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REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "My Second Day in Pales
tine"

TEXT: "Iuent up to Je'usa1em."-Gala
tians, l.. Is.
My second day in the Holy Land. We ar,
we must start early, for by night we are te
be in Jerusalem, and that city is forty-on,
miles away. We may take camel OF horse
or carriage. AS to-day will be our last op
pcrtunity in Palestine for taking the wEee
we choose that. The horses, with harnes;
tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and, with
q dragoman in 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 blue as no one but the Divins
Chemist could mix, and such fire Of morning
glow as only the Divine uluminator could
kindle. Hail! mountains of Ephraim and
Judea whose ramparts Of rock we shall
mount in few hours; for modern engineers
can make a road anywhere, and, without
piling Ossa upon Peiion, 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 pcmegranates, and
which hold up their censers Of perfume be-
fore the Lord in perpetual praise. Wemeet
great professions of camels loaded with kegs
of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mohammedan with four wives-three too
many.
The camel Is proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape, stalking out of the past. The driver
with his whip taps the camel on the fore
leg, and he kneels to take you as rider.
But when he rises hold fast or you will
fall off backward rs he puts his fore feet
in standing posture, and then you will fall
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 and seems not
to look down: and in the street saw a
child by the stroke Of q camel's 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. It was to this habit Of
tattooing among the orientals that God
refers in figure when he says Of his church,
II have craven thee on the palms Of my
hands,"
Many Of these regions are naturally
candy, 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 itas the rivers Of water
are turned whithersoever he will"
As We pass out and on we find about eight
hundred acres belonging to the Universal
Israelitish alliance. Montefore, the Israelit-
ish centenarian and philanthropist, and
Rothschild, the banker, and others Of the
large hearted have paid the passage to Pales-
tine for many of the Israelites, and set apart
lands for their culture; and it Is only be-
ginning Of the fulfflment of divine prophecy,
when these people shall take possession Of
the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to
Nazareth and Galilee, we saw lined with pro-
cessions of Jews going to the sacred places
either on holy pilgrimage or as settlers. All
the fingers OF Providence nowadays ara
pointing toward that resumption Of Pales-
tine by the Israelites. I do not take it that
the prospered Israelites of other lands are to
20 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
strange land.
But the outrages 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
not only in the railroad from
Joppa to Jerusalem, to which referred last
Sabbath as being built, but permission for
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 a few hours of connection. Jewish
societies in England and Russia
are gathering money for the transportation
of the Israelites to Palestine, and for the
purchasefor them Of lands and farming i'm
and so many desire to 60 that it
Is decided by lot as to which families shall go
first.
They were Gods chosen people at the first,
and he has promised to bring them back to
their home, and there is no power in one
or flye thousand years to make
Sod forget His promises. Those who are
prosp .red in other lands will do we'll to stay
where they are. But let the 1sreelites who
are deprecated and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces towards the rising sun OF
their deliverance. God will gather in that
distant land those Of that race who have
been maltreated, and He will blast with the
ightnings of His omnipotence those lands on
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the instruments Of annoyance and harm to
that Jewish race, to which belonged Abra-
ham and David and Joshua and Baron
Hirsch and Monteaore and Paul the Apostle
and Mary the Virgin and jesus Christ tho
Lord.
On the way across the plain of Sharon we
meet many yelled women. 1t Is not respect
abe for them to 60 unveiled, and it is veil
that is so hung as to make them hideous. A
man may not even see the face Of his wife
until after betrothal or engagement Of mar.
riage. 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.
I do not see what God made fair face for il
it were not to be looked at. But here come
the crowds of disfgured women down the
road on their way to Joppa, bundles OF sticks
for fre-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 l.
their bundle of sticks is too small. All that
is required for divorcement is for man to
say to his wife, "Be of, don't want you any
more" Woman q 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 tho names OF
wife. mother, daughter and sister.
What is that? Town of Ramlell, BIRTH
place. residence and tomb Of Samuel. the
glorious prophet. Near by, Tower Of Forty
Martyrs so called because that number OF
disciples perished there for Christ,S sake: