Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-29
WONDERS OF PALESTINE.
DR.. TALMAGE BEGINS A SERIES OF
SERMONS ON HIS TRIP.

Fntures Tor One Can Then 40 All the
Way by Rail.
BROOKLYN, Sept 29.-In the brooklyn
Academy of Music todayDr. Talmage be-
gan a series of sermons on his recent jour
ney TO the Holy Land The subject of to-
days sermon was, my First Day in Pales-
tine" After appropriate passages OF Script
ure were read the congregation sang with
great spirit;
We praise thee. o God, for the Son Of thy love,
For Jesus wh', died and is now gone above,
The text was | Kings x. Z; 'The half
was not told me-"
This Is the first sermon in course of
Sabbath morning sermons on my Recent
Journey Through the Holy Land and
Neigh boring Countries: What Saw and
What Learned" Out of the sixty-four
millions of our present American popula-
ton and the millions of our past only
about five Thousand have ever visited the
Holy Land. OF all those who cross to Eu-
rope less than five per cent. ever get ~ far
rs Rome, and less than two per cent. ever
get to Athens, and less than a quarter of
one per cent ever get to Palestine. OF the
less than quarter of one per cent who do
go to the Holy Land some see nothing but
the noxious insects and the filth of the ORR
entail cities, and come back wishing they
had never gone. OF those who see much
Of interest and come home only a small
portion can tell what they have seen; the
tongue unable to report the eye, The
rarity of successful, intelligent and
happy journey through the Holy Land is
very marked But the time approaches
- Tl.,l, h,,,
mon. Thousands will 90 where now there
are scores Two locomotives were recently
sent up from .Joppa to Jerusalem and rail
roads are about to begin in Palestine, and
The day will come when the cry will be-
IAN out for Jerus;ileml' Twenty min
utes for breakfast ut Tiberias" "Change
cars for Tyrel" Grand Trunk Junction
for Nincvehl'' "All ont for Damascus"
Meanwhile the wet locks of the Atlantic
ocean and Adriatc and Mediterranean
seas IRE being shorn, and not only is the
voyage shortened, but. after Il while, with
out crossing the ocean, you and your chill
dren will visit the Holy Land. A com
pany of capitalists have gone up TO Ilehrng
straits, where the American and Asiatic
continents come within thirty six miles of
meeting. These capitalists, or Others, will
build II bridge across those straits, for mid
way are three islands called 1.-The Diome
des," and the water is not deep, and is
never disturbed with icebergs. Trains of
ours will run from America across that
bridge and on down through Siberia,
bringing under more immediate ohServa
ton the Russian outrages against eXiles,
and consequently aboishing them; and
there are persons here today who, without
one qualm of seasickness, will visit that
wonderful land where the Christlikc, AbrH
hamc, Mosaic, Davidc, Solomonic and
Hcrodic histories overlap each other with
such power that by the time | took my
feet out of the stirrups ut the close of the
journey felt so wrung out with emotion
that it seemed nothing else could ever ab
sorb my feelings again
"THERE SHALL he No MORE SEA"
Tie chief hindrance for going to Pales
tine with many is the dreadful sea, and
though | have crossed it ten times it Ia
mere dreadful every time and fully sym
pathi2e with what was said one night when
Mr., Beecher aud went over to speak in
New York mt the anniversary Of the Sea
mnp,s Ericnd society, and the clergyman
making the opening PrGJvI pttUUvd rIoIu
~. JbiH' iltIt htull NC llO IlOIt Stfty
and Mr.. Beecher, seated beside me, in
memory of II recent ocean voyage, said,
".Amen, am glad of that" by the par
Cial abolition of the Atlantic ocean and the
putting down of rail tracks across every
country in all the world the most sacred
land on earth will come under the observa,
zion of 50 many people, who will be ready
to tell Of what they saw, that infldclity
will be pronounced only another form of
insanity, for no honest man can visit the
Holy Land and remain IN inlidcl.
This Bible from which preach has al
most fallen apart, for read from it the
most Of the events in it recorded on the
very places where they occurred. And
some of the leaves got wet "a the waves
dashed over our boat on Lake Gnlilee, and
the book was iostleI in the s,ldIlebags for
many weeks; but it is II new book to me,
newer than any book that yesterday came
out of any of our great printing houses.
All my life had heard of Palestine, and
had read about it and talked about it and
preached about it and sung about it aud
prayed about it and dreamed about il until
my anticipations were piled up into some.
thing like liimllayan proportions, and yet
| have to cry ont, as did the queen Of Sheba
when she first visited the Holy Land, 1.-The
half was not told me. "
In order 60 make the more accurate and
vivid n booS have been writing, u life of
Christ, entitled From Manger to Throne"
| left home last October, and on the ust
night of November we were walking the
decks of the Senegal, Mediterranean
steamer. It was ship of immense pro
ipnu rLnp,,. Inn e.,
for it is generally rough at that time of
year, and plcasursts are not apt to be
voyuging there and then. The stars were
all out that night. Those armies Of light
seemed to have had their shields newly
FURNISHED. We walked the polished deck.
Not much YVES said, for in all our hearts
was the dominant word Tomorrow"
Somehow the Aeropolis, which Il few days
before had thrilled us at Athens, now in
our minds lcssened in the height of its col
umns and the glory of its temples. And
the Egyptian pyramids in our memory les
sened their wonders Of obsolete masonry,
and the Coliseum of Rome was not so vast
a ruin ny il n few weeks before had seemed
to be
And all that we had seen and heard
dwindled in Importance, for tomorrow,
tomorrow we shall see the Holy Land.
Captain, what time will we come in sight
of PalcstincY" WELL" he said, Iii the
wind aud sen remain rs they are about
daybrcak." Never was so impatient for
Il night to pass. could not see much use
for that night. anyhow. pulled aside the
curtain from the port hole of my state
room, so that the first hint Of dawn would
waken me; but it was n useless precau-
tion. Sleep WAS among the Representatives,.
Who could bc 50 stupid rs to slumber
when any moment therc might start ont
within sight Of the ship the land where the
most stupcndous scenes of all time and all
eternity were enacted. land of ruin and re