Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-11-15
JOURNEY TO NAZARETH.

JOURNEY TO NAZARETH
DIR. TALMAeE BIDS JERUSALEM GOOD
BY AND JOURNEYS NoRTHWARp. 4
"Uhero the Isluo Waves Roll NIshtk
on Deep Gaiilee''-Last Look at Nouns
I Zion. Mount Calvary and tho Noun
of Olives.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.-Today DrssTaI
mage preached the seventh ofShi.
course of sermons on his recent tour.ir
Palestine. AS Oh previous Sunday
the sermon was preached before two
large audiences. In tie morning j
was preached in the Academy of Music
in this city, and at night DIR. Talnagt
preached it again in the New Yorl
Academy of Music which Tic Chris
tian Herald continues to rent for thest
services. During the six meetings. thus
far held in New York, 30. DOC people
have endeavorcd to lear DR.. TaInaige
preach. or these so, 600 have been,ad;
mittcd and C0,00O haze been turlled
away for lack of accommodation. Fof
lowing is the sermon from thctext, Sc
I lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north" ezekiel viii, 81:
At o'clock on Il December after
neon through Damascus gate we are
passing out of Jerusalem for u journey
northward. Hol for Bethel, with its
stairs, the bottom step OF Which was a
stone pillow; and Jacobs well, with its
immortal colloqny; and Nazareth, with
its divine boy in his fathers carpenter
shop. and the most glorious lake that
ever ripplcd or tlaslcd-
blue G;lilee, sweat Ga,ce
The lake where Jesus loved to be:
and Damascus. with its crooked street
called Straight, and Il hundred places
charged and surcllarscd with apostolic,
evangclistic, prophetic. patriarchnl,
kingly and ChriStly "reminiscences.
In travelling along the roads of Pal
cstinc am impressed, Us could not
otherwise have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot.
We find him occasionally on a boat,
and once riding in Il triumphal pro-
ccssion, as it is sometimes called, al
though it seems to NE that the hosan-
mas of the crowd could not have made
IL ride on Il stubborn, unilnprcssive and
funny creature like that which battered
with him into Jerusalem very much OF
triumph. But we are made to I'M
dcistand that generally lie walked.
How much that means only those
know who have gone over the distance
travcrsed by Christ.
We arc accustomed to read that
Bethany is two miles from Jerusalem.
Well, any man in ordinary health can
walk two miles without fatigue. But
not more than one man out of thou
sand can walk from Bethany to Jeru-
salem without exhaustion. 1t is over
the Mount of Olives, and you must
climb up among the rolling stones and
descend where exertion is necessary to
keep you from falling PROSTATE. |, who
am accustomed to walk fiftecnor twcn-
ty miles without i,cssIruue, tried part of
this road over the Mount of Olives, and
confess would not want to tryit often,
such demand does it mike upon ones
physical energies. Yet Christ walked
it twice day-in the morning from
Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the even
ing from Jerusalem to Bethany.
cHRIsT's WALK TO NAZARETH.
Likewise it seemed small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But it will take us four days of
hard horseback riding, sometimes OH a
trot and sometimes on a gallop, to do it
this week. The way is mountainous in
the extreme. To those who went up
to the Tip-Top house on Mount Wash
ington, before the railroad was laid, l
will say that this journey from Jerusa-
lem to Nazareth is like seven such
American journeys. SO, all up and
down and across and rccrossing Pales-
tine, Jesus walked. Ahab rode. David
rode. Solomon rode. Herod rode.
Antony rode. But Jesus walked. With
swollen ankles and sore muscles of the
legs, and bruised heel and stiff joint:
and painting lungs and faint head,
along the roads, and where there were
no roads at all, Jesus walked.
We tried to get a new horse other
than that on which we had ridden on
the journey to the Dead sea, for he
had faults which our close acquaint-
anceship had developed. But after
some experimenting with other quad
rupeds of that species, and finding that
all horses, like their riders, have faults.
we concluded to choose saddle on
that beast whose faults we were most
prepared to pity or resist. We rode
down through the valley and then up
on Mount Scopus and, as our drago-
man tells US that this is the last oppor-
tunity we shall have of looking at Je-
rusalem, we turn our horses head to-
ward the city and take long, sad and
thrilling look at the religious capital OF
our planet. This is the most impress
i've view of the most tremendous city
of all time.
On and around this hill the armies
of the crusaders at the first sight OF the
city threw themselves on their faces In
worship. Here most Of the besie5ins
armies encanped the night before open.
ing their volleys of death against Jeru-
salem. Our last look! Farewell, Mount
Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount.of Olives,
Mount Calvary VIII we never see