Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-06
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALmAee's SECOND DAY IN
PALESTINE.

Every step Of Ills Journey Is Amid Scenes
sanctiiied by the Hottest Associations.
Words Cannot Set Forth the Emotions
Excited.
BEooELYN, Oct. 5-Dr Talmage is con-
timing in the brooklyn Academy Of Music
| mis- series Of sermons on Ills recent Journey
to the Holy land and adjoining countries.
The subject this morning was, My second
| Day In Palestine" After the reading of
the Scriptures and two hearty songs of
worship by the congregation the preacher
announced ns his text: Galatians i, is. IL
went mp to Jerusalem"
My second day in the Holy Land. We
are in .loppa 1t is 6 O'Clock in the morn
ing but we must start early, for by night
we are TO be in Jerusalem, aud that city is
forty-one miles away We may take camel
or horse or carriage. As today will be
our lust opportunity in Palestine for taking
the wheel we choose that The horses, with
harness taSseled and juggling, are hitched
and, with Il dragoman in coat of many
colors seated in front, we start on Il road
think Of for all time and all eternity. Fare
well, Mediterranean, with such II b!Go as
no one but the divine Chemist could mix,
and such fire of morning glow us only
the divine Ifluminator could kindle. HALL
mountains OF Ephraim and Juda, whose
ramparts of rock we shall mount in few
hours; for modern engineers can make
road anywhere, and, without piling Ossa
Al
heavens
We start out of the city amid barrcades
of cactus on either side Not cacti in
boxes two or three feet high, but cactus
higher than the top of the carriagc--a
plant that has more swords for defense,
considering the amount of beauty it can
exhibit, than anything created. We passed
out amid about four hundred gardens,
seven or eight acres to the garden, from
which mt the right Seasons are plucked
oranges, lemons, figs, olives, ctron and
pcmegranates, nnd which hold up their
censers of perfume before the Lord in per
petual praise We meet great professions
Of camcls loaded with kegs of oil and with
fruits, and some wealthy Mohammedan
with four wivGs-three too many
The camel is II proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape, stalking out Of the past. The driver
with his whip taps the camel on the fore
leg. and he kneels to take you as rider
But when he rises hold fast or you will
fall off backward ms he puts his fore feet
in standing posture, and then you will fall
OIL in front as his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are used to his
ways, although find the riders often dis
mount and walk aS though to rest them
selves Better stand out Of the path of the
camcl-he stops for nothing ana seems not
To look down. and in the street | saw IL
child by the stroke of IA camcls front foot
hurled seven or eight feet along the
ground.
THE TATTOOED NATIVES.
Here we meet people with faces and arms
and hands t'lttoocd, aa in all lands sailors
tattoo their arms with some fayorite ship
or admired face 1t was to this habit of
tattooing among the oricntals that God
refers in figure when he says of his
church, 81 have craven tlSee on the palms
of my hands"
Many of these regions are naturally
sandy, but by irrigation they are made
fruitful and as in this irrigation the
brooks and rivers are turned this way and
that to water the gardens or farms, so the
Bible says, 1.-THE kings heart Is in the
hands of the Lord, and he turneth it us
the rivers of water are turned withersoever
he will"
As we pass ont and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging to the Uni
versal lsraelitish alliance. Montehore, the
Isracliiish centenarian and philanthro
pist, and Rothschild, the banker, and others
of the large hearted have paid the passage
TO Palestine for many of the Isracltes, and
set apart lands for their culture; aud it is
only beginning of the fulfllmcnt of
divine prophecy, when these people shall
take possession of the Holy Land. The road
from ,Ioppa to Jerusalem, and all the roads
leading to Nazareth and Galilec, we saw
lined with professions of Jews going to
the sacred places, either on holy pilgrim
age or as settlers. All the fingers of Prov
idence nowadays are pointing toward that
resumption of Palestine by the lsraelitcs
| do not take it that the prospered Israel
ties of other lands are to go there. They
would be foolish to leave their prosperities
in our American cities, where they are
among our best citizens, and cross two
seas to begin life over again in strange
land.
But the outrages heaped upon them in
Russia, and the insults offered them in
Germany, will soon quadruple and cen
tuple the procession of lsraclites from
Russia to Palestine. Facilities for getting
there will bemultiplcd, not only in the rail
road from JoppatO Jerusalem, towhich re-
ferrcd last Sabbath rs being built, but per.
mission for road from Damascus TO the
Bay of Acre has been obtained, and that of
coursc will soon connect with ,Joppa and
make one great ocean shore railroad so
the railroad from Jerusalem to JoppH, and
from Joppn TO Damascus, will soon bring
al the Holy Land within few hours of
connection. Jewish colonization societies
in England and Russia are gathering
money Tor tho transportation of the Israel
ties to Palestine, and for the purchase for
them of lands and farming implements,
and 40 many desire 90 20 that it is decided
by lot as to which families shall go irst.
They were Gods chosen people at tho
first, and he has promised TO bring them
baCl, to their home, and there is no power in
one Thousand or five thousand years to
make God forget his promises, Those who
arp prOspcrcd in other iauds will do wen to
stay where they are. But let the lsrHClites
who are deprecated and attacked and per
secuted turn their faces toward the rising
sun Of their dcliycrance. God will gather
in that distant land those OF that race who
have been maltreated, and he will blast
with the lightnngs of his omuipatence
those lands on either side of the Atlantic
which have been the Instruments Of annoy
nuce and harm to that Jewish race, to
which belonged Abraham and David and
Joshua and Baron IIirsch and MonteiioTe
and Paul the Apostle and Mary the Virgin
and JeSu, Christ the Lord.
SLAVES WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.
n, ,I, ,,.ov nrrnss tho nlniu of Sharon