Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-11-27

and Have Cattle'-hoW the iattlarchs
Lived in Tents-Jacob's Vell-The Plain
OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BROOKLYN, Nov. 16.--This morning in
the Academy of Music in this city, and
this evening at The Christian Herald serv-
ice in the New York Academy of Music, DIR.
Talmage preached the eighth of the series
of sermons he is giving on his tour in
Palestine. At both services the respective
buildings were crowded to their utmost
capacity in five minutes after the doors
were opened, and all who came later were
unable to get in. DR.. Talmage's subject
was among the Bedouins,u and his text
Mum. x, 81: "Forasmuch as thou knowest
how we are to encamp in the wilderness"
Night after night we have slept in tent
in Palestine There are large villages of
Bedouins without house, and for three
thousand years the people of those places
have lived in black tents, made out Of dyed
skins, and when the winds and storms
wore ont and tore loose those coverings
others of the same kind took their places.
Noah lived in a tent; Abraham in a tent.
Jacob pitched his tent on the mountain.
Isaac pitched his tent in the valley. Lot
pitched his tent toward SOdom. In tent
the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the general,
to the ground. first having given him sour
milk called "leben" as a soporific to make
him sleep soundly, that being he effect of
such nutrition. as modern travellers can
testify The Syrian army in tent. The
ancient battle shout was "ro your tents
o Israelln Paul was tent maker In
deed. Isaiah, magnifcently poetic, indi-
Gates that all the human race live under a
blue tent when he says that God Stretch
eth out the heavens as a curtain and
spreadeth them ont as tent TO dwell in"
and Hezekiah compares death to the strik-
ing Of tent, saving, MY age is removed
from me as a Shepherds tent"
In Our tent in Palestine tonight I hear
something | never heard before and hope
never to hear again. It is the voice of a
nyena amid the rocks near by When You
may have seen this monster pltting his
month between the iron bars Of menag-
erie he is captive, and he gives a humil
lated and suppressed CRY. But yonder in
the midnight on throne OF rocks he has
nothing to fear, and he utters himself in
a loud, resounding, terrific, almost super
natural sound splitting up The darkness
into deeper midnight It begins with a
howl and ends with sound something like
horses whining In the hyena's voice are
defiance and strength and bloodthirstiness
and crunch Of broken bones and death.
BEASTS or PREY NO LONGER THERE.
am glad to say that for the most part |
Palestine is clear Of beasts of prey The |
leopards, 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 for illustrations of cruelty and
wrath, have retreated before the discharges
of gunpowder, of which they have an in
descrihable fear But for the most part
Palestine is what it originally was. With
the one exception of wire thread reach
ing from JoDpa to Jerusalem and from
Jerusalem TO Nazareth and from Nazareth
to Tiberias and from Tiberias to Damas-
Gus, that one nerve of civilization, the tele-
graphic wire Qfor we found ourselves only
"A few minutes off from Brooklyn and New
York while standing by Lake Galilee),
with that one exception Palestine is just as
it always was
Nothing surprised me so much as the
persistence of everything sheep or
horse falls dead, and though the sky may
one minute before be clear of all wings in
five minutes after the skies are black with
eagles eawing screaming, plungiug fight
ing for room, contending for largest NOR
sells Of the extinct quadruped All, now
understand the force of Christ's illustra-
lion when he said, "Wheresoever the car
eass is there will the eagles be gathered to-
gether." The longevity of those eagles is ,
They live fifty and sixty and ,
sometimes a hundred years All, that ex-
plains what David meant when he said,
Thy youth is renewed like the eagle'sn ! ,
Jaw a shepherd with the folds of his coat
ar bent outward. and I wondered what /
vas contained in that amplitude of APP
,arel, and | said to the dragoman, "What /
las that shepherd got under his eoatf" a
And the dragoman said, at is very I
Dung lamb he is carrying; it is too young \
nd too weak and too cold to keep !
p with the flock" At that moment ] \
aw the lamb put it's head out from the .
hepherd's bosom and | said, "There it is +
ow, lsaiahs description of the tenderness n
Z God-he shall gather the lambs with a
is arm and carry them in his bosom.n y
WOMEN EARLY AT THE sEPULCHER. =
Passing by village home, in she Holy
and, about noon / saw great crowd in 1
nd around private house, and | said f
} the dragoman, David. what is going ON a
leres" He said, Somebody has recently Il
led there, and their neighbors 20 in for =
'veral days after to sit down aud weep a
18th the bereaved." There it is. said, the y
d scriptural custom, "And many of the n
sws came to Martha and Mary. TO com \
ut them concerning their brother" Early "
the morning passing by cemetery in n
Re Holy Land saw among the graves n
,out fifty women dressed in black, and >
icy were CRYING: ooh, my clild!' "Oh r
y husbandm "Oh, my father" ooh, ii
y motherl' Our dragoman told us that !,
cry morning, very early for three morn Il
gs after burial, the women 20 to the !,
pulcher, and after that every week very d
rly for a year. As saw this group Just =
ter daybreak | said, There it is again, 4
e same old custom referred to in Luke, =
e evangelist, where he says Certain q
omen which were early at the sepul- h
Ter .
THE WONDERFUL WELL OF JACOB M
But here we found ourselves at Jacobs 4
ell, the most lannon's well in history. :,
ost distinguished for two things, because | a,
belonged to the old patriarch after whom >
was named. and for the wonderful 4
ings which Christ said, seated on this
oil rf1rh n tho Go