Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-11-27
SERMON BYDR TALMAGE.
CONTINUATION OF THE HOLY LAND
SERIES.
The Doctors Descriptive Discourses Con-
tinue to Excite Great mterest-His
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BROOKLYN, Nov % The interest in the
series of sermons in which DR. Ta!mage is
describing bis recent tour in Palestine and
intoxicating gospel lessons suggested by his
theme increases from week to week. There
was never so large a crowd at any one of
the previous eight sermons as there was
today around the Brooklyn Academy of
Music in the morning and at The Christian
Herald service in the evening, the ninth SER
mon. Its subject was among the Holy
Hills,n and the text, Luke ", l6 "He
came to Nazareth, where he was brought
mn Following is the sermon:
What a splendid sleep had last night in
n Catholic convent, my first sleep within
doors since leaving Jerusalem, and all Of
us as kindly treated as though we had been
the pope and his college of cardinals pass
ing that wayl Last evening the genial
sisterhood of the convent ordered a hun
bred bright eyed Arab children brought
ont to sing for me, and it was glorious
This morning come out ON the steps Of
the convent and loOi upon the most beau
tiful village of all Palestine, its houses of
white limestone Guess its name Naza-
reth, historical Nazareth, one of the trim
ity of places that all Christian travellers
must see or feel that they have not seen
Palestine--namely, Bethlehem, Jerusalem,
Nazareth. Babyhood, boyhood, manhood
Of him for whom | believe there are fifty
million people who would now, If it were
required. march ont and die, whether I'M
der AK or down in the floods or straight
through the fire.
THE VILLAGE OF NAZARETH
Grand old village is Nazareth, even put
ting aside its sacred associations. First OF
all, it is clean; and that can be said of few
of the oriental villages. Its neighhoring
town of Nablouf is the filthest town |
ever saw, although It's chief industry Is the
manufacture of soap. They export all of
it. Nazareth was perhaps unusually clean
the morning | speak OF, for rs we rode into
the village the afternoon before the show
ers which had put our macintoshes to the
test had poured floods through all the
alleys under command Of the clouds those
thorough street commissioners. Desides
that, Nazareth has been the scene Of
battles passing IL from Israelite TO Mo
hammedan and from Mohamr.edan 20
Christian, the most wonderful Of the bat
ties being that in which twenty-five thon-
sand Turks were beaten by twenty-one
hundrel French, Napoleon Bonaparte
commanding, that greatest Of Frenchmen
walking these very streets thrOu II which
Jesus walked for nearly thirty years, the
morals Of the two the antipodes, the
SHOWS of Russia and the plaques Of Egypt
appropriately following the one, the dox-
ologies of earth and the halleuiahs of
heaven appropriately following the other.
And then this town is so beautifully stu
ated in great green bowl, the sides of the
bowl the surrounding fifteen hills. The
God of nature who is the God of the Bible
evidently scooped out this valley for pri-
racy and separation from all the world
during three most important decades, the
thirty years of Christ's boyhood and
youth, for of the thirty-three years Of
Christ's stay on earth he spent thirty OF
them in this town in getting ready-a
startling rebuke TO those who have no pa
tience with the long years of preparation
necessary when they enter on any special
mission for the church or the world. The
trouble is with most young men that they
want TO launch their ship from the drydock
before it is ready, and hence so many sink
in the first cyclone Stay in the store As "A
subordinate until you are thoroughly
equipped BE good employe IN your
trade until you are qualified 20 be an EN-
ployer BE content with Nazareth until
you are ready for the butfetings Of Jerusa-
lem. You may get so gloriously equipped
in the thirty years that you can do more in
three years than most men can accomplish
in a prolonged lifetime These little sug
gestiops nm apt to put into my sermon,
hoping 20 help people for this world, while
| am chiefly anxious to have them prepare
for the next world.
WHERE CHRIST WAS \ BOY
All Christ's boyhood was spent in this
village and its surroundings. There IS the
very well called 1.-The Fountain of the Nir-
ein.n TO which bv his mothers side he
trotted along holding her hand. No doubt
about it: it is the only well in the village,
and it has been the only well for three
thousand years. This morning we sisit u.
and the mothers nave their children with
them now as then. The work Of drawing
water in all ages ia those countries has
been wo1nen's work Scores of them are
waiting for their turn at it, three great
and everlasting springs rolling out into
that well their barrels, their hogsheads
of water IN floods gloriously abundant
The well is surrounded byolire groves and
wide spaces IL which people talk and chill
dren, wearing charms on their heads as
protection against the EVIL eye, are play
ing, and women with their strings OF coin
on either side Of their face. and in skirts of
blue and scarlet and white and green
move on with water jars on their heads
Mary, suppose, almost always took Jesus
the boy with her, for she had no one she
could leave him with, being IN humble cif-
oumstances and having no attendants l
do not believe there was one Of the sur
rounding fifteen hills that the boy Christ
did not range from bottom to top, or one
cavern in their sides he did not explore,
or one spec : Of bird flying across tue
tops that he coald not call by name. or enc
OF all the species OF fauna browsing on
those sleeps that he had not recognized
You see it all through his sermons. II !
man becomes a public speaker. in his ora
tons or discourses you discover his early
whereabouts. What a boy sees between
{ and Il always sticks to him. hen |
the apostle Peter preaches yon see
the fishing nets with which he had from
his earliest days been familiar. And when
Amos de-. x,srs Eis prophecV YOU hear ia i /