The Red Cloud chief., 1890-11-28
JACOBS WELL
Confirmation OF d.. Talmare's
Ol0Couroeo on Palestine.
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Il the Crooa.

Dewitt Talmage's subject vas "Amone
Sne bedoutns. and his text Numbers
7. 81: For IS much q thou knovest
how we are in the wilderness "
He said:
Night after night We have slept in
tent In Palestine. There are large vii.
Lagos OF Bedouins without . house. and
ior 5000 years the people of those places
nave lived In black tents made out OF
dyed sktns, and when the winds and
etorTis wore out and tore loose those
cSverniEgs. others Of the same kind
took their places Noah lived in a tent
Jacob pitched his tent ON the mountain.
Isaac pitched his tent in the valley.
Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom. In
. TEN the woman Jael nailed Sisera.
the General. to the ground, having first
given him sour milk called 'leben" a
a soporifc to make him soundly sleep
that being the effect OF such nutrition,
as modern travellers can testify. The
Syrian army in q tent The ancient
battle shout was: ITO your tents, O
Israeli" Paul was a tent maker. In
deed. Isaiah. magnifcently poet'c,- in.
dicates hat all the human race live un-
DEF . blue q n when he SAYS that God
stretched out the heavens as a curtain
and spreadeth them out as . tent to
dwell in" and Hezekiah compares death
to the striking Of q tent, saying: my
age is removed from me as q shepherds
tent"
In our tent in Palestine tonight l
hear something I lever heard before
n hope never to hear again. 1t is the
voice of Q hyena amid the rocks near
by. When you may have seen this
monster putting his mouth between
the ron bars OF q menagerie. he Is q
captive and he gives q humiliatcd and
suppressed cry. But yonder in the
midnight in the throne of rocks he has
nothing to fear and he utters himself in
q loud, resOunding. terrific, almost
supernatural sound. splitting up the
darkness into q deeper midnight
am glad to say that for the most part
Palestine is free from beasts of prey.
The leopards. which jeremiah says can
not change their spots, have all disap.
peared and the lions that once were
common through ali this and and used
by all the prophets for illustrations Of
cruelty and wrath. have retreatsd be-
o the discharges of gunpowder. Of
which they have an Undesirable fear.
But for the most part Palestine is what
it originally was With the one excep-
ton Of q wire thread reaching from JOp-
pa to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to
Nazareth and from Nazareth to Tiberi-
as and from Tiberias to Damascus, that
one nerve OF civilization. the tele.
graphic wire (for we found ourselves
only a few minutes of from Brooklyn
and New York while standing by Lake
Galilee) with that n exception, Pal
estine Is just as 1t always was.
Nothing surprised mo SO much as the
persistence of every thing. A sheep or
horse falls dead and, though the sky
may one minute before be clear of all
wings. in five minutes after the skies
are black with eagles cawing, scream
ing, plunging. fighting for room, contend
ing for largest morscls OF the extinct
quadruped. All, now I understand the
force Of Christ's illustration when He
said: 'Wheresoever the carcass is there
will the eagles be gathered together"
The longevity Of those eagles is won
derfuL They live fifty or sixty and
sometimes a hundred years. Alb. that
explains what David meant when he
says: Thy youth is renewed like the
eagles" 1 saw a shepherd with the
folds of his coat far ben outward and i
wondered what was contained in that
amplitude OF apparel, and said to the
dragoman: '.What has thatshepherd got
under his coat?' And the dragoman
said: 1T is q very young lamb he is
carrying; it is too young and too weak
and too cold to keep up with the flock"
At that moment I saw the lamb put its
head out from the shepherds bosom and
/ said: There It is now. Isaiah's de-
scription Of the tenderness OF God-'He
shall gather the lambs with His arms
and carry them in His BOSOM" Pass
ing by q village home. in the Holy Land
about noon. l saw q great crowd in and
around . private house. and l said to
the dragoman: David. what is going on
there?" He said: Somebody has re-
Gently died there and their neighbors
60 in for several days after to sit down
and weep with the bereaved." There
IL is, 1 said, the old s%criptural custom:
"And many of the Jews came to Martha
and Mary to comfort them concerning
their brother"
Early in the morning. passing by a
cemetery in the Holy Land. saw
among the graves about fifty ONE
dressed in black. and they were crying:
90. my childy' 20. my husband" 70.
my father!' 20. my mother" Our
dragoman told us that every morning
very early for three months after .
burial the women 20 to the sepulchre.
and after that every week very early
for q year.. As I saw this group just af-
ter daybreak I said: There it is again.
the same old custom referred to in
Luke. the Evangelist where he says
pertain women which were early al the
sepulchre"
but here We found ourselves at ia
cob's we'll, tho most famous we'll in
history, most distinguished for two
things. because it belonged to the old
patriarch after whom it was named. and
for the wonderful things which Christ
S8iO SC0tSO VII tulO SuIO W kuc
Samaritan woman. We dismount from
our horses in . drilling rain, and our
dragoman climbing up 10 the we'll over
the slippery stones stumbles and fright
ems US all by fairly falling into it
] measured the we'll at the top and
found it SIX feet from edge to edge.
Some grass and weeds and thorny
growths overhang it In n place the
roof is broken through Large stones
embank the wall on all sides. Our
dragoman took pebbles. and dropped
them in. and from the time they left
his hand to the instant they clicked ON
the bottom you could hear it was deep
though not as deep IS once. for every
day travellers are applying the same
test, and though in the time of Maun-
drell. the traveller. the we'll Wa lG5 feet
deep now it Is only seventy-fve.
1t is not like other wells dug down
to . fountain that fills it but . reser
voir to catch the falling rams and to
that Christ refers when speaking to the
Samaritan vaownan ah0nk a aniritnal aun.