The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-17
AMONG THE BEDOUINS,
TALNAGE TELLS OF HIS TENT LIFE
IN PALESTINE.

Country Nearly Clear OF Beasts o
Prey Swarming of the Eagles.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 16.-This morning in
the Academy of Music in this city, and this
evening at the Christian Herald service in
the New York Academy of Music, DR.. Tai
mage preached the eighth OF the series Of
sermons he is giving on bis tour in Pales-
t,ne. At both services the respective build
iDgs were crowded to their utmost capacity
IN five minutes after the doors were opened
and all who came later were unable to gel
in. Dr. Talmage's subject was Among tbs
s3edouins," and his text, Numbers K, 81
"Forasmuch as thou knowest how we are K
encamp in tie wilderness
Night after night we have slept in tent
in Palestine. There are large villages OF
BedOuins without house, and for thret
thousand years the people of those places
have lived in black tents, made out of dyed
skins, and when the winds and storms wore
out and tore loose these coverings, others of
the same kind took their places. Noah
lived In tent. Abraham in a tent. Jacob
pitched his tent on the mountain. Isaac
Rtched his tent in the valley. Lot pitched
his tent toward Sodom. In a tent the woman
Jsel nailed Sisera, the general, to the
called ''leben" as sopOrific to make him
soundly sleep, that being the effect OF such
nutrition, as modern travellers eau testify.
The Syrian army in a tent-the ancient
battle shout was To your tents, O lsrael!n
Paul was a tentmaker. Indeed, Isaiah,
rnagnifcently p-etic, indicates that all the
human race live under blue tent when he
says that God ''s;retcheth out the heavens
as curtain and spreadeth them out as a
tent to dwell i'm aud Hezekiah compares
death to the striking OF tent, saying, My
age is removed from me as a shepherds
tent
In our tent 10 Palestine tonight hear
something | never heard before and hope
never to hear again. 1t is the voice of a
hyena amid the rocks near by. When you
may have seen this monster putting his
mouth between the iron bars of menagerie
he is a captive and he gives Inundated
and suppressed cry. But yonder in the
midnight on throne of rocks he has moth
ing to fear, and he utters himself in a loud,
resounding, terrific, almost supernatural
sound, splitting up the darkness into
deeper midnight. 1t begins with a howl
and ends with a sound something like a
horse's whining. In the hyena's voice are
defiance and strength and blood-thirstiness
and crunch of broken bones and death.
am glad to say that for the most part
Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The
leopards, which Jeremiah says can not
change their spots, have all disappeared.
and the lions that once were common all
through this land and used by all the proph-
cts for illustrations of cruelty and wrath,
have retreated before the discharges of gun
powder. Of which they have an indescrib-
able fear. But for the most part Palestine
is what it originally was With the one
exception of a wire thread reaching from
Joppa to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to
Nazareth, and from Nazareth to Tiberias
ana from Tiberias to Damascus, that lone
nerve of civilization, the telegraph wire
for we found ourselves ONLY a few minutes
of from Brooklyn and New York while
standing by Lake Galilee), with that one
exception, Palestine is just as it always was
Nothing surprised me so much as the per-
sistence of everything. A sheep or horse
falls dead and, though the sky may one
minute before be clear of all wings, in five
minutes after, the skies are black with
eagles, cawing, screaming, plunging. fight
ing for room, contending for largest morsels
of the extinctquadruped. All, now under
stand the force of Christ's illustration when
he said: "Wherescever the carcass is there
will the eagles be gathered together" The
longevity of those eagles is wonderful
They live fifty or sixty and sometimes
hundred years. All, that ex-
plains what David meant when
eagles" | sow a shepherd with the folds
Of his coat far bent outward, and | won
dered what was contained in that ampli-
tude OF appay oil, and said TO the drego-
man: What has that shepherd got under
his coet" And the dragoman said: at IS
very young lamb he is carrying; it is too
young aad too weak and too cold to keep
up with the flock" At that moment saw
the lamb put its head out from the sbep-
hDgOrn M I Saih y &c
lsaiahs description of the tenderness of
God-'He shall gather the lambs with his
arm and carry them in his BOSOM
Passing by a village homs, in the Holy
Land, about noon, l saw great crowd in
and around private house, and | said to
the dragoman: David, what is going on
thereF' He said Somebody has recently
died there and their neighbors go in for
several days after to sit down and weep with
the bereaved.n There it is, l said, the old
scriptural custom: "And many of the
jews came to Martina and Mary, to comfort
them concerning their brother" Early in
the tmornlng. passing by, ceme-
among the graves about fifty women
20, my childw 10, my husbandw SO.
my fatherp 20, my motherln Our
dragoman told us that every morning very
early for three mornings after a burial. the
women go to the sepulcher, and after that
every week for year. As saw this group
just after daybreak, said: There it Is
again, the same old custom referred to in
Luke. the evangelist, where he says: Seer
tain women which were early at the sopul-
cher"
But here we found ourselves at jacobs
well, the most famous well in history, most
distinguished for two things, because it be-
longed to the old patriarch after whom it
was named, and for the wonderful things
which Christ said, seated on this well curb,
TO the Samaritan woman. We dismount
from our horses in a drizzling rain, and our
dragoman, climbing up to the we'll over
the slippery stones, stumbles, and
frightens us all by nearly falling into it.
measured the well at the top, ami found it
six feet from edge to edge. Some grass
and weeds and thorny growths overhang it.
In one place the roof is broken through.
Large stones embark the wall on all sides.
Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped
them in, and from the time they
LETT his hand to the instant they clicked on
the bottom you could hear it was deep.
though not as deep as once, for every day
travellers are applying the same test, and
though IN the time of Maundrell, the
Traveller, the we'll was hundred and sixty
I'VE test deep, now it is only seventy-five.
30 great is the curiosity of the world to
know about that well, that during the dry
season Capt. Anderson descended into
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