Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-29
A DAY IN OLD J0PPA.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Describes His Emo
tions on First Obtaining
A GLIMPSE OF THE HOLY LAND.
Where Jonah Embarked and Peter Re-
ceiyed Lesson in Wisdom.
CHRISTIAN HUMILITY NECESSARY
A GLIMPSE OF THE HOLY LAND.
CHRISTIAN HUMILITY NECESSARY

elvn Academy OF Music to-day DR.. Talmage
began series of sermons on his recent
Journey to the Holy Land. The subject of
to-day's sermon was: "My First Day in
Palestine" Alter appropriate passages OF
Scripture were read, the congregation sang
with great spirit:
We praise thee o God, for the Son of thy love,
For Jesus who died and is now gone above,
The text was: l. Kings 1917, 1.-The hall
was not told me"
This is the first sermon in course OF Sab
bath morning sermons on My Recent Journey
Through the Holy Land and Neishborlng
Countries-What Saw and What Learned"
Out of the 81 OOO 600 of our present American
population ana the millions of our past only
about 1000 have ever visited the Holy Lond. OF
all those who cross TO Europe, less than five
per cent ever get as far as Rome, and
and less than two per cent ever get
to Athens and less than quarter of one
per cent ever get to Palestine. OF the less
than a quarter of i per cent who do 60 to the
HOLY Land some see nothing but the noxious
insects and the filth of the Oriental cities. and
come back wishing they had never gone. OF
those who see much of interest and come home,
only small portion can tell what they have
seen, the tongue unable to report the eye The
rarity of a successful. intelligent and happy
journey through the Holy Land is very marked.
Palestine will be comm n. Thousands viii go
where now there are scores Two locomotives
were recently sent up from Joppa TO Jerusalem
and railroads are about to begin IN falestlne,
and the day will come when the cry Will be,
IAN out for Jerusalemr' Twenty minutes tor
breakfast at Tlberiasr' Change cars for Tyre!n
Grand Trunk junction LOT NlneNeh! AL
out for Damascus!
SHORTENING THE DISTANCE.
Meanwhile the wetlocks of the Atlantic
being shorn, and not only is the voyage short
eneu, but, after while, without crossing the
ocean, you or your children will visit the Holy
Land. company of capitalists have gone up
to Behring Straits where the American and
Asiatic continents come within 36 miles of
meeting. These capitalists or others will build
bridge across those Straits for midway are
three Islands called "The Dlomedes," and the
water is not deep and is never disturbed with
lcebercs Trains of cars will run from America
acUuss that bridge and on down through
Siberia. bringing under more immediate OBJ
servation the Russian ouirages against exiles
and consequently abolishlnE them, and there
are persons here to-day who. without one
qualm of sea-sickness, Will visit that wonderful
land where the IhTist-like, Abrahamic, Mosaic,
Davidic Solumonic and Herodic histories over
lap each other with such power that by the
time took my feet out of the stirrupS at the
close of the Journey | felt so WTung out with
emotion that it seemed nothing else could ever
absorb my feelings again.
The chief hindrance for going to Palestine
with many is the dreadful sea, and though l
have crossed il ten times it is more dreadful
every time, anu fully sympathlze with what
was said one night when Mr.. Beecher and 1
went over to speak in New York the anni-
versary of the Seamens Friend Society, and the
clergyman making the opening prayer quoted
from ST. John: There shall be no more sea-"
and Mr., Beecher, seated beside me, in memory
OF a recent ocean voyage said: Amen, am
glad of that" By tie partial abolition OF the
Atlantic ocean and the putting down of rail-
tracks across every country in all the world,
the
MOST SACRED LAND ON EARTH
will come under the observation of so many
people, who will be ready to tell of what they
saw, that infdelity will be pronounced only an
other form of insanity for no honest man can
visit the Holy Land and remain an infdel.
