Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-29
THE HOLY LAND.
Discourse by DR.. Talmage in the
City of Brooklyn Yesterday.
First of His Series of Sunday Morning
Sermons on His Recent Trip to
the Holy Land
rNy FIRST Day in Palestine the Subject; The
Half Was Not Told Me-" the Text
Beautiful and Interesting.
special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BRooKLYS, n. y, Sept. 28.-In the
Brooklyn academy of music to-day DR..
Talmage began series of sermons on his
recent journey TO the Holy land. The
subject of to-day's sermon was: "My
First Day in Palestine. - After appro-
pirate passages of scripture were read
the congregation sang with great spirit:
eve praise thee, 0 God, for the Son of thy love,
For Jesus who died and is now gone above"
The text was: /. Kings 10: Z 1.-The
half was not told me. -
This is the first sermon in course of
sabbath morning sermons on "My Re-
cent Journey Through the Holy Land and
Neighboring Countries-What 1 Saw and
what I Learned. - Out of the GA 600, 900
of our present American population and
the millions OF our past, only about
5000 have ever visited the Holy land. OF
all those who cross 20 Europe, less than
per cent. ever get as far as Rome, and
less than . per cent. even get to Athens
and less than quarter of l per cent.
ever get TO Palestine. OF the less than
quarter of / per cent. who do go to the
Holy land, some see nothing but the noX-
iOus insects and the filth of the oriental
cities and come back wishing they had
never gone. OF those who see much of
interest aud come home, only Il small
portion can tell what they have seen, the
tongue unable to report the eye. The
rarity of u successful, intelligent and
happy journey through the Holy land is
very marked. But the time approaches
when
JOURNEY TO PALESTINE
will be common. Thousands will go
where now there are scores. Two loco
motives were recently sent up from
Joppa TO Jerusalem and railroads are
about TO begin in Palestine and the day
will come when the cry will be, "All
out for Jerusalem!' "Twenty minutes
for breakfast ut Tiberias!'' "Change
cars for TYre!' "Grand Trunk juno
ton for Ninevah!' IAN out for
Damascus!' Meanwhile the wetlocks
of the Atlantic ocean and Adriatio and
Mediterranean seas are being shorn, and
not only is the voyage shortened, but,
after n while, without crossing the ocean
you OF your children will visit the Holy
Land. company of capitalists have
gone up to Behring Straits where the
American and AsIatic continents come
within thirty-siX miles of meeting.
These capitalists or other will build q
bridge across those straits, for midway
nre three islands called ''the
Diomedes'' and the water is
not deep and is never disturbed
with icebergs. Trains of cars will
run from AmeriCa across that bridge and
on down through Siberia, bringing under
more immediate observation the Russian
outraCes againt eXiles and consequently
HbolshinR them, and there are persons
here to-day, who, without one qualm of
sea- sickness, will visit that wonderful
land where the Christ-like, Abrahamio,
Mosaic, DHvidic, SolOmoDio and Herodic
histories overlap each Other with such
power that by the time l took my feet
out of the stirrups ut the close of the
journey, felt so wrung out with emotion
that il seemed nothing else could ever
absorb my feelings again.
THE CHIEF HINDERANCE
for going to Palestine with many is the
dreadful sea, and though I have crossed
IL ten times it is more dreadful every
time, and l fully sympathize with what
was said one night when Mr.. Beecher
and l went over TO speak in New York at
the anniversary of the SeRmen's Friend
society, and the clergyman making the
opening prayer quoted from st. John:
s'There shall be no more sea, - and Mr..
Beecher, seated beside me, in memory of
recent ocean voyage. said: "Amen,
! am glad of that. - BY the partial Rboli-
tion of the Atlantic ocean and the put
ting down of railroad tracks across every
country in the world, the most sacred
land on earth will come under the OBJ
servation of so many people, who will
be ready to tell of what they saw, that
infideiity will be pronounced only an
other form OF insanity, for no honest
man can visit the Holy Land and re-
main an infidel. The Bible from
which preach has almost fallen apart,
for read from it the most of the events
in il recorded on the very places where
they occurred. Aud some of the leaves
got wet as tue waves dashed over our
boat on Lake Galilee and the book was
jostlei IN the saddlebags for many
weeks, but it is a new book to me, newer
than any book that yesterday came out
of any of our great printing houses. All
my life / had heard of Palestine and |
had read about it, and talked about 1t
and preached about 1t, and sung about |
1t, and prayed about it, and dreamed |
about il until my anticipations were |
piled up into something like Himalayen |
proportions, and vet | have to CRY out,
as did the Queen of Sheba when she first |
visited the Holy Land,
'THE HALF WAS NOT TOLD ME. ~
In order 20 make the more accurate |
and vivid book | have been writing, d |
life of Christ, entitled From Manger |
to Throne l left home last October,
and on the last night of November we |
were walking the decks of the Senegal, a |
Mediterranean steamer. 1t was ship |
of immense proportions. There were but |
few passengers, for it is generally rough |
at that time of year, and pleasurists are |
not apt to be voyaging there and then. |
The stars we're all out that night. Those |
armies of light seemed TO have had their |
shields newly FURNISHED. We walked |
the polished deck. Not much was SAID |
for in all our hearts was the dominant |
word Tomorrow. Somehow the |
Acropolis, which a few days before had |
thrilled US at Athens, now in our minds |
lessened in the height of Its columns and |
the glory of its temples. And the Egyp- |
tian pyramids in our memory lessened |
their wonders of obsolete masonry, and |
the Coliseum of Rome was not so vast a |
ruin as il o few weeks before had seemed |
TO be. And all that we had seen and heard
dwindled in Importance, for to-mor-
row, Tomorrow we shall see the Holy
Land. Captain, what time will we
come in sight OF Palestne?' "Weu,'