Telegram-herald., 1890-10-06
AT THE TABERNACLE


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D4y Ia Palestine. After The reading II
the Scriptures snd tso hearty songs q
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announced ss MS text, Galatians /. IL =
went up "a Jerusalem
NJ secoad day in the Holy Lad. We
are Ia Joppa Il Is so'cloek in tas morn
ing. but We must start early, Tor - uisht
Sc are % he ia Jerusalem. and that cily =
toFty enc miles away We may take camel
or horse or cArriage. As today Wiil be
our last opportunity IN Palestine for taking
the wheel we choose that The horses, with
harness tssSselsd and iinEling. arc hitched,
and. with a drasomsn Ia coat or many
eolors seated Ia front. We start on q road
which unveils Ia twelve hours enough 10
think of for all time ana eli eternity Pare
well. Mediterranean. with such a blue as
no oGe but the divine Chemist could mix,
and such = Gre OF morning glow as only
the divine illuminatOr could kindle. Halt
mountains Og Ephraim aad Juds, whose
ramparts Of rock We shall mount Ia a few
hours, for modern engineers can make
road anyw here and, without piling Ossa
upOa Pelion. those giants can scale the
heavens.
+ We start out Of the city amid barricades
Of cactus on either side Not cacti in
boxes two or three feet high. but cactus
higher than the top OF the earriage-a
plant that has more swords for defense,
.nnsidering the amount OF beauty it can
exhibit, than anything created. We passed
cut amid about four hundred gardens,
seven or eight acres 70 the garden, from
which at the right seasons are plucked
oranges, lemons, figs, olives, citron and
pomegranates. and which hold up their
cenSers OF perfume before the Lord in per-
pe,ual praise. We meet great professions
OF camels loaded with kegs of oil and with
fruits, and some wealthy MohammedRn
with four wives-three too many.
! The camel is proud. mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly majestic and ridiculous
shape, stalking cut Of the past. The driver
with his whip taps the camel on the fore
I leg and he kneels 70 take you as a rider
But when he rises hold fast OF YOU will
FALL OF backward as he puts his fore feet
in standing posture, and then you will fall
off in front as his hack legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are used to his
ways, although l find the riders often dis
mount and walk as though to rest them
selves. Better stand out OF the path of the
camel-he stops for nothing and seems not
20 look down; and in the street | saw
child by the stroke of a camel's front foot
hurled seven or eight feet along the
ground
THE TATTooED NATIVES
Here we meet people with faces and arms
and hands tattooed, as in all lands sailors
tattoo their arms with some favorite ship
or admired face 1t was TO this habit OF
tattooing among the orientals that God
refers in a figure when he says OF his
church, II have craven thee 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, THE kings heart is in the
hands of the Lord, and he turneth it as
the rivers of water are turned withersoever
he will"
As we pass out and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging To the Uni
versal Israelitish alliance. Montefiore, the
Israelitish centenarian and philanthro-
pist, and Rothschild, the banker, and others
of the large hearted have paid the passage
to Palestine for many of the Israelites, and
set apart lands for their culture; and it is
only beginning Of the fulillment of
divine prophecy, when these people shall
take possession of the Holy Land. The road
from Joppa 70 Jerusalem, and all the roads
leading TO Nazareth and Galilee, 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 Israelites
do not take it that the prospered Israel
ties OF other lands are to go there. They
would be foolish to leave their properties
in our American cities, where they are
among our best citizens, and cross two
seas TO begin life over again in "A strange
land.
/ DuS the OutraScS neapeu upon tnem IN
Russia, and the insults offered them in
Germany, will soon quadruple and CEN
tupIe the procession of Israelites from
Russia 70 Palestine. Facilities for getting
there viii be multiplied. not only in the rail-
road from Joppa 10 Jerusalem, TO which re-
ferred last Sabbath as being built, but per-
mission for n road from Damascus to the
Bay Of Acre has been obtained. and that Of
course will soon connect with JOppa and
make one great ocean shore railroad So
the railroad from Jerusalem to JOppa, and
from Joppa to Damascus, viii soon bring
all the Holy Land within few hours Of
I connection. Jewish colonization societies
IN England and Russia are gathering
money far the transportation of the Israel
ites to Palestine, and for the purchase for
them OF lands and farming implements,
and so many desire 10 90 that il is decided
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