Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-10
DIR. TALMAGES JOURNEY
WONDERFUL ITINERARY OF cHRlsT's
WALK TO NAZARETH.

Bethel and the Sea of ealIee-Fare-
welI to the Historic Mountains Around
Jerusalem Awful Tragedies Of the
oIden Times.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.--Today DIR. Talmage
preached the seventh of his course Of ser
mons on his recent tourin Palestine As on
previous Sundays the sermon was preached
before two large audiences In the morn
ing it was preached in the Academy Of
Music, in this city, and at night Dr. Talmage
preached it agshn in the New York Academy
OF Music which The Christian Herald con-
tinues to rent for these services. During
the six meetings thus far held in New
York $4,000 people have endeavored to
hear DR.. Talmage preach OF these $4,000
have been admitted and 10000 have been
turned away for lack of accommodation.
Following is the sermon from the text,
so lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north ezekiel viii, 81:
At / o'clock on a December afternoon
through Damascus gate we hre passing out
Of Jerusalem fora Journey northward Hol
for Bethel, with its stairs, the bottom step
Of which was a stone pillow; and Jacobs
areth, with its divine boy in his fathers
carpenter shop, and the most glorious lake
that ever rippled or flashed
clue Galilee, sweet GaliIee,
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
and Damascus, with its crooked street
called Straight, and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic
evangeiistic, prophetic, patriarchal, kngly
and fNbssicfIu f,.af,,i t,fcanpaac
In travelling along the roads of Palestine
| am impressed, as could not otherwise
have been, with the fact that Christ for the
most part went afoot We find him occa-
sionally on boat, and once riding in tri-
umphal procession, as it is sometimes
called, although it seems to me that the
hosannas of the crowd could not lave made
ride on q stubborn, unimpressive and
funny creature like that which battered
with him into Jerusalem very much of a
triumph. But we are made to understand
that generally he walked. How much that
means only those know who have gone
over the distance traversed by Christ.
We are accustomed to read that Bethany
is two miles from Jerusalem. Well, any
man in ordinary health can walk two
miles without fatigue But not more than
one man out of thousand can walk from
Bethany to Jerusalem without exhaustion.
1t Is over the Mount of Olives, and you
must climb up among the rolling stones
and descend where eXertion is necessary to
keep you from falling prostrate. l, who
am accustomed to walk fifteen or twenty
miles without lassitude tried part of this
road over the Mount of Olives, and confess
would not want to try it often, such de-
mand does it make upon ones physical
energies Yet Christ walked it twice
day--in the morning from Bethany to
Jerusalem, and in the evening from Jeru-
salem to Bethany
VIEW FROM MOUNT sCoPUs.
Likewise it seemed small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But it will take us four days of hard
horseback riding, sometimes on a trot and
sometimes on a gallop, to do it this week.
Theway is mountainous in the extreme.
To those who went up to the Tip Top
house on Mount Washington before the
railroad was laid l will say that this
journey from Jerusalem to Nazareth is
like seven such American journeys. So,
all up and down and across and recrossing
Palestine Jesus walked Ahab rode.
David rode Solomon rode. Herod rode.
Antony rode. But Jesus walked. With
swollen ankles and sore muscles of the
legs, and bruised heel and stiff joints and
painting lungs and faint head, along the
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 jour
ney to the Dead sea, for he had faults which
our close mountaineering had developed
But after some experimenting with other
quadrupeds of that species, and finding
that all horses, like their riders have
faults, we concluded to choose saddle on
that beast whose faults we were most pre-
pared to 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 at Jerusalem, we turn our
horses head toward the city and take
long, sad and thrilling look at the relig
ious capital Of our planet. This is the
most impressive view of the most tremen-
dous city of all time.
On and around this hin the armies of the
crusaders at the first sight of the city
threw themselves on their faces in worship.
Here NEST Of the besieging armies en-
camped the night before opening their vol
l6JS VI QGtiull dgtluSb J6EuStlIbtn,r .NJuT ldSb
lookl Farewell Mount Zion, Mount Mo
riah, Mount Of Olives. Mount Calvary
VIII we never see them again? Never
The world is so large and time is so short,
and there are so many things we have
never seen at all, that we cannot afford to
duplicate visits or see anything more than
once. Farewell, yonder thrones of gray
rock, aud the three thousand years of
La
sacred, sanguinary, triumphant, humili-
ated Jerusalem Across this valley of the
Kedron with my right hand throw thee
kiss of valedctory Our last look, like our
first look, an agitation of body, mind and
soul indescribable.
THE CORPSE CUT INTO TWELVE PIECES.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text, lift
up mine eyes the way toward the north.
Near here was one of the worst tragedies
of the ages mentioned in the Bible. A hos
pitable old man coming home at eventide
from his work in the fields finds two stran-
gers, husband and wife, proposing to
lodge in the street because no shelter is Of |
fered them, and invites them TO come in |
and spend the night in his home. Dur
ing the night the ruffians of the neigh |
borhood conspired together, and sur
rounded the house, and left the wom
an dead on the doorstep, and the |
husband, to rally in revenge the twelve
tribes, cut the corpse of the woman into
twelve parts and sent twelfth of it to
each tribe, and the fury Of the nation was
reused, and peremptory demand was
made for the surrender of the assassins,
aud, the demand refused, in one day TWEEN
ty thousand people were left dead on the
field and the next day eighteen thousand. |
Wherever our horse today plants his foot