The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-08
FROM JopPA' TO JERUSALEM.
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage Describes
a Trip in Palestihe.
Across the Plain of shttsn-so some Of tho
Strange Proosssions AIppg the Read
and Places cf esfiptnrsi In
terest sesn--Rifst yisw Of
the Holy CITY.

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Tho subject Of DR.. Talmage's second
sermon on the Holy Land was: "My
Second Day in Palestine, " and his text
Galatians l., 1s, ~ went up TO Jerusa-
lem" Following is the sermon:
Ny second day in the Holy Land. We
arc in Joppa. 1t is six o'clock in the
morning, but we must start early, for
by night we are to be in Jerusalem, and
that city Is forty-one miles away. We
nay take camel or horse, or carriage.
Az to-day will be our last opportunity
In Palestine for taking the wheel, We
choose that. The horses with harness
tasseled and iingling, are hitched, and,
With dragoman in coat Of many colors
seated In front, we start on road which
unveils within twelve hours enough to
think OF for all time and all eternity.
Farewell Mediterranean, with such D.
blue as no one but the divine chemist
could mix, and such fire OF morning
glow as only the divine illuminator'
could kindlel Hail! Mountains Of Ephs
RAIN and Judah whose ramparts Of rock
we shall mount in few hours, for,
modern engineers can make road any,
where, and without piling ossa up To-
Pelion, those giants can scale thei
heavens. ,-,----. 4
We start out Of this city amid barri-
oades Of cactus on either side. Not cacti
in boxes two or three feet high, but
cactus higher than the top Of the oar
riage-a plant that has more swords for
defense, considering the amount OF
beauty 1t can exhibit than my 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, lemons,
hgs olives, citron, and pomegranates,
and which hold up their censers OF per
fume before the Lord in perpetual
praise. We meet great processions Of
camels loaded with kegs Of oil and with
fruits, and some wealthy Mohammedan
with four wives-three too many. The
camel is proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic, and ridiou-
lous shape, stalking out of the past
The driver with his whip taps the camel
on the fore leg, and he kneels to take
you as rider. But when he rises hold
fast or you will fall of backward rs he
ppts his fore feet In standing posture,
and then you will fall Of in front as his
back legs take their place. But the In
habitants are used TO this way, although
hnd the riders often dismount and
walk as though to rest themselves. Bet
ter stand out OF the path OF the cameli
hs stops for nothing and seems not to
look down, and In the street saw
child BY the stroke OF cameps front
foot hurled seven or eight feet along
ground.
Here We meet people with faces and
arms and hands tattooed, as in all lands
sailors tattoo their arms with some Ia
voFite ship or admired face. ltwas to
this habit OF tattooing Among the OH
entails that God refers In figure, when
he says OF His church: u have craven
thee on the palms OF Ny 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
90 the Bible says; Tho kings heart IL
in the hands OF the Lord, and lie turn.
eth 1t as the rivers OF water are turned
whithersoever He Will
AZ we pass out and on wo hnd about
eight hundred acres belonging to the
Universal lsraelitish Alliance. Montef.
orc, the lsraelitish centenarian and
philanthropist and Rothschild' the
banker, and others OF tho large-hearted
have paid the passage to Palestine FOL
many Of the lsrselites, and set apar'
lands for their culture; and 1t is only
beginning OF fulhllment OF divine
prophecy, when these people shall take
possession OF the Holy Land. The road
rpm Jopps to Jerusalem, and all the
roads leading 70 Nazareth and Galilet
No saw lined with professions OF Jews
going TO the sacred places, either OF
holy pilgrimage, or rs settlers. All the
fingers Of Providence nowadays are
pointing toward that resumption of Pal
sstine BY the Israelites. lido not take
II that the prospered lsraelites OF othel
lands are TO go there. They would b
foolish TO leave their properties In oul
American cities whore they are amonl
our best citizens, and cross two seas =
begin life oyer again in strange land
But the oatfages heAped upon thern Il
Russia, aid the Insults offered them d
0symAnx .Nip soon quadruple and con
tupis the procession Of Israelites from
Rnssia 10 Palestine. Facilities for get
f1gt there will b multiplied not onl!