The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-16
PHARMACIES SERMON.
The Brooklyn Preachers Second
 Day in the Holy Land.
Points Familiar, Through Sacred History, on the Road from Joppa to Jeru- saIem and Thoughts sug-
 gested Thereby.

gested Thereby.
 Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage delivesed the following. the second discourse of his Holy Land series in the Brooklyn Academy of Music and also in the New York Academy of Music, taking for his text:
 I went up to Jerusalem. .-Galatians |, la
 My second day in the Holy Land. We are in Joppa. It is six o'clock in the morning, but we must start early, for by night we are to bein Jerusalem, and that city is forty-one miles away. We may take camel or horse or carriage. As to-day will be our last opportunity in Palestine for taking the wheel, we choose that The horses, with harness tasseled and jingling, are hitehed, and. with a dragoman with coat of many colors, seated in front, we start on a road which unyails in twelve hours enough to think of for all time and all eternity. Farewell Mediterranean, with such blue as no one but the Di- vine Chemist could mix, and such fire of morning glow as only the Divine Illuminator could lsindlel Haill Mount aims of Ephraim and Juda, whose ram parts of rock we shall mount in few hours, for modern engineers can make a road anywhere, and, without pulling Ossa upon Pelion, those giants can scale the heavens.
 We start out of the city among bar ricades 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 any thing 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 pome- granates and which holds up their cen sers of perfume before the Lord in per petual praise. We meet camels loaded with kegs, great processions of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy Moham- medan with four wives-three two many. The camel is proud, myste- rious, solemn, ancient, ungainly, majes- tic 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 a rider. But when be rises, hold fast or you will fall off backward as he puts his forefeet in standing posture, and then you will fall of in front as his back legs take their place. But the inhabitants are used to his way, although find the ridersoften dismount and walk as though to rest themselves. Better stand out of the path of the camel; he stops for nothing, and seems not to look down, and in the street saw child by the stroke of the camel's front foot, hurled seven or eight feet along tho ground. Here we met 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: T have graven thee on the palms of my hands. !" Many of these regions are naturally sandy, but by irrigation they are made truthful, and, as in this irrigation the brooks and rivers arc turned this way and that to water the gardens or farms, so, the Bible says: "The Kings heart is in the hands of the Lord, and He turneth 1t as the rivers of water are turned withersoeyer He will"
 As we pass out and on we And about eight hundred acres belong ing to the Universal Israelitish Alliance. Montefiore. the Israel itish centenarian and philanthro- pist and Rothschild, the banker, and others .of the large-hearted have paid the passage to Palestine, for many of the Israelites, and set apart lands for their culture; and it is only a begin ming of the fulfillment of Divine prophe- sy. when these people shall take pos session of the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to Jerusalem, and all the roads leading to Nazareth and Galilee we saw lined with processions of Jews, going to the sacred places, either on holy pilgrimage, or as settlers. All the fingers of Providence nowadays are pointing toward that resumption of Pal estlne by the Israelites. I do not take 1t that the prospered Israelites of other lands are to go there They would be foolish to leave their eroperties in our American cities Swhere they are among our best citizens, and cross two seas to begin life over again in strange land. But tho outrages heaped upon them in Russia, and the insults offered them in Germany, will soon quadruple and centuple the procession of Israeli ties from Russia to Palestine. Facil- ities for getting there will be multi piled, not only in the railroad from Joppa to Jerusalem, to which referred last Sabbath as being built but per mission for road from Damascus to the Bay of Acre has been obtained, and that of course will soon connect wiIh Joppa, and make, one great ocean-shore railroad. So the railroad from Jeru- salem to Joppa to Damascus, will soon bring all the Holy Land within a few hours of connection. Jewish eoloniza- ton societies in England and Rus- sia are gathering money for the trans portation of the Israelites to Palestine, and for the purchase for them of lands and farming implements, and so many desire to go that 1t is decided by lot 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 thousand or five thousand years to make God forget His promises. Those who are prospered in other lands will do well to stay where they are. But let the Israelites who are depreciated and attacked and per secuted turn their faces toward the ris- ing 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 lightnings of His