Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-10
REy. DR.. TALMAGE
DELIVERS HIS SEVENTH SERMON ON TIE
HOLY LAND.
he Tells What he Has Seen Thsre-How He Went
Over ChristS Journey From Jerusalem to
Nszsrsth-A Great Tragedy With
Modern Parallel.

Special Telegram 10 ne Register
BROOKLYN, November 9.-To-day Dr.
Talmage preached the seventh of his
course of sermons on his recent tour in
Palestine, As on previous Sundays the
sermon was preached before two large
audiences. In the morning it was
preached in the Academy of Music in
this city, and at night DR.. Talmage
preached it again in the New York
Academy of Music which The Christian
Herald continues TO rent for these SER
vices. During the six meetings thus
far held in New York, 10000 people
have endeavored to hear DR.. 1almage
preach. OF these, 35, 900 have been adj
mitted and $4,000 have been turned
away for lack of accommodation. Fol-
lowing is the sermon from the text, 80
| lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north" Ezekiel s:5.):
At one o'clock on December after
noon. through Damascus gate we are
passing out of Jerusalem for Il journey
northward. IIo, for Bethel with its
stairs, the bottom step of which was Il
stone pillow, and Jacobs well with its
immortal colloQuy, and Nazareth with
its Divine boy i'm his fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed:
Blue Galilee, sweet Gllilee
The lake where Jesus loved 10 be;
and Damascus with its crooked street
called Straight, and hundred places
charged and Surcharged with Apostolic,
evangeliStic, prophetic, patriarchal,
liugly and ChriStly "reminiscences.
In travelling along the roads of PaleS-
tine, am impressed as l could not 9TH
erwise have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot.
We find him occasionally on boat, and
once riding in triumphal procession.
rs it is sometimes called, although il
seems TO me that the hoSannaS of the
crowd could not have made a ride OH a
stubborn, unimpreSsive and funny crea-
ture like that which pattered with Him
into Jerusalem: very much OF a triumph.
But we are made TO understand that
generally he walked. How much that
means only those know who have gone
over the distance traverSed by Christ.
We are accustomed TO read that
Cethany is two miles from
Jerusalem. Well, any man in
ordinary health can walk two miles
without fatigue. But not more than
one man out of thousand can walk
from Bethany to Jerusalem without
exhaustion. Ii is over the Mount Of
Olives. and you must climb up among
the rolling stones and descend where
exertion is necessary TO keep you from
falling PROSTATE. |, who am accus-
toned TO walk fifteen or twenty miles
without laSSitude, tried part OF this
road over the Mount of Olives, and con-
| ieSS | would not try il often, such de-
mand does il make upon ones physical
energies. Yet Christ walked it twice a
/ day-in the morning from Bethany TO
Jerusalem, and in the evening from Je-
ruSalem to Bethany.
CHRIST's JOURNEY TO NAZARETH.
Likewise it seemed a small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But it will take Us four days Il
hard horseback riding, sometimes on a
trot and sometimes on n gallop TO do II
this weeY. The way is mountainous In
the extreme. To those who went up tC
the Tip-Top house on Mount Washing
ton. before the railroad was laid, will
say that this journey from Jerusalem tC
Nazareth is like seven such American
Journeys. So, all up and down anC
across and recroSsing Palestine, JeSu:
walked. Ahab rode. David rode. Sol
omon rode. Herod rode. Antony rode
But Jesus walked. With swollen an
kleS and sore muscles OF legs, and
bruised heel and stiff joints and painting
lungs and faint head. along the roads
and where there were no roads at all
Jesus walked.
We tried to get new horse other
than that Oh which we had ridden on
the Journey to the Dead Sea, for he had
faults which our close cquaintanceShir
had developed. But after some expert
menting with other quadrupeds of that
species, and finding that all horses, like
their riders, have faults, we concluded
10 choose a saddle on that beast whose
faults we were most prepared TO pity OF
resist. We rode down through the
valley and then up on Mount Scopus
and. as our dragoman tells US that this
is the last opportunity we shall
have of looking at Jerusalem,
we turn our horses head towards
the city and take long, sad and thrill
ing look at the religious capital OF our
planet. This is the most impressive
view of the most tremendous city of all
time. On around this hill the armies of
the crusaders at the first sight OF the
city threw themselves on their faces In
worship. Here most of the beseiged
armies encamped the night before
openies their volleys of death against
Jerusalem. Our last look, Fare
well Mount Zion, Mount Nor
iah. Mount of Olives, Mount
Calvary Will we never see them
again? Never. The world is so large
and time is so short, and there are so
many things we have never SeSn at all,
that we cannot afford to duplicate visits
or see anything more than once. Fare
well wonder thrones of gray rock, and
the three thousand years OF architec-
ture and battle fields. Farewell sacred,
sanguinary, triumphant, humiIlated
Jerusalem. Across this valley OF the
Kedron with my right hand | throw
I IL
look. like our first look, an agitation OF
body. mind and soul, indescribable.
4 GREAT TRAGEDY.
And now. like Ezekiel in my text, |
lift up mine eyes the way toward the
north. Near here was one of the worst
tragedies OF the ages, mentioned In the
Bible. a hospitable old man coming
home at even-tide from his work IN the
fields, finds two strangers, husband
and two strangers, a husband and vile,
proposing to lodge in the street because
no shelter is offered them, and invites
them TO come in and spend the night IN
his home. During the night the ruf-
fans of the neighborhood conSpired to-
gether, and surrounded the house and
left the women dead on the doorstep and
the husband, to rally in revenge the
twelve tribes cut the corpse of the
,vomen into twelve Darts and sent a