Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-06
Rev. DR.. Talmage's Second Ser
mon on His Recent Journey.
From Joppa to Jerusalem-The Pleas
ureS of the Trip Beautifully De-
picted by the Famous Divine.
The Country, the People and Their Customs
Modes Of Travel, Etc.-A Night Inside
the Gates OF Jerusalem.

mon on the Holy Land this morning.
stated that, as previously announced,
the sermon sbcu: TO nc delivered would
also be delivered IA the Few York aced-
envy of DrCo in the evening. IN coEse-
quence OF the unprecedented attendance
the preceding Sunday evening, when,
despite the fact that the academy of
music accommodated fully COCO persons,
many thousands we're turned away, the
managers of the Christian Herald had
opened negotiations with a view to Sc
curing Madison Square garden for the
purpose OF the remaining ten Sunday
evening sermons. Owing 20 imperative
engagements for the next three Sundays,
the garden could not be secured earlier
than four weeks hence, when the Chris
tian Herald expects to be able to give to
DIR. Talmnge al opportunity, during the
remaining sabbath evenings of 1890, to
speak IN the greatest public auditorium
N New York city, to the largest audi
ences that ever assembled for divine SER
vice. The seating capacity of Madison
Square garden is u 900. The subject
this morning was: "My Second Day in
Palestine" After the reading of the
Scriptures and two hearty songs of
worship by the congregation, the
preacher announced as his text: Gala
tians :l8, 81 went up to Jerusalem. -
My second day in the Holy Land. We
are in Joppa. II is O'Clock in the
morning, but we must start early, for
by night we are to be in Jerusalem, and
that city is forty-one miles away. We
may take camel or horse, or carriage.
AS to-day will be our last opportunity in
Palestine for taking the wheel, we choose
that. The horses, with harness tasseled
and jingling, are hitched, and, with q
dragomau in coat of many colors seated
in front, we start on a road which IN
wells within twelve hours enough to
think of for all time and all eternity.
Farewell Mediterranean with such blue
as no one but the divine Chemist could
mix, and such fire of morning glow as
only the divine Illuminator could kindleI
Hail! Mountains of Ephraim and Juda,
whose ramparts of rock we shall mount
in few hours, for modern engineers can
make road anywhere, ard, without
piliug Ossa 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-a 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 sea-
sons are plucked oranges, lemons, figs,
olives, citron and pomegranates, and
which hold up their censers of perfume
before the Lord IN perpetual praise. We
meet great professions of
CAMFIS LOADED WITH EFGS
of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mohammedan with four wives-three too
many. The camel is a 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 Cs 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 IN
habitants 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 camel; he
stops for nothing and seems not to look
down, and in the street l saw child,
by the stroke of camel's front foot,
hurled seven or eight feet along the
ground.
Here we meet people with faces, and
arms, and hands tattoed, as in all lands
sailors tattoo their arms with some
favorite ship or admired face. 1t was to
this habit OF tattooing among the
Orientals that God refers in figure,
when He says of His church, ''I have
craven thee 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,
and that TO water the gardens or farms,
so the Bible says, 1.-The kIng's heart is in
the hands of the Lord, and He turneth il
as the rivers of water are turned whittier
soever He will.
THE JEWS IN PALESTINE.
As We pass out and on we find about
500 acres belonging to the Universal Is
raelitish Alliance. Montefore, the Is
raelitish centenarian and philanthropist,
and Rothschild, the banker. and others
of the large hearted, have paid the pas
sage to Palestine for many of the Israel
ties and set apart lands for their culture;
and II Is only beginning of the fulfill
ment of divine prophecy when these peo-
pie shall take possession of the Holy
Land. The road from Joppa to Jerusa-
lem ana Oil the roads leading to Nazareth
and Gallilse we saw lined with process
sions of Jews, going to the sacred places,
either on holy pilgrimage or as settlers.
All the fingers of Providence now a-days
are pointing toward that resumption of
Palestine by the lsraelites. 1 do not
take 1t that the prospered 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 10 begin life over again in a strange
land. But the outrages 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 Damascus
TO the Bay OF Acre has been obtained,
and that of course will soon connect with
Joppa. and make one great oceaushore
railroad. So the railroad from Jerusa-
lem 10 Joppa, and from Joppa to Damas-
Gus, will soon bring all the Holy Land |
within a few hours Of connection. jewish