The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-10-11
P TO JERUSALEM.
DR.. Talmage Continues His Dis
courses on the Holy Land.
The Journey From Joppa to Jerusalem
Many Points In Sacred History Fully De-
t~ailed-scenss OF samson's Exploits
Entry Into Jerusalem.

In continuation Of his sermons at
Brooklyn on the Holy Land Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage took his tex from Gala
tians L Is: II went up to Jerusalem"
He said:
Ny second day in the Holy Land. We
are In Joppa- 1t is six o'clock in the
morning, but we must start early, for
by night we are to be Jerusalem, and
that city is forty-one miles away. We
may take camel or horse or carriage.
As to-day will be our last opportunity
In Palestine for taking the wheel we
choose that The horses with harness
tassled and juggling, are hitched and
with q dragoman In o "a with many col
ors seated In front, we start on a road
which unveils in twelve hours enough
TO think OF for all time and all eternity.
We start out Of the city amid barri-
cades Of cactus on either side. Not
cacti in boxes two or three feet high,
but cactus higher than the top of the
carriage-G plant that has more swords
for defense, considering the amount of
beauty IL can exhibit, than any thing
created. We passed out amid about
four hundred gardens. seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges, lem
ons, figs, olives. citron and pomegran-
ates, and which hold up their censers OF
perfume before the Lord in perpetual
praise. We meet great professions Of
camels loaded with kegs of oil and with
fruits, and some wealthy Mobammedan
with four wives-three too many.
Here we meet people with faces and
arms and hands tattooed. as in all lands
sailors tattoo thir arms with some favor
ito ship or admired face. It was to this
habit Of ~tattooing among the Orisntals
that God refers in . figure when He says
Of His church: Il have craven thee on
the palms Of my hands"
As we pass out and on we find about
800 acres belonging to the Universal
Israelitish Alliance. Montehore, the
Israelitish c~entenerian and philanthro-
pist, and Rothsehild, 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 a beginning of
the fulfllment Of Divine prophecy when
these people take possession OF the Holy
Land. The road from Joppa to Jerusa-
lem and all the roads leading to Nazar-
eth and Gallilee we saw lined with pro-
cessions Of Jews, going to the sacred
places either on holy pilgrimage DR. as
settlers All the fingers OF Providence
nowadays are pointing toward that re-
sumption of Palestine by the Israelites-
] do not take 1t that the prospered Is
raelites 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 But the outrages heaped upon
them in Russia, and the insults offered
them In Germany, will Don quadruple
and centuple the procession Of Igrael-
ties from Russia to Palestine.
Those who are prospered In other
lands will do we'll to stay where they
are. But let the Israelites who are de-
preciated and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces toward the rising sun
Of their deliverance. God will gather
in that distant land those of that race
who have been ~maltreated, and He will
blast with the lightnings OF His omnip-
otenee those lands on either side OF the
Atlantic which have been the instru-
ments Of annoyance and harm TO that
jewish race. to which belonged Abra-
ham and David and Joshua and Baron
Hirsch and Montefiore and Paul the
Apostle, and Mary the Virgin, and
Jesus Christ the Lord.
On the way across the plain Of Sharon
we meet many vailed women. 1t is not
respectable for them to go unvailed,
and it is q vail that is so hung as to make
them hideous. A man may not even
see the face of his wife until after be-
trothal or engagement of marriage.
Hence the awful mistakes and the un-
happy homes, for God has made the face
an index Of character. and honesty OF
dishonesty is usually demonstrated IN
the features. l do not Q what Goo
made q fair face for II it were not to be
looked at But here come the crowds oil
6isngured women down the road on