Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-09

WAY by Rail-
pronFtYy. Sept. 2s.-ln the Brooklyn
,,5omy of Music today DR. Talmage be-
saries of sermons on his recent jour
a. u ne Holy Land. The subject of to
Avs sermon was, My First Day in Pales-
tina After appropriate passages of Script
= s' we're read the congregation sang with
great spirit
Far Iesus who died and is now gone above.
The text was Kings X, I; 1.-THE half
was not told me.
This Is the first sermon IN "A course OF
,.bbotb morning sermons on "My Recent
Journey Through the Holy Land and
voi.bboring Countries: What ] Saw and
TtstI learned" Out of the sixty-four
.ilrions of our present American popula-
-, and the millions of our past only
abont five thousand have ever visited the
uolr Land. OF all those who cross to Eu-
r,ra less than five per cent. ever get as far
a. Rome. and less than two per cent. ever
rst n Athens, and less than a quarter of
~ nor cent. ever get TO Palestine. OF the
~ than a quarter of one per cent who do
goto the Holy Land some see nothing but
,be noxious insects and the filth of the ORR.
sntal cities. ana come back wishing they
bod never gone. OF those who see much
n interest and come home only a small
norton can tell what they have seen; the
tongue unable to report the eye. The
,arifv of n successful, intelligent and
bappy Journey through the Holy Land is
very marked But the time approaches
Nbena Journey to Palestine will be com
mon. Thousands will 20 where now there
are scores Two locomotives were recently
cent up from ,Ioppa to Jerusalem and rail
roads are about TO begin in Palestine, and
the day will come when the cry will be;
aAu out for JerusalemW Twenty min
ste, for breakfast at Tiheriasw Change
cars for Tyrer Grand Trunk junction
for Nineyehw "All out for Damascus"
Meanwhile the wet locks of the Atlantic
ocean and Adriatic and Mediterranean
seas are being shorn, and not only is the
goyage shortened, hut, after while, with
out crossing the ocean, you and your chill
iren will visit the Holy Land. A com.
bany Of capitalists have gone up to Behrng
straits. where the American and Asatic
continents come within thirty-six miles of
meeting These capitalists, or others, will
build bridge across those straits, for mid
vay are three islands called The Dome-
les, and the water is not deep, and is
lever disturbed with icebergs. Trains of
Ears will run from America across that
bridge and on down through Siberia,
bringing under more immediate observa
ton the Russian outrages against exiles,
ind consequently abolishing them, and
one Gualm Of seasickness, will visit that
wonderful land where the Christlike, Abra-
iamc, Mosaic, Davidic, Solomonic and
Herolic histories overlap each other with
such power that by the time took my
ieet out OF the stirrups nj the close OF the
Journey felt so wrung out with emotion
that il seemed nothing else could ever alb
ior5 my feelings again.
THERE SHALL BE no MORE SEA"
The chief hindrance for going to Pales-
tine with many is the dreadful sea, and
though have crossed it ten times il ie
more dreadful every time, and fully sym
lathze with what was said one night when
Nj 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-"
Ind Mr. Beecher, seated beside me, in
memory Of recent ocean voyage, said,
Amen, am glad of that" BY the par
iial abolition Of the Atlantic ocean and the
putting down of rail tracks across every
country in all the world the most sacred
and on earth will come under the obserya-
non Of so many people, who will be ready
10 tell Of what they saw, that infidelity
Will be pronounced only another form of
insanity, for no honest man can visit the
doy Land and remain an infdel
This Bible from which | 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
me DOCK was iostled in the saddlebags for
many weeks. but it is a new book to me,
newer than any book that yesterday came
ny g. any Of our great printing houses.
Al aiy liia had heard of Palestine, and
laa read about it and talked about it and
preached about it and sung about it and
prsye! about it and dreamed about it until
NY sltic2ations were piled up into some
1Il1s IKE Hinlalayan proportions, and yet
nave 70 cry out, AS did the queen of Sheba
Nhen she first visited the Holy Land, "The
laii was not told me-
ID order to make the more accurate and
n'la a booS have been writing. life of
SIFlst' entitled From Manager to Throne"
! ieit home last October, and on the last
night Of November we were walking the
lecAs Of the Senegal, Mediterranean
steamer II was a ship of immense pro
goflon3 There were but few passengers,
-or II Is generally rough at that time of
year and pleasurists are not apt to be
'VUyasing there and then. The stars were
II 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 al our hearts
vas the dominant word 'to-morrow."
somehow the Acropolis, which few days
before had thrilled US at Athens, now in
Duf minds lessened in the height of its col
~ INNS and the glory of its temples. And
me Egyptian pyramids in our memory les
sehed their wonders of obsolete masonry,
and the Coliseum of Rome was not so vast
to be
and all that we had seen and heard
1Wlnlled in importance, for tomorrow,
go,ihorrow we shall see the Holy Land
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