Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-20
GOOD SAMARITAN.
REV. DR.. TALNAGE DECOURSES ON THE
THIRD THEME.
BE Gives a Great Word Picture Of the Valley oi
JshOsaphai-The Man Who Relieved
Suferer-JsrichO and lis Surround
ings-SOms MoralizahOns.
Special telegram to the Register.

ings-SOms MOTalizatlOns
Special telegram 10 the Register.
BROoKINN, n. Y, October 19.-The
widespread and absorbing interest in
/ Dr. Talmage'S course of sermons on the
/ Holy Land and adjoining countries is
demonstrated by the thousands turned
away from the doors Of the Brooklyn
Academy of Music on Sunday mornings
and from The Christian Herald services
I in the New York Academy of Music on
Sunday evenings, unable 10 gain even
standing room in those immense audi
forums. To-day the fourth sermon of
the series was preached as before, in
this city in the morning and in New
York at night. Having announced as
I mis- text Luke 10:3C, "A certain man
went down from Jerusalem to Jericho"
Or. Talmage said:
/ 1t is the morning of December >, in
Jerusalem aud we take stirrupS for the
road along which the wayfarer of old
/ fell among thieves who left him wound
ed and half dead. JOBS picture of the
horse in the Orient rs having neck
clothed with thunder" is not true of
most horses now in Palestine. There
is no thunder on their neck, though
there IS some lightning in their heels.
| Poorly fed and numerically whacked,
/ they sometimes retort. To Americans
and English, who are accustomed to
guide horses by the bride, these horses
of the Orient, guided only by foot and
voice. make eQueStrlaniSm an uncer-
| tainty, and the pull on the bride that
you intend for slowing up of
| the pace may be mistaken for hint
that YOU want to out-gallop the wind or
wheel in swift cirleS like the hawk. But
| they can climb sleeps and descend
precipiceS with skilled foot, and the one
| chose for our journey in Palestine
shall have the praise of going for weeks
without one stumbling step, and rocky
sleeps where an ordinary horse would
not for an hour maintain Sure-foOted
ness. There were eighteen OF our party,
and twenty-five beasts of burden car
ried our camp equipment. We are led
\ by an Arab Sheik with his black Nuhian
servant carrying q loaded gun in full
sight, but il is the fact that this Sheik
represents the Turkish government
which assures the safety OF the caravan.
THE JEHOSHAPHAT VALLEY.
We cross the JehOShaphat valley
which, if it had not been memorable in
history and were only now discovered,
would excite the admiration OF all who
look upon il. IL is like the gOrges of
the Yosemite or the chaSmS of the Vel
lowstone Park. The sides Of this Je-
hoShaphat valley are tunnelled with
graves and overlooked by Jerusalem
wallS-an eternity of depths Over-Shad-
owed by an eternity of architecture.
Within sight of Mount Oliyet and
Gethsemane and with the heavens and
the earth full of sunshine, we start out
on the very road mentioned in the text
when il says: ~ certain man went
down from Jerusalem TO Jericho and
fell among thieves" No road that
ever saw was so well constructed for
brigandage - deep gullieS, sharp
turns. caves on either side. There are
fiftv places on this road where u high
wayman might surprise and overpower
lam unarmed pilgrim. His cry for help,
Ibis shrek of pain, his death-groan
would be answered only by the echoes.
On this road to-day we met groups Of
men VINO, Judging from their counten-
ances. have i'm their veins the blood Of
many generations OF Rob ROyS. Jose
phuS says that Herod at one time dis
charged from the service OF the temple
40. 900 men, and that the great part .of
them became robbers. So late as 1920,
Sir Frederick Hennikcr. an English
tourist, was attacked on this very road
from Jerusalem to Jericho and shot and
almost slain. There has never beenany
scarcity of bandits along the roads We
travel to-day.
With the fresh memory OF some re-
cent violence in their minds, Christ
tells the people oi the good Samaritan
who came along that way and took care
of poor fellow tkat had been set upon
by villainous Arabs and robbed, and
pounded and cut. We encamped for
lunch that noon close by an old stone
building. said 10 be the taveran where
the scene spoken of in the Bible culmi-
mated. Tumbled in the dust and ghast-
ly with wounds, the victim Of this high
way robbery lay in the middle of the
road fact of which am certain, be-
cause the Bible says the people pass
ed by on either side. There
were twelve thousand priests living OF
Jericho and they had to go to Jerusalem
to ofliciate at the temple. And one OF
these ministers Of religion, | suppose,
was on his way TO the temple service
and he is startled rs he sees this bleed
inc victim in the middle of the road.
"Oh." he says, 'here is a man that has
been attacked of thieves" "WEy don't
YOU 20 home?" says the minister. The
man in a comatoSe state makes no an
swcr. or, with a hall-dazed look, puts
his wounded hand to his gashed fore
head and drawls out, "What?"
PASSED BY.
"Well." says the minister, II must
hurry on TO my duties at Jerusalem. l
have TO kill a lamb and two pigeons IN
sacrifice to-day. | cannot spend any
more time with this unfortunate. |
guess somebody else will take care OF
him. But this is one of the things that
cannot be helped, anyhow. Beside that
nv business is with souls and not with
bodies. Good morning. When you get
well enough to sit up. will be glad to
see Won at the Temple" And the min
lister curves his way out toward the
overhanging sides of the road ana pass
es. You hypOcrite One OF the chlef
offices of religion is to heal wounds.
You might have done here a kindness
that would have been more acceptable
to God than all the incense that Will
smoke up from your censor for the next
three weeks and you missed the chance.
Go on your way! Execrated by the cen
turieS.
Soon afterward, a Levite came upon
the scene. The Levites looked after
the music of the temple and waited
upon the priests and provided the sup
plies of the temple. The Levite passed
along this road where we are to-day,
took a look at the mass of bruises and
D r--.-..f-.. l., tho rnild1a of tho road.