Sharp County record., 1890-10-16
THE HOLY LAND.
Rev. 7. Dewitt TaImage Disoourses
Upon HIS Recent Trip.
The BeginnSag ofa series Of sermons sug-
geatsd b7 Journsyirgs and scenes
In the land where Jesua
Lived and Died

The following u the hrss Of a series
Of sermons by Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage,
suggested by his recent trip TO PaLes-
tine and the evsu-s thereof The text
was.
The half was not told me- Kings, L, Z
This ia the first sermon in a course Of
Sabbath morning sermons on Ny Re-
cent Journey Thi ough the Holy Land
and Neighboring Countries-Wha5I / saw
and What Learned Out Of the siT-
ty-four million Of our present American
population and the millions OF our past,
only about five thousand have ever vis-
tied the Holy Land. Of all those who
cross TO Europe, less than five per cent
ever get "a far az Rome, and less than
two per cent ever get to Athens aud
less than a quarter Of one per cent ever
get to Palestine. OF the less than
quarter Of one per cent. who do 90 to
the Holy Land, some see nothing but
noxious insects and the filth Of the Ori-
entail cities, and come back wishing
they had never gone. OF those who see
much Of interest and come home, only
a small portion can tell what they have
seen, the tongue unable to report the
eye.
The rarity Of a successful, intelligent
and har py journey through the Holy
Land is very marked. But the time ap-
proaches when journey to Palestine
will be common. Thousands will 60
where now there are scores. Two loco
motives were recently sent up from
Jappa to Jerusalem, and railroads are
abous to begin in Palestine, and the
day will come when the cry will be:
"AII out for jerusalem Twenty min
utes for breakfast at Tiberias"
Change cars for TyreI" Grand Trunk
Junction for NineVahr' "All out for
Damascus. Meanwhile the werIOcks
of the Atlantic ocean and Adriatic and
Med iterranean seas are being shorn,
and not only is the voyage shortened,
but after awhile, without crossing the
ocean you or your children will visit
the Holy Land. A company OF
capitalists have gone up to Beh-
ring Straits, where the Amert-
can and A8iatic continents come
within tbirty-six miles Of meeting.
These capits lists or others will build
bridge across those straits, for midway
are thrae islands called The Diome-
des," and the water is not deep and is
never disturbed with icebergs. Trains
of cars will run from America across
that bridge and on down through
Siberia, bringing under more immedi-
ate observation the Rus sian outrages
against exiles and consequently abol-
ishing them, and there are persons
here to-day who, without the qualm OF
sea-sickness, will visit that wonderful
land where the Christ-like, Abrahamic,
Mosaic, Davidic, Solcmonic and Herodic
histories overlap each other with such
power that by the time | took my feet
out of the stirrups at the close of the
Journey I felt so wrung out with emo
tion that it seemed nothing else could
ever bsorb my feelings again.
In order to make the more accurate
and vivid a book have been writing,
a life Of Christ, entitled From Manger
to Throne" I left home last October,
and on the last night of November we
were walking the decks of the Senegal,
a Mediterran can steamer. 1t was
ship Of immense proportions. There
were but few passengers, for it Is gen.
erally rough Ut that time OF the year,
and pleasurists are not apt to be voyag-
ing there and then. The stars we're all
out that night Those a;mies of light
seemed to have had their shields newly
Furnished. We walked the polished
deck. Not much was said for in
all our hearts was the dominant
word Tomorrow" Somehow the
Acropolis, which few days before had
thrilled us at Athens, now in our minds
lessened in the height OF its columns
and the glory of its temples. And the
Egyptian pyramids in our memory less
ened their wonders OF obsolete
masonry, and the Coliseum Of Rome
was not so vast a ruin as 1t few weeks
before had seemed to b.. And all that
we had seen and heard dwlndled in i'm.
portance, for tomorrow, tomorrow we
shall see tho Holy Land. Captain,
what time will we como in sight Of Pal.
estlne?" "Well," he said, III the wind
and sea remain as they are, about day.
break" Never was | so impatient for
a night to pass. could not see much
use for the night anyhow. | pulled
aside the curtain from tho port.hoIe Of
my state room, so that the first hint OF
dawn would waken me. But 1t was a
useless precaution. Sleep was among
tho impossibilities Who could be so
stupid as to slumber when any moment
there might start out within sight Of
tho ship the land whore the most stu.
pendous scenes OF all time and all
eternity were onactod2 Land Of ruin
and redemption, land where was fought
the battle that made our Heaven posi-.
BILE. land ei Godfrey and Saladin, Of
Joshua and Jesus.
VIII the Aight ever be gone? Yes, IL
Is growing lighter, and along the hori-
zon thore is something like bank Of
clouds, and as q watchman PAGES the
deck, say to him What is that out