The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-21
JACOBS, WELL.
Continuation OF Dr. Talmage,a
Discoursee on Palee tine.
Little Chan ses In the. Esaly IA nd-Lesso N.
Drawn Eseon Jacobs Well Other Ne
table -PIaees-GsOrious T1t iumphs
of the Crosa.

DEWITT Talmage's subject wa s Among
the Bed onins," and his text, Numbers
X. 81: For as much as ths u knoDest
how vac are to encam in the Eilderness -
He said:
Nj yht after night We ave silent in
tent in Pa estine. There are large vii
lagos of B sdouins withOu'S house, and
for 5000 y.sSFs the people of those places
have lived in black tents made ont of
dyed skins, and when the wind.5 and
storms wone out and tore loose those
coverings others of the same kind
took their pli ices Noah lived in q tent
Jacob pitched his tent on the noun tain
Isaac pitched his tent in the valley
Lot pitched his TINT toward Sodom- In
a tent the woman Jael nailed Sfsera
the General. TO the g ground, having first
given him sour milk called ''leb,snn az
q soporifc to make Ia m soundly sIeep
that being the effect of such nutrition,
as modern travellers oIn testify. The
Syrian army in a tent The ancient
battle shout was: ''Te' your tents. O
Israel!' Paul was a Is mt maker In
deed, Isaiah. mag uific@ltly poetic, in
dicates that all the human race live IN
der biue tent when he says that God
stretched out the heaveus as a curtain
and spreadeth them out as tont to
dwell in, and Hezo>i1iah compares death
to the striking of IL tent saying My
age is removed from me as q shepherds
tent"
In our tent in Palestine tonight I
hear something I never heard befG,e
and hope never to hear again 1t is the
voice of u hyena amid the rocks nsoar
by When you may have seen this
monster putting his mouth betw cen
the iron bars of n menagerie, he is a
captive and he gives a humiliated and
suppressed cry. But yOnder an the
midnight in the throne of rocks he has
nothing to fear and he utters himself in
loud, resounding, terrific, almost
supernatural sound. splitting up the
darkness into a deeper midnight.
I am glad to say that for the most part
Palestine is free from beasts of prey.
The Ieopards. which Jeremiah says can
not change their spots, have all disap-
peared and the lions that once were
common through all this land and used
by all the prophets for illustrations of
cruelty and wrath. have retreated be-
fore the discharges of gunpowder, of
which they have an Understandable fear.
But for the most part Palestine is what
it Originally was. With the one excep-
ton of a wire thread reaching from Jop-
pa to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to
Nazare tn and from Nazareth to Iiberi-
and from Til .rias TO Damascus, that
ono nerve of civil cation, the tele-
graphic wire 1or We found ourselves
only few mimi ties off from Brooklyn
anu new i OK W ulle DY Luke
Galilee) with that ono exception, Pal
est ne is just as it always was.
Nothing surprised me SO much as the
persistence of ev5ry thing A sheep or
house falls dead and, though the sky
may ono minute before be clear of all
wings in five minutes after the skies
are black with eagles cawing, scream
ing, RIunging, fl ghting for room, con tend
ing ht largest morsels of the extinct
quadEuped. An now / understand the
force of Christs illustration when He
said; 'WhereSoever the carcass is there
will the eugIss be gathered together. "
The lOE gevity of those eagles is won
derfuL They live fifty or sixty and
sometimes n hundred years. Alb, tn at
explains what David meant when he
says: Thy youth is renewed like the
eagles" 1 saw shepherd with the
folds of his coat far bent outward and
wondered what was contained in that
amplitude of apparel, and l said to the
dragoman= What has hatshepherd got
under his coat?" And the dragoman
said: 1T is a very young lamb he is
carrying; 1T is too young and too weak
and too cold to keep up W tn the flock. "
At that moment L saw the lamb put its
head out from the shepherds bosom and
1 said: There it is now, Isaiah's de-
scription of the tenderness of God-'He
shall gather the lambs with His arms
and carry them in His BOSOM" Pass
ing by village bone, in the Holy Land
about noon, / saw great crowd in and
around a private house, and said to
the dragoman: David, what is going on
there?" He said: ''Some body has re-
Gently died there and their neigh bors
go in for several days after to sit down
and weep with the bereaved. There
J it is, 1 said, the old scripturaI custom:
"And many of the Jews came to Martha
and Mary to comfort them concerning
their brother"
! Early in the morning, passing by a
/ cemetery in the Holy Land, I saw
among the graves about fifty women
| dressed in black. and they were crying;
40, my childT' 80, my husband" 20,
| my father!' 30 my motherV' Our
| dragoman told US that every morning
| very early foR three months after a
| burial the women go to the sepulchre.
/ and after that every week very early
| for year. AS saw this group just a f.
| ter daybreal1 / said: There it is again,
/ the same old custom referred to in
| Luke, the Evangelist where he says.
| certain women which were early at the
sepulchre >"
But here we found ourselves at ia
eob's we'll, the most famous well in
history, most distinguished for two
things, because it belonged to the old
| patriarch after whom 1t was named, and
! for the wonderful things which Christ
/ said seated on this we'll curb to the
! Samaritan woman. We dismount from
| our horses in a drilling rain, and our
| dragCman climbing up to the we'll over
the slippery stones stumbles and fright t.
ems US all by fairly falling into it
! 1 measured the well at the top and
found it six feet from edge to edge.
Some grass and weeds and thorny
growths overhang it In one place the
roof is broken through Large stones
embank the wall on all sides Oul
dragoman took pebbles and dropped
them in, and from the time they left
his hand to the instant they clicked on
the bottom You could hear it was deep
though not as deep as once, for every
day travellers are applying the same
test, and though in the time of Maun
dreli.- the traveller, the we'll was 1G5 fee
deep, now it is only seventy-five.
It is not like other wells dug down
to a fountain that fills it, but reser
voir to catch the falling rains and tC
that Christ refers when speaking to the
] Samaritan woman about q spiritual SIM