Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-10-25
HORSEBACK TO JERICHO.
DIR. zTALMAeE CONTINUES HIS HOLY
LAND ITINERARY.

LAND ITINERARY.
TIE Parable of the Good San.aritan9ian '
Scenery of the Notwithstanding In
svriu-..mec,loies II Gladstone andsL Lord
Napier.
BxooKLYN. Oct 10. The wide
spre", and absorbing interest in: DR..
Tal,nage's course Of sermons on the
Holy l,;rlnl and adjoining countries Is
demonstrates, by the tliU,.s;lndswho
are Turned away from the doors ofsthe
l3rookty. Academy Of Music .onISun-
day mornings and from The Christian
Herald services in the New York sAcad-
n,uy of Music on Sunday evenings: un:
able 10 gain even standing roolnsin
those immense auditoruins. Today
the fourth sermon of the series was
preached as before-in this city in the
morning and in New York atsnigllti
Having announced .as his text Luke <,
81. "A certain man went down from
.Ierus,,lpin. to jericho. )r Image
aliti
1t is the morning of Dec. in Je-
r,isnleln. and we take stirrups for tie
road along Which the wayfarer of old
fell among thieves, who left him
wounded and half dead. jobs picture
of the horse il, the orient us having
neck clothed with thunder" is not
true OF most horses now in Palestine.
There is no thunder on their nccks,
though there is some lightning in
their heels. Poorly fed and unlnerci-
fully wllac!icd, they sometimes retort.
To Americans and English. WHO are
accustomed to guide horses by the bri-
die. these horses OF ne orieit. guided
only by foo, and v,,i;,r. make equestrian
ism ;;n uncertainty, and the pull on the
bride that you intend for slowing up
Of the pace may lie mistaken FOR II hint
that you wait to oatgallop the wind
or wheel il, swift circles like the hawk.
but they can climb sleeps and de-
scend precipiccs with skilled foot, and
tile one | chose for our journey in Pal.
rstilrs shall have the praise OF going for
weeks without one stumbling step,
amid rocky sleeps where an ordinary
horse would not for nii hour maintain
sure fo.,tedness There were eighteen
of our l::lriy. and twenty-five BEASTS Of
burden carried our cam? equipment.
We are led by an Arab sheik, with his
black Nuhian servant carrying II load,
ed gun III lnIl sight. but it is the fact
that this slleik represents the Turkish
government. which assures the safety
OF the c;:rav;lii.
THE VALLEY OF JEHOsHAPHAT.
We cross the .Je.losiiap.lat valley,
Which. if it had no. been memorable
in history and were only now dscov-
cred. would excite the admiration of
all who loo; upon it. 1t is like the
sorges o! the Yosemite or the cllaslns
OF tie Yellowstone park. The sides
of this .Jelios!laplllt valley are tunnel.
ed with graves AID overlooked by
Jerusalem wllls-an eternity of depths
overslladowel by an eternity Of archi-
tecture. Within sight OF Mount Olivet
and e.etliye.i;lle. and with the heavens
and the e;lrt. fullof sunshine. we start
OUT OH the very road mentioned in the
text when it says. IA certain man went
down from Jerusalem to Jericho and
fell among thieves 10 roa,l that ]
ever saw was SO well constructed for
brigaud;,ye- deep sulleys, sharp turns,
caves on either side
There are fifty places on this road
where lisllwaynlal might surprise
and overpower an unarlned pilgrim.
His cry for help, his shrek of pain, his
death groan would be answered only by
the echoes. On this road today we
riet groups OF men who, judging from
their cuunteiiances. nave in their veins
the blood of many generations of Rob
Roys JosepIius says that ilcrod at
one ri;ne discharged from the service OF
the temple forty thousand men. and
that the greater part Of them became
robbers. So late as 1920 Sir Frederick
Hennilzcr, ;ln English tourist, was at
tackled on this very road from Jeru-
salem to jericho. and shot and almost
slain. There has never been any scar
city of bandits nIong the road we travel
today.
With the fresh memory of some re-
cent violence in their minds Christ tells
the people OF the good Samaritan who
came along that way and took care Of
a poor fellow that had been set upon
BY villainons Arabs and robbed and
pounded and cut. we encamped for
lunch that noon close by an old stone
building. said to be the tavern where
the Sceile spoken Of in tile Bible Gull
minated: Tumbled in the dust and
ghastly with wounds the victim of this
highway robbery lay in the middle of
the road-n fact OF which AN certain,
because the Bible says the people
passed by On either side. There were
twelve thousand priests living at Jer-
cbo and they had to 80 to Jerusalem
to otiiciate at the temple. And one Of
these ministers Of religion, suppose,
was OH his way to the temple service,
and he is startled us he sees this bleed
iny victim in the middle Of the road.
"O.l." he says. "herc is a man that
has been attacked III thieves. Why
don't yon 20 ho.na! says the minister
Tile nlt in Il colIlatose State makes no
answer. or. viii! = hall tlazed look. pats
his wonn.!cd hand to his gaslicd fore
hc;rl AMI draws ont "Whatf Well, "
says tie minister. Il must hurry OH to
my duties ut Jerusalem. | have to kill