Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-09-29
is ON SACRED SOIL.
REV. TALMAGE TELLS ABOUT HIS FIRST DAY
IN PALESTINE.
The Dreadful Sea Passed Over and the Dangerous
Harbcr Gained at Last-On the Houseiops
in Joppa-The Story Of Jonah
and the Whale.

sps,iql Islegram TO NE Register
BRooKLYN, \. y, September Is
In the Brooklyn Academy of Music to-
day DR., Talmage began series of ser
mons ON his recent journey to the Holy
Land. The subject of t0-day's sermon
was: My First Day in Palestine
After appropriate passages of scripture
were read, the congregation sang with
We praise Thee, O Cod for the son OF Thy
love.
For Jcsa, who died and is now gone above"
The text was: / Kings 10: :, The
half was not told me-
This is the first sermon in course of
Sabbath morning sermons on "Nly Re
cent Journey Through the Holy Land
and NeighbOring Countries-What /
Saw and What l Learned Out Of the
sixty-four millions of our present Amer
lean population and the millions of our
past. only about five thousand have
ever visited the Holy Land. OF
AN those who cross 10 Europe,
less than five per cent. ever
get as far as Rome. and less than two
per cent. ever get TO Athens and less
than a quarter of one per cent. ever get
10 Palestine. or the less than 4 quarter
of one per cent. who do go to the Holy
Land. some see nothing but the noNiouS
insects aud the filth OF the Oriental
cities and come back wishing they had
never gone. or those who see much OF
interest and come home. only small
portion can tell what they have seen,
the tongue unable 10 report the eye.
The rarity OF a successful. intelligent
and happy journey through the Holy
Land is very marked But the time
approaches when journey To Palestine
viii be- common Thousands will go
where now there are scores.
Two locomotives were recently
sent up from Joppa TO Jerusalem
and railroads are about 10 begin in PaleS-
tine and the day will come when the
cry will be, "Ali out for JeruSaleml'
..Twenty minutes for breakfast at Tib-
eriaSw Change cars for Tyrel,'
"Grand Trunk Junction for Nincych.'
"AN out for Damascus" Meanwhile
the wetlockS OF the Atlantic Ocean and
/ Mediterranean seas are being Shorn,
and nos only is the voyage shortened,
I ibut. after while, without crossing the
ocean YOU or your children will visit the
/ Holy Land. A company OF capitalists
/ have gone up TO Behring Straits where
/ the American and ASiatic continents
come within thirty-SiN miles of meet
/ ing. These capitalists or others will
build bridge across those Straits,
/ for midway are three islands called
The DiomedeS. and the water is not
|dcep and is never disturbed with ice
bergs. Trains of ears will run from
/ America across that bridge and on down
through Siberia, bringing under more
Immediate observation the Russian out
RACES against eXileS and consequently
IaboliShing them, and there are persons
here to-day, who, without one quGlm OF
sea-sickneSS. will visit that wonderful
land where the Christ-like, Abrahamic.
Mosaic. Davidic, SOlomonic and Herodic
histories overlap each other with such
power that by the time ! took my feet
Iout of the StirrupS at the close of the
tourney, felt - wruns out with emo
tion that 10 seemed nothing else could
ever absorb my feelings again.
THE DREADFUL SEA,
The chief hiudrance for going TO Pal
.cStiuc with many is the dreadful sea,
and though | have crossed it ten time,
liz is more dreadful every time, and
fully Sympathize with what was said
one night when Mr. Beechcr and went
over to speak in New York at the An
|niversary OF the Seamcn'S Friend So
ciety and the clergyman making the
opening prayer quoted from st. John.
There shall bee no more sea. - and Mr..
Beecher, seated beside me, in memory
of recent ocean voyage said "Amen,
am glad OF that" by the partial aboli-
tion Of the Atlantic Ocean and the put
ting down of rail tracks across every
country in all the world. the most sacred
land on earth will come under the OBJ
SerVatiun of So many people. who will
bee ready 10 tell of what they saw, that
inddclity will be pronounced only an
other form Of insanity, for no
honest man can visit the Holy
Land and remain an inlidel. This BIZ
BILE from which preach has almost fall
len apart. for | read from il the most OF
the events i'm IL 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 iOStled in the saddle
bags for many weeks, but 10 is new
book 10 me, newer than any book that
Yesterday came out of any OF our great
printing houses All my life | had
heard of Palestine aud had read about
10. and talked about it, and preached
|about it. and sung about il, and prayed
,about it. and dreamed about it until my
authorizations were piled up in some
thing like Himalayan proportions. and
yet have TO cry out as did the Queen
of Shcba when she first visited the Holy
Land: "The half was not told me-
In order TO make the more accurate
and vivid a book | have been writing, a
life of Christ. entitled "From Mangor
To- Throne" | left home last October,
and on the last night of November we
were walking the decks of the Senegal,
a Mediterranean steamer. IL was Il
ship of immense proportions There
were but few passengers, for 1t Is gener-
ally rough at that time OF year, and
pleasurists are not apt to be voyaging
there and then. The stars were 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 "tO-mor-
row." Somehow the Acropolis, which
a few days before had thrilled us at
Athens. now i'm our minds leSSened in
the hcighth of its columns and the glory
OF its temples.
4 DANGEROUS HARBoE"
viii the night ever be gone? Yes 1t
is growing lighter, and along the horl.
zon there is something like bank oil
clouds, aud aS n watchman PAGES the
deck. l say to him, ''What is that out
vonder?" That is land, sir" said the
sailor. "Thc land.' cried. and soon
all our friends were aroused from sleep
and the shore began more clearly to re-
veal itself. With roar, and rattle, and
bang. the anchor dropped in the road
stead a half mile from land, for though