Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-11-14
JOURNEY TO NAZARETH
DIR. TALMAGE BIDS JERUSALEM
GOOD-BY. --.
"Where the Blue Waves Roll Nightly on
Deep Galiiee"-last Look at Mount
Zion, Mount Calvary and the Mount of
Olives.

Wnefe TIE Blue waves Roll Nightly on
Deep Galilee"-Last Look at Mount
Zion, Mount Calvary and the Mount OF
Olives.
In the Academy of Music, Brooklyn,
Dr. Ialmage preached the seventh of
| MS course of sermons on his recent tour
| IN Palestine. Following is the sermon
from the text, $50 II lifted up mine ewes
the way toward the North' ezekiel viii,
81:
/ AT O'Clock on a December afternoon
through Damascus gate we are passing
out OF Jerusalem for a journey north
! ward. Ho! for Bethel, with it's stairs,
the bottom step of which was Il stone
| pillow; and Jacobs we'll, with it's immor-
tai colloquy; and Nazareth. with it's
divine boy in his fathers carpenter shop,
and the most glorious lake that ripplcd
or flashed
| Blue Galilee, sweet Gnllee,
Inc lake where Jesus loved to be:
and Damascus, with it's crooked street
called Straight, and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic.
evangelistic, prophetic. patriarchal,
kingly, and Christly "reminiscences.
!
tine am impressed, as could not other
wise have been, with the fact that Christ
| Tor the most part went afoot. We find
| him occasionally on u boat. and once rid
ing in a triumphal. procession, as it is
sometimes called, although it seems to
me that the hOSannaS of the crowd could
not have made a ride OH stubborn, UNI
| Impressive, and funny creature like that
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very much of a triumph. But wee are
made to understand that generally he
walked. How much that means only
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 a 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 eX-
ertion is necessary to keep you from fall
ing PROSTATE, l, who an. accustomed to
walk fifteen or twenty miles without las
| situde, tried part of this road over the
| Mount of Olives, and confess that
l.
mand does it make upon ones physical
! energies. Yet Christ walked it twice a
| day-in the morning from Bethany to
Jerusalem to Bethany.
Likewise it seemed Il small thing that
| Christ walked from Jerusalem to NaZa-
roth. But it will take us four days of
hard horseback riding, sometimes on a
<.>J do, =
this week. The way is mountainous in
the extreme. To these who wentup to
| the Tip-top House on Mount Washing
ton, 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. AIlab rode. David rode. Solo
mon rode. Herod rode. Antouy 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 new horse other than
| that on which We had ridden on the
| Journey to the Dead Sea. for he had
! faults which our close acQuaintanceship
had developed. But after some expert
| menting with other quadrupcds OF that
! species, and finding that all horses, like
| their riders. have faults We concluded to
| choose a saddle on that beast whose
| faults we were most prepared 20 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 ol
looking at Jerusalem, we turn our
horses head toward the city and take d
long, sad and thrilling look at the re-
| ligious capital Of our planet. This is the
most impressive view of the most ire
mendous 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 beseging
armies encamped the night before open
ing their vollcys of death against Jeru-
salem. Our last look! Farewell, Mount
| Zion. Mount Moriah. Mount of Olives,
Mount Calvary! Will 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. Fare
we'll, yonder thrones OF gray rock, and
the three thousand years of architecture
and battlefields. Farewell, sacred,
sanguinary. triumphant. Inundated
Jerusalem! Across this valley OF the
Kedron with my right hand l throw thee
kiss of valedictory. Our last look, like
our first look, an agitation OF body, MIND,
and soul indiscribable.
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 III the
Bible. A hospitable old man coming
home at evcntidc from his work in the
fields finds two strangers, /; husband ana
wife, proposing to lodge in the street
because no shelter is offered them: and
invites them to come in and spend the
night in his home During the night the
ruffians of the neighborhood eonsplrcd
together. and surrounded the house, ana
left the woman dead on the doorstep,
and the husband, to rally in revenge the
twelve tribes, cut the corpse OF the wo-
man into twelve parts and sent Il twelfth
of it to each tribe, and the fury OF the
nation was reused. and q pcrcmptolS
demand was made for the surrender OF
the assassins, and, the demand refused,
in one dav twenty Thousand people were
loft dead IN the field and the next day