Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-29

no New York Academy Of Music,
NJ IN TaImage preached the eighth OF the
p .ioi If sermons on his tour i'll Pales-
%l,'' His subject was Among the
nne Palms " and his text Numbers X, 81:
b t tuo'.,,nncb as thou knowest how we
IO ton nramp in the wilderness.
iIE yt W after night we have slept in tent
N Mn.InStinp There are large villages
podouinS without house, and for
d No. thousand wears the people of those
n'S, ,, have lived in black tents, made
pa',ff dvpd skins. and when the winds
'uI u ,tormes wore out and tore loose
' an coverings others OF the same Kind
.n"r their places. Noah lived in tent;
~ "naLam in tent. Jacob pitched his
AD Az, M the mountain. Isaac pitched
t", cont in the valley. Lot pitched his
n', ,t toward Sodom. In tent the woman
'nI nailed SiScra, the general, to the
,"anrd first having given him sour milk,
'~,J .,,l5cu. a. "A sOporitic to make him
Hon ,oundIy. that being the effect OF
".h nutrition. as modern travellers can
"SGfy. The Syrian army in a tent. The
..,iont battle shout was. TO your tents,
~ l,ropI"' Paul was u tentmaker. In
Y Jsad Isaiah. magniiiccntly poetic, indi-
.o,r, that all the human race live under
Nine tent when he says that God
4 ..rrtrhpth ont the Heavens as curtin,
.nd sprpadetA them out as a tent to
dwell in:H and Hezekiah compares death
IA fine striking Of a tent. saying, My
81 ago is removed from me as shepherd S
tent
IN our tent in Palestine tonight hear
something never heard before and hope
never 10 hear again. 1t is the voice of a
}vppa amid the rocks near by. When
VAN NAV have seen this monster putting
81 his mouth between the iron bars OF d
mppagrrir he is captive and he gives Il
N mmiIitatpd and suppressed cry. But
wndcr in the midnight on throne OF
mk> he has nothing to fear. and he ut
prs himself in loud. resounding, ter
rifle. almost supernatural sound, split
n tine up the darkness into q, deeper mid
night. 1t begins with a howl and ends
with a sound something like a horses
whining. In the hyena'S voice are def
YNe and strength and Observation-Disclosures
and crunch Of broken bones and death.
am glad to say that for the most
part Palestine is clear of beasts of prey.
The lropardS. which jeremiah says can
not change their spots. have all dlSap-
Warpd. and the lions that once We're
common all through this land, and used
Z by all the prophets for illustrations of
cruelty and wrath. have rctreated before
q the discharges Of gun-poWder, OF which
& they have an indeScrihable fear. But for
the most part Palestine is what it origi-
4 mIy was. With the one exception OF a
s wire thread reaching from JOppa to
jerusalem and from Jerusalem to NaZa-
4 rth and from Nazareth to Tiberias and
s front Liberals to Damascus, that one
& nerve of civilization, the Geographic
wire for we founG ourselves only a few
inmates of from Brooklyn to New York
while standing by Lake Galilee), with
that one exception Palestine is just as it
q always was.
& Nothing surprised me so much as the
4 persistence of everything. A sheep or
horse falls dead, and though the sky
may one minute before be clear Of all
7 wings III five minutes after The skies are
4 black with eagles cawing, scream ing,
8 banging, lighting for room, conteDding
Tor largest mOrsels of the extinct quad
mpd. All, now | understand the force
VI (hrlStS illustration when he said,
NhcreSoever the carcass is there the
! eagles be gathered together" The
longevity Of those eagles is wonderful.
lAcy live fifty or sixty and sometimes IL
hundred years. All, that explains what
UayIQ meant when he said. Thy youth
Elchewed like the eagles
lSaw shepherd with the folds OF his
Voat FAR bent outward, and | wondered
"ha6 was contained in that amplitude OF
apparel and | said to the dragoman,
what has that shepherd got under his
SOaF' And the dragoman said, 1T is a
very young lamb he is carrying: it is too
'Oohg and too weak and too cold to keep
Up with the flock" At that moment l
NJ" IN" lamb put its head out from un-
%t the shepherds bosom, and L said,
lNere it is now, lsaiah's description OF
I' tenderness Of God-'He shall gather
tut ,i ,amhS with His arm and carry them
Ills BOSOM"
RAISING by village home in the Holy
~ ~ ~ -
a"0 around a private house, and l said
me dragoman: David, what is GO
Ds on ihere?" He said: Somebody
I@S recently died there, and their neigh
J Jv,S 90 III for several days after to sit
%"A and weep with the bereaved. >
' IneFe 1t Is. | said, the old scriptural Gus
W" n' And nany of the jews came to
D r"I,na and Mary to comfort them con-
m n,n'nS their brother" Early i'll the
go%'N'l'S, passing by cemetery in the
, Iv3 Land, | saw among the graves
t fDout nifty women dressed in black, and
m m,' were crying ''Oh, my child"' "Oh,
nv; A0Soand.,' ''Oh, my father ''Oh,
fb., lnother'' Our dragoman told Us
n" ~r every morning very early for three
fbo '"lNSS after burial the women go to
ya.| %pNicher, and after that every week
pr, s early for year. As | saw this
i"P Just after daybreak | said. there