Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-18
IoppA TO JERUSALEM.
'rAIMAGE CONTINUES HIS
uoN ON THE HOLY LAND.


.a,,tes Returning to Their Ancient
Land.
Nv Talmage is continuing In the
,,.oaklvn Academy of Music his series
eoormons on his recent journey to the
uoIv Land and adjoining countries. The
l'hioct of his second sermon was, my
Socond Day in Palestine" After the
soading of the Scripture. and two hearty
o'gc, of worship by the congregation
'Hn preacher announced as his text:
naIatians j, 49,, Il went up to Jerusa-
'W Nv second day in the Holy Land We
ore in Joppa. 1t is E o'clock in the
morning. but we must start early, for by
,,ioht we are to be i'll Jerusalem; and
hat city is forty-one miles away. We
nav take camel or horse or carriage. AS
f,-iay will bobnr last opportunity in Pal
ostipe for taking the wheel, we choose
hat The horses, with harness tasseled
md iingIing, are hitched. and with d
II ,IragOmGn in coat Of many colors seated
IN front we start on a road which un-
yoils within twelve hours enough to
q think of for all time and eternity. Fare
coli Mediterranean, with such
blue as no one but the divine
Chemist could mix, and such a fire of
,norring glow as only the divine Illumi-
major could hindle! Hail! MOI ntains of
tIphraim and Juda, whose r...nparts of
rock we shall mount in q few hours; for
modern engineers can make a road any
where, and without .piling Ossa upon
pelon those giants can scale the
heavens =:
We start out of the city amid barri-
cades OF cactus on either side. Not
cacti in boxes two or three feet high, but
cactus higher than the top of the car
riage-a plant that has more swords for
defense, considering the amount of
beauty it can exhibit, than anything
created. We passed out amid about
four, hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges,
lemons, figs olives, citron, and ponce
,qranate, and which. hold up their censers
of perfume before the Lord in perpetual
Draisc We meet great professions of
camcls loaded, with kegs Of oil and with
fruits, and@some wealthy Mohammedan
:. |>.th four wiTcs-three too many.
!" The camel is a proud, mysterious,
to!cmn, ancient, Glngainly, majestic,
. s4d ridiculous shape, stalking out of
, L
= taps the .Camel on the, fore leg, and
lie knCes to take you as a rider.
Bat wileli.ile rises. hold fast or you. will
talldff uackward as .ho~puts his fore feet
in standing posture and then you will
fall off in front as his back legs take their
riaets.~ But the iRh abitants. are used to
his ways, although l.hnd the riders often
Gifsnitagnt ,nnd' walk, as though to rest
,ba,,sn1,,oS pottar S4aod of ba
path of the camel--he stops for nothing
ana seems not to look doWn; and ia the
streebT SAW ichild by the stroke of
cameps front foot {-hlrled seven or eight
feet along the ground.
Here. We met. people with. faces and
, agI1s.a1id lands tattooed as III all lands
sailors tattoo their arms with some ia
yorite ship or admired face. It was to
this habit'Gf tIttooing among the ori-
entails that God refers in a figure, when
He says OF His church, II have craven
thee OH the palms of my hands"
Many OF these regions are naturally
sandy bat by irrigation they are made
fruitful, as in this irrigation the brooks
and rivers are turned this way and that
to water the gardens or farms, so the
Bible says, The Kings heart is in the
hands OF the Lord, and He turneth it as
the rivers of water are turned whittier
SoeVer He will. :"
As we pass out and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging to the
Universal Israelitish alliance. Monte
fore, the Israelitish centenarian and
phlanthropist. and RothSchild, the
banker, and Others of the large hearted
have paid the passage to Palestine for
many OF the Israelitcs, and set apart
lands for their culture, and it is only
beginning of I" the fGlfillment OF divine
prophecy when these people shall take
possession ofthe 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 hoiy
pilgrimage or as settlers. All the fingers
OF Providence nowadays are pointing
toward that resumption OF Palestine by
the Israeiites. do not take it that the
proSpcred Israelites of other lands are to
so there.
They would be foolish to leave their
properties in our American cities,
where they are among our best cltfZens,
and cross two seas to begin life over
again in a strange land. But the out
RACES heaped upon them in Russia, and
the insults offered them in Germany,
will soon quadruple and centnple the
procession of Israelites from Russia to
Palestine. Facilities for getting there
will be multiplied, not only in the rail
road from Joppa to Jerusalem, to which
| referred last Sabbath as being built,
but permission for road from Damas-
Gus to the bay of Acre has been obtained,
and that Of course will soon connect with
Joppa, and make one great ocean shore
So the railroad from Jerusa-