News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-02
FIRST DAY IN PALESTINE.
Sermon Preached by DIR. Talmage,
SUNDAY, Sept. %.

Land and Other Old World Regions.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 2S.-In tho Brook
Ign Academy of Music today DR.. Tai
mage began a series of sermons on his
recent journey to the Holy Land. The
subject of today's sermon was, My
First Day in Palestine" After appro-
pirate passages of Scripture were read
The congregation sang with great spirit:
We praise thee o God. for the Son of thy love.
For Jesus who died and is now gone above
The text was | Kings X, z: 1.-The
half was not told me.
This is the first sermon in a course OF
Sabbath morning sermons on MY Re
cent Journey Through the Holy Land
and Neighboring Countries: What L
Saw and What | Learned" Out of
the sixty-four millions of our present
American population and the millions
of our past only about five thousand
have ever visited the Holy Land. OF
all those who cross to Europe less than
5 per cent. ever get as FIR as Rome,
and less than 2 per cent. ever get to
Athens, and less than quarter of l
| per ever SCl W L CllSoLAliC. VI eiAS
less than a quarter of per cent. who do
60 to the Holy Land some see nothing
but the noxious insects and the filth OF
the Oriental cities, and come back
wishing they had never gone. OF those
who see much of interest and come
home only IA 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 when journey to Palestine
will be common. Thousands will go
where now there are scores. Two loco
motives were recently sent up from
Joppa to Jerusalem, and railroads are
about to begin in Palestine, and the
day will come when the cry will be,
''All out for Jerusalem!" Twenty
minutes for breakfast at Tiberias''
"Change cars for Tyrel' Grand Trunk
Junction for NinevehI' ''All out for
Damascus" Meanwhile the wet locks
of the Atlantic ocean and Adriatic and
Mediterranean seas are being shorn,
and not only is the voyage shortened,
but after while. without crossing the
ocean, you or your children will visit
the Holy Land A company of CAPT
talists have gone up to Behring strait2,
where the American and ASiatic con-
| tinents come within thirty-six miles of
meeting.
These capitalists or others will build
| bridge across these straits. for mid
way are three islands called The
Diomedes, and the water is not deep
and is never disturbed with icebergs.
Trains of cars will run from America
across that bridge and on down through
Siberia, bringing under more immedi
ate observation the Russian outrages
against exiles and consequently abolish
ing them; and there are persons here
today who, without one qualm of sea-
sickness, will visit that wonderful land
where the Christlike, Abrahamic, Mo-
sale, Davidic, Solomonic and Herodic
histories overlap each other with such
power that by the time | took my feet
out of the stirrups at the close of the
journey felt so wrung out with emo
ton that it seemed nothing else could
ever absorb my feelings again.
THE SEA Is ON THE WAY.
The chief hindrance for going to Pal
estine with many is the dreadful sea,
and though | have crossed it ten times
it is more dreadful every time. and |
fully sympathize with what was said
one night when Mr.. Beecher and | went
over to speak in New York at the ami
versary of the Seamen's Friend society,
and the clergyman making the opening
prayer quoted from ST. John, There
shall be no more sea-, and Mr.. Beech
er, seated beside me, in memory of
recent ocean voyage said. Amen; |
am glad of that" By the partial abo-
lition 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 observation of SO many people who
will be ready to tell of what they saw
that infidelity will be pronounced only
another form of insanity for no honest
man can visit the Holy Land and re-
main an infidel
This Bible from which | preach has
almost 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 as the
waves dashed over our boat on Lake
GaIilee, and the book was jostled in the
saddle bags for many weeks, but it is
a 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,
and prayed about it, and dreamed
about it, until my anticipations were
piled up into something like Himalayan
proportions. and yet have to cry out,
as did the queen of Sheba when she
first visited the Holy Land, 1.-The half
was not told Inc.
FROM MANGER TO THRONE.
In order to make the more accurate
and vivid a book | have been writing,
life of Christ, entitled From Man
ger to Throne" left home last Octo-
Der, and on the last night of Novem- |
Der we were walking the decks of the |
Senegal, Mediterranean steamer 1t |
was ship of immense proportions |
There were but few passengers, for it |
is generally rough at that time of year,
and pleasurists are not apt to be voy-
aging 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 pol
ished deck. Not much was said, for
in all our hearts was the dominant
word tomorrow" Somehow the
Acropolis, which few days before had
thrilled us at Athens, now in our minds
lessened in the height of its columns
and the glory of it's temples. And the
Egyptian pyramids in our memory
lessened their wonders of obsolete ma
sonry, and the Coliseum of Rome was
not so vast ruin as it few weeks be-
fore had seemed to be.
And all that we had seen and heard
iwindled in Importance, for tomorrow,
tomorrow we shall see the Holy Land.
captain, what time will we come in
sight of PalestineY' well, he said,
eff the wind and sea remain as they
are, about daybreak. Never was / SO
impatient for night to pass. could
not see much use for that night, any
how pulled aside the curtain from
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