Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-11-22
THROUGH PALESTINE.
Of. TALMAeE's THRILLING ACCOUNT
OF eIeLE SCENES.

EbaI and Gerlrim and the Mighty Opera
of blessing and Curses Once Recited
Therc-Thc Valley of Wars-The Great
Battle to BE Fought There.
BIooKLyS, Nov. l6.-Th:s morning
in the Academy Of Music in this city,
and this evening at The Christian Her
Md service in the New York Academy
of Music, DR.. Talmage preached the
eighth of the series of sermons he is
giving on lis tour in Palestine. At
both services tho respective buildings
were crowded to the utmost capacity in
| five minutes after the doors were open
cd, and all who came later were I'M
able to get in. DIR. Talnasc's subject
was "Anong the Bcdouins, " and his
text Mum. X, 81: "Forasmuch as thou
knowcst how we are to encamp in the
Wilderness. "
Night after night VIC have slept in
tent in Palestine. There are large vii
lagos of Bcdonins without a house, and
for three thousand years the people Of
those places have lived in black tents,
| made out of dyed skins, and when tile
| winds and storms wore ont anu tore
loose those coverings others CT the
same kind took their places. Noah
lived in a tent; Abraham in n tent.
jacob pitched his tent OH the mount
ain. Isaac pitched his tent in the val
Icy. Lot pitched his tent toward
Sodom. In tent the woman Jael
nailed fisera the general, to the
ground, first having given him sour
milk, called "lcben, as q soporific to
make him sleep soundly, That being the
effect of such nutrition us modern
travellers can testify The Syrian army
in tent The ancient battle shout
was, ITO your tents, o Israeli Paul
Was tcntlnakcr. Indce.l, Isaiah.
lnagnilicently poetic, indicates that all
the human race live under q blue tent
when he says that God .strctchcth out
the heavens us II curtain, and spread
eth them out as tent 10 dwell in"
and Nczc!,iall compares death to the
striking of tent, saying, My age is
removed from NE as :. shepherds tent. ;"
In cur tent in Palestine tonight |
hear something never Heard before
and hope never to hear again. 1t is
! the voice of hyena amid the rocks
near by. When you may have seen
this monster putting his mouth be-
tween tine iron bars of n menagerie he
F., is a captive and he gives a Inundated
and suppressed cry. But yonder in
the midnight on Il throne of rocks he
has nothing to fear, and he utterS him
self in Il loud, resounding, terrific, al
most supernatural sound. splitting up
the darkness into Il deeper midnight.
1t begins with a howl and ends with q
sound something like q horses whn-
ing. In the hycna's voice are defiance
and strength and blood tiMrstiness and
crunch of broken bones and death.
TIE TELEGRAPH IN PALESTINE.
am gladsto say that for-thes -lnostr
part Palestine is clear of beasts of prey.
The leopards, which jeremiah says
cannot change their spots, have all dis
appeared, and the lions that once were
common all through this land, and
used by all the prophets for illustra-
tons of cruelty and wrath, have re-
treated before the discharges Of gun
powder, of which they have an in
describablc fear. But for the most
part Palestine is what it originally was.
With the one exception of a wire thread
reaching from Joppa to Jerusalem and
from Jerusalem to Nazareth and from
Nazareth to Tiberias and from Tiberias
to Damascus, that one nerve OF civili-
zation, the telegraphic wire (for we
found ourselves only few minutes off
from Brooklyn and New York while
standing by Lake 6aIilce), with that
one exception Palestine is just as it al
ways was.
Nothing surprised ne SO much as the
persistence of everything. A sheep or
horse falls dead and though the sky
may one minute before be clear of all
wings in five minutes after the skies
are black with eagles cawng, screaming,
plungins, lighting for room, contend
ing for largest morsels of the extinct
quadruped. All, now understand
the force of Christ's illustration when
he said, "Wheresoever the carcass is
there will the eagles be gathered
together" The longevity of those
eagles is wonderful. They live fifty or
sixty and sometimes a hundred years.
All, that explains what David meant
when he said, 'rhy youth is renewed
like the eagles
/ saw Il shepherd with the folds of
his coat far bent outward, and I Won
dered What was contained in that am
plitude CT apparel, and l said to the
dragonlan, What has that shepherd
rot under lis coat?" And the drago-
man said. lit is a very young lamb he is
carrying; it is too young and too weak
and too cold to keep up with tile flock. !"
At that moment saw the lamb put its
head out from under the shepherds
bosom, and I said, There it is now,
Isaiah's description of the tenderness Of
God-'He shall gather the lambs with
his arm and carry them in his bosom. :"
Passing by Il village home in the
Holy Land about noon ! saw great
crowd in and around Il private house,
and l sud to the dragoman: David,
what i; going on therc% He said
Somebody has recently died there,
and their neighbors so in for several
FL j until