The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-11-27
AMONG THE BEDOUINS.
DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES HIS EIGHTH
SERMON ON PALESTINE.

tine-h Famous Wen In History, from,
Drawn.
BROOKLYN, Nov 1G.-The follo.,.1ny
is DR.. Talmagc's Eighth Serm.;n ON his
visit to Palestine. His subject wos
"Among the Bedouir%,' and his text
Numbers X,3l: ".''Oraslnuch ms thon
wilderness" ." ''''
Nlght after night we haye slept in
tent IN Palestine There are large vii
iages of BedouinS without a house and
!or three Thousand years the people of
tnoSe places have lived In black tents,
made out of dyed skins, and when the
WINGS ana storms wore out and tore
loose those coverings, others Of the
same kind took their places. Noah
nVed III tent. Abraham in a tent
JACOB pitched his tent on the noun
tain. Isaac pitched his tent in the
valley. Lot pitched his teri toward
no;Ioa noGo9. IN IA tent the woman Jacl
nailed Slsera, the general to the
ground, first having given him sour
milk called "leben" as a sopori1c to
make nm soundly sleep, that being the
effect Of such nutrition, as modern
travellers can testify. The Syrian
army in tent. The ancient battle
shouts was "fo your tents, o Israel"
fanl was Il tent-maker. Indeed
Isaiah, magniccntly poetic, indicates
t1at oil the human race live under Il
Dlua tert when he SAYS that God
"stretheth out the heavens as a curtain
and spreadeth them out az a tent to
dwell in, and IleZekiah compares
death to the striking Of Il tent. saving.
MY age Is removed from me as a
shepherds tent"
Nothing surprised me so much as
the persistence OF everything. \ sheep
or horse falls dead and, though the sky
may one minute before be clear of nil
wings, in five minutes after the skies
ing. plunginR lighting for room. con-
tending for largest morsels of the eX-
tinct quadrupcd. ALI, now | under
stand the force Of Christ's illustration
when he said: "WhereSoeYer the car
cass is there will the eagles he gathered
together" The longevity of these
eagles Is wonderful. They live fifty or
sixty and sometimes 100 years. Ah,
that explains what David meant when
he says "Thy youth is renewed like the
eagles" ! say Il shepherd with thr
folds of his coat far bent outward and
l wondered what was contained In
that amplitude of apparel and | said to
the dragoman: "What has that shep.
herd got under his coat?' And the
dragoman said: at is very Young
lamb he is carrying, it is too young AMI
too weak and too cold to keep up with
the iiock.' At that moment saw the
lamb put its head out from the shep-
herds bosom and l said, "There it is
now, lsalah's description Of the ten
derness of God-'IIe shall gather the
lambs with His arm and carry them in
His BOSOM"
But here we found ourselves at
Jacobs well, the famous well in his
tory, most distinguished for two
things, because it belonged to the Old
patriarch after whom it was named
ana Tor the wonderful things which
Christ said, seated on this well curb, to
tne samaritan woman. We dismount
from our horses in driZZling rain, and
our dragoman climbing up to the well
over slippery stones, Stumbles and
!rlghtens us AL by nearly fulling into
IT.. measured the well at the top and
1ound 1T six feet from edge to edge
Some grass and weeds and thornv
groWths overhang it. In one place the
roof is broken through Large stones
embank the wall on all sides. Our
dragoman took pebbles and dropped
them in, and from the time they left
his hand to the instant they clicked on
the bottom you could hear it was dppp
though not as deep as once, for every
day travellers are applying the same
test and thodgh in the time Of Maun-
drell, the traveller, the well was 4
hundred and sixty-tivp feet deep, now it
Is only SeVenty-livp So great is the
curiosity OF the world TO know about,
that well, that during the dry season a
Captain Anderson descended into this
well, at one place the sides SO close he
had TO put his hands over his head in
order to get through and then he
IMnted away. and lay at the bottom of
tne well as though dead, until hours
alter recovery, he came to the surface
1T is not like other wells digyed down
TO fountain that fills it. but a res
erVolr to catch the falling rains and TO
that Christ refers when speaking to The
samaritan woman about a sDirituaI
supply, he said that he would, if asked
have given her Giving water" that is
water from flowing spring in dis.
tlnctlon from the water Of that well
Whlch was rain water. But why did
Jacob make a reservoir there when
there Is plenty of water all around and
abundance OF springs and fountains
and seemingly no need Of that rc4rr-
V0lr? Why did Jacob 60 to the vas,
expense OF boring ard digging Il well
perhaps two hundred feet deep as first
completed, when, by going a little WAY
or he could have water from other
fountains at little or no expense. All,
Jacob was wise. He wanted his own
well. Quarrels and wars might arise
with other tribes and the supply of
water might be cut off, SO the sh0vels
and plck-axes and boring instruments
s %ers ordered and the well of nearly
thOuQanI
through the solid rock. ""' ''''''N
When Jacob thus wisely insisted ON
having his own well he taught ms not
to be unnecessarily dependent ""V o,'
others, Independence Of business
character. Independence of mnra1
character. Independence of reljDinma
character. Have your own we'll of
grace, your own well Of courage, yonr
own well OF divine supply. If YOU are
an invalid you have a right to be de-
pendent on others. But if God has
Yiyen Won UODl hpalth pommon conoo