The Indianapolis journal., 1890-10-01

He breaches in q New York Theater and
Talks About q Railway In Palestine.
New York World

He breaches in q New York Theater and
Talks About a Railway in Palestine.
New York World.
Dr. Talmage preached last night in the
Academy of Music, and the sermon was
scarcely sermon. 1t was-by request or
some New York friends, the preacher said.
q rehearsal of somo facts and thoughts
has recently returned.
There are $4,000, 600 of people in the
United States.n auoth he. "Only 5000 of
them have visited the Holy Land. Of these
the filth of cities. OF the others the tongue
is unable to report the eye. But wait! Two
locomotives have just been sent thither.
"A railroad is being built. You will live.
many of you. to hear the guard shout: All
minutes for breakfast Change cars for
Tyre Grand Trunk functions; change for
Nineveh,' and All out for Damascus The
capitalists have gone up TO behring's
strait, and you will visit the Holy Land
The Holy Land! The Holy Land, where
histories overlap each other: Mosaic.
Davidic Solomonic. Herodic, by and by 1t
will have so many visitors that inndellty
will be pronounced by physicians form of
minded man can go through Palestine and
remain an infdeI.
This Bible which have in my hand
read moment by moment all through that
journey to identify by it's evidence the ex-
act scenes of sacred history. 1t has been
soiled with the dust of Damascus and wet
with the waters of Galilee. To look at 1T
you would call it an old book, No. to me it
is the newest book in the world. For years
have read. preached. dreamed about the
Holy Land, until my anticipation became
Himalayan. Now can cry with the Queen
of Sheba, The half was not told me-"
DR.. Talmage described vlvidly his land
ing at JOpDa. "At last! At last.' ne cried.
| my feet were upon that land, the land of
Godfrey and Saladin, of Joshua and Jesus,
| the land where the battle was fought W hich
made our heaven possible" he told OF the
rocks in the harbor outside Joppa. the only
| harbor In Palestine, and the worst on the
coast. No clearing of a channel as there
| was in He'll Gate. and why? "Ah. my
| friend, the Turk reigns there. land whatever
| the Turk touches withers. Now may God
| remove this curse of the ages. this old hag
| of nations" The speaker cited a dozen bits
| from the biblical history of Joppa, and
| drew lesson from them all. There W
| the door of the tanneries in JOppa, and IN
| Talmage remembered that the Apostle
| Peter lodged with lone Simon, the tanner" !"
| He wondered about the senstivenesS OF
| Peters olfactories. and pointed out that
| Christians ought not to be so particular
about finding a sinner Injured to soap and
water in their missionary work.
! "Oho" he cried. THE church is dying OF
| fastidiousness; they cry over the woes OF
| the world into hundreddoli pocket-hand-
kerchiefs, and then put penny in the poor
| boxi
1T was in Joppa. too, that Jonah EN-.
barked. He was told to 60 to Nineveh
| and went to Tarshish instead. Jonah paid
his fare all the way, but the ship company
! didn't keep it's part of the contract. He
didn't get there. Many a man started fol
| Tarshish who ought to be on his road to
| Nineveh. The whale story which seems tC
bother so many brethren doesn't perple1
me at ALL / don't need the profane histo
rian Pliny to tell me that the skeleton of 9
whale was brought to Rome, and 30 forth
and that it was forty feet long. God
| always has q whale outside the harbol
wrong direction. Recreant Jonah! M
wonder the whale got sick of bimw
| Dr., Talmage closed his address with
| powerful exhortation to his hearers to &c
| cept Christianity.