Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-09
JOPPA TO JERUSALEM.
DIR. TALMAoE CONTINUES HIS
SERMON ON THE HOLY LAND.

observation-disclosures on the Way-Thi
Isrneiitss Returning to Their Anclsn
Land.
DR.. Talmage is continuing IN tn
Brooklyn Academy Of Music his serie
Of sermons on his recent journey TO th'
Holy Land and adjoining countries. TIL,
subject of his second sermon was, IN!
Second Day in Palestine" After th'
reading OF the Scripture and two heart.
songs of worship by the congregation
the preacher announced as his text
Galatians |, IS, II went up to Jerusa
lem"
My second day in the Holy Land. w,
are i'm Joppa. 1t is o'clock in thi
morning, but we must start early, for b!
night we are to be in Jerusalem; an(
that city is forty-one miles away. W.
may take camel or horse or carriage. Al
to-day will be our last opportunity In Pal
estine for taking the wheel, we ehoos'
that. The horses, with harness tasseleC
and jingling, are hitched, and with 4
dragoman in coat of many colors seated
in front we start on road which un
wells within twelve hours enough tC
think Of for all time and eternity. Fare
well, Mediterranean, with such Q
blue as no one but the divine
Chemist could mix, and such fire oi
morning glow as only the divine Illumi
nator could kindle! Hail! mountains oi
Ephraim and Juda, whose ramparts OF
rock we shall mount in few hours; fol
modern engineers can make a road any
where, and without piling 0ssa upon
Pelion those giants can scale the
heavens.
We start out Of the city amid barri-
cades of cactus on either side. Not
cacti in boxes two or three feet high, but
cactus higher than the top of the car
riage- plant that has more swords for
defense, considering the amount OF
beauty it can exhibit, than anything
created. We passed out amid about
four hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges,
lemons, figs, olives, citron, and pome-
granate, and which hold up their censers
of perfume before the Lord in perpetual
praise. We meet great professions of
camels loaded with kegs of oil and with
fruits, and some wealthy Mohammedan
with four wives-three too many.
The camel is proud, mysterious,
solemn, ancient, ungainly, majestic,
and ridiculous shape, stalking out of
the past. The. driver with his whip
taps the camel on the fore leg, and
he kneels to take you as a rider.
But when he rises hold fast or you will
fall off backward as he puts his fore feet
in standing posture, and then you will
fall off in front as his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are used to
his ways, although find the riders often
dismount and walk, as though to rest
themselves. Better stand out of the
path of the camel-he stops for rnothin g
and seems not to look down; and in the
street saw child by the stroke of a
camei's front foot hurled seven or. eight
feet along the ground.
Here We met people with faces and
arms and hands tattooed, as in all lands
sailors tattoo their arms with some fa-
vorite ship or admired face. 1t was to
this habit of tattooing among the ori-
entails that God refers In figure, when
He says Of His church, II have craven
thee on the palms of my hands,
Many OF these regions are naturally
sandy, but by irrigation they are made
fruitful, as in this irrigation the brooks
and rivers are turned this way and that
to water the gardens or farms, so the
Bible says, ''The Kings heart is in the
hands of the Lord, and He turneth it as
the rivers of water are turned whittier
soeyer He will.n
AS we pass out and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging to the
Universal Israelitish alliance. Monte
fore, the Israelitish centenarian and
philanthropist, and Rothschild, the
banker, and others of the large hearted
have paid the passage to Palestine for
many of the Israelites, and set apart
lands for their culture, and it is only a
beginning of the fulfllment of divine
prophecy when these people shall take
possession of the Holy Land. The road
from Joppa to Jerusalem, and all the
roads leading to Nazareth and Galilee,
we saw lined with professions of Jews
going to the sacred places, either on holy
pilgrimage or as settlers. All the fingers
of Providence nowadays are pointing
toward that resumption of Palestine by
the Israelites. I do not take it that the
prospe@d Israelites of other lands are to
go there.
They would be foolish to leave their
properties in our American cities,
where they are among our best citizens,
and cross two seas to begin life over
again in a strange land. But the out
RACES heaped upon them in Russia, and
the insults offered them in Germany,
will soon quadruple and centuple the
procession of Israelites from Russia to
Palestine. Facilities for getting there
will be multiplied, not only in the rail-
road from Joppa to Jerusalem, to which
referred last Sabbath as being built,
but permission for a road from Damas-
Gus to the bay of Acre has been obtained,
and that of course will soon connect with
Joppa, and make one great ocean shore
railroad. - the railroad from Jerusa-
lem to Joppa and from Joppa to Damas-
Gus will soon bring all the Holy Land
within a few hours of connection. Jewish
colonization societies in England and
Russia are getting money for the trans
portation OF the Israelites to Palestine
and for the purchase for them of lands
and farming implements, and so many
desire to go that 1t is decided by lot as to
which families shall 60 first.
They were Gods chosen people at the
first, and He has promised to bring them
back to their home, and there is NO
power in one thousand or five thousand
years to make God forget His promises.
Those who are prosperous In other lands
will do well to stay where they are. But
let the Israelites who are deprecated
and attacked and prosecuted turn their
faces toward the rising sun of their de-