News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-13
Journey to Nazareth.
DR.. Talnage Bids Jerusalem Good
BY and Journeys NorthWard.

ssVhere the BIne Waves Roll Nightly
ON Deep GaIiIee''-Last Look at Mount
Zion. Mount Calvary and the Mount
of olives.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.-Today DR.. Tai
mage preached the seventh OF ms
course of sermons on his recent tour IN
Palestine. As on previous Sundays
the sermon was preached before Two
LARGE audiences. In the morning 1t
was preached in the Academy of Music
in this city, and at night DR. TalmaSe
preached it again in the New YORK
Academy of Music which The Chris
tan Herald continues TO rent for these
services During the six meetings thus
far held in New York, 80, 600 people
have endeavored to hear DR.. Talmage
nrcach. OF these 80, 900 have been ad-
mitted and 10000 have been turned
away for lack of accommodation. Fol
lowing is the sermon from the text, 80
I lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north" Ezekiel viii, 81;
At 1 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 a
stone pillow; and Jacobs well, with its
immortal colloquy; and Nazareth, with
its divine boy in his fathers carpenter
shop. and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed
Blue Gal1ee. sweet Galilee.
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
and Damascus, with its crooked street
called Straight, and a hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic,
evangelistic, prophetic, patriarchal,
kingly and Christly "reminiscences.
In travelling along the roads of Pal
estine l am impressed, as | could not
otherwise have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot.
We find him occasionally on a boat,
and once riding in triumphal pro
cession, as it is sometimes called, al
though it seems to me that the hosan-
mas of the crowd could not have made
q ride on a stubborn, unimpressive and
funny creature like that which battered
with him into Jerusalem very much of
q triumph. But we are made to I'M
derstand that generally he walked.
How much that means only those
know who have gone over the distance
traversed by Christ.
We are accustomed to read that
Bethany 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 thou
sand can walk from Bethany to Jeru-
salem without exhaustion. 1t is over
the Mount of Olives, and you must
climb up among the rolling stones and
descend where exertion is necessary TO
keep you from falling PROSTATE. /, who
am accustomed to walk fifteen or TWEEN
xv miles without lassitude, tried part of
this road over the Mount of Olives, and
confess would not want to try it often,
such demand does it make upon ones
physical energies. Yet Christ walked
it twice a day-in the morning from
Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the even
ing from Jerusalem to Bethany.
CHRIsT'S WALK TO NAZARETH
Likewise it seemed a small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But it will take us four days of
hard horseback riding, sometimes on a
trot and sometimes on a gallop, to do it
this week. The way is mountainous in
the extreme. To those who went up
to the Tip-Top house on Mount Wash
sngton, before the railroad was laid,
syill say that this journey from Jerusa-
lem to Nazareth is like seven such
American journeys. So, all up and
down and across and recrossing Pales-
tine, 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 at all, Jesus walked.
We tried to get a new horse other
than that on which we had ridden on
the journey to the Dead sea, for he
had faults which our close acquaint
some experimenting with other quad
rupeds of that species, and finding thai
all horses, like their riders, have faults
we concluded to choose a saddle or
that beast whose faults we were mos
prepared to pity or resist. We rode
down through the valley and then VI
on Mount Scopus and, as our drago
man tells us that this is the last oppoF
tunity we shall have of looking at Je
rusalem, we turn our horses head TO
ward the city and take long, sad anC
thrilling look at the religious capital o
oar planet This is the most impress
i've view of the most tremendous cit,
of all time.
On and around this hill the armie
of the crusaders at the first sight of tin
city threw themselves ON their faces il
worship. Here most of the besiegini
armies encamped the night before open
ing their volleys of death against Jeru
ssaaem Our last look Farewell, Noun
Zion. Mount Moriah, Mount of Olives
Mount Calvary Viii we never sc.
them again? Never The world is S.
large and time is so short, and Their
are so many things we have never seer
at all, that we cannot afford to dupG
cate visits or see anything more thai
once. Farewell, yonder thrones of gra,
rock, and the three thousand years o
architecture and battlefields. Fare
well, sacred, sanguinary, triumphant
huTniliated Jer-Isaleml Across this val
ley Of the Kedron with my right ham
I tlaEow thee kiss of Valedictory. Gu
East look, like our first look, an agita
ton of body, mind and soul indescrib
able.
WHEN ISRAEL WAS IN ANARCHY.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text,
lift up mine eyes the way toward tn
north. Near here was one of the wors
tragedies of the ages mentioned in tn
Bible. A hOspitable old man coming
home at eyentide from his work in tn
fields finds two strangers, husban'
and wife, proposing to lodge in tn
street because no shelter is offere'
them. and invites them to come in ant
spend the night 3n his home. Durin
the night the raffians of the neighbor
hood eonspired together, and SUI
rounded the house, and left the woman
dead ON the doorstep, and the hus
band, to rally in revenge the twelv
tribes, cut the corpse of the woman
into twelve parts and sent a twelfth q
it to each tribe, and the fury of tn
nation was reused, and perem2tor
demand was made for the surrender @
nssassiras n1,d tho dnIlnnInd rnfIlsnd