The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-10-17
ON HOLY .GRQEND,
DR.. Talmagc's Second Sermon
OH Scenes He Saw in
Palestine.
Some Striking Pictures of
Views Familiar to Bible
Readers.

''F ~ s"S SSVnNie6Ne,Ous Iuv pTeAcHeC III.
nounced as his text: Galacinns t., 1s, ~ went
up to Jerusnlem.''
My second day in the Holy Land. We
are in Joppa. 1t is 6 o'clock in the morning,
but We must start early, for by night we arc
to be in Jerusalem. and that city is IL miles
away. We May take camel or horse. or car.
r'age. Az to-day will he our last opportuni.
~ In Palestine for taking the wheel, We
choose that. The lurse with harness tassle,l
and jtngling, are litchel, and, with drago.
man In cont ot many color. scented in front,
We start on q road which unveils within II
hours enough to think Of for nll time and oil
eternity. Farewell Mediterranean with such
blue as no one but the divine Chemist could
mix; and such o fire OF morning glow, as
only the divine liluminator could kinile,
haill Mountains of Ephram md .luda
whose ruinparts OF rocks We shall mount in
few hours, for modern engineers cnn make
u road anywhere, and without riling Ossu
upon Pelion, those giants Gun scale the h.ay.
ems.
We start out of the city amid barricaJes of
cactus OH either side. Not cacti in boxes
two or three feet high, hut cactus higher
than the top o. the cnrriagc-;l plant that
has more swords for defense. considering the
amount of beauty it cun exhibit, than
anything. created. We passed out amid
4OO gardens. seven or eight acres to thc
garden. from which Mt the right seasons are
and pomeQranutes. and which hold up their
censers o. perfume before the Lord in parpetu u.
al praise. We meet great proressons q, cam.
els loutlcd with ko1s OF oil mud fruits, and
some wealthy Molinmmednn with four wives
three too many. The camel IL IL proud,
mysterious. solemn. ancient, ungninly. ma.
jestic. md ridiculous shape, stalking out ol
the past. The driver with his whip taps the
camel on the foreleg, and he kneels tn take
you as rider. But when lie rises. hold fast
or you will fall OH backward as lc puts his
forefeet In standing posture and then you
will full OIL in front as his backlegs tnke their
plnce. But the inhabitants are used to lis
ways. and although ] find the riders otter.
dismount and walk rs t!longl to rest them.
selves. Better stand out Of the path of the
camel he stops for nothing and seems to
look down. and in the street saw a child ly
the stroke of o cnmel's 'front.' loot, hurled
seven or eight feet along the ground.
Here we meet people with fncaR. and arms,
and hands tatooed, as in ull lands saiors
tattoo their arms with some nvorite ship or
admired tnce. 1t was t" this hal,it of int.
tooins among the Oricntals that God refers
In figure, when lie says o! His church, II
Many Of these regions are naturally sandy
but by irrigation they are made !ruit ul nn,i,
rs in this irrigation the brooks and rivers
IRE turned this way and that to water tho
gardens or the firms, 80 tho Bible says,
.'The kings heart is in the hands of the
Lord, and lie turneth it as the rivers oi
wnter nre turned withcrsoever lie will"
The Jows in Palestine. Az we pass out
md on We find about 500 acres lrlong
ing to tho Universal Israclitish Alliance.
Nonetcfiore, tho lsraelitish centcnian and
phiinnthropist, and Kotlischilt, the hank
er, and Others of the lnrgc.hcnrtcl have
pnid the pnssage to Palestine, Tor mnny
Of tho lsraelites. and set npartlnn,ls for tlieil
culture; and it is only n beginning OF the full.
pie shall take possession Of tile Holy Land.
Tho road from Joppn to Jerusalem aud all
the roads leading to Nazareth and GnlliIee
We saw lined with professions of Jews, going
to the sncred places, either on holy pilgrim.
age. or us scttlera. All tho fingers OF Provi-
dence nowadays are pointing toward that re.
sumption o. Palestine By the lsraelites do
erlan.ls IRE to go there. They wouli be fool.
ist to leave their prosperitics in our Ameri.
cnn cities where they are among our best
citizens. und cross two sens o l,cgn life over
awain in strange land. hut the outrages
henped unon them in Russia, aud the insults
offered them in Germany, will soon quad.
rnple md centuple the procrssion of Israel-
ties from Russia to Palestine.
