The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-11-21
REV. DIR. T.ALMAGE
The BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN
DAY StRmON.

D.
At one O'Clock on n December aCt.rpoo,
tnrohgh Damascus gate wa ara nas.i, = IL
vi 'rr usaiem Tor Journey nortbwar5 Hi
. W. Deln"', with its stairs, the bottom sten ~
win, WIZ ~ "as @ a stone pillow; and jacobs we'll.
n ,i.t ITS immortal colloquy; and Nazareth
Slth It's divine hoy i'm His fathers carnantnr.
'~mop ana the most glorious lake that ev.r
rlPpied OF flashed ~' ''''
hlue Gaee. sweet GsIiree.
Inc lake where Jesus loved TO be:
S,ri, S,a Di,unascus, with its crooked street called
straight, and hundred pJ,ccs rhar.ro5 n's,s
hurcnarged with apostolic, evang"hsti,, nro'
Pnctic, patriarcha kingly and Cbristiv ram, p,U-
., In travelling along the roads of Palestine
am impressed, as could not other wis,, ha,.a
peen, with the fact that Christ for tbn ,,n.t
Eart Went afoot Wo find Him m,nsionnIIv
,' "oa.' ana Once riding in "a triu,nphoI
essioi'' ' as lt Is sometimes called although
H seems to me that the hus,,uuas of th,, ,.r,,,d
could not have made Il ride ON n stuI,Ior,,
un'mpres*ivc and funny creature ill., thnt
which pattcred with Him into Jerms,Inn, n'
10y hhutn OF triumph. But we aro n,a,io
TO undrrtand Tint generally He walknj Wnw
hiuch that means only those know who have
Christ. eo 'ruVersed by
we are accustomed to read that Bethany
Is TWO miles from Jerusalem. Well nnv mar
In ordinary health can walk two miles WITH
oue ia'igue but not more than one man
Iuu vi Thousand can walk from Bethany TO
verusaiem without exhaustion Jt IL over
-a,' -" mou,,o . Oh ,9.ives, and You must climb up
',nong tnc rolling stones and descend where
cNertion Is necessary to keep YOU from foll
ing prostrate. i, who am accustomed n,
walk ifteen or twenty miles without Iassi-
ssne, tr,ed part OF this road over the Mount
OF onVcs, ant confess that would not want
ouy it often, such demand does it mako
upon ones physical energies. Yet Christ
Waikcd IL twice n day-in tho morning from
5Setnnny TO Jerusalem, and In tho evening
from Jerusalem to Bethany
Likewise IL seemed q small thin, tbot
Shrist walked from Jerusalem to N.zaretb
But 1t VIII take us four days of hard horse.
PACK riding, sometimes OH trot and some
t"ncs On gallop, to do &c this week. Tn,
way is mountainous I'm the extreme. TO
tn"se who went up to the Tip Top house on
Mount Washington before tho railroad was
sai1 WI. say that this journey from JerI-
sa,em @ 10 Nazareth is like seven such Arneri-
can Journeys. so, all up and down and
across and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked,
Ahab rode. David rode Solomon rode.
herod role Antony rode. But Jesus
nn wa,ksu, with swollen ankles and sore
muscles of the legs and bruised heel and stiff
JOINTS and painting lungs and faint head,
along tho roads and where there were no
roads at all Jesus walked.
we tried to get a new horse other
than that ON which we had ridden on the
journey to the Dead Sea, for ho had faults
which our close acquaintanceship had devel-
oIeu BUT after some experimenting with
other Suadrupe,is of that species, and i1nding
that nli horses, like their riders, have faults
we concluded to choose a sa,jdie on ii.h
beast whose faults we were most prepared
10 pity or resist. We rode down through the
valley and then up on Mount Scopus and
as our dragoman tells us that this Is the last
opportunity we shall have of looking ut Je-
iusalcm, we turn our horses head toward
the city and take long. sal and thrilling
look loo at the religious capital of our planet.
Ihlsis tho most Impressive view of the most
tremendous city of all time
On and around this hill the armies of the
crusaders at the first sight of the city
threw themselves on their faces in worship
Here most of the besieging armies en-
ieys OF death against Jerusalem Our last
lGokl F.re"ell, Mount Zion, Ms,nt
Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount Calvatryt
WI, Mi.i We we never ", sec them .ogain2 Meyer.
and there are SO many things we have never
seen at al, that we cannot afford to- duplicate
visits or see anything moro than once Fare
well, yonder thrones of gray rock, and the
three thousand years Of architecture and
battiefclds. Farewell, sacred, sanguinary
this valley of the Kedron with my right
hand throw thee a kiss of valedictory. Our
last look, like our first look, an agitation OF
body, mind and soul indescrbable.
And now, likeslGzekcl in my tent, lift
up mine eyes tho way toward the north.
Near here was one Of the worst tragedies OF
the ages mentioned in the Bible a hospitable
old man coming home at evcntidc. from his
work in the fields finds two strapsers, n hus-.
band and wife. proposing TO lodge, In the
street because no shelter is offered them, dnd I
invites them to come and spend the night in
hi home. During the night tho rutiinns OF
the neighborhood conspired together, and
surrounded the house. and left the wV4i,an
dead on the doorstep, and the husbqhtt to-
rally in revenge the twelve 'tffbes Z
>ut the corpse of the woman intot
tw Give parts aud sent q twelfth OF it to each
tribe. aud the fury of the notion was reused,
and n ceremptory demand was made for the
surrender of tho assassins, aud, tho demand
refused. i'm one day twenty thousand people
were left dead on the field and the next day
Iichteen thousand. Wherever our horse tS-,
DAY pIauts lis foot i'll those amcicntti,srs y
corrsc lay, and tho voa Is were crossed by red
rvuletS Of Ca"raCr.
Now We r;.SS on to where seven youths
We're put to death AMI their bodies glib
ICt"d or lung in chains not for anything
they had themselves dunc, hut as q repar-
alton for what their father and grand
father, Saul had done. Eural was denied
these youths from May until November
Rizpah, the mother OF two of these dead
boys appoints herself aS sentinel tD guard
the seven cnTpses from hoax Of raven and
tooth Of Welt and paw "f lion. S;h" pitches
black tent on the rock close ly the
Cihbets. Rizpnll 10y day sits on the ground
III 'front.' Oi her tent, and when u vulture he
gins TO lower out of the monday sky seeking
its prey among tho 2ibbcts R2pali rises her
long hair flying in the wind and swinging
her arms wildly about sliOOS away the
bird OF prey until il retreats TO its eyrie At
night she rests under the shadow of her tent,
and sometimes foils into drowsineSs or half
sleep. But the step Of II iackal among the
cry leaves or the painting of hycna aro,ises
her, and with the fury Of u maninc she r,Ishcs
out upon the rock crying, away Awnyr
an'l then, examining the gbbets to that
they still keep their burden, returns again to
her tent till some swooping wing from the
midnight sky OF some growing monster OH
the rock again wakes her.
mother watching her dead children
through May, June, july August, Septem
hcr and October! What vigil Painters
have tried to- put upon canvas the scene, and
they succeeded in sketching the hawks in the
sky and the panthers crawling ont from the
jungle, but they fail to give tho wanness.
the carnesfuess, the supernatural courage.
the infinite self sacrifice of Rizpab. the
mother a mother in tho quiet home watch
ing by the casket of dead child for one
night exerts the artist to his utmost hut who
Is sufficient To put upon canvas d mother for
Si months pf mil r. GUARDING bprx whole