The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-10
JOURNEY TO PALESTINE
Dr. Talmage Begins q Deecriut,on
OF Hls Late Travels.

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Rev. T. Do Witt Talmaee recently
eommenceda series Of sermonsin Brook
lyn ON his recent journey to tho Holy
Land. The subject Of his first sermon
was: my First Day in Palestine" Tho
ext was ]. KingA 4 Z, THE half was
pit told me-" Dr.. Talmage said:
This 10 the frst sermon in . oourse Of
bbbath morning sermons on INV Re.
ent Journey Through the Holy Land
3pd Neighboring Countries-What
Saw and What I Learned" Out Of the
$4,000. 600 of our present American pop-
ulatiOn and the millions Of our past
only about 5000 have over visited the
Holy Land. OF all those who cross to
Europe less than i've per cent ever get
rs far as Rome. and less than two pcr
rent ever get to Athens, and
less than one quarter OF one per
cent ever get TO Palestine. OF
the less than . quarter Of one per cent
who do 60 to the Holy Land, some see
nothing but the noxious insects and
the filth of the Oriental cities
and come back wishing they had never
gone. OF those who see much Of inter.
est and come home, only . small por-
ton can tell what they have seen. the
tongue unable to report the eye. The
rarity of a successful. intelligent and
happy journey through the Holy Land
is very marked. But the time ap-
proaches when . journey to Palestine
will be common. Thousands will 70
where nov there are scores Two loco
motives were recently sen mp from JOp-
pa to Jerusalem and railroads are about
to begin in Palestine. and the day will
come when the cry will be: "All out
for Jerusalem!" Twenty minutes for
breakfast at Tiberias!" Change cars
for Tyre" Grand Trunk junction for
Ninevah!" "All out for Damascusi"
Meanwhile tho wetlocks of the Atlantic
ocean and Adriatic and Mediterranean
seas are being shOrn, and not only is the
voyage shortened, but, after . while
without crossing the ocean, you and
your children will visit the Holy Land.
A company OF capitalists have gone
up to Behring straits where the Ameri-
can and Asiatic continents come within
t~hirty-six miles of meeting. These
capitalists or others will build q bridge
across those straits, for midway are
three islands. called 1.-THE Diomedes,"
and the waite is not deep and is lever
disturbed with icebergs. Trains of cars
will run from America across that bridge
and on down through Siberia, bringing
under moro immediate observation the
Russian Outrages against exiles and
consequently abolishing them. and
there are persons here to-day who.
without one qualm Of sea sickness, will
visit that wonderful land. where the
Christ like. Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic,
SolomOnic and HerOdic histories over
lap each other with such power that by
tho time l took my feet out Of the STIR
rups at the close Of the journey I felt so
wrung out with emotion that it seemed
nothing else could ever absorb my feel
ings again.
The chief hindrance for going to Pal
"Ath hdb 10 "a CS0b
and though ] rave crossed it ten times
il is more dreadful every time, and ]
fully sympathize with what was said
one night when Mr.. Beecher and I went
over to speak in New York at the ami
versary Of the Seamen's Friend Society
and the clergyman making the opening
prayer quoted from St John. There
shall be no more sea" and Mr.. Beccher,
seated beside me, in memory OF a recent
ocean voyage said "Amen, l I'm glad OF
that" By tho partial abolition Of the
Atlantic ocean and the putt ng down OF
rail tracks across every country in all
the world, tho most sacred and on
earth will come under the observation
of SO many people. who will be ready to
tell Of what they saw that infidelity
will be pronounced only another form
of insanity, for no honest man can visit
the Holy Land and remain an infidel.
All nv life I had heard of Palestine and
read about ii, and talked about it, and
preached about it. and sung about it,
and prayed about it, and dreamed about
it until my anticipations were piled up
into something like Himalayan proper
tions. and yet l have to cry Out, as did
the Queen of Sheba when she first Wis.
tied the Holy Land: 1.-The half was not
told me-" In order to make the more
accurate and vivid q book l have been
writing, q life of Christ, entitled 'From
Manager to Throne" I left home last
October, and on the last night Of No
yember We were walking the decks OF
the Senegal. q Mediterranean steamer.
1t was a ship OF immense proportions.
There were but few passengers for 1t is
generally rough at that time OF year.
and pl~easurists are not apt to be voyag-
ing there and then. The stars were all
out that night Those armies OF light
seemed to have had their an .clds ncwly
FURNISHED. We walked the polisheddeck
lot much was said, for in all our hearts
vas tho dominant word Tomorrow"
Somehow the Acropolis which . few
Avs before had thrilled as ut Athens
low in our minds lessened in the height
If its columns and the glory Of its tenn
pies And the Egyptian pyramids in
our memory lessened their wonders Of
obsolete masonry. and the Coliseum OF
Rome was not so vast . ruin rs 1t a lew
weeks before had seemed to be. And
all we had seen and heard dwindled in
importance, for tomorrow, tomorrow
we shall see the Holy Land. Sleep was
among the impossibilities. Who could
be SO stupid as to slumber when any
moment there might start out within
sight of the ship the land where the
most ~stupcndOus scenes Of all time and
all eternity were enacted. land OF ruin
and redemption, land where was fought
the battle that made our Heaven posi-
bic, land Of Godfrey and Saladin. OF
Joshua and Jesus.
Will the night cver be gone? Yes. II
is growing lighter. and along the horizon
there is something like . bank ofclouds
and as a watchman PAGES the deck say
to hin: ''What is that out yondcr7'
sSThat is land. SIR" said the sailor.
The land!" I cried. and soon all our
friends we're aroused from sleep and the