The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05
AT NAZARETH.
DR.. Talmage Continues His Leo
lures on the Holy Land.
The Scene of the Saviour's Youth Described
The Famous Well yisited-Iessons
Taught by the Lie of
Christ.

The Scene of the Saviour's Youth Described
The Famous Well yisited-Lessons
Taught by the Lie of
Christ.
In the ninth sermon on his visit to the
Holy Land. delivered at Brooklyn, Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage took for his subject
Among the Holy Hills" and the text
was from Luke iv. 16: He came to
Nazareth, where he was brought up"
Following is the sermon:
What splendid sleep had last night
in Catholic convent, my first sleep
| within doors since leaving Jerusalem,
and all of us as kindly treated as though
we had been the Pope and his college OF
cardinals passing that way This morn
ing l come out on the steps of the con-
vent and look upon the most beautiful
village of all Palestine, it's houses OF
| white limestone. Guess its name!
Nazareth, historical Nazareth, one OF
the trinity of places that all Christ IN
travellers must see or feel that they
have not seen Palestine, namely, Beth
lehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth-babyhood
boyhood, manhood of Him for whom
believe there are so, 900. 900 people who
would now, If it were required, march
out and die, whether under axe ordown
in the floods or straight through the
fire.
Grand old village is Nazareth, even
putting aside its sacred associations
First of all, it is clean; and that can be
said of few of the Oriental villages.
It's neighboring town of Nablous is the
filthiest town ever saw, although its
chief industry is the manufacture of
soap They export all of it Nazareth
was perhaps unusually clean the morn
ing | speak of, for, as we rode into the
village the afternoon before, the show
ers which had put our mackintoshes to
the test had poured floods through all
the alleys under command of the clouds;
those thorough street commissioners.
Besides that, Nazareth has been the
scene of battles passing it from the
1sraelite to Mohammedan and from Mo-
hammedan to Christian, the most won
derful of the battles being that in which
$50 Turks were beaten by 100
French, Napoleon Bonaparte command
ing; that greatest of Frenchmen walk
ing these very streets through which
Jesus walked for nearly thirty years,
the morals of the two, the antipodes.
the SHOWS of Russia and the plaques of
Egypt appropriately following the one.
the doxologies of earth and the hall
lnl ~ 10 Of l. 4
following the other And then this
town is SO beautifully situated in
a great green bowl, the sides of the
bowl the surrounding fifteen hills. The
God of nature, who is the God of the
Bible, evidently scooped out this valley
for privacy and separation from all the
world during three most important dec
ades the thirty years of Christ's boy
mood and youth, for of the thirty
three years of Christ's stay on earth he
spent thirty of them in this town in
getting ready-a startling rebuke to
those who have no patience with the
long years of preparation necessary
when they enter on any special mission
for the church or the world. The trou-
BILE is with most young men that they
want to launch their ship from the dry
dock before it is ready, and hence so
many sink in the first cyclone. Be
good employee in your trade until you
are qualified to be an employer. Be
content with Nazareth until you are
ready for the buffetings of Jerusalem.
All Christ's boyhood was spent in this
village and its surroundings. There is
the very we'll called 1.-THE Fountain of
the Virgin" to which by His mothers
side He trotted along, holding her hand.
No doubt about it; it is the only we'll in
the village and it has been the only well
for 3. OO9 years This morning we visit
it and the mothers have their children
with them now as then.
The work of drawing water in all ages
in those Countries has been women's
work. Scores of them are waiting for
their turn at it, three great and ever
lasting springs rolling out into that we'll
their barrels, their hogsheads of water
in floods gloriously abundant The we'll
is surrounded by olive groves and wide
spaces in which people talk and chill
dren, wearing charms on their heads as
protection against the ''evil eye," are
playing, and women with their strings
of coin on either side of their face, and
in skirts of blue, and scarlet and white
and green, move on with water jars on
their heads. Mary, / suppose, almost
always took Jesus the boy with her, for
she had no one she could leave Him
with, being in humble circumstances
and having no attendants. l do not be-
lieve there was one of the fifteen sur
rounding hills that the boy Christ did
not range from bottom to top, or one
cavern in their sides He did not ex-
across the tops that He could not call by
name, or one of all the species Of fauna
browsing on those sleeps that He had
not recognized.
You see it all through His sermons.
II man becomes public speaker, in
his orations or discourses you discover
his early whereabouts. What boy sees
between seven and seventeen always
sticks to him. When the apostle Peter
breaches you see the fishing nets with
which he had from his earliest days
been familiar. And when Amos deliv-
ers his prophecy you hear in it the
bleating of the herds which he had in
boyhood attended. And in our Lords
sermons and conversations you see all
the phases OF village life and the
life surrounding it. They
raised their own chickens in Nazareth,
and in after time he cries: 'Oh, Jerusa-
lem! Jerusalem!how often would have
gathered thee as hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings" He had
seen his mother open the family ward
robe at the close of the summer and the
moth millers flying out having des-