Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-20
THE HOLY LAND.
Fourth Sermon by DR.. Talmage
Oh His Recent Journey.
Thousands Turned Away Each Sabbath
Unable to Gam Admitance to
Hear the Famous Divine.
The start from Jerusalem to Jericho on the
Morning of December 5-Interesting
Incidents Of the journey.
Special to the Gazette


BROOKLYN. n. Y, Oct. I9.-The
widespread and absorbing interest is
DR.. Talmage's course of sermons on the
Holy Land and adjoining countries in
demonstrated by the thousands who are
turned away from the doors of the
Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sunday
mornings and from the Christian Herald
services in the New York Academy of
Music on Sunday evenings, unable to
gam even standing room in those i'm
mense audItoriums. To-day the fourth
sermon of the series was preached as be-
fore, in this city in the morning, and in
New York at night. Having announced
as his text Luke l0:30, "a certain man
went down from Jerusalem TO Jericho -
DIR. Talmage said:
It is the morning of December 5, in
Jerusalem and We take stirrups for the
road aloug which the way farer of old fell
among thieves who left him wounded and
half dead. Jobs picture of the horse in
the Orient as having neck tclothed with
thunder is not true OF most horses now
in Palestine. There is no thunder on
their neck though there is someligl,uiug
i'll their heels. Poorly fed and IN
sspercifully whacked, they sometimes re-
tort. To Americans and English, who
are accustomed to guide horses by the
bride, these horses of the Orient,
guided only bv foot and voice, make
equestrianIsm an uncertainty, ana the
pull on the bride that you intend for
slowing NJ OF the pace may be mistaken
for hint that YOU want TO
oyT-GALLoP THE WIND,
or wheel in swift circles like the hawk.
But they can climb 8 eeps or descend
precipices with skilled foot, and the one
| chose for our journey in Palestine shall
have the praise of going for weeks with
out one stumbling step, amid rocky
sleeps, where an ordinary horse would
not for an hour maintain sure footed
ness. There were eighteen of our party,
and twenty-two beasts of burden carried
our camp equipment. We are led by an
Arab sheik, with his black Nubian
servant carving n loaded gun in full
sight, but il is the fact that this sheik
represents the Turkish government,
which assures the safety of the caravan.
We cross the Jehoshaphat valley which,
il il had not been memorable in history
and were only now discovered, would ex-
cite the admiration of all who look upon
il. Ii is like the gorges of the Yosemite
or the chasms Of the Yellowstone Park.
The sides of this Jehoshuphat valley are
tunnelled with graves and overlooked by
Jerusalem walls-an eternity of depths
overshadowed by an eternity of archi-
lecture. Within sight of Mount Olivet
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: "a certain man went
down from jerusalem 10 Jericho and fell
among thieves No road that l ever
saw was SO we'll constructed for brigand-
age-deep gulleys, sharp turns, caves on
either side. There are fifty places on
this rond where q highwaymau might
surprise and overpower an unarmed pill
grim. His cry for help, his shrek of
pain, hls death groan would be answered
only by the echoes. On this road to-day
we met groups of men who, judging
from their countenances, have in their
veins the
BLOOD OF MANY GENERATIONS
of Rob Roys. JOsephus says that Herod
at one time discharged from the service
Of the temple 40 600 men, and that the
Zrent part of them became robbers. So
late as 1920 Sir Frederick Henniker, an
English tourist, was attacked on this
very road from Jerusalem to Jericho and
shot and almost slain. There has never
been any scarcity of bandits along the |
'oad we travel to-day.
with the fresh memory of some recent |
violence in their minds, Christ tells the |
people Of the good Samaritan who came |
llon,y that way and took care of a poor |
elbow that had been set upon By villain |
Jus Arabs and robbed, aud pounded and |
'ut. We encamped for Lunch that noon
lose by an old stone building, said to be
he tavern where the scene spoken OF in
he Bible eliminated. Tumbled IN the
lust and CHASTITY with WOUNDS the victim
II this highway robbery lay in the middle
# the road-a fact of which am GER
ain, because the Bible says the people
'assed by on either side. There were
2 1000 priests living at Jericho and they
lad TO go Jerusalem TO officiate at the
emple. And one Of these ministers of
eligion, l suppose, was on his way to
he temple service and he Is startled as
10 sees this bleeding victim In the middle
I the road. 'Oh, he says, 'here is |
man that has been attacked of
hieves. ''Why don t you go home?'
avs the minister. The man in q comatose
tate makes no answer or, with halt
azed look, puts his wounded hand to
is gashed forehead and drawls out
= WHAT" "Well, says the minister,
Il ust hurry on TO my duties at Jeru-
llem. l have TO kill lamb and two
igeons In satrltice to-day. / cannot
pend any more time with this unfortun-
tie. ] guess
SOMEBODY ELSE
i'll take care of him. But this is one
the things that cannot be helped, any,
ow. Beside that, my business is with
,uls and not with bodies. Good morn
lg. When you get well enough to sit
D l will be glad TO see you at the Tenn
le. And the minister curves his way
ut toward the overhangiIg sides of the
Dad and passes. You hypocritel Que
the chief offices of religion is to heal
ounds. You might have done here
ndness that would have been more &C.
'ptabIe 10 God than all the incense that
Ill smoke up from your censor for the
ext three weeks and you missed the
lance. 60 on your way! Exeorated
7 the centuries.
soon afterward a Levite came upon the
enc. The Levltes looked after the
usic OF the temple aud waited upon the
tests aud provided the supplies of the
mpie. This Levite passing along this