Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-24
AMONG THE HOLY HILLS.
SERMON PREACHED BY REV. T. DE
WITT TALMAGE.

WI lFLWfNo-s
Continuation of the Series of Discourses
Describing the Noted Divine's Visit TO
the Land of Holy Writ-Great Interest
Manifested.
BROOKLYN, N Y, Nov. 23.-Ihe
interest in the series of sermons IN
which Dr. Talmage is describing nus
recent tour in Palestine, and nculcat-
ing gospel lessons suggested by MS
theme. increases from week to week
There was never so large crowd at
any one of the previous eight sermons
as there was today around the BROOK
Iyn Academy of Music in the morning
and at The Christian Herald service IN
the evening to hear the ninth sermon
It's subject was Among the Holy
Hills" and the text Luke iv, 10: HE
came to Nazareth, where he was
brought up" Following is the sermon;
What a splendid sleep L had last
night in Catholic convent, my nrst
sleep within doors since leaving Jeru-
salem. and all of US as kindly treated
as though we had been the pope and
| his college of cardinals passing that
/ way. Last evening the genial sister
\ hood OF the convent ordered hundred
bright eyed Arab children brought out
to sing for me, and it was glorious!
! This morning | come out on the steps
! of the convent and look upon the most
beautiful village of all Palestine, Its
bonses of white limestone Guess its
| name. Nazareth, historical Nazareth;
one of the trinity of places that all
/ Christian travellers must see or teel
that they have not seen Palestine,
namely, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Naza-
reth. Babyhood, boyhood, manhood
| of him for whom | believe there are
| fifty million people who would now, II
it were required, march out and die
whether under ak, or down In the
| floods or straight through the fire.
GRAND OLD NAZARETH.
Grand old village is Nazareth, even
putting aside its sacred associations
First of all, it is clean; and that can
be said of few of the oriental villages.
Its neighboring town of Nablous is the
fIthiest town [ ever saw, although its
chief industry is the manufacture of
soap. They export all of it. Nazareth
was perhaps unusually clean the morn
ing | speak of, for as we rode into the
village the afternoon before the show
ers which had put our macintOsheS to
the test had poured floods through all
| the alleys under command of the clouds,
I II
Besides that. Nazareth has been the
scene of battles passing it from
Israelite to MOhammedan and from
| Mohammedan to Christian, the most
wonderful of the battles being that In
which twenty-five thousand Turks were
beaten by twenty-one hundred French,
Napoleon Bonaparte commanding, that
greatest of Frenchmen walking these
very streets through which Jesus walked
for nearly thirty years. the morals OF
the two, the antipodes, the SHOWS OF
Russia and the plaques of Egypt ap
propriately following the one, the dox
ologies of earth and the hallekujahs Of
heaven appropriately following the
other.
|
situated in great green bowl, the
sides of the bowl the surrounding fiji
teen hills. The God of nature, who il
the God of the Bible, evidently scoopeC
out this valley for privacy and separa
ton from all the world during three
most important decades, the thirt!
wears of Christ's boyhood and youth
| ~, i, If icf3
stav on earth he spent thirty of then
in this town getting ready-a startling
rebuke to those who have no patience
with the long years of preparation
necessary when they enter on an.
special mission for the church or thu
world.
The trouble is with most young mel
that they want to launch their shil
from the drydock before it is ready
and hence SO many sink in the first cy
clone. Stay in the store as a subordi
nate until you are thoroughly equipped
Be q good employee in your trade unit
you are qualified to be an employer
Be content with Nazareth until you ar
ready for the buffetings of Jerusalem
|
: the thirty years that you can do NOR
in three years than most men cal
accomplished in a prolonged lifetime
These little suggestions | am apt to pu
into my sermon, hoping to help peopl
for this world, while 1 am chiefly an1
! ious to have them prepare for the mex
world
All Christ's boyhood was spent i
this village and its surroundings. Their
is the very well called 1.-THE Fountai
of the Virgin to which by his mother
side he trotted along holding her han6
, No doubt about it; it is the only we
in the village, and it has been the onl
well for three thousand years. TIL
morning we visit it, and the mother
| have their children with them now 6
J then. The work of drawing water i
all ages in those countries has bee
, women's work. Scores of them al
. waiting for their turn at it, three gres
and everlasting springs rolling out int
: that well, their barrels, their hog
heads of water, in floods gloriousl
abundant. The we'll is surrounded b
olive groves and wide spaces in whic
people talk and children, wearir
charms on their heads as protectio
against the ''evil eye" are playing, an
women with their strings of coin c
either side of their face. and in Skin
of blue and scarlet and white an
green, move on with water jars on the
heads.
Mary, suppose, almost always toe
Jesus the boy with her, for she had n
one she could leave him with, being
humble circumstances and having L
attendants. I do not believe there W;
one of the surrounding fifteen hills tn
the boy Christ did not range from be
tom to top, or one cavern In their sid
he did not explore, or one species
bird flying across the tops that ne cou
not call by name, or one OF all q
species of fauna browsing on tho
= sleeps that he had not recognized.
TRAINING WILL TELL.
:. You see it all through his sermon
in If man becomes a public speaker,
n his orations or discourses you dlscoV
II, n;s oorIx- xuboroa IoJ1fS What o.