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JOPPA 70 JERUSALEM.
DR.. Talmage's Second Discourse of
His Holy Land Series.
Tho Journey from Joppa to Jerusalem
and the Historic Places En- Route
Tbs Plains of Sharon ana the
Valley OF Aialon.

OF the series on the Holy Land" now
being delivered by Rev. T. DEWITT Tai
mage in Brooklyn and New York City.
1t is based on the text:
wentup to Jerusalem. Galatians t., IS.
My second day in the Holy Land We
are in Joppa. 1t is six o'clock in the
morning, 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 to-day will be our last opportunity
in Palestine for taking the wheel, we
choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseled and iingling, are hitched, and,
with a dragoman with coat of many
colors, seated in 'front.' we start on a
road which unvaiIs in twelve hours
enough to think Of for all time and all
eternity. Farewell Mediterranean,
with such blue as no one but the Di-
vine Chemist could mix, and such fire
of morning glow as only the Divine
illumination could kindle! Hail! Mount
aims Of Ephraim and Juda, whose ram
parts of rock we shall mount in few
hours, for modern engineers can make
road anywhere, and, without pulling
0ssa upon Pelion, those giants can
+ scale the heavens.
AS We pass out and on we find
about eight hundred acres belong
Ing to the Universal Israelitish
Alliance. Montefiore, the Israel
itish centenarian and philanthro-
pist and Rothschild, the banker, and
others sof the large-hearted have paid
thespassage to Palestine, for many of
the Israelites, and set apart lands for
their culture; and it is only begin
ming of the fulfllment of Divine prophe-
sY, when these people shall take pos
session 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 pilgrimage, or as settlers. All the
fingers of Providence NOWADAYS are
pointing toward thatresumption of Pal
esttne by the Israelites. I do not take
1t that the prospered Israelites of other
lands are to go there. They would
be foolish to leave their properties in
our American cities where they are
seas to begin life over again in strange
land. But the outrages heaped upon
+hem in Russia, and the insults offered
them in Germany, will soon quadruple
and centuple the procession of Israel
ties from Russia to Palestine. Facil-
tiles for getting there will be multi
piled, not only in the railroad from
sJoppa to Jerusalem, to which referred
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 witch
Joppa, and make one great ocean-shore
railroad. So the railroad fronl Jeru-
salem to Joppa to Damascus will soon
bring all the Holy Land within a few
hours of connection. Jewish colonial
ton societies in England and Rus
s'a are gathering money for the trans
portation of the Israelites to Palestine,
and for the purchase for them
of lands and farming implements,
and SO many desire to go that
it is decided by lot which families
shall 90 first They were Gods chosen
people at the first, and He has promised
to bring them back to their home, and
there Is no power in one thousand or
live thousand years to make God forget
His promises. Those who are prospered
in other lands will do we'll to stay where
they are. But let the Israelites who
are deprecated and attacked and per-
secuted turn their faces toward the ris-
ing sun of their deliverance God will
in hak lot = L., Il u. -.
race who have been maltreated, and He
will blast with the lightnings of His
omnipotence those lands on either side
OF the Atlantic which have been the in
struments OF annoyance and harm to
that Jewish ~ace to which belonged
Abraham S7d David and Joshua and
Baron Hirsch and Montefiore and Paul
the Apostle and Mary the Virgin and
Jesus Christ the Lord
What is thatP Town of Ramleb. birth
place, residence and the Tomb of Sam
uel, the glorious prophet Near by
tower of forty martyrs, called because
that number of disciples persisted there
for Chrisfs sake; but if towers had
been built for all those who in the time
of war as in the time OF peace have
fallen on this road during the ages past
you might almost walk on turrets
from Joppa to Jerusalem.
Now we pass guard houses which are
castles of chopped straw and mud,
where at night and partly through the
day armed men dwell and keep the
bandits off travellers. In the caves of
these mountains dwell men to whom
massacre would be high play, and purse
with few pennies would be compensa-
n2n enough for the struggle that the
savage might have with the wayfarer.
There is only one other defense that
amounts to much in these lands, and
that is the law of hospitality. II you
can get an Arab to eat with you, if only
one mouthful, you are sure of his pro-
lection, and that has been so from age
to age. The Lords supper was built
on that custom, a special friendship
after partaking food together. To that
custom Walter Scott refers in his i'm
mortal ''Talisman,p where Saladin.
with one stroke of the sword, strikes
the head from an enemy who stands in