Connecticut western news., 1890-10-01
FIRST DAY IN PALESTINE.
SERMON PREACHED BY DR. TAIL
 MAGE SUNDAY, SEPT. 29.

fuI Word Picture of the Beginning of
 His Memorable Journey to the Holy
 Land and Other Old World Regions.
 BROOKLYN, Sept. 2S.-In the Brook lyn Academy of Music today Dr. Tal- mage began a series of sermons on his recent journey to the Holy Land. The subject of today's sermon was, My First Day in Palestine" After appro- priate passages of Scripture were read the congregation sang with great spirit:
 We praise thee, o God, for the Son of thy love,
 For Jesus who died and is gone above.
 The text was I Kings X, 7: '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 I Saw and What I Learned" Out of the sixtyfour millions of our present American population and the millions of our past only about five thousand have ever visited the Holy Land. Of all those who cross to Europe less than 5 per cent. ever get as far as Rome, and less than 3 per cent. ever get to Athens and less than quarter of per cent. ever get to Palestine. Of the less than a quarter of 1 per cent. who do go to the Holy Land some see nothing but the noxious insects and the filth of the Oriental cities, and come back wishing they had never gone. Of those who see much of interest and come home only a small portion can tell what they have seen, the tongue unable to report the eye.
 The rarity of a successful, intelligent and happy journey through the Holy Land is very marked. But the time approaches when a 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 at TiberiasW Change cars for Tyre" "Grand Trunk Junction for Nineveh' 'sAn out for Damascus!" Meanwhile the wet locks of the Atlantic ocean and Adriatic and Mediterranean seas are being shorn, and not only is the voyage shortened, but after a while, without crossing the ocean, you or your children will visit the Holy Land. A company of capi- talists have gone up to Behring straits, where the American and Asiatic con- tinents come within thirty-six miles of meeting.
 These capitalists or others will build a bridge across these straits, for mid way are three islands called 1.-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 immedi ate observation the Russian outrages against exiles and consequently abolish ing them; and there are persons here today who, without one qualm of sea- sickness, will visit that wonderful land where the Christlike, Abrahamic, Mo safe, Davidic, Solomonic and Herodic histories overlap each other with such power that by the time I took my feet out of the stirrups at the close of the journey felt so wrung out with emo tion that it seemed nothing else could ever absorb my feelings again.
 THE SEA IS ON THE WAY.
 The chief hindrance for going to Pal estine with many is the dreadful sea, and though have crossed it ten times it is more dreadful every time, and I fully sympathize with what was said one night when MT. Beecher and went over to speak in New York at the anni- versary of the Seamen's Friend society, and the clergyman making the opening prayer quoted from St. John, ''There shall be no more sea-" and MT. Beech CT, seated beside me, in memory of 8 recent ocean voyage said, Amen; I am glad of that" By the partial abo- ition of the Atlantic ocean and the putting down of rail tracks across every country in all the world, the most sacred land on earth will come under the observation of so many people who will be ready to tell of what they saw that infdeGty will be pronounced only another form of insanity, for no honest man can visit the Holy Land and re- main an infidel.
 This Bible from which preach has almost fallen apart, for I read from it the most of the events in it recorded on the very places where they'occurred. And some of the leaves got wet as the waves dashed over our boat on Lake Galilee, and the book was jostled in the saddle bags 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 I had heard of Palestine, and I had read about it, and talked about it, and preached about it, and sung about it, and prayed about it, and dreamed about it, until my anticipations were piled up into something like Himalayan proportions, and yet have to cry out, as did the queen of Sheba when she first visited the Holy Land, ''The half was not told me-"
 FROM HANGER TO THRONE.
 In order to make the more accurate and vivid book I have been writing, a life of Christ, entitled "From Man ger to Throne" I left home last Octo- Der, and on the last night of Novem- Der we were walking the decks of the Senegal, a Mediterranean steamer. It was a ship of immense proportions. There were but few passengers, for it is generally rough at that time of year, and pieasurists are not apt to be voy- aging there and then. The stars were all out that night. Those armies o1