The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-11-12
ON THE WAY TO NAZARETH.
Riding Over the Road which Christ
Travelled on Foot.
Row Il. Dewitt Talmage Continues His
Account OF His Journey Through
the Holy Land--sldding Faro
well to Jerusalem.

Last Sunday DR.. Talmage preached
the seventh OF his course Of sermons on
his recent tour In Palestine. Following
Is the discourse from the text, $50 /
lifted up mine eyes the way toward the
North. Ezekiel, viii, 81
At one o'clock on December after
noon through Damascus gate we are
passing out Of Jerusalem for journey
northward. Ho! Tor Bethel with its
stairs, the bottom step Of which was
stone pillow. and Jacobs we'll with its
Immortal colloquy and Nazareth with
its divine boy in his fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed:
Blue Galilee, sweet Galilee,
The lake where Jesus loved TO be,
and Damascus with its crooked street
called Straight, and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic,
evangelistic, prophetic, patriarchal,
kingly and Christly "reminiscences.
In travelling along tho roads Of Pales-
tine, / am impressed as could not 9TH
erwise have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot. We
find him occasionally on boat, and
once riding in triumphal procession,
as 1t is sometimes called although 1t
seems 30 me that the hosannas OF the
crowd could not have mado ride on
stubborn, unimpressive and funny crea-
ture like that which pattered with him
into Jerusalem, very much OF a triumph.
But we are made to understand that
generally he walked. How much that
means only those know who have gone
over the distance 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 moro
than one man out OF a thousand can walk
from Bethany to Jerusalem without ex-
hsustion. 1t is over the Mount OF
Olives, and you must climb UP among
the rolling stones and descend where
exertion is necessary to keep you from
falling PROSTATE. 1, who nm accustomed
to walk fifteen or twenty miles without
lassitude, tried part Of this road over
the Mount OF Olives and confess Iwould
not want to try 1t often, such demand
does It make upon ones physical ener-
giles Yet Christ walked IL twice day
I'm the morning from Bethany to Jeru-
salem, and in the evening from Jerusa-
lem to Bethany.
Likewise it seemed o small thing that
Christ walkod from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But it will take us four days Of
hard harse-back riding, sometimes on O
trot and sometimes on gallop to do 1t
this week. Tho way is mountainous in
the extreme. To those who went up to
tho Tip-Top house on Mount Washing
ton, before tho 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 Palestine, Jesus
walked. Ahab rode. David rode. Sol
onon rode. Herod rode. Antony rode.
ButJesus walked. With swollen ankles
and sore muscles of the legs, and bruised
heel and stiff joints and painting lungs
and faint head, along the roads, and
whore there were no roads at all, Jesus
walled.
We tried to get new horse other
than that on which we had ridden on
the journey to the Dead Sea, for he had
faults which our close acquaintanceship
had developed. But after some expert
mentiug with other quadrupeds OF that
species, and finding that all horses, like
their riders, have faults, we concluded
to choose saddle on that beast whose
faults we were most prepared TO pity o.
resist We rode down through the val
ley and then up on Mount Scopus and,
as our dragoman tells us that this is the
last opportunity we shall have OF, look
ing at Jerusalem, we turn our horses
head towards 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 tremend-
ous city OF all time. On and around
this hill the armies OF the crusaders at
the first sight OF tho city threw them
solves on their faces in worship Hero
most OF the besieging armies encamped
the night before opening their volleys
OF death against Jerusalem. Our last
lookl Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount
Moriah, Mount OF Olives, Mount CAL
ysryl viii we never see them again?
Neverl The world is so large and the
time is so short, and'thoro are so many
things VIC have never seen at all, that
we can not afford TO duplicate visits or
see any thing more thap once. Fare
we'll yonder thrones Of gray rock, and |
Che three thousand years OF architec.
ture and battlohelds. Farewell sacred, |
sanguinary, triumphant humiliated Je-
rusaleml Across this valley Of tho |
Kedron, with my right hand I throw |
thee 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 mino eyes the way toward the
north. Near here was one OF tho worst
tragedies OF the ages, mon toned in the
Bible. A hospitable old man coming
homo at even-tide from his work
in tho fields, finds two strangers, q hus-
band and wife, proposing TO lodge in the
street because no shelter Is offered
them, and invites them TO como
In and spend the night in his homo.
During tho night the rufiians OF The
neigh hborhood conspired together. and
surrounded the house and left the wo-
man dead on the doorstep and the bus
band, 10 rally in revenge the twelve
tribes, cut the corpse Of tho woman into
twelve parts and sent q twelfth OF It TO.
each tribe, and the fury OF the nation
was reused, and peremptory demand