The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-03
JOURNEY TO PALESTINE,
DR.. Taimage Begins a Description
of His Late Travels
Easerness to Catch the First Glimpse of
the Holy Land-Ths Dread Rocks at
Joppa-Lessons Learned From
Jonah.

. commenced a series of sermons m Brook
lyn on his recent journey to the Holy
Land The subject OF his first sermon
was: my First Day in Palestine" The
text was L Kings. K 2. The half was
not told me-" Dr. Talmage said:
This is the first sermon in 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
"a, 600. ooe OF our present American pop
Giatfon and the millions OF our past,
only about 5000 have over visited the
Holy Land. OF all those who cross to
Europe less than five per cent ever get
as Tar as Rome, and less than two per
rent ever get to Athens, and
less than ono quarter of one per
cent ever get TO Palestine. Of
the less than a quarter of one per cent
who do go 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 inter
est and como home, only a small por-
ton can tell what they have seen, the
tongue unable to report tao eye. The
rarity of successful, intelligent and
happy journey through the Holy Land
as very marked But the time ap-
proaches when journey to Palestine
will be common Thousands will go
-NHCiC NJ" tHcfe are SCCreS. NO loco
motives were recently sent up from Jop-
ga to Jerusalem and railroads are about
10 begin in Palestine. and the day will
come whom tho cry will be: ''hll out
for Jerusalem" Twenty m :nutes for
breakfast at Tiberiss;'' VChange cars
TOR Tyre.' Grand Trunk junction for
Ninevah;' ~Aii out for DamnscusI''
Meanwhile the wetlocks of the Allan tic
ocean and Adriatic and Mediterranean
seas are being shorn, and not only is the
voyage shortened, but, after a while
without crossing the ocean, you and
your children will visit the Holy Land
a company of capitalists have gone
up to Behring straits, where the Ameri-
can and Asiatic continents come within
thirty-six nsiles- of meeting These
Capitalists or others will build a bridge
across those straits, for midway are
three islands, called ''1he Diomedes -
and tho water is not deep and is never
disturbed with icebergs Trains Of cars
will run from Amer ca aeras. that bird pe
and on down through Siberia, bringing
under more Immediate observation the
Russian putraGcs against exiIes and
consequently abolishing them, and
ther5 are persons here to-day who
without one qualm of sea sickness, will
sit that wonderful land. where the
christ like, Abrahamic, Mosaic. Davidic,
Solomonic and Herodic histories ever
lap each other with such power that by
the timc / took my feet out of the stir
rups at the close of the journey felt so
wrung out with emotion that it seemed
nothing else could ever absorb my fcel-
ings again.
The chief hindrance for going to Pal
estine with many is the dreadful sea,
and though have crossed it ten times
1T is moro dreadful every time and l
fully aympathize with what was said
ono night when Mr.. Beecher and 1 went
over to speak III New Yorl1 at the ami
Versary of the Seamen's Erie nd Society
and the Clergyman making the opening
prayer quoted from St. John, There
shall be NO moro sea-" and Mr.. Beecher
seated beside mo. in memory of a recent
ocean voyage said Amen, L am glad of
that by the partial 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 VIII 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 remain an infidei.
All my life had heard of Palestine and
read about it, and talked about it, and
preached about it. and sung about it,
and prayed about it, and dreamed about
1t. unit my anticipations were pileI up
into sonnet thing like Iiimalayan proper
Nionss anu yet L nave TO cry out as d d
the Queen of Sheba when sho first Wis
tied tho Holy Land: THE half was not
told mo-" In order to make the more
accurate and vivid book 1 have been
writing, a life of Christ. entitled From
Manager to Throne,'' 1 left home last
October, and on the last night of No
vember we were walking the decks of
1.-The Senegal a Mediterranean steamer.
1T was a ship of immense proper lions.
There were but few passengers. for it is
Sgenerally rough at that time of year,
and pieasurists are not apt to be voyag-
ing there and then. The stars were all
sout that night Those armies of light
seemed to have had their sh elds ewly
FURNISHED. We wafiecd the polished deck.
Not much was said, for in all our hearts
was the dominant word to morrow. ~
Somehow the Acropolis, which few
days before had. thrilled us at Athens.
now in our minds fessened in the height
of its columns and the glory of it's tenn
pies And the Egyptian pyramids in
our memory lessened their wonders of
obsolete masonry. and the Coliseum of
Rome was not so vast a ruin as it a few
weeks before had seemed to be- And
all we had seen and heard dwindied in
Importance for tomorrow, tomorrow
we shall see the Holy Land Sleep was
among the impossibIlities. Wh., could
be 40 stupid as to slumber when any
moment there might start out within
sight of the ship the land where the
most stupendous scenes OF all time and
all eternity were enacted, land of ruin
and redemption, land where was fought
the battle that made our Heaven posi-
BILE, land of Godfrey and Saiadin, of
Joshua and Jesus.
Will the night ever be gone? Yes, it
is growing lighter, and along the horizon
there is something like bank of clouds.
and as watchman PAGES the deck say
n iG fhnr
THAT is land, SIR said the sailor.
The land!" crieL and soon ali our
friends were aroused from sleep and the
shore began more clearly to reveal it,
self With roar, and rattle and bang
the anchor dropped in the roadstead a
half mile from land, for, though Joppa
- the only harbor of Palestine, it is the
worst harbor on all the coasts Some
tines for weeks ship stops there
between rocks about seventy-five feet
apart a small boat must take the pas
sengers ashore The depths are stsewn
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