The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-24
AMONG THE HOLY HILLS.
TIE NINTH SERMON ON REV.
TALMAGE'S VISIT.

| Tee Streaks OF Nature all Through
His Sermons and Conversations.
BROOKLYN, n. ", Nov. 23-'rhe interest
in the series Of sermons in which DIR. Tai
mage is describing his recent tour in Pales-
tine, and inculcating Gospel lessons sug-
gested by his theme, increases from week to
week There was never so large a crowd
Mt any one OF the previous eigh sermons as
there was to-day around the BROOKLYN
Academy of Music in the morning, and at
the ChristidH Herald service in ths even
ing, TO hear the ninth sermon. It's subject
was: "Among the Holy Hills" and tue
text, Luke 4:l6 "He came to Nazareth.
where he was brought up" Following is
the sermon:
What splendid sleep had last night in a
Catholic convent, my first sleep within
doors since leaving Jerusalem. and all Of us
as kindly treated a5 though we had beon the
pope and his college Of cardinals passing
that way. Last evening, the genial sister
hood OF the convent ordered a hundred
bright-eyed Arab children brought out to
sing for me, and 1t was Plorious This
morning come out on the steps OF the con-
vent and look up N the most beautiful vii
lage of oil Palestine, its houses of white
limestone Guess its namel Nazareth.
historical Nazareth, one of the trinity of
places that all christian travellers must see
or feel that they have not seen Palestine,
namely. Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth.
Babyhood, boyhood, manhood Of him for
whom believe there are fifty million people
who would now, if 1t were required, march
out and die, whether under ak, or down in
the floods, or straight through the fire.
drand old village Is Nazareth, even put
ting aside its sacred associations. First of
all, it Is clean; and that can be said OF few
of the oriental villages. Its neighboring
town of Nablous is the lilthiest town ever
saw, although its chief industry is the man.
ufacture Of soap. They export all of it.
Nazareth was perhaps unusually clean the
morning speak Of, for, as we rode into the
village the afternoon before, the showers.
which had put our mackintoshei TO the test.
had poured floods through all the alleys
under command of the clouds, thoss thor
ough street commissioners. Besides that,
Nazareth has been the scene Of bat
ties, passing it from the Israelite
to Mohammedan, and from Moham-
medan to christian. the most wonder
full Of the battles being that In which
twenty-five thousand Turks were beaten by
twenty-one hundred French, Napoleon
Bonaparte commanding. that greatest Of
Frenchmen walking these very streets
through which Jesus walked for nearly
antipodes, tho SHOWS of Russia aud the
plaques Of Egypt appropriately following
+, the one, the doxologies of earth and the
| hallelujahs of heaven appropriately follow
| ing the other. Aud then this town is SO
| beautifully situated in "a great green bowl,
the sides Of the bowl, tho surrounding
fifteen hills The God Of nature VINO is the
God of the BIolo evidently scooped out this
valley for privacy and separation from all
the world during three most important
decades, the thirty years of Christ's boy
hood aud youth. for of the thirty
three years of Christ's stay on earth,
he spent thirty OF them in this
town in getting ready-a startling rebuke
to those who have no patience with the
long years Of preparation necessary when
they ter on any mission for the church or
the world. The trouble is, with most young
mon, that they want to launch theiE ship
from the dry-dock before it Is ready, aud
hence, 80 many sink Ia the first cyclone.
Stay Ia the store as a subordinate until you
arc thoroughly equipped. Be q good
employe In your trade until you are quail
fled to be an Employer. Be ccntsnt with
Nazareth until you are ready for ths
buhetings Of Jerusalem. You may get SO
gloriously equipped in tho thirty years that
you can do more In three years than most
men can plish In prolonged lifetime.
These little suggestions | am apt to put
into my sermon, hoping to help people for
this world, while [ am chiefly anxious to
have them prepare for the next world.
All Christ's boyhood was spent in this
village and its surroundings. There Is the
very well called The Fountain Of the Vir-
gin," to which, by his mothers side, he
trotted along holding her hand. No doubt
about it; 1t Is the only well in the village,
and 1t has been the only well for three
Thousand years. This morning we visit il.
and she.r.o haxx ehSatv
them now as then. The work Of drawing
water in all ages in those countries has been
women's work. Scores of them are wait
ing for their turn at it, three great and
everlasting springs rolling OFT into that
well their barrels, their ho2sheais Of water
in floods gloriously abundant. The we'll 10
surrounded by olive groves and wide spaces
in which people talk and chill
dren, wearing charms on their head as pro-
lection against the ''evil eye," are playing,
and women with their strings of coin on
either side OF their face, and in skirts OF
blue, and scarlet, and white aud green,
move on with water jars on their heads.
Mary, suppose, almost always took Jesus
the boy with her, for she had no one she
could leave him with, being In humble cir
cumstances aud having no attendants.
do not believe there was one Of the sur
rounding fifteen hills that the boy Christ
did not range from bottom to top, or one
cavern in their sides he did not explore.
nor one species Of bird flying across the
tops that he could not call by name, or one
of all the species Of fauna browsing on
those sleeps that ne had not recognized
You see it all through his sermons If a
man becomes public speaker, in his ora
tions or discourses you discover his early
whereabouts. What boy sees between
and IL always sticks to him. When the
Apostle Peter breaches YOU sac the fishing
nets with which ne had from his earliest
days been familiar And when Amos de-
hvers his prophecy You hear in it the bleat-
ing of the herds, which he had In boyhood
attended,. And in our Lords sermons and
conversations you see all the phases of viii
lage life, and the mountainous life sur
rounding it. They raised their own chick
ems in Nazareth, and in after time he criess
30, Jerusaleml Jerusalem how often
would | have gathered thee as a hea
gstheIeth her chickens under her
wlngsF' He had seen bis mother
open the family wardrobe at the close Of
summer and the moth millers flying out,
having destroyed the garmsnts, and, in
after years. he says: Lay not up for your
selves treasures on earth, where moth doth
corrupt In childhood he had seen mills
of flowers, white as the snow, or red as the
flame, or blue as the sea, or green as the
tree-tops, and no wonder, in his manhood
sermon. he said: "Consider the iilies.p
While one day on high point, where now
stands the tomb OF Neby Ismail he had
Inn