Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-17
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DrVINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "My Second Day in Pales
tine"

.S4aASs IL 10.
Ny second day in the Hoy Land. We are
In Joppa 1t is o'clock in the morning, bat
we must start early, for by night we are &c
be In Jerusalem, and that city is forty-one
miles away. We may take camel or horse
or carriage. As to-day will be our last op
pcrtunity in Palestine for taking the vince!
we choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and. with
a dragoman in coat of many colors seated In
front, we start on road which unveils III
twelve hours enough to think of for all time
and all eternity. Farewell, Mediterranean,
with such blue as no one but the Divine
Chemist could mix, and such fire of morning
glow as only the Divine Illuminator could
kindle. Hail. mountains Of Ephiaim and
Judea, whose ramparts of rock we shall
mount in a few hours; for modern engineers
can make a road anywhere, and, without
piling Ossa upon Pelion, those giants can
scale the heavens.
We start out of the city amid barricades
of cactus on either side. Not cacti in boxes
two or three feet high, but cactus higher
than the top of the carrlage-a plant that
has more swords for defense, considering
the amount of beauty it can exhibit, than
ANYTHING created. We passed out amid
about four hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges, lemons,
figs, olives, citron and pOmegranates, and
which hold up their censers Of perfume be-
fore the Lord in perpetual praise Wemeet
g1 eat professions of camels loaded with kegs
of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mohammedan with four wives-three too
many.
The camel is proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape, stalking out Of the past. The driver
with his whip taps the camel on the fore
leg, and he kneels to take you as rider.
But when he rises hold fast or you will
fall off backward as he puts his fore feet
in standing posture, and then you will fall
off in front as his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are use to his
ways although L find tho riders often dis
mount and walk as though to rest them
selves. Better stand out of the path of the
camel-he stops for nothing and seems not
to look down; and in the street l saw a
child by the stroke Of a camel's front foot
hurled seven or eight feet along the
ground.
Here we meet people with faces and arms
and hands tattooed, as in all lands sailors
tattoo their arms with some favorite ship
or admired face. 1t was to this habit Of
tattooing among the orientals that God
refers in figure when he says Of his church,
II have craven thee on the palms Of my
hands"
Many of these regions are naturally
sandy, but by irrigation they are made
fruitful, and as in this irrigation the brooks
and rivers are turned this way and that to
says THE kings heart is in the hands of the
Lord, and he tlrneth it as the rivers of water
are turned whithersoever he will"
AS we pass out and on we find about eight
hundred acres belonging to the Universal
Israelitish alliance. Montefiore the Israelit-
Rothschild, the banker, and others of the
large hearted have paid the passage to Pales-
tine for many Of the Israelites, and set apart
lands for their culture; and it is only a be-
ginning of the fulfillment Of divine prophecy,
when these people shall take possession Of
the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to
Jerusalem, and all the roads leading to
Nazareth and Galilee, we saw lined with pro-
cessiOns of Jews going to the sacred places,
either on holy pilgrimage or settlers. All
the fingers OF Providence nowadays are
pointing toward that resumption Of Pales-
tine by the Israelites. | do not take it that
the prospered Israelites Of other lands are to
go there They would be foolish to leave
their properties in our American cities,
where they are among our best citizens, and
cross two seas to begin life over again in
strange LAND.
But the outrages heaped upon them in
Russia, and the insults offered them in Ger
many, will soon Guadruple and centuple the
procession of Israehtes from Russia to Pal
estine. Facilities for getting there will be
multiplied not only in the railroad from
Joppa to Jerusalem, to which l referred last
Sabbath as being built, but permission for
road from Damascus to the Bay Of Acre has
been obtained, and that of course will soon
connect with Joppa and make one great
ocean shore railroad. So the railroad from
Jerusalem to Joppa and from Joppa to Da-
mascus, will soon bring all the Holy Land
within a few hours of connection. Jewish
colonization societies in England and Russia
are gathering money for the transportation
of the Israelites to Palestine, and for the
purchasefor them Of lands and farming i'm
71ln onJ1tc leo Il TO CrN hat
is decided by lot as to which families shall go
first.
They were Gods chosen people at the first,
and he has promised 10 bring them back to
their home, and there is no power in one
thousand or five thousand years to make
God forget His promises. Those who are
prosp red in other lands will do well to stay
where they are. But let the Israelites who
are deprecated and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces towards the rising sun Of
then deliYerance. God will gather in that
distant land those of that race who have
been ulatreated, and He will blast with the
ightninGs of His onnipotence those lands On
either side of the Atlantic which have been
the instruments Of annoyance and harm to
that Jew iSh race, to which belonged Abr2-
ham and David and Joshua and Baron
hirsch and Montefiore and Paul the Apostle
and Mary the Virgin and Jesus Christ the
Lord.
On TIE way across the plain of Sharon we
meet many yelled women. 1t is not respect
able for them to go unveiled, and it is veil
that is so hung as to make them hideous. A
man may not even see the face of his wife
until after betrothal or engagement Of mar
riage. Hence the awful mistakes and the
unhappy homes, for God has made the face
an index Of character, aud honesty or dishoD.
esty usually is demonstrated in the features
1 90 not see what God made fair face for if
it were not to be looked at. But here come