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Il his seventh sermon on Palestln
Rev. I. Dewitt Tslmage took his tor
from Esskisl viii 5: SO lifted up min,
eyes the way toward the north" n
said:
At ono o'clock on Q December after
noea. through Damascus gate W a.,
passing out Of Jerusalem for . journe,
aoethWard Ho! for Bethel With IL
staisA the bottom step OF which va
stone pillow. and Jacobs we'll with IL.
immortal oolloquy, and Nazareth viii
;ts d vino Boy In his Z sther's carpsnte,
shop and the most glorious lake thai
ever rippled OF flashed:
Blue Galilee. sweet GalIlee.
Toe lake where Jesus loved 90 DO:
and Damascus with Its crooked stree,
called Straight and . hundred places
charged and surc1argcd with apostolic,
evanselistic, prophetic. patriarchal,
kingly and Christly "reminiscences
In travelling along the roads OF Pales-
tine ! An impressed. As I could not 9th.
erwise have heen, with the fac. tina,
Christ for the most part vent foot We
md him occasionally in . boat, and
once riding in . triumphal procession.
% 1t ID sometimes called. although IL
seems to me that the hosannas Of the
crowd could not have made q ride on .
stubborn. unimpressive and funny Great
ure like that which battered with him
into Jerusalem very much OF q triumph.
Uut we are made to understand that
generally no walked How much that
means only those know who have gone
over the distance ~traversed by Christ
We are accustomed to read that Beth.
any is W miles from Jerusalem. Well.
any man in ordinary health can walk
two miles without fatigue.
But not more than one man out Of a
thousand - walk from bethany to
Jerusalem without exhaustion. 1t is
over the Mount Of Olives and you must
climb up among the rolling stones and
descend where exertion is necessary to
keep you from falling prostrate
Likewise 10 seemed q small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naxa-
reth- But It will take four days Of hard
horseback riding, sometimes on . trot
and sometimes on . gallop. to do 1t this
week. The way is mountainous in the
So all up and down and across
and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked.
Ahab rode. David rode. solomon rode.
Herod rode. Antony rode. But Jesus
walked. With swollen ankles, and sore
muscles OF the legs, and bruised heel.
and stin joints. and painting lungs. and
faint head, along tho roads and where
there were no roads at all, Jesus walked.
We rode down through the valley and
then mp on Mount Scopus and. as our
dragoman tells US that this is the last
We shall have Of looking at
We turn our horses head to-
ward the city and take a long. sad and
thrilling look at the religious capital OF
our planet. This is the most impress
Bive view OF the most tremendous city
Of all time.
Our last look! Farewell. Mount Zion,
Mount MOriah. Mount of Olives, Mount
Cavalry! Will we never see them again?
Never. Our last look, like our first look, |
IN agitation of the body, mind and soul, |
indescribable.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text !
lift up mine eyes the way toward the
north. Near here was one Of the worst
tragedies of the ages. mentioned in the
Bible. A bOspitable old man coming
nome at eventide from his work in the
1elds finds two strangers q husband
wife. proposing to lodge in the
street because no shelter Is offered
hem and invites them to como and
'pend the night in his home. During
he night tho ruffians OF the neighbor-
rood conspired together and surround.
ID the house and left the woman
lead on the doorstep. AMI the hus-
'snd. to rally in revenge tho twelve
ribes. cut the corpse OF the woman into
'welve parts and sent . twelfth Of it to
sach tribe. and the fury Of the nation
vas reused, and q peremptory demand
sas made for the surrender OF the AS
assins and the demand refused. in one
~ 20. 600 people were left dead on the
|eld. and the next day IS. OOO. Where
YER our horse to-day plants his feet, in
hose ancient times . corpse lay, and
be roads were crossed by red rivulets
I carnage
Now We pass on to where seven youths
ere put to death and their bodies glib
eted or hung In chains. not for any
hing they had themselves done, but as
reparation for what their father and
Saul, had done. Burial
as denied these youths from May until
Rizpab, the mother Of two
{ these dead boys. appoints herself as
to guard the seven corpses from
eak OF raven and tooth OF wolf and
Nv Of lion. She pitches . black tent
n the rock close by the gibbetS
Rizpah by day sits on the ground In
Of her tent, and when . vulture
eRins to lower out Of the MONDAY sky
its prey among the gibbe.s.
sizpah rises. her long hair flying in the {
lind. and. swinging her arms widely
bout Shoes away the bird Of prey un.
IL retreats to its eyrie. At night she {
ssts under the shadow Of her tent and {
falls into . drowsiness or !
ali sleep But the step Of a jackal {
nOng the dry leaves or the painting Of I
hyena arouses her, and with the fu~ {
. manisc she PUSHES put upon :
'ck, crying: Away! Away" and
the gibbets to see that t.
i'll keep their burdens, returns again .
her tent till some sweeping wing I:
ON the midnight sky or some growl. q
g moester On the rock again wakes c
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A mother watching her dead children Z
rough May. June. July. August Sep .
mber and October! What . vigil! ]
sinters have tried 70 put upon canvas .
% scene and they succeeded In sketch c
g the hawks in tho sky and the q
'nthers crawling out from the jungle. ?
they fail 70 give the wanness. the :
the supernatural courage. .
% infinite s~elf-sacri6ce Of Rzpah. the
other. A mother In the quiet home. z
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