Facilities for getting there will be multi.
piled, not only in the r,tilrOad from Joppa to
Jerusalem, TO which referred last Sabbath
as being built, but permission for Il road
from Damascus to the Bny of Acre has beel,
obtained, and that of course will soon con.
meet with Joppn, md make one great ocenn.
shore rnilroad. So the railroad from Jeru.
salem to Joppa. and from .Joppn to Dumas.
Gus, will soon bring all the Holy Land within
a lew hours of connection. Jewish colonial.
tion societies in England und Russia, arc
gathering money for the transportation of
the Isrnelites to Palestine, and fOr the pur.
chase for them Ct lands and farming i'm.
plcments, aud 80 many desire to go,
that it is decided by lot rs to which
families shall 20 first. They were God s
chosen people at the first. and Hs has
nnd there is no power in 900 or s, 900 years
to make God forget His promises. Those
who are prospered in other lands, will do
we'll to stay where they are. But let the
israelites who nre depreciated, md attacked
md persccuted turn their fnces towards
tie rising sun Of their deiiyernncp God will
Rnther in TINT distant land those of thnt
race who have been maltrentc'i, aud lie will
blast with the lightnings of His omnipotcnce
those lands on either side OF the Atlantic,
which have been the Instruments of annoy.
ance md harm to that Jewish race. to which
belonged Abraham nnl David, and Joshua.
and Baron Hirscll. ana Monte ore, aud Paul
the Apostle, and Mary the Virgin. and Jesus
Christ the Lord.
plnin Of Sharon We meet many veilel
women. 1t is not respectable ior them
to go unveiled, and it is n veil that is
40 hung az TO mike them hideous,
A man may not ere the lnre of his
wife until after betrothal, or engagement oI
marriage. Hence the awful mistakes aud
tho unhappy homes, for God hns made tho
dishonesty usually is demonstrated in the
features. do not gee what Tod made fnir
'nce fit were not to be looked at. But here
comes the crowds OF distiguretl women down
the road on their way to Joppn. bundles oi
sticks OF irewood on their heads. They
started Mt three o'clock in tho morning to
get the fuel. They stagger under the burdens.
Whipped md beaten will some Of them DO il
their bundle ot sticks in too small. All that
is required for enforcement is for n nun to
soy to his wife: "Bo of, don't want you
any more" Woman is n slave in oil lands,
except those in which the gospel of Christ
makes her queen. And yet in Cristian
countries there nre women. posing rs ecep.
tics, und men with >amily tleri,lns the only
religion that makes sacred AID honorable
the names of wife, mother, daughter and
sister.
What is that? Town of Ramiell. birth
place, residence md tomb of Samuel, the
glorious prophet. Near by, tower offorty
martyrs, called because that number Of dis.
cipies perished there for Chrst's snke; but IL
towers have been built for oil those who. in
time Of war as in time of peace, have fallen
on tlisroad during the ages past, you might
n m aQv nm fNi IA frnvv tr,v
salem.
Now We pass guard houses which nre Gus.
ties Of chopped strnw and mud, where ut
night md partly through the day armed men
dwell aud keep the bandits off travellers. In
the caves Of these mountains dwell men to
whom massacry would be high play and
purse with few pennies would he com.
pensation enough Ior the struggle that the
savage may have with the wnyfnrer. There
In only one other deiensa that amounts to
much in these lands and that Is the la~ Of
Hospitality. Ii you cnn get an Arub to ont
with you. il only one mouthtul, you are sure
Of his protection, nni that hns been so from
age to age. The Lord supper was built on
that custom, q special friendship n ter par.
taking food together. To that custom,
Walter Scott refers in his immortal Talismnn,
where Saladin, with one stroke Of the sword.
strikes the head from an emeny who stands
In Saladin's tent with u cup in his hand, and
before he has time to put 1t to his Lip, mud
doss it 30 suddenly that the body OF his
enemy, bel,eaded. stands Tor moment after
the bsheading, with the cup still in his right
hand. After thu cup Ind been slipped it
would have been impossible, according ia
the laws Of Oriental hospitality, to give the
jatnl blow.
Armed attendants. The only lands
where it s safe to travel unarmc
are Cl,rintian lands. Human life il