The Red Cloud chief., 1890-11-07
FRIGHTFUL WARNINGS
Dr. Talmage Continues His DIS
courses on Palestine.
M yIslt to the Dead Seo-Th0 Warning
Taught BY the Destruction Of sodom
and Observation-Disclosures u
the Jordan.

H6s V1slt to the Dead Soo-Tho Warning
Taught BY the D~estructIon Of sodom
and Gomerah-DescriPtioa Il
the Jordan.
In his fifth lecture upon the Holv
Land delivered at Brooklyn Rev. T. Do
Citt Talmage announced rs his text
psalm civ. 50: He toucheth the hills
and they smoke" He said:
David. the poet here pictures . vol.
cano and what Church's Cotopaxi does
on painters canvas this author does in
words. You. see q hill, calm and still.
and for ages immovable, but tho Lord
out of the heavens puts His finger ON
the top of it and from it rise snick
vapors, intershot with fire. He touch.
eth the hills and they smoke"
God is the only being WHO can man.
age a volcano. and again and again has
he employed voicario action. The
pictures on the W. Ills OF Pompeii. the
exhumed Italian City, as We saw them
last November demonstrate that the
city was not At to live. In the first
SAtys Su8l0AOA WAGA P0A-
aces en- tarsdised with gardens. pillared
INTO az ;hitectural exquisitcness, was at
tne DOT OF a mountain up the sides of
W Aich it ran with vineyards and villas
OF merchant princes, and all that mar
bic, and bronze, and imperial baths
and a~rboriculture. and rainbowed
fountains. and a coliseum at the dedica-
ton OF which 5000 beasts had been
slain, and a supernal landscapei in which
tt shore gave roses to the sea and the
sea gave crystals to the shore; yea, all
that beauty. and pomp. and wealth could
give was there to be seen or heard.
but the bad morals of the city had
shocked the world. In the year s9, on
August 4. a back column rose above
the adjoining mountain and spread out
Pliny says, as he saw it, like q great
pine tree, wider and wider, until it be-
gan to rain upon tho city, first thin
ashes and then pumice stone, and sui
phurous fumes scOoped and streams of
mud poured through the streets till few
people escaped and the city was buried.
and some of the inhabitants 800 years
after were found embalmed in the
scOrie OF that awful doom.
The Lord called upon volcanic forces
TO obliterate that ~profigate city. He
touched the hills and they smoked.
Nothing but volcanic action can explain
what shall show you at the Dead Sea
upon which l looked last December and
OF whose waters l took q bitter and
singing taste. Concerning all that
region there has been a controversy
enough to fill libraries, science saying
one thing. revelation saying another
thing. Bot admit volcanic action d.
vinely Employed and both testimonials
are ode and the same. Geology, chem
lstIy, geography, astronomy, ichthyol-
:sgy. or anthology and zoology, are COM
ing n by n to confirm the Scrip
lures. Two leaves of one book are rev.
citation and creation and the penman-
ship is by the Same divine hand. Our
horseback ride will not be SO steep to-
day and you can stay on without cling
ing TO the pOmmel Of the saddle, but
the scene amid which VIC ride shall, if
possible. be more thrilling and by the
time the horses snuff the s%ulphurous at
mOsphere Of Lake Asphaltities or the
Dead Sea VIC will be ready to dismount
and read from our Bibles about what
Gas done that day by the Lord when
He touched the hills and they smoked.
Take a detour and pass along by the
rocky fortress Of Masada where occurred
something more wonderful in the way of
desperation than you have ever heard
- .,-1a.n 70, -,o ~--l -A VI---l
built a palace amid the heaps of black
and awful rocks which look like q
tumbled midn ght. A great band Of
robbers. about one thousand including
their families. afterward held the fort
resa When tho Roman army stormed
that steep and the bandits could no
longer hold the place. their chieftain,
Eleazar. made a powerful speech which
persuaded them to die before they were
captured. First the men kissed their
families a loving and fearful goodbye
and then put a dagger into their hearts
and the women and children were slain.
Then ten men were chosen BY lot to
slay all the other men. and each man
Law down by the dead wife and children
and waited for these executioners to dc
their work. This done, n man Of the
ten killed the other nine. Then the
survivor committed suicide. Two
women and five children had hid them.
selves and after all was over came forth
TO tell Of the 960 slaughtered.
Great and rugged natural scenery
makes the most tremendous natures for
rood or evil. Great statesmen and great
robbers. great orators and great butch
ers were nearly all born or reared
among mountain precipices Strong
natures are hardly ever born upon the
plain. When men have any thing
greatly good o r greatly evil to do they
come down of the rocks.
Pass on from under the shadow OF
Masada, the e of the concentrated
liabolism. and como along where the
salt CRYSTALS crackle under the horses
hoofs You are near the most God-for.
sakcn region OF all the earth. You to
whom the word lake has heretofore sug-
rested those bewitchments of beauty,
Luzerne or Cayuga, some great pearl set
bv a loving God in the bosom of the
iuxuriant valley. change all your ideas
about q lake and see this sheet Of water
nh ;ch the Bible calls the Salt Sea, or
Sea of the Plain, and Josepus calls Lake
A~sphaltitea The muleteers will take
rare of the horses while we get down to
the brink and dip up the liquid mixture
IN the palm OF the hand. The
waters are comminglimg of
birthstone and pitch and have six
times larger percentage OF salt than
those of the Atlantic ocean. the ocean
having four per cent Of salt and this
lake e6l per nj Lake Sir-i-kol of
India is the highest lake in the world.
This lake. on the bank Of which We
kneel. is the lowest lake. 1t empties
into no sea- among other things for the
simple reason that water can not run up
hill. It swallows up the river Jordan
and makes no response of thanks and
never reports what it Toes with the
twenty million cubic feet Of water an
nuallv received from that sacred river.
It takes the tree branches and logs
Aoated into it by the Jordan and pitches