Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-10-23
IN JERUSALEM.
UR- TALMAGES SECOND SERMON
ON THE HOLY LAND.


ON THE HOLY LAND.
Places and People That Came
Under His Observation.
BROOKLYN. N. Y, Oct. s, 1s9o.-Dr. Tai
mage is continuing In the Brooklyn acade-
my of music his series OF sermons on his re-
cent journey to the Holy Land and adjoin-
ing countries. Tho subject this morning
was: "My Second Day in Palstine," After
the reading of the Scriptures and two hearty
songs of worship the preacher announced
as his text: Galations 1. Is, III went up to
Jerusale
Ny second day in the Holy Land. Weare
In Joppa, 1t Is six o'clock in the morning,
TO be In Jerusalam. and that city is 40 miles
away. We may take camel, or horse, or
carriage. AS today will be our last oppor-
tunity In Palestine for taking the Wheel we
choose that. The horses with harness
tasseled and jngling. are hitched.
and, with dragoman in coat OF
many colors seated in front. we
start on a road which unveils within ~ hours
enough to think OF for all time and all
eternity. Farewell Mediterranean with
such a blue as no one but the Divine chem
list could mix, and such fire OF morning
glow, rs only the Divine flluminator could
kindle! Hail. Mount OF Ephraim and
Judah whose ramparts of rock we shall
mount in few hours. for modern engineers
can make road anywhere, and without
pling Ossa upon Pelion, those giants can
scale the heavens.
We start out OF the city amid barricadcs
OF cactus on either side, Not cacti in boxes
two or three feet high, bat cactus higher
than the top OF the carriage-a plant that
has more swords for defense. considering
the amount of beauty it can exhibit, than
anything created. We passed out amid
about 500 gardens, seven or eight acres to
the garden, from which at the right seasons
are plucked oranges. lemons, figs, olives.
| ctron and pomegranates. and which hold
| up their censors Of perfume before the Lord
| in perpetual praise, We meet great process
Hons OF camels loaded with kegs OF oil and
| with fruits. and some wealthy Mohamme-
| dams with four wives-three too many.
| The camel Is q proud. mysterious. solemn,
ancient, ungainly. majestic. any ridiculous
| shape, stalking out OF the past. The driver
| with his whip taps the camel on the fore
| leg. and he kneels to take you as rider
But when he rises hold fast or you will fall
| OF backward as he puts his fore-feet In
| standing posture and then you will fall of
| In front as his back-lcgs take their place.
| But the inhabitants are used to his ways
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| mount and walk as though to rest them
selves. Better stand out OF the path OF the
| camel; he stops for nothing and seems not
| to look down, and in the street l saw a
| child by one stroke OF q cameFs foot. hurled
| seven or eight feet along the ground.
Here we meet people with faces and arms
| and hands tattoOed, as in all lands sailors
tattoo their arms with some favorite ship OF
| admired face. 1t was to this habit OF tat
tooing among the Orentals that God refers
in figure, when He says of His church;
II have craven thee on the palms OF my
| hands"
Many OF these regions are naturally
sandy, but by irrigation they are made
fruitful and. as in this irrigation the brooks
and rivers arc turned this way and that tc
water the gardens or farms 50 the bible
says: 1.-The kings heart is in the hands OF
the Lord. and he turns it as the rivers OF
water are turned whithersoever He will. y
AS we pass out and we find about SOC
acres belonging to the Universal Israelt.
ish Alliance Montefore, the Israelitisl
ccntenarian and philanthropist. and Roths-
/ child, the banker, and others OF the large
/, hearted have paid the passage to Palestine
for many of the Israelitcs, and set apar
lands for their culture; and il is only II be
ginning of the fulilment of divine prophecy
when these people shall take possession o
the Holy Land. The road from Joppa t.
Jerusalem, and all the roads leading t
t Nazareth and Gallilee we saw lined will
professions OF Jews, going to the sacrct
places either on pilgrimage or as settlers
r All the fingers OF Providence now-a-day
y are pointing toward that resumption o
: Palestine by the Israelites. l do not TAX
1t that the prospcred Israelites Of othe
lands are to go there. They would be fool
a lsh to leave their properties in our Amer
lean cities where they are among our hes
citizens, and cross two seas to begin lii
y over again in n strange land. But the out
| hnav nod nm n Russia
Insults offered them in Germany, will 500
1 quadruple and centuple the procession q
s Israelites from Russia to Palestine. Facii
v ties for getting there will be multiplied, nc
:, | only in tho railroad from Joppa to Jcrusa
u lem, to which referred last Sabbath as be
ing built, but permission for Il road fro,
= Damascus to the Bay of Arc has been oil
h tanned. and that OF course will soon connet
with Joppa, and make one great occar
l. shore railroad. So the railroad from Jeru
d salem to IOppa, and from Joppa to Damas
GUS will soon bring all the Holy Land with
in few hours OF connection. Jewish color
Il ization societies in England and Russia, III
1t gathering money for the transportation
Il the Israelites to Palestine. and for the pul
chase for them Of lands and farming implt
ments and so many desire to go, that 1t
decided by lot as to which families shall :
n first. They were Gods chosen people
{, the first. and He has promised to bring the
u back to their home and there Is power
% 1000 or 5000 years to make God forget II
=, ! promSes. Those who are prospered
other lands, will do we'll to stay whe
they are. But let the 1sraeltcs wi
G. are deprecated, and attacked and pers
~ cuted turn their faces towards the risil
sun OF their deliverance. God will gath
to in that distant land those OF that race wi
4 have been maltreated, and He will bla
with the lightnings OF His omnipoten
those lands on either side OF the Atlantl
Il which have been the instruments OF ammo
p ance and harm, to that Jewish race,
1 which belonged Abraham, and David, al
Joshua, and Baron Hirsch. and Montefol
ie and Paul the Apostle, and Mary the Virgi
and Jesus Christ the Lord.
y, on the way across the plain OF Sharon
- meet many yelled women. 1t is n
III respectable for them to go unveiled. a
III 1t is a veil that Is SO hung as to ma
20 them hideous. A man may not even see I
face OF his wife until after bethroth
or engagement of marriage. Hence I
V awful mistakes, and the unhappy hom'
,, for God has made the face an index of cha