Telegram-herald., 1890-09-29

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Was net told me.
zhis i THE 6rst sermon Ia = course ef
Sabbath morning sermons GA Ny Recent
Journey Through the Holy Land and
Neighboring Countries. What / Saw and
What Learned" Out % the slxty-four
Millions of car present American p0pula-
ton aud the millions OF our past OaiY
about I'VE thousand have ever visited the
Holy Land OF al those who cross 10 Eu-
rope less than aYs per cent. ever get as Tar
as Rome. and less Than TWO per cenL ever
set 70 Athens. and ieSs than quarter Of
one per cent, ever get 10 Palestine OF the
less than quarter Of one per cent. who DO
20 70 the Holy Land SOME see nothing bat
the noxi0us insects and the filth Of the Orr
! eQtgl cities, and come back wishing they
had never gone OF those who see much
OF interest and come home only small
portion can tell what they have seen, the
tongue unable 70 report the eve The
rarity OF successful, intelligent and
happy jonrney through the Holy Land IS
very marked. But the time approaches
. when journey 10 Palestine viii be COM
fnon. Thousands viii 90 where now there
are scores Two locomotives were recently
sent up from Joppa 10 Jerusalem and rail
roads are about 70 begin in Palestine, aud
the day will come when the cry will be:
AL out for Jerusalem Twenty min
utes for breakfast at Nheriasw Change
cars for Tyre" Grand Trunk Junction
for Ninevehl" "Ali out for DsmRscusp
Meanwhile the wet locks Of the Atlantic
ocean and Adriatic and Mediterranean
seas are being shorn, and not only is the
voyage shortened, but. after while, with
out crossing the ocean, you and your chill
dren viii visit tho Holy Land. A com
pany of capitalists have gone up 10 BehrlDg
straits, where the American and Asiatic
| continents come within thirty-six miles of
| meeting. These capitalists, or others, will
| build a bridge across those straits. for mid
way are three islands called The Diome-
des." and the water is not deep, and is
never disturbed with icebergs. Trains Of
cars will run from America across that
( bridge and on down through Siberia,
bringing under more immediate obserya-
| tion the Russian outrages against exiles,
and consequently abolishing them; and
there ars persons here today who. without
one qualm of segsickness, will visit that
wonderful land where the Christlike, Abra-
hamic, Mosaic, Davidic. Solomonic and
Herodic histories overlap each other with
such power that by the time | took my
feet out ci the stirrups at the close Of the
journey felt so wrung out with emotion
that it seemed nothing else could ever ab-
sorb ray feelings again.
THERE SHALL BE NO MORE SEA"
The chief hindraace for going TO Pales-
tine with many is the dreadful sea, and
though / have crossed it ten times it is
more dreadful every time, and fully sym
/ pathize with what was said one night when
! MIR. Beecher and went over to speak in
New York at the anniversary Of the Sea-
mems Friend society, and the Clergyman
making the opening prayer quoted from
St. John; There shall be no more sea,
| and Mr.. Beecher, seated beside me, in
! memory of a recent ocean voyage, said.
Amen, | am glad Of that" BY the par
tial abolition OF the Atlantic ocean and the
putting down Of rail tracks across every
country in all the world the most sacred
land on earth will come under the observe
ton OF so many people, who will be ready
10 tell Of what they saw, that inidelity
| viii be pronounced only another form of
| insanity, for no honest man can visit the
Holy Land and remain an infldel.
This Bible from whish | preach has al
most fallen apart, for | read from it the
most OF the events in it recorded on the
very places where they occurred. And
some of the leaves got wet as the waves
dashed over our boat on Lake Galilee and
the book was iostled in the saddlebags for
many weeks, but IL is new book 20 me,
newer than any book that yesterday came
out Of any Of our great printing houses
All my life had heard of Palestine, and
had read about it and talked about II aud
preached about it and sung about it and
prayed about 70 and dreamed about 10 until
my anticipstions were piled Ep into some
thing like Himalayan proportions. and yet
have to CRY out, as did the queen Of Sheb;,
when she first visited the Holy Land, The
half WAS not told me-"
In order 70 make the more accurate and
vivid boo; ! have been writing. life OF
Christ, entitled Prom Manger 10 Throne"
left home last October, aud on the last
night of November we were walking the
decks OF the Senegal, a Mediterranean
steamer Il was ship OF immense pro-
portions There were but few passengers.
for it is generally rough at that time Of
year and plessurists are not apt 20 DO
voyaging there and then. The stars were
all out that night. Those armies Of light
seemed TO have had their shields newly
FURNISHED. We walked the polished deck.
Not much was said, for in all our hearts
was the dominant word tomorrow. /"
Somehow the AcTopolis. which a few days
before had thrilled as at Athens. now IN
our minds lessened IN the height Of its col
umns and the glory OF its temples. Aud
the Egyptian pyramids in our memory les
sened their wonders Of obsolete masonry,
and the Coliseum Of Rome was not 50 vast
ruin "a Il few weeks before had seemed
. be.
Aud ell that We bad seen and heard
6windled in importance. for tomorrow,
tomorrow we shall see the Holy Land.
Captain. vhat time viii We come in sight
of Palestinef" Well" be said. IL the
Wind and sea remain "a they ere about
dayhreak." Never was 20 impatient Tor
a night 70 pass. ] could no. sce mach use
Tor that night. anyhow. pulled aside ths
curtain from tie port hole of ny STATE
room. so that the first mint q dawn wouii
wase5 ne. bBs it was a useless precsB-
ton Sleep vas among the ire possibilities
Who could he 50 stupid as 70 siumhe,
when any uaoraeas. there might STAR ou'
vitain ight - The ship tts lad sThsrs ths
most stupen6ous scenes of a. tirne and At
eternity we're enacted. ard of min and -