The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-14
TALMAGE's TRAVELS.
wondrous Scenes in the Holy Land
Graphically Portrayed
Biblical History Made Clear - Lessons
Learned From Many Incidents Related
sa tEs BIbIs-Ths Lords
Promises.

from Ezekiel viii 5: $50 lifted up mine
eyes the way toward the north" lie
said:
At one O'Clock on a December after
noon, through Damascus gate we are
passing out of Jerusalem for journey
northward. Ho! for Bethel with its
stairs. the bottom step of which was q
stone pillow. and jacobs well with its
immortal colloquy, and Nazareth with
its ID vine Boy in his ather's carpenter
shop. and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed:
Blue GaIIIse. sweet GaiiIes.
Toe lake where Jesus loved TO DO;
and Damascus with its crooked street
called Straight and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apos tolic.
evangeIistic. prophetic, patriarchal.
ioingly and Christly "reminiscences.
In travelling along the roads of Palesse
tine am impressed. as could not othz7
erwise have been. with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot. We
find him occasionally in a boat, and
once riding in triumphal procession.
as it ia sometimes called. although it
seems to me that the hosannas of the
crowd could not have made ride on a
stubborn, unimpressivc and funny Great
ure like that which pattered with him
into Jerusalem very much of a triumph
But we are made to understand that
generally he walked How much that
means only those know who have gone
over the distance traYersed by Christ
We are accustomed to read that Beth
any is two miles from Jerusalem. Well,
any man in ordinary health can walk
two miles without fatigue.
But not more than one man out of a
thousand can walk from bethany to
Jerusalem without exhaustion 1t is
over the Mount of Olives and YOU m ust
climb up among the rolling stones and
descend where exertion is necessary to
keep you from falling PROSTATE.
Likewise it seemed small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But 1t will take four days OF hard
horseback riding, sometimes on trot
and sometimes on gallop. to do it this
week. The way is noun tainous in the
extreme So all up and down and across
and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked.
Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon rode.
Herod rode. Antony rode. But Jesus
walked. With swollen ankles, and sore
% muscles OF the legs, and bruised heel,
and stiff joints, and painting lungs, and
faint head, along the roads and where
there were no roads a t all, Jesus walked
We rode down through the valley and
then up on Mount Scopus and, as our
dragoman tells us that this is the last
opportunity we shall have of looking at
Jerusalem, we turn our horses head to-
ward the city and take long. sad and
thrilling look at the religious capital of
sive view of the most tremendous city
of all time.
Our last look! Fare we'll. Mount Zion,
Mount Moriah. Mount OF Olives, Mount
Cavalry! VIII we never see them again?
Never. Our last look. like our first look.
an agitation OF the body, mind and soul,
indescribable.
And now. like Ezekiel in my text I
lift up mine eyes the way toward the
north. Near here was one of the worst
tragedies of the ages mentioned in the
Bible. a hospitable old man coming
home at eventide from his work in the
fields finds two strangers, husband
and wife, proposing to lodge in the
street because shelter is offered
them and invites them to come and
spend the night in his homo. During
the night the ruffiaRs of the neigh Dor
hood conspired together and surround
ed the house and left the woman
dead on the doorstep, and the hus-
band, to rally in revenge the twelve
tribes cut the corpse of the woman into
twelve parts and sent twelfth of it to
each tribe, and the fury of the nation
was reused, and peremptory demand
was made for tho surrender of the as
sassins and tho demand refused, in one
day 20. 600 people were left dead on the
field, and the next day Is 600 Who're
ever our horse to-day plants his feet in
those ancient times corpse lay, and
the roads were crossed by red rivulets
of carnage.
Now we pass on to where seven youths
were put to death and their bodies glib
beted or hung in chains, not for any
thing they had themselves done, but as
reparation for what their father and
grandfather. Saul, had done. Burial
was denied these youths from Msyantil
Novem ber. Rizpah, the mother of two
of these dead boys. appoints herself as
sentinel to guard the seven corpses from
beak OF raven, and tooth of wolf and
paw of lion She pitches a black tent
on the rock close by the gibbets.
Rizpah by day sits on the ground in
front of her tent, and when a vulture
begins TO lower out of the MONDAY sky
seeking its prey among the gibbets,
Rizpah rises. her long hair flying in the
wind, and. swinging her arms widely
about, Shoes away the bird of prey I'M
Til 1t retreats to its eyrie. At nigh tshe
rests under the shadow of her tent and
> sometimes falls into a drowsiness or
half sleep But the step of 1acka1
among the dry leaves or the painting Of
hyena arouses her, and with the fury
of maniac abe PUSHES out upon the
!, rock, crying: Away Away" and then
examining the gibbets to see that they
: still keep their burdens, returns again
TO her tent till some swooping wing
from the N ,dnight sky or some growl-
ing monster on the rock again wakes
her
mother watching her dead children
through May, June. July, August Sep
TENDER and Octoberi What vigil!
Painters have tried to put upon canvas
the scene and they succeeded in sketch
ing the hawks in the sky and the
panthers crawling out from the Jungle,
but they fail to give the wanness, the
sarnestnesS. the supernatural courage,
the infinite self-sacrihce of R'zpah, the
mother. A mother in the quiet home.
watching by the eas.set of = dead child
for one night exerts the artist to his MT
most but who is sufficient to put upon
canvas mother for six months of mid
nights guarding her whole family, dead
and gibbeted upon the mountains?
Do you know what that scene by our
roadside in Palestine makes me think
of? 1t is no unusual scene Right here
in these three cities by the American
sea coast there are = thousand cases
this moment worse than that Mothers