Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-11-21

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NHs-,l",, Eoc. lt-Th+ morning in
a.. .t.tjcmE IS tfu-.c ban tui, ci'y, and
this c,Du.iu 49, Nhn Chris .0u Herald scr.-
i,ujue \-N ',l; Academy Of Music, DR..
"l"aea preached IRE eighth Of the ecrirs
%, sermons b. giving ON his tour in
polo-' me-. ~ ho.ht.-yite5 ,hp respective
I''illiu,- were c.owdod 10 thoir utmost
r1...:'r in G.c I'N.te, after the doors
yyer' opened, and Hli VINO camo later were
unable - get IN. Or T'almacc's subject
WIS "AnnUn the p 4oui1s, end his text
SUM. =. ~: "Foraamuch as tnou knowc St
hov we az" to eucamp IN the Wilderness
Might aitcr night we have slept in tent
in Palestine. There are large village OF
l}adorins without a house, and for tht-c
Thousand years the people OF those plHetH
hGye lived iH hi7cl, tents, made ont OF dlcl
skins. and when the winds and storms
wore out and tore loose thCe~ COVERINGS
rrher4 Of the same kind took their places.
Noah lived in q tent; Abraham in a tent.
Isnob pitched his tent on che mountain.
Isaac r.tghci his tent i'm the valley. Ia5
pitched his tent toward SOdOn. In n tent
tho woman Jacl nailed Sisera, the general,
10 the grounG 9ISt having given him slur
milk called ''ieben' as q soDorGc to make
; i'm sleep Foundly, that being the effect of
such nutrition. "a modern '>avclcrs can
testify. The Syrian army in a tent. The
Pncieut battle shout wits "ro your tents.
o Is1selw Paul was teut maker. In
decd. Isaiah magniaccnty poetic, indi-
Gates that al the human ncc live under
liue tent when he says that God Stretch
t.h ont the heavens as q curtain and
sp-eadcth them ont rs tent TO dwell in ,"
-iu1, D bn pt-tIy
ing of tent, saving, My age is removed
from rne rs a Shepherds tent
In our tcat IN Palestine tonight hear
something ! never heard before and hope
never to hear again. II Is the voice of
hvcna amid the rocks near by. When you
may have seen this monster putting hi
mouth between the iron bars Of a meuac-
eric he is q captive, and he gives Il huInil
lated and suppressed cry. But Wonder i'm
the midnight on throne of rocks he has
nothing to fear. and he utter9 himself in
a loud. resembling, terrific, almost super
natural sound. splitting up the darkness
into deeper midnight. it begins with
howl and ends with "A souud something like
q horses whining. In the hyeua's voice are
defiance and strength and bioodthirsti mess
nDd crunch of broken bones and death.
BEASTS OF PREY no LONGER THERE
am glad TO say that for the most part
Palestine Is clear OF beasts Of prey The
leopards, which Jeremiah says cannot
change their spots, have all disappeared.
and the lions that once were common aii
through this land. and used by Ill the
prophets for illustrations Of cruelty aud
wrath, have reiterated before the discharges
If gunpowdcr, of which they have On in
describable fear. But for the most part
Palestine is what if originally was. With
the one exception Of a Wire thread reach
ing from Joppa to Jerusalem and from
Jerusalem 10 Nazareth and from Nazareth
10 Tiberias and from Tiherias TO Danes
GUS that one nerve of civilization. the tcle-
graphic wire (for we found ourselves only
a few minutes or from Brooklyn and New
York while standing by Lake Galilee),
with that one exception Palestine is justas
ii always was
Nothing surprised me so much as the
persistence of everything. A sheep or
horse falls dead, and though the sky may
one minute before be clear of all wings in
five minutes after the skies are black with
eagles cawing screaming, plungng, fight
ing for room, Contending for largest NOR
sells Of the extinct quadruped All now
understand the force Of Christ's illustra-
tion when he said, "Wheresoever the cur
cass is there will the eagles be gathered to-
S''H,I' nc l''tv'l uS VI 'iipSc 'iSle9 ~
wonderful They live lfty and sixty and
sometimes hundred years. An, that oN-
PLAINS what David meant when he sud,
"Thy youth is renewed Like the eagles" |
saw shepherd with the folds OF his coat
gar bent outward ana wondered what
was contained IN that amplitude Of APP
parel ana SAID to the dragomAn, wv hat
has that shepherd got under his coat"
And the dTagoman said, ut Is very
young lamb he is carrying; IT Is too young
and TOO weak and TOO cold to keep
up with the Hook AT that moment
-" inc lamh pUu Us head our from the
sHepherds bosom and SAID, There II IS
no'V, ls-iaH's description of the Tenderness
Of E"d-hr small gather the lambs with
ms arm and carry them in his bosom
WoMEN EAkLY AT THE sEPULCHER.
Passing by village home in the Holy
Land about noon saw great crowd IN
and around n private house and | said
20 the drasoman, "pa11d, what Is going on
thol'e'' lie SAID ''>onebody has recently
Cled there, and their neighbors 70 in for
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