Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-06
JERUSALEM TO JERICHO.
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON THE
GOOD SAMARITAN. =
Tho Story Of tho Journey From
Jerusalem to Jericho Graphically
Told.-Gladstone's Idea of Chris.
{ tian.-Wonders Accomplished by
= Heaven.Blessed Music. -

BRooKLyS, N. Y, Oct 10. 1soo-The
widespread and absorbing interest in DR..
Talmage's 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
lyn 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 auditoriums. 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. 80, "a GER
tain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho. DR.. 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 rctort. 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 equestrlan1sm an uncertainty, and
the pull on the bride that you intend for
slowing up OF the pace may be mistaken for
a mint 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 1 chose for our journey in Palestine
shall have the praise of going for weeks
without no CT on nr,,i1
sleeps where an ordinary horse would not
Tor an hour maintain sure-footedness.
There We're 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 fulfsight. 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,
X it had not been memorable in history
and were only now discovered, would excite
the admiration Of all who look upon it. 1t
is like the gorges OF the Yosemite or the
chasms Of the Yellowstone Park. The sides
Of this JehOshaphat valley are tunnelled
with graves and overlooked by Jerusalem
walls-an eternity Of depths overshadowed
by an eternity OF architecture. Within
sight OF Mount Olivet and Gethscmane, and
with the heavens and the earth full of sun
shine, we start out on the very road men
toned in the text when it says: "a GER
tain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho and fell among thieves" No road
that ever saw was so we'll constructed
for brigandage-deep gulleys, sharp turns
caves on either side. There are fifty places
on this road where a highwayman might
surprise and overpower an unarmed 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 in their veins the blood
OF many generations of Rob Roys. JOSE
phus 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 tho 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
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 go to Jerusalem to off,
lciate at the temple. And one Of these min
70 TIE temple service, and he is startled rs
he sees this bleeding victim in the middle of
the road. "Oh," he says, "here is man
Who has been attacked Of thieves" "Why
don't you go homer" says the minister.
The man in q comatose state makes no
answer or. with half-dazed look. puts his
wounded hand to his gashed forehead and
flrawls out "What?" "Well," says the min
ister, II must hurry on to my duties at
,Jetusalem. ! have to kill a lamb and two
pigeons in sacrifice today, 1 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
'Aelped, anyhow. Besides that, my business
Is with souls and not with bodies. Good
.Morntngl When you get well enough to sit
,up.1 will be glad to see you at the Tenn
pie" And the minister curves his way out
coward the overhanging sides Of the road
and passes. You hypOcritei One of the
chief Offices of religion is to heal wounds.
You might have done here kindness that
would have been more acceptable to God
than all the incense that will smoke up
from your censor for the next three weeks,
anu you ullSSeO INC chance. 10 on your
way. execrated by the centuries!
Soon afterward a Levite came upon the
~cenay The Leyites looked after the music
tof 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 laceration 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. II am not there. nt
ono will carry my part. Beside that, there
may not be enough frankincense for the
,censers, and the wine or oil may have given
iout. and what fearful balk in the service
That would make. Then one of the priests
might get his breastplate on crooked. But
at seems too bad to leave this man in this
condition. Perhaps had better try tt
'staunSn THIS bleeding and give him littl'
stimuiant. But, no! The ceremony ut Jeru
fssem Is OF more Importance than takin,
care OF the wounds of O man who will sool
be dead. anyhow. This highway robbery
ought 70 be stopped, for it binders us Le
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