The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1890-11-20

Following is the seventh discourse OIL
the series on tho Holy Land by Rev, 4.
Dewitt TaImage, delivered in Brook
lyn and New York City, from tho text
SO lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north.-Ezekiel viii, s.;
At one o'clock on 4 December after
noon, through Damascus gate, we are
passing out of Jerusalem for a journey
.homeward. Hol for Bethel with its
stairs, the bottom step Of which was a
stone pillow, and Jacobs we'll with its
immortal collaquy, and Nazareth with
It's Divine boy in his fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed:
Blue GalIlec, sweet GaiIlee.
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
and Damascus with its. crooked street
called Straight and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic,
evangelistic, prophetic, patriarchal,
lxingly and Christly reminiscences.
In travelling along the roads Of Pales-
tine, | am impressed as l could not
otherwise have been, with the tact that
Christ for the most part went afoot.
We find Him occasionally on boat,
and once riding in triumphal process
sion, as 1t is sometimes called, although
It seems to me that the hosannas Of the
/ crowd could not have made q ride on a
stubborn unimpressive and funny Great
ure Like that which battered with Him
| into Jerusalem, very ID achof triumph.
But we are made to understand that gen
orally He walked. How much that
means only those know who hayeagone
over The distance traversed by Christ. We
are accustomed to read that Bethany is
! two miles from Jerusalem, We'll,
/ any man in ordinary health can walk
two miles without fatigue. But not
/ more than one man out of a thousand
can walk from bethany to Jerusalem
without exhaustion. It. is over the
| Mount Of Olives, and you must climbup
among the rolling stones and descend
where exertion is necessary to keep
| you from falling PROSTATE, ], who am
accustomed to walk fifteen or twenty
| miles without lassitude, tried part of
! this road over the Mount of Olives, and
| confess / would not want 70 try ittoften,
such demand does t make upon ones
| physical energies. Yet Christ walked
it twice a day the morning from
Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the,eve
| ing from Jerusalem to Bethany.
Likewise it seemed small thing
| that Christ walked from Jerusalem to
Nazareth. But twill take us four days
Of hard horseback riding, sorneti on
a trot and sometimes on gallop, to
do it this week. The way is mountain
Gus in the extreme TO those who went
up to the Tip-1op House on Mount
Washington, before the railroad was
laid, will say that this journey from
sJerusalem to Nazareth is like seven
such American journeys. So, upssand
down and across and reerossing Pal
estine, Jesus wallSod.eFg Ahab rode,
David rode, Solomon rode, Herod rode,
Antony rode. But Jesus walked. With
swollen ankles, and sore muscles of the
legs, and bruised heel, ard 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 on which we had ridden on
tho Journey to the Dead Sea, for be had
faults whieh.our close acquaintanceship
had developed But after some expert
menting with other quadrupeds of that
| species, and finding all horses, like
! their riders, have faults, we concluded
to choose a saddle on that beasth9hoso
faults we were most prepared to pity or
resist. We rode down through the val
10y and then up on Mount Scopus and
| as our dragoman tells us that this is the
! last opportunity we shall have of look
ing at Jerusalem, we turn our horses
| head towards the city and take a long,
sad and thrilling. look at the religious
! capital of our planet This is tho
most impressive view of the most
tremendous city of all time. On
/ and around this hill the armies
OF the Crusaders at the first sight of the
1 city threw themselves on their faces in
worship. Here most of the besieged
armies encamped the night before open
ing their volleys of death against Jeru-
| salem. Our last loob Farewell,
| Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount of
4 Olives, Mount Calvary! VIII we never
see them again? Never The world is
/ 80 large and time is so short, and there
are so many things we have never seen
! at all, that we can not afford TO dupli-
! cate visits or see any thing more than
once. Farewell yonder thrones OF gray
rock, and tho three thousand years Of
architecture and battle-felds Fare
well, sacred, saguinary,' triumphant
/ humiliated Jerusaleml Across this val
| ley of the Kedron with my right hand
| throw thee kiss of valedictory Our
last look, like our first look, an agita-
tion of body, mind and soul, indescrib-
able.
And now, like Ezekiel in my text /
lift up mine eyes the way toward tho
north. Near here was one of the worst
tragedies of the.a ages mentioned in the
Bible. A hOspitable old man coming
home at eventide from his work in the
fields finds two strangers, a husband
and wife, 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 rufiians of the neighbor-
hood conspired together and surrounded
the house, and left the woman dead on
the doorstep and the husband, to
rally in revenge the twelve tribes, cut
the corpse Of the. WOMAN into twelve
parts, and sent twelfth of it to each
tribe, and the fury Of the nation was
reused, and peremptorY demand was
made for the surrender of the assassins,
and the demand refused, In one day
twenty thousand people we're left dead
on the field, and the next day eighteen
thousand Wherever our horse to-day
plants his foot in those ancient times a
corpse lay, and the roads were crossed
by red rivillets of carnage.
Now we pass ON where seven youths
we're put TO death and their bodies glib
beted or hung in chains, not for any
thing they had themselves done, but as
a reparation for what their father and
grandfather Saul had done. Burial
was denied these youths from May until
November Rizpah, the motherof two
OF these dead boys, appoints herself as
sentinel 10 guard tho seven corpses
from beak of raven. and tooth OF wolf
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