Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
JERUSALEM TO JERICHO.
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON THE
GOOD SAMARITAN.
The Story OF the Journey From
Jerusalem to Jericho Graphically
observation-disclosures Idea of a Chris
tian.-Wonders Accomplished by
Heaven-Blessed Music.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Oct 10, 1sOO.-The
widespread and absorbing interest in Or.
Talmages course of sermons on the Holy
Land and adjoining countries is
demonstrated by the thousands who are
turned away from the doors of the Brook
Ign Academy OF Music on Sunday mornings,
and from The Christian Herald services in
the New York Academy of Music on Sun
day evenings, unable to gain even standing
room in those immense audtoriums. To
day the fourth sermon of the series was
preached as before, in this city in the
/ morning and New York at night. Having
announced as his text Luke 10. 30, "a GER
tain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho" Or. Talmage said;
1t is the morning of December 5, in Jeru-
salem and we take stirrups for the road
along which the wayfarer OF old fell among
thieves, who left him wounded and half
dead. Jobs picture OF the horse in the
Orient as having neck "clothed with
thunder" is not true of most horses now in
Palestine. There is no thunder on their
neck, though there is some lightning in
their heels. Poorly fed and numerically
whacked, they sometimes retort. To Amer
leans and English who are accustomed to
guide horses by the bride, these horses Of
the Orient, guided only by foot and voice.
make equestrianism an uncertainty, and
the pull on the bride that you intend for
slowing up of the pace may be mistaken for
u hint that you want to out-gallop the
wind, or wheel in swift circles like the
hawk. But they can climb sleeps and de-
scend precipices with skilled foot, and the
one L chose for our journey in Palestine
| shall have the praise of going for weeks
! without StnmblinU amid rocky
sleeps where an ordinary horse would not
for an hour maintain sure-footedness
There were eighteen of our party, and
twenty-five beasts of burden carried our
camp equipment. We are led by an Arab
sheik with his black Nubian servant car
rying loaded gun in full sight, but it is
the fact that this sheik represents the
Turkish government which assures the
safety Of the caravan,
We cross the Jehoshaphat valley which,
IL IL had not been memorable In history
and were only now discovered, would excite
the admiration of all who look upon 1t. 1t
Is like the gorges of the Yosemite or the
| chasms Of the Yellowstone Park. The sides
| of this Jehoshaphat valley are tunnellcd
| with graves and overlooked by Jerusalem
! walis-an eternity of depths overshadOwed
by an eternity OF architecture Within
| sight OF Mount Olivet and Gethsemane, and
with the heavens and the earth full OF sum
toned In the text when it says: IA GER
tain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho and fell among thieves" No road
that | ever saw was so well constructed
for brigandage-deep gulleys, sharp turns,
! caves ON either side. There are fifty places
on this road where highwayman might
surprise and overpower an unarmcd pill
! grim. HIS cry for help, his Shrek of pain,
/ his death-groan would be answered only by
| the echoes. On this road to-day we met
| groups OF men who, judging from their
! countenances, have I'm their veins the blood
of many generations OF Rob Roys. jose
plus says that Herod at one time dis
charged from the service of the temple
| forty thousand men, and that the great
part of them became robbers. So late as
1920, Sir Frederick Henniker, an English
| tourist. was attacked on this very road
! from Jerusalem to Jericho, and shot and
almost slain. There has never been any
scarcity OF bandits along the road we travel
to-day.
With the fresh memory OF some recent
| violence in their minds, Christ tells the peo-
pie OF the good Samaritan who came along
that way and took care of a poor fellow
| that had been set upon by villainous Arabs
and robbed, and pounded and cut. We en-
camped for lunch that noon close by an old
stone building, said TO be the tavern where
the scene spoken of in the Bible eliminated.
Tumbled in the dust and CHASTITY with
wounds, tho victim OF this highway robbery
lay In the middle of the road-a fact of
which / am certain, because the Bible saws
| the people passed by on either side. There
were twelve thousand priests living at Jeri-
co, and they had to so to Jerusalem TO Off
,ciate at the temple. And one of these min
listers OF religion, / suppose, was on his way
to the temple service, and he is startled as
he sees this bleeding victim in the middle of
the road ooh" he says, there is a man
yUh IN hac attaplad Of ..NV
don't you go homer" says tho minister.
The man in comatose state makes no
answer or, with a half-dazed look, puts his
wounded hand to his gashed forehead and
drawls out "Whaty" "Well," says the min
lister, Il must hurry on to my duties at
Jerusalem. / have to kill n lamb and two
pigeons in sacrifice today, l cannot spend
any more time with this unfortunate.
guess somebody else will take care Of him.
But this Is one OF the things that cannot be
helped, anyhow. Besides that, my business
is with souls and not with bodies. GooQ
morning! When you get well enough TO sit
up, will be glad to see you at the Tenn
pie" And the minister curves his way out
toward the overhanging sides of the road
and passes You hypocrite! One of tht
chief Offices of religion is to heal wounds
You might have done here n kindness THAI
would have been more acceptable to God
than all the incense that will smoke up
from your censor for the next three weeks,
and you missed the chance. Go on your
way, execrated by the centuries!
Soon afterward n Levite came upon the
scene. The Levites looked after the music
of the temple, and waited upon the priests
and provided the supplies OF the temple.
This Levite passing along this road where
we are today, took look at the mass OF
bruises and iaceration In the middle OF the
road. my! MY" says the Levite, this
man Is awfully hurt, and he ought to be
helped. But my business Is to sing in the
choir at the temple. IL am not there, no
one will carry my part Beside that. there
may not be enough frankincense for the
! censers. and the wine or oil may have given
out. and what n fearful balk in the service
that would make. Then one of the priests
might get his breastplate on crooked. But
it seems too bad to leave this man in this
condition. Perhaps / had better try TO
staunch this bleeding and give him little
stmulant But, no! The ceremony at Jeru-
salem is OF more Importance than taking
care OF the wounds OF a man who will soon
be dead. anyhow. This highway robbery
ought to be stopped. for IL binders IA Le-
vites on our way up TO the temple. There,
have lost five minutes already! Go along.
you beast!" he shouts as he strikes his
heels into the sides Of the animal carrying
him, and the dust rising from the road soon
hides the hard hearted Official.
But third person is coming along this
road. You cannot expect him 70 do INV