsraelites from Russia to
aestine' Facilities for getting there
Nui De multiplied, not only in the rail
,Vaa rom Joppa to Jerusalem, to which
eierred last Sabbath as being built,
ou' permission for a road from Damas-
uS 10 the bay of Acre has been OBJ
tanned, and that of ooursa min so,,