Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-29
DEAD SEA AND JORDAN.
1rRMoN DELIVERED BY DR.. T. DE
WITT TALMAGE.

THE Eminent Divine Continues His Mar
-ation of His ThriiIingIy Interesting
Journey Through the Holy Land-Fun
ra1t of the Discourse Is Here Given.
BROOKLYN. Oct. 26. DR. Talmage
preached the fifth sermon of the series
on his tour in the Holy Land in the
Academy of Music in this city this
morning. This evening at The Chris
t;an Herald service in the Academy OF
Music New York, the sermon was re
heated before an audience which filled
the vast building in every part. DR.
Talmage announced as his text Psalm
o;v So 'He toucheth the hills and
tney smoke" He said
David the poet here pictures a vol
cano and what Church's Cotopaxi
does on painters canvas this author
does in words You see a hill, calm
and still and for ages hnmovable, but
the Lord out of the heavens puts his
finger on the top of it and from it
rise thick vapors, undershot with fire.
He toucheth the hills and they
smoke.
GODS TREMENDOUS TOOLS
God is the only being who can man
age a volcano, and again and again
has he employed volcanic action. The
mixtures on the walls of Pompeii, the
eyhumed Italian city, as we saw them
last November, demonstrate that the
o;tv was not fit to live In the first
century that city, engirdled with pal
aces. emparadised with gardens, pil
Jared into architectural exquisiteness,
was at the foot of a mountain, up the
sides of which it ran with vineyards
and villas of merchant princes, and all
that marble and bronze and imperial
baths and arboriculture and nbowed
fountains, and a coliseum at the dedi-
cation of which nine thousand beasts
had been slain, and IA supernal land
scape in which the shore gave roses to
the sea and the sea gave crystals to the
shore; yea, all that beauty and pomp
and wealth could give was there to be
seen o. lcsft. But the bad morals of
the city had shocked the world.
In the year 70, on the 4th of August,
q black column rose above the adioin-
ing mountain and spread out, Plny
saws, as he saw it, like a great pine
tree. wider and wider, until it began to
rain upon the city, first thin ashes and
then pumice stone, and sulphurous
fumes scooped, and streams of mud
poured through the streets till few PEG
pie escaped and the city was buried,
and some of the inhabitants eighteen
hundred years after were found EN-
balmed in the scoriie of that awful
doom. The Lord called upon volcanic
forces to obliterate that protiigate city.
He touched the hills and they smoked.
Nothing but volcanic action can ex-
plain what | shall show you at the
Dead sea upon which looked last De
cember, and of whose waters | took a
bitter and singing taste Concerning
all that region there has been contro-
versy enough to fill libraries, science
saying one thing, revelation saying an
other thing But admit volcanic ac
monies are one and the same. Geolo-
gy, chemistry, geography, astronomy,
ichthyolOgy, ornithology and zoology
are coming one by one to confirm the
Scriptures. Two leaves of one book
are Revelation and Creation. and the
penmanship is by the same divine hand.
Our horseback ride will not be so steep
today, and you can stay on without
cllnging to the ponmel of the saddle,
but the scenes amid which we ride
shall, If possible, be more thrilling, and
by the time the horses snuff the sui
phurous atmosphere of Lake Asphalt
ties or the Dead sea we will be ready
to disnOunt and read from our Bibles
about what was done that day by the
Lord when he touched the hills and
they smoked
VIVID BIT OF DESCRIPTION.
Take a detour and pass along by the
rocky fortress of Masada. where oc
cured something more wonderful in
the way of desperation than you have
ever heard of, unless you have heard
of that. Herod built palace amid
these heaps of black and awful rocks.
which look like a tumbled midnight.
A great band of robbers-about one
thousand, including their families-af
terward held the fortress. When the
Roman army stOrmed that steep, and
the bandits could no longer hold the
place, their chieftain, Eleazar, made a
powerful speech, which persuaded them
to die before they were captured.
First the men kissed their families a
loving and fearful good-by and then
put dagger into their hearts, and the
women and the children were slain.
Then ten men were chosen by lot to
stay all the other men, and each man
lay down by the dead wife End chill
dren and waited for these executioners
10 do their work. This done. one man
VI The ten killed the other nine Then
Tue survivor committed suicide. Two
women and five children had hil '..pn-
serves and, after all was over. ralae
forth to tell of the nine hundred and
sixty slaughtered Great and rugged
natural scenery makes the most tire
nehdoas natures for good or cvil
ureat statesmen and great robbers.
great orators and great butchers were
yearly all born or reared among mount
an preclpices. Strong natures are
hardly ever born upon the plain
Hnen men have anythiDo greatly GOOD