Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-10-11
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Diyine's Sum-
day Sermon.
subject. aMy second Day In pals.tlns.,
TEXT: ~ pent up to Jerusalem. Gala

My second day in the Holy Land We are
In Joppa. 1t is 8 o'clock in the morning. but
we must start early, for by night we are to
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 OPP
pcrtunity in Palestine for taking the wheel
we choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseled and juggling, are hitched and. with
dragoman III coat of many colors seated IN
front. we start on a road which unveils in
twelve hours enough to think Of for all time
and all eternity. Farewell, Mediterranean
with such biue as no one but the Divine
Chemist could mix, and such fire of morning
glow as only the Divine Illumination could
kndle. Hail. mountains OF Ephraim and
Judea, whose ramparts of rock we shall
mount in few hours; for modern engineers
can make 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 carriage-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 i'll perpetual praise. Wemeet
great professions of camels loaded with kegs
OF oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mohammedan with four wlves-three too
many.
The camel is proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape, stalking out of tee past. The driver
with his whip taps the camel on thu fore
leg, and he knees 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 fail
off in front as his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are use to his
ways although / find the 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 AMI seems not
to look down; and in the street saw a
child by the stroke of canefs 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 a 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
| water the gardens or farms so the Bible
| says, 1.-THE kings heart is in the hands of the
Lord, and he turneth it as the rivers of water
| are turned whithersoever he will
As we pass out and on we find about eight
hundred acres be onging to the Universal
! lsraeltish alliance. Montefiore, the Isreellt-
ish centenarian and philanthropist, and
| Rothschild, the banker, and others of the
! la,-ry izat. fal how he,
tine for many of the Israelites. and set apart
! lands for their culture; and it is only 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 l do not take it that
the prospered lsraelites 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 a
strange LAND.
But the outraSes heaped upon them in
Russia, and the insults offered them in Ger
many, will soon quadruple and centuple the
procession of Israelites 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 a
| road from Damascus to the Bay of Acre has
been obtained, and that of course will soon
connect with Joppa ard 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 few hours of connection. Jewish
are gathering money for the transportation
OF the lsraelltes to Palestine, and for the
purchasefor them of lands and farming i'm
PIGMENTS and so many desire to go that it
is declGed by lot asto which families shall go
| first
They were Gods chosen people at the first,
| nnd He has promised TO bring them back TO
their home, and there is no power in one
thousand or five thousand years to make
| Goa forget His promises. Those who are
progo red in other lands will do well to stay
whore they ere. But let tho Israeltes who
are deprecated and attacked and prosecuted
| turn their faces towards the rising sun of
tier deliycrance. God will gather in that
distant land those of that race who have
been maltreated, and He will blast with the
| hghtnings of His omnipotence those lands on
either SIDE of the Atlantic which have been
the instruments OF annoyance and harm to
that Jewish race, to which belonged Abra-
| ham and David and Joshua and Baron
Hirsch and Monteiiore and Paul the Apostle
and Mary the Virgin and Jesus Christ the
Lord.
On the 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 hing as to make them hideous A
man may not even see the face of his VITA
until after betrothal or engagement of mar.
rage Hence the awful mistakes and the
| unhappy homes, for God has made the face
an index of character, aud honesty or dishon.
esty usually is demonstrated in the features.
| l GO not see what God made fair face for il
1t were not to be looked ct. But here come
the crowds of disfigured women down the
road on their way to Joppa, bundles of sticks
for fire wood on their heads. They started
at three O'Clock in the morning to get the
| fuel. They stagger under the burdens.
| whipped and beaten will some of them be il
their bundle of sticks is too small. All that
is required for enforcement is for man to
say to his wife, "Be off l don't want you any
| more" woman slave in all lands, except
those in which the Gospel of Christ makes
her queen. And yet in Christian countries
/ there are women posing as skeptics, and men
with family deriding the only religion that
makes sacred and honorable the names of
wife, mother daughter and sister
What is that? Town of R,gmleh, birth
| pANSS, ASSAuShSO tOL1D VI Obluu6l, lH6
| glorious prophet. Near by, Tower of Forty
Martyrs, so called because that number o.
disciples persisted there for Chrsts sake
but if towers had been built for all thos.
! who in the time of war as in time OF peace
have fallen or this road during the ares
| past you might almost walk on turrets from
Joppa to Jerusalem.
Now we passed the guard houses, which
are castles of chopped straw and mud where
| nd rfl 81,
! men dwell and keep the bandits off travellers.
In the caves of these mountains dwell men
! to whom massacre would be high play an
purse with few pennies would be com
pensatlon enough for the struggle that tn
savage might have with the wayfare-
| There is only one other defense that amounts
to much IN these lands and that is the law OF
hospitality. II you can get an Arab to eat
with you, if only one mouthful, you are sure
Of his protection, and that has been so from
! age to age. The Lords supper was built on
! That custom, a special friendship after par
taking food together. To that custom Wal
ser Scott refers in his immortal ''Talisman, u
where Saiadin, with one stroke of the sword,
| strlkes the head from an enemy who stands
IN Saladin's tent with cup in his hand and
| before he has time to put it to mis- lip and
hoes it so suddenly that the body of his en-
envy, beheaded stands for moment after
he beheading, with the cup still in his right
hand. After the cup had been slipped it
| would have been impoS ole according to the
laws of the oriental hospitality, to give tho
! fatal blow
| The only lands where it is safe to travel
uparmed are Christian lands Human life is
more highly valued and personal rights are
better respected, and am glad to believe
that in our country, from the Atlantic ocean
| 10 the tactic ocean, there is not place to-
| day where man is not safer without pistol
! than with one. But all through our JOURNEYS
] in Ea lnsts-na