The Forrest City times., 1890-10-04
IN PALESTINE.
DI TALNAGE BEGINS HIS SER. HONS ON THE HOLY LAND.
A Beautiful Word Picture In the
 Divine's Happiest vcin of the Holy Land and His Travels in 1t

A Beautiful Word Picture in the
 Divlne's Happiest vcin of the Holy Land and His Travels in 1t
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 BRookLYN, N. Y., Sept. 2s, 1890. In the Brooklyn Academy of Music to-day Dr. Talmage began a series of sermons on his recent Journey to tho Holy Land. The sub iect of to-day's sermon was: My First Day In Palestine" After appropriate passages of Scripture were read. the congregation sans with great spirit:
 We praise thee, o God. for the Con of thy
 love,
 For Jesus who died and Is now gone above" Tho text vas; I. Kings lo;7. .sThe half was not told me-
 Thls is the first sermon in course of Sab bath morning sermons on My Recent Jour ney Through the Holy Land and Neighbor- ing Countries - What I Saw and what Learned" Out of the sixtyfour millions of our present American population and the millions of our past, only about five thous- and have ever visited the Holy Land. or all those who cross to Europe, less than five per cent ever get as far as Rome, aud less than two per cent. ever get to Athens and less than quarter of one per cent. ever get to Palestine. Of the less than n quarter of one per cont who do go to the Holy Land some sec nothing but the noxious insects and the filth of tho Oriental 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 cen, the tongue unable to report the eye The rarity of n successful, intelligent and happy journey through the Holy Land is very marked. But the time approaches when journey to Palestine will be com mon. Thousands will so where now there arc scores. Two locomotives were recently sent up from Joppa to Jerusalem and rail- roads arc about to begin in Palestine and the day will come when the cry will be, sAl out for Jerusalem." Twenty minutes tor breakfast at Tibcrias!' "Change cars tor Tyrc!" ''Grand Trunk Junction for Nineveh!" "All out for Damascus!" Mean while the wetlocks of the Atlantic Ocean and Adriatic and Mediterranean seas are being shorn, and not only is the voyage shortened. but, after while, without cross- ins the ocean you or your children will visit tho Holy Land. A company of capitalists have gone up to Behring Straits where the American and Asiatic continents come with tn thirty-six miles of meeting. These cap italists or others will build bridge across those Straits. for midway are three islands called "The Diomedes' 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 observation the Russian outrages against exiles and consequently abollshing them, and there arc persons herc to-day, who. without one quAln of ea-sickness, will visit that won derful land where the Christ-like, Abra- hamic, Mosaic, Davidic, Solomonic and derodtc histories overlap each other with such power that by the time took my feet out of the stirrups at the close of the jour ney, felt so wrung out with emotion that t seemed nothing else could ever absorb my feelings again.
 The chief hindrance for going to Palestine with many is the dreadful sea, and though have crossed 1t ten times 1t Is more drcad- ful every timc. and fully sympathize with what was said one night when Mir. Beecher and went over to speak in New York at tho Anniversary of tho. Seamen's Friend Society and the clergyman making the opening prayer quoted from St. John: There shall be no more sea-" and Mir. Beecher, seated beside mo, in memory of a recent ocean voyage said "Amen. am glad of that" By the partial 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 observation of so many people. who will be ready to tell of what they saw, that infdelity will be pronounced only another form of insanity. for no honest man can visit the Holy Land and remain an inhdcl. This Bible from which preach has almost fallon apart, for read from it the most of the events in it recorded on the very places where they occurred. And come of tho leaves got wet as the waves dashed over our boat on Lake Galilee and the book was jostled in the saddle bags for many weeks, but 1t Is new book to me, newer than any book that yesterday came m nf nm s,ot s.rt. fi,,kx ty All my lifo l had heard of Palestine and had read about 1t, and talked about it. and preached about 1t. and sung about it, and prayed about 1t, and dreamed about 1t until my anticipations were piled up into some like Himalayan proportions, and yet have 10 cry out as did the Queen of Sheba when she first visited the Holy Land: "The half was not told me-"
 In order to make tho more accurate and vivid book have been writing, n life of Christ. entitled "From Manager to Throne. V left home last October. and on the last sight of November we were walking the decks of the Senegal, Mediterranean stcamer. It was n ship of immense propor- tions. There were but few passengers, for tt h generally rough at that time of year and pleasurists are not apt to be voyaging there and then. The stars were all ovt thai night Those armies of light seemed to have had their shields newly burnished.
 
 vas said. for in all our hearts was the dominant word "to-morrow." Somehow the AcroDolis, which a few days before had thrilled us at Athens, now in our minds lessened in the height Of Its columns and the glory of its temples. And the Egyptian pyramids In our memory lessened their wonders of obsolete masonry, and the Coliseum of Romc was not so vast a ruin as h few weeks before had seemed to be, And all that we had seen and heard dwindlcd in importance, for tomorrow to- morrow we shall see the Holy Land Cap tain. what time shall we come in sight of PAlestines" ''Well." he said. s.if the wind and sea remain as they are, about day orsak." Never was l so impatient for n night to pass. could not see much use for that night, anyhow. I pulled aside the curtain from the po-t-hole of my state- room. go that the first hint of dawn would vAken mo. But 1t was useless precaution sieep vas among the impossibiiltics. Who could Dc so stupid as to siumber whom any moment there might start out within sight of the ship. tho land where the n os, seupendous scenes of all time and all eter- uity vere enacted. land of ruin and redemp- sion. land whore was fought tho battle that made our heaven possible. lwnd of Godfrey and sAlAdin. of Joshua and Jesus.
 Will tho night ever be goneg Yes. 1t Is growing lighter. and along the horizon there ss something like a bank of clouds, and as a vAtehman paces the deck. say to him, what is that out yonder7" "That is land, sif. said the sailor. The land." cried. ana soon Aii our friends werc aroused from saeep. and the shore began more clearly Co seveAI itseif. With roar, and rattle. and bang the anchor dropped Into the roadstead half . mile from land, for though Joppa ,s thc only harhor of Palistlne. 1t Is the vofst harbor on all the coasts. Sometimes TOT weeks no ship stops there. Between eccka about sa feet apart a small boat must tAke the passengers ashore. The depths are atrewn with the skeletons of those who esve attempted to land or attempted to embark. Twenty-seven pilgrims perIshed vitn one crash of boat against the rocks, whole ncets of cruisadcrs, of Romans, oi syrians. of Egyptians. have gone to splin- seSs thcrc. A writer 500 years ago. said he ssood on thc beach In storm at Joppa, and sus of So ehips all but seven went to pieces ca she rocks and thousand of the dead uere wAshed ashore.
 Strange that with few blasts of powder nse that which shattered our American heu 0ate. those rocks have not been up-