Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-16
AT THE TABERNACLE
..aeE's SECOND (
PALESTINE.

Words Cannot Set Forth the Emotions
Excited.
BROOKLYN, Oct 5.-Dr. Talmage is con
t'aning in the Brooklyn Academy of Music
his series OF sermons ON his recent journey
to the Holy Land and adjoining countries.
The subject this morning was, my second
Day in Palestine" After the reading OF
the Scriptures and two hearty songs OF
worship by the congregation the preacher
announced as his text: Galatians l. IS. Il
went up 70 Jerusalem
Ny second day in the Holy Land. We
are in Joppa 1t is O'Clock in the morn
ing, 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 today will be
our last opportunity in Palestine ortaking
thewheel 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 road
which unveils in twelve hours enough to
think of for all time and all eternity Fare
well, Mediterranean, with such blue as
1 -
aud such fire of morning glow as only
/ the divine Illuminator could kindle. HALL
mountains of Ephraim and Juda, whose
ramparts 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 barricades
of cactus on either side Not cacti in
boxes two or three feet high, but cactus
/ higher than the top Of the carriage-a
| plant that has more swords for defense,
considering the amount Of beauty il can
exhibit, than anything 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, figs, olives citron and
pOmegranates, and which hold up their
censers Of perfume before the Lord 10 per
petual praise. We meet great professions
Of camels loaded with kegs Of oil and with
fruits, aud some wealthy Mohammedan
with four wives-three too many.
The camel is a proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape, stalking ont 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
of in front as his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are used to his
ways, although find the riders often dis
mount and walk as 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 in the street saw
child by the stroke of came's front foot
hurled seven or eight feet along the
ground.
TIE TATTooED NATIVES.
Here we meet people with faces and arms
and hands tattooed, as in all lands sailors
tattoo their arms with some fayorite ship
or admired face. 1t was to this habit of
tattooing among the orientals that God
refers in a figure when he says of his
church, Il have craven thee on the palms
of my hands.
M.ny 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 turne,h it rs
the rivers Of water are turned withersoever
he will"
As we pass out and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging to the Uni
versal Israelitish alliance Montelore, the
lsraelitish centenarian and phlanthro-
pist, and Rothschid, the banker, and Others
Of the large hearted have paid the passage
To Palestine for many Of the Israelites, and
set apart lands for their culture; and il is
only a beginning 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 we saw |
lined with professions of Jews going TO |
the sacred places, either on holy pilgrim |
age or as settlers. All the fingers of Prov. |
idence nowadays are pointing toward that |
resumption of Palestine by the Israelites. /
| do not take it that the prospered Israel |
ties of other lands are to go there. They /
would be foolish to leave their properties |
in our American cities. where they are /
among our best citizens, and cross two /
seas to begin life over again in strange |
land
But the outrages heaped upon them in
Germany, will soon quadruple and cen
tuple the procession of Israelites from
Russia 70 Palestine Facilities for getting
there viii be multiplied, not only in the rail
road from Joppa to Jerusalem, towhich re-
ferred last Sabbath as being built, but per
mission 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 Damascus, will soon bring
Ill the Holy Land within few hours OF
Jewish colonization societies
IN England and Russia are gathering
money for the transportation of the Israel
ties to Palestine, and for the purchase for
mem of lands aud farming implements.
and 80 many desire to 90 that it is decided
BY lot as TO which families shall 20 first.
They were Gods chosen people at the
irst, and he has promised to bring them
back to their home, and there is no power in
lne Thousand or five thousand years to
make God forget his promises Those who
ire prospered in other lands will do well to
'tay where they are. But let the lsraelites
who are deprecated and attacked and per
secuted turn their faces toward the rising
,un of their deliverance God will Gather