The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-10-30
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun,
day Sermon.
Subject. ",Iy Second Day in Palestine"
, TEXT: ~ usnt up to Jerusalem."-Gala
tians, j., Is.

My second CAV In the Holy Land. we ara
in Joppa. 1T 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 may take camel or horse
or carriage. AS to-day will be our last OPP
pcrtunity in Palestine for taking the wheel
we choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and. with
dragoman in coat OF many colorS seated III
front, we start on road which unveils in
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 fire Of morning
glow as only the Divine lluminator could
kindle. Hail, mountains OF Ephraim and
Judea, whose rampartS OF rock we shall
mount in u few hours; for modern engineers
can make q road anywhere, and, without
piliug OSSa upon Pelion, those giants can
scale the heavens.
We start out of tho city amid barricades
of cactus on either side. Not cacti in boxes
two or three feet high, but cactus higher
than the top cf the carriage-a plant that
has more swords for defense, considering
the amount Of beauty 1t can exhibit, than
anything created. Wo passed out amid
about four hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to tho garden, from which at the
right seasons are pluckcd oranges, lemons,
figs, olives, ctron and pomegranates, and
which hold up their censers OF perfume be-
fore the Lord in perpetual praise. Wemeet
great professions of camels loaded with kegs
of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mohammedan with four wiveS--three too
many.
The camel is a proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic 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 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 foil
Off in front rs his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are use to his
ways although find the riders often dis
mount and walk es though to rest them
selves Better stand out Of the path Of the
camel-he stops for nothing and seems not
to look down; and i'll the street saw a
child by the stroke Of camels front foot
hurled seven or 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 soma favorite ship
or admired face. 1t was to this habit Of
tattooing among the orieDtalS that Cod
refers in figure when he says Of his church,
II 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, SO the Bible
says ''The kings heart is in the hands Of the
Lord, and he turneth it as therivers Of water
are turned whithersoever he will"
AS we pass out and on we find about eight
hundred acres belonging to the Universal
Israelitish alliance. Montefore, the Israeht-
ish centenarian and philanthropist, and
Rothschild, the banker, and others Of the
large hearted have paid the passage to Pales-
tine for many Of the 1sraclites and set apart
lands for their culture; and 1t is only be-
ginning Of the fulfillment OF divine prophecy,
when these people shall take possession OF
the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to
Jerusalem, and all the roads leading to
Nazareth and Galilee, wesaw lined with pro-
cessions of Jews going to the sacred places,
either or holy pilgrimage or as settlers All
the fingers OF Providence nowadays ore
pointing toward that resumption Of PaleS.
tine by tho IsraeliteS ! do not take 1t that
the prospered Israeltes of other lands are to
go there. They would be foolish to leave
their prosperities In our American cities,
where they are among our best citizens, and
cross two seas to begin life over again IN
strange land.
Russia, and the insults offered them in Ger
many, will soon quadruple and centuple the
procession of Israelites from Russia to Pal
estine. Facilities for getting there will be
multiplied, not only in the railroad from
Joppa to Jerusalem, to which I referred last
Sabbath as being built, but permission for
road from Damascus to the Bay Of Acre has
been obtained, and that of course will soon
connect with Joppa and make one great
ocean shore railroad. So the railroad from
Jerusalem to Joppa, and from Joppa to Da-
mascus, will soon bring all the Holy Land
within few hours Of connection. Jewish
colonization societies in England and Russia
are gathering money for the transportation
of the Israelites to Palestine, and for the
purchasefor them Of lands and farming I'M
plements, and so many desire to 60 that 1t
Is decided by lot as to which families shallgo
first
They were Gods chosen people at the first,
and He has promised to bring them back to
their home, and there is no power in one
thousand or fivo thousand years to make
God forget His promises. Those who are
prosp,red in other lands will do we'll to stay
where they are. But let the Israelites who
are deprecated and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces towards 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 omnipotence those landson
either side of the Atlantic which have been
the instruments Of annoyance and harm to
that Jewish race, to which belonged Abra-
ham and David and Joshua and Baron
Hirsch and Moptefore and Paul the Apostle
and Mary the Virgin and Jesus Christ the
Lord.
On the way across the plain Of Sharon we
meet many veiled women. 1t is not respect
able for them to 90 unveiled, and it is veil
that is so hung as to make them hideous. A
man may not even see the face of his wife
until after betrotEal or engagement Of mar
riage. Hence the awful mistakes and the
unhappy homes, for God has made the face
IN index Of character, aud honesty OF dishon-
esty usually is demonstrated in the features.
/ DO not see what God made fair face for if
it were not to be looked at But here come
the crowds Of disfigured women down the
rodd on their way to Joppa, bundles Of sticks
for fire wood on their heads. They started
at three o'clock in the morning to get the
fuel. They stagger under the burdens.
Whipped and beaten will some Of them be il
their bundle of sticks is too small. All that
is required for enforcement is for man to
say to his wife, "Be off, I don't want you any
more" Woman slave in all lands, except
those il which the Gospel of Christ makes
her queen. And yet in Christian countries
there arc women posing as skeptics and men
with family deriding the only religion that
makes sacred and honorable the names Of
wife, mother, daughter and sister.
What is that? Town Of Ramleh, birth
place, residence aId tomb Of Samuel the
glorious prophet. Near by, Tower nrty
Martyrs, so called because that nu,nDer Of
disciples perished there for Christ's sake;
but IL towers had been built for all those
who In the time Of war rs in time of peace
have fallen on this road during the cges
past you might almost walk on turrets from
Joppa to Jerusalem.
Now we passed the guard houses which
ere castles of chopped straw and mud where
at night and partly through the day armed
men dwell aud keep the bandits off travellers.
In the caves of these mountains dwell men