Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-06
IN THE HOLY LAND.
REV. TALMAGE DISCOURSES VERY ENTERTAIN.
NGLY ON HIS TRIP
To the Familiar Places Spoken Of in the Scrip
tures-The Journey from Joppa to the Celes-
dal City, Jerusalem-How the Capital
Of the Christian World Impressed Him.

Of the Christian World Impressed him.
Special Telegram 10 he Reqis'fr.
BROOKLYN. y. y. October 5.-Dr
Talmage. before beginning his second
sermon on the Holy Land this morning,
stated that as previously announced.
the sermon about to be delivered would
also be delivered in the New York
Academy Of Music in the evening. In
consequence of the unprecedented at
| tendance the preceding Sunday even
ing, when. despite the fact that the
] Academy of Music accommodated fully
G,0O0 persons, many thousands
were turned away, the man
gers of the Christian Herald
had opened negotiations with a
view to securing Madison Square
Garden for the purpose OF the remaining
ten Sunday evening sermons. Owing
/ TO imperative engagements for the next
three Sundays, the Garden could not
be secured earlier than four weeks
| hence, when the Christian Herald cX-
poets to be able to give DR.. Talmage an
opportunity, during the remaining Sab
bath evenings of 1890, to speak in the
greatest auditorium in New York City.
to the largest audiences that ever as
Sembled for divine service. The seating
capacity Of Madison Square Garden is
Il, 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 cOngre-
CATION. the preacher announced as his
| text: Galatians /: Is. Il went up to
Jerusalem"
My second day in the Holy Land. We
are in Joppa. 1t is six 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 tasscled and
/ iinglng, are hitched, and, with Il
dragoman in a coat of many colors seat
ed in front, we start on road which
unveils within twelve hours enough to
think of for all time and all eternity.
/ Farewell Mediterranean, with such Il
blue as no one but the Divine Chemist
could mix, and such a fire of morning
glow. rs only the Divine lllumiaator
could dndle. Hail, Mountains of
Ephraim and Jua, whose rampartS of
rock We shall mount i'm few hours, for
modern engineers can make road any
where, and without piling OSSa upon
Pelion, those giants can scale the
heavens.
We start out of the city amid barri-
cadcs of cactus on either side Not
cacti in boxes two or three feet high.
but cactus higher tnan the top of the
carriage-a plant that has more swords
for defense, considering the amount OF
beauty IL can exhibit. than anything
created. We passed out amid about
four hundred gardens. seven or eight
acres to the garcen, from which at the
right seasons IRE plucked oranges,
lemons. figs. olives, citron, and pome-
granateS, ano which hold up
their cenSers of perfume before the
Lord i'm perpetual praise. We meet
CAMELs LOADED WITH KEGS
Iof oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mohammedan with four wiyeS-thrcc
too many. The amc is a proud. myS-
tcr,ou1, ls.4b.i .i-Ec.-at. -ngainly, ma
jeStic, and ridiculous shape, stalking
out of the past. The driver with his
whip taps the camel on the fore-eg.
and he kncels 10 take you as rider.
But when he rises hold fast or You will
fall off backward rs hc puts his fore
feet i'm standing posture, and then you
will fall of i'm front as his back-legs
take their place. But the inhabitants
are used To his ways, although find
the riders often diSm0unt and walk rs
though To rest themselves. Better
stand out of the path Of the camel: he
stops for nothing and seems not to look
down. and i'm the street | saw a child by
the stroke of acamcl'S front foot. hurled
seven or eight feet along the ground.
Here we meet people with faces, aud
arms. and hands tattOocd, as in all lands
sailors tattoo their arms with some IA
yorite ship or admired face. 1t was to
this habit of tattooing among the Orr
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 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, The
kings heart is in the hands OF
the Lord and he turneth it
las the rivers Of water are
turned whitherSoevcr lie Will.
THE JEWS IN PALESTINE.
As We pass out and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging to the
Universal IsraelitiSh Alliance. Montei-
.ore. the IsraclitiSh centenarian and phi
llanthropiSt. and Rothschild, the banker.
land Others of the large-hcarted, have
paid the passage to Palestine. for many
of the Israelites. and set apart lands for
their culture: and it is only beginning
of the fulfllment of divine prophecy,
when these people shall take possession
of the Holy Land. The road from JOppa
10 Jerusalem. and all the roads lead
ing to Nazareth and Galilce we saw
lined with professions 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 resump-
tion of Palestine by the lSraeliteS. !
do not take il that the prOSpcrcd Israel
ties of other lands are to 90 there. They
would be foolish to leave their prosper
itieS i'm our American cities where they
are among our best citizens, and cross
two seas to begin life over again in
strange land. But the OutrageS heaped
upon them in Russia, and the insults
offered them in Germany, will soon
ouadruple and centuple the procession
of Israelites from Russia to Palestine.
FACILITIES FOR GETTING THERE
will be multiplied, not only in the rail-
road fran 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 OBJ
tanned. and that of course will soon con-
meet with Joppa, and make one great
Iocean-Shore railroad. SO the railroad
/ from Jerusalem to Joppa, and from
.Ioppa to Damascus, will soon bring all
/ the Holy Land withln Il few hours Of
connection. Jewish colonization soci-
cites i'm England and Russia are gath
eaing money for the transportation of
the ISrealiteS to Palestine, and for the
purchase for them Of lands and farming
/ implements. and so many desire to go
that it is decided by lot as To which fam
/ lies 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