This Bible from which l preach has almost
fallen apart, for read from it the most of the
evgnts in it 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 loSted in the saddle
bags for many weeks, but il is a new book to
me, newer than any book that yesterday came
out of any of our great printing houses All
my life l had heard of Palestine, and had
read about II, and talked about 1t, and prayed
about it, and dreamed about it until my antici-
patlonS were piled up into something like
Himalayan proportions, and yet have to cry
our, as OlO I0G V ueen u SuSDd NH6n SDe ufSG
visited the Holy Land: The half was not told
NE"
In order to make the more accurate and vivid
book have been writing, life of Christ
entitled From Manger to Throne" l left home
last October and on the last night of November
we were walking the decks of the Senegal,
Mediterranean steamer. 1t was a ship of I'M
mense proportions Never was l so impatient
for a night to pass l could not see much use
for that night, anyhow, | pulled aside the
curtain from the portfolio of my Stateroom SO
that the Trst hint OF dawn would wakep me.
But il was useless precaution. Sleep was
among the impoSsibilItles. Who could be SO
stupid as to slumber when any moment there
might start out within sight of the ship, the
land where the most stupendous scenes of all
time and all eternity were enacted, land of ruin
and redemption. land where was fought the
battle that made our heaven possible, land of
Godfrey and Saladin, of Joshua and Jesus?
A VIEW OF JoPPA.
On the back of hills l5O feet high Joppa is
lifted toward the skies. 1t is as picturesque as
it is quaint and as much unlike any city we
have ever seen as though it were built in that
star Mars where a few nights ago this very
September astronomers, through unparalleled
telescopes, saw a snow storm raging. How
glad we were to be in Joppa! Why this is the
city where Dorcas, that queen OF the needle
lived and died and was resurrected. You re-
member that the poor people came around the
specimens of her kind needlewOrk ana said:
"Dorcas made this" Dorcas sewed that"
'Dorcas cut and fitted this, "Dorcas hemmed
that According to Ightfoot. the commen-
tatOT, they laid her out in state IN a public
room and the poor wTung their hands and cried
and sent for Peter. who performed miracle by
which the good woman came back to life and
resumed her benefactOns. An especial resur-
rectlon day Tor one womaui She was the
model by which mauy women of our day 1
have fashionedltheir lives, and at the first blast
NJ rhn Of hn ffoTr
1000 Decreases, Decreases of Brooklyn, Decreases |
of New York, Decreases of London Decreases of |
all the neighborhoods and towns and cities of |
Christendom. Just as good as the Dorcas OF the |
Joppa which visited. Thank God for the |
eyer-increaslng skill and sharpness and speed |
and generosity of Dorcas' needle! |
What is that man doinS?' said to the drag
oman in the streets of Joppa. "Oh. he is car |
ryIng his bed" Multitudes of the people sleep |
out of doors, and that is the way so many in |
those lands become blind. 1t is from the dew |
OF the night falling the eyelids. As result |
of this. IN Egypt, every twentieth person is |
totally blind. In Oriental lands the bed is made
of a thin, small mattress, blanket and pill |
low, and when the man rises in the morning he |
just ties up the three into a bundle and shoul- |
ders it and takes it away 1t was to that the |
savior referred when He said to the sick man, |
Take up tiny bed and walk" An American |
couch or an English couch would require at
least tour men to carry it, but one Oriental can
easily manage his slumber equipment.
THE HOME OF THE TANNER.
But inhale some of the odors of the large |
tanneries around Joppa. 1t is there to this |
day. prosperous business, this tanning Of |
hides. And that reminds me of Simon, the |
tanner, who lived at JOppa, and was the host of |
Peter the Apostle. suppose the olfactories of |
Peter were as easily insulted by the odors of a |
tannery as Others But the Bible saws: HE /
lodged with one Simon. the tanner" People
who 90 out to do reformatory and missionary
and Christian work must not be too sensitive
Simon no doubt brought to his homestead
every night the malodors of the calfskins and
OK hides in his tannerY. but Peter lndred in |