The Forrest City times., 1890-11-22
JEWELLERS IN TENTS.
DR TALNAGES PILGRIMAGE "
 THE LAND OF PROMISE

Drops from Jacobs Weil.--The Fl.
 nal Battle Between Right and
 Wrong.
 BROOKLYN, N. Y., Nov. Is, lsQ0.-This morning in the Academy of Music In this city and this evening at the services in the New York Academy of Music. Dr. Talmagc preached tho eighth of the series of sermons he Is giving on his tour in Pal estino. At both services the respective buildings were crowded to their utmost ca pacity In five minutes after the doors were opened, and all who came later were unable to get in. Dr. Talmages subject was Among the Beiouins," and his text, Numbers lo:3i-' '.Forasmuch as thou know est how we are to eneamp in the wilder ness"
 Night after night we have slept in tent in iaiestine- There are large villages of Be- uouins without house, and for three thou sand years the people of those places have hVeu In black tents. made out of dyed skins. ana when the winds and storms wore out ana tore out those coverings, others of the same Kind took their places Noah lived In atenI Abraham in tent. Jacob pitched his tent on tho mountain. Isaac pitched his tent in the valley, Lot pitched his tent toward sodom. In tent the woman Jael nailed sisera tho general, to the ground, hrst having given him sour milk called 'ieben as sopori1c to make him soundiy sleep. that being the ciIect of such nutrition, as modern travellers can testify. The syrian army Tn tent, The ancient battle- shout was "To your tents. Q Israeli" Paul was n tent-makcr. Indeed, Isiah, magnificent " poetic, indicates that all the human race uve under blue tent whcn he says that God ''strctcheth out the heavens as cur tain ana spreadeth them out as n tent to dwell In. and Hezeklah compares death to the striking of a tent. saying, My age is removed From me ns a shepherd 8 tent"
 In our tent in Palestine tonight hear something never heard before and hope never to hear again. It is the voice of hyena amid the rocks near by. When you have seen this monster putting his mouth between tho Iron bars of 2 menagerie, he is captive and he gives humillated and suppressed cry. But wonder in the midnight on throne Of rocks he has nothing to fear and he utters himself in loud. resounding, terrific, almost supernatural sound. split tlng up the darkness into a deeper midnight. It begins with howl and ends with sound something like n horses whining. In tho hyena's voice are defiance and strength and olood-thirstiness and crunch of broken bones and death.
 am glad to say that for the most part Palestine is clgar of beasts of prey. The leopards which Jeremiah says cannot
 
 and the lions that once wore common all through this land and used by all the prophets as illustrations of cruelty and wrath, have retreated before the discharges or gunpowder of which they have an indes- crioable fear. But for the most part paIes- tine Is what 1t originally was With the ono exception Of wire thread reaching from Joppa to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to Nazareth and from Nazareth to TiDerias ana rom Iioerias to Damascus, that one nerve ot civilization the telegraphic wire tfor we round ourselves only few minutes on from Brooklyn and New York while standing by Lake Galileet with that one ex- ception. Palestine Is Just as It always was
 Nothing surprised me so much us the per sistence of everything. A sheep or horse Falls dead. and though the sky may one minute before be clear of all wings. in five minutes afterthe skies are black with eagles cawing, screaming. pluncing, fighting for room, contcnding for largest norsels of the extinct quadruped. Ah now I understand the force Of Christ's illustration when He said: 'Whcresoever the carcase Is there will the eagles be gathered together The longevity or those eagles Is wonderful. They live fifty or sixty and sometimes n hundred years. An, that explains what David meant when he said "Thy youth Is renewed like the eagle's." l saw shep- herd with the folds of his coat far bent out ward and wondered what was contained n that amplitude of apparel and l said to the dragoman. What has that shepherd got under hls coat?" And the dragoman said:' It is very young lamb he Is carrying, It IS too young and too weak and too cold to keep up with the flock" Atthat moment saw the lamb put It's head out from the shepherd bosom and said There il Is now, Islahs description of the tenderness Of God-"He shall gather the lambs with Ills arm and carry them In His hosom."
 Passing by village home, in the Holy Land, about noon, saw Il great crowd ip and about private house, and said to the dragoinan. David. what Is going on theres" He said. Somebody has recently died there and their ncighbors go in for several days after to sit down and weep with the be- reaved, There il Is, said, the old scrip- tural custom: And many of the Jews came 10 Martba and Mary, to comfort them con corning their brother" Early In the nnorn- ing passing by cemetery in the Holy Land Isaw among the graves about fifty women dressed in black, and they were crying: "oh. my childl' "oh. my hushandi" 'Oh. my fatherl" ''Oh, my mother" Our irago- man told us that every morning very early for three mornings after n burial the wons- en go to the sepulchre. and after that every week very early for a year. As saw this group. just after daybroak, said: There It is again, the same old custom referred 10 In Luke, the evangelist. where he says: ''certain women which were early at the sepulchre.
 Bu, here we found ourselves at Jacobs well. the most famous well in history, most distinguished for two things, because h be- ionged to the old patriarch after whom 1t was named. and for the wonderful things which Christ said, seated on this wcll-curb to the Samaritan woman. We d!smount From our horses in drixzling rain, and our dragoman climbing up 10 the we'll over slippery stones. stumbles and frightens us all by nearly failing into 1t. measu rcd the well at the top and found 1t six feet from edge to edge Some grass and weeds and thorny growthso over hang it. In one place the roof is broken through. Large stones ern bank the wall on all sides. Our rasoman took peb- hles and dropped them in, and from the iitno they left his hand to the instant they clicked, on the bottom you could hear It was deep though not SO deep as once. for every day ] travellers are applying the same test, and though in the time of Mauudroii tho i traveller. tho well was a hundred and sixty i i've feet deep. now it is only seventy-n Ave So great Is tho curiosity of the world ,e | know about that well. that during the dry i season . Captain Anderson descended Into ! this welis and st one place the sides were % close that hc had to put his hands over hts head In order to got through, and tnen h. { Tainted away. and-lay at the bottom of the 1 we'll as though dead untii hours after ra. covery when hc came to the surface. It is not like other wells dlgged down 10 q 1 fountain that hlls it. bat reservoir |. 1 catch the falling rains, and to that Chris. | refers when speaking to the Samaritan | woman about spiritual supply. he said | that he would. if asked have glven her i diving watcr;" that is. water from n flow. I ing spring. in distinction from the water l of that we'll, which was rain water. Hut i why did Jacob make reservoir thero when 1 thcre Is plenty of water all around and | abundance nj springs and fountains and l seemingly no need of that reservoirR Why ! did Jacoh go to tho vast expense of boring \ and digging we'll perhaps two hundred ' feet deep. us hrst completed. when by galng i little way on he could have watcr frusn other fountains at littlo or no cxpesseg An. | Jacob was wise He wanted his own well | Vusrrsi> ana wars saixns afise with other | srires aud tac supply of water might he cut l oa, 90 ihs shovcls and pick and boring | instruments were ordered, and the well Of | nearly four thousand years ago was sunk thr ugh the solid rock.
 When Jacob thus wiseiv insisted on hay ing his own well he taught us not to be ua. | dependent on others, Inte- pendcnce of business character. fnde- fs.x s~.F.