Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-01
JOPPA TO JERUSALEM.
40 7ALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SER
uoN ON THE HOLY LAND.

,,ountains-Robbers on the Way-The
,.r.a,ites Returning to Their Ancient
Land.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 5.-Dr. Talmage is
.ontinuing in the Brooklyn Academy
g uusic his series of sermons on his
rocent Journey to the Holy Land and
adioining countries. The subject this
,,orning was, My Second Day in Pal
ostine. After the reading of the Script
,,res and two hearty songs of worship
bv tbe congregation the preacher an
nounced as his text: Galatians i, IS,
81 went up to jerusalem"
Nv second day in the Holy Land We
are in Joppa 1t is o'clock in the
morning, but we must start early, for
nv night we are to be in Jerusalem, and
that city is forty-one miles away. We
may take camel or horse or carriage.
As today will be our last opportunity
IN Palestine for taking the wheel, we
choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and
with a dragoman in coat of many colors
seated in front we START on a road
which unveils within twelve hours
enough to think of for all time and all
eternity. Farewell, Mediterranean, with
such blue as no one but the divine
Chemist could mix, and such a fire of
morning glow as only the divine Il
1uminatOr could kindIe! Hail! noun
tans of Ephraim and Juda, whose ram
parts of rock we shall mount in a few
hours; for modern engineers can make
a road anywhere, and without piling
Ossa upon Pelion those giants can
scale the heavens.
We start out of the city amid barri-
cades of cactus on either side. Not
cacti in boxes two or three feet high,
Int cactus higher than the top of the
arriage-a plant that has more swords
for defense, considering the amount of
beauty it can exhibit, than anything
treated. We passed out amid about
tour 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 perpet-
ual praise. We meet great PROFESSIONS
of camels loaded with kegs of oil and
with fruits, and some wealthy Moham-
medan with four wives three too
many. The camel is a proud, mystic
rious, solemn, ancient ungainly. ma
jestic and ridiculous 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 a rider
But when he rises hold fast or you
will fall off backward as he puts his
fore feet in standing posture and then
you will fall off in front as his back
legs take their place But the inhabit-
ants are used to his ways although |
find the riders often dismount and
walk, as though to rest themselves.
Better stand out of the path of the
camel-he stops for nothing and seems
not TO look down; and in the street |
awa child by the stroke of cameIs
'n@t foot hurled seven eight feet
along the ground.
Here we meet people with faces and
arms and hands tattooed, as in all lands
sailors tattoo their arms with some ia
vorte ship or admired face. 1t was to
this habit of tattOoing among the ORR
entails that God refers in a figure, when
be says of his church, Il have craven
thee on the palms of my 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,
80 the Bible says, The kings heart is
In the hands of the Lord, and he turn
eth 1t as the rivers of water are turned
WhltherSoever he will. :"
MODERN JEWS IN PALESTINE.
As We pass out and on we find about
elght hundred acres belonging to the
universal lsraelitish alliance. Monte
Hofe, the lsraelitish centenarian and
puuanthropist, and Rothschild, the
tanker, and others of the large hearted
nave paid the passage to Palestine for
many OF the lsraelites, and set apart
@iluS Tor their culture, and it is only
beginning of the fulfillment of divine
NH
p'ophecy when these people shall take
possession of the Holy Land. The road
NUN Joppa to Jerusalem, and all the
lO@uS leading to Nazareth and Galilee,
We saw lined with professions of Jews
sung TO the sacred places, either on
.,Oiy pilgrimage or as settlers. All the
myers OF Providence nowadays are
pointing toward that resumption of
"a aesnne by the Israelites. l do not
o @Ae 1t that the prospered Israelites of
OuIef lands are to go there.
lucy would be foolish to leave their
p'OSperueS in our American cities, where
sy are among our best citizens, and
s'O~ TWO seas to begin life over again
strange land. But the outrares
;'peu upon them in Russia, and the
a alsui'S offered them in Germany, will
o oOn quadruple and centuple the pro
esS'on OF Israelites from Russia to
1t %eS'lhe- Facilities for getting there
~ u oe multiplied. not only in the rail
lou O~a rom Joppa to Jerusalem, to which
bn ,eierred last Sabbath as being built,
' PERMISSION for road from Damas-
~; u.s. 70 the bay of Acre has been OBJ
met lieu' and that of course will soon
o oonlect with Joppa, and make one
gu ocean shore railroad. So the rail