Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-20
BIBLE LANDS IN WINTER
THE FOURTH SERMON OF Or. TAI
MAGE'S ITINERARY sERIEG

Themes Fountain Of Elisha.
BRooKLyN, oct. d. acknowledgement and
absorbing interest in Dr. Talma2e's
course OF sermons on the Holy Land and
adjoining c0untrie, is demonstrated by the
thousands who are turned away from the
doors Of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
on Sunday mornings and The Christian
Herald services In the New York Academy
of Music on Sunday evenings, unable to
gain even standing room In those immense
auditoriums Today he fourth sermon Of
the series was preached MS before, in this
city In the morning and in New York at
night. Having announced as his text Luke
x, 30 ~ certain man went down from
Jerusalem TO Jericho" DR. Talmage said
II is the morning of Dec in Jeru
salem, and we take stirrups for the road
along which the wayfarer Of old fell among
thieves, who left him wounded and half
dead Jobs picture of the horse in the
orient as having neck clothed with thun
der" is not true Of most horses now in Pal
estine. There is no thunder on their necks,
though there is some lightning in their
heels Poorly fed and numerically
whacked, they sometimes retort. To Amer
leans and English who are accustomed to
guide horses by the bride, these horses of
the orient, guided only by foot ana voice
make equestriansm IN uncertainty, and
the pull on the birdie that you intend for
slowing mp of the pace may he mistaken
for n hint that you want to outgallop the
wind or wheel in swift circles like the
hawk But they can climb steps and DIES
cend precipices with skilled foot, and the
one chose for orr journey in Palestine
shall have the praise of going for weeks
without one stumbling step amid rocky
sleeps, where an ordinary horse would not
for m hour maintain surefoOtedness
There were eighteen Of our party. and
twenty-five beasts Of burden carried our
camp equipment We are led by an Arab
sheik, with his black Nubian servant car
rying loaded gun in full sight but it is
the fact that this sheik represents the
Turkish government which assures the
safety Of the caravan
CHE FELL AMONG THIEVES"
We cross the JehoshHphat valley which,
If had not been memorable in history and
were only now discovered, wonld excite the
admiration of all who look upon it, 1t is
like the gorgcs Of the Yosemite or the
chasms Of the Yellowstone park. The
sides Of this JehOshaphat valley are tun
ncled with graves and overlooked by .Jeru
salem walls-un eternity of depths over
shadOwed by an eternity Of architecture
Within sight Of Mount Olivct and Gcth
semane and with the heavens and the
earth full of sunshine, we start out on the
very road mentioned in the text when il
says "a certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among
thieves" No road that ever saw was so
well constructed for brigandage - deep
gullcys, sharp turns, caves on either side
There ARE nfty plHces ON this road where
highwaymau might surprise and over
power nm uuarmed pilgrim His cry for
help, his shrek OF pg'u. his death groan
would be answered only by the echoes On
this road today We met groups of men
who Judging from their countenances
have in their veins the blood Of many gen
eratious of Rob Roys ,Iosrphus says that
Tlerod mt one time discharged from the
service Of the temple forty thousand men,
ard that the great part Of them became
robbers So late as 1890 Sir Frederick
I1enniker, an English tourist, was at.
'ackcd on this very roAd from Jerusalem
10 Jericho and shot and almost slain
There has never been any scarcityof ban
dts along the road we travel today,
with the fresh memory Of some recent
violence in their minds Christ tells the
people of the good Samaritan who came
along that way and took care of a poor fell
low that had been set upon by vilainous
Arabs and robbed and pounded and cut.
We oncamped for lunch that noon close by
an old stone building, said to be the tavern
where the scene spoken of in the Bible cul.
minated Tumblcd in the dust and ghast.
" with wounds the victim Of this high.
way robbery lay in the middle of the road
-, fnrt Of which / u,, rprtliu bacguga tba