Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03
rAE-OFF PALESTINE.

IN i Ntl va = AAsAIs
-szmoN PREACHED sY REV.
DIR. TALMAGE,
,,,,r.tel Divine Paints q Wonder.
Tue ,,,r,, Iictnre of the Beginning OF
III memorable Journey to the Holy
'.na ana Other Old World Regions.
49, os,mage has begun series of SER
i"' AN his recent journey to the Holy
a'S The subject Of the first sermon
i.s'''' NV first day in Palestine. The
wa ,s.,s, [ Kings, y. z: 1.-The half was
H." .r,' 's i, lhe first sermon in course OF
10Th morning sermons on ''Niy Re-
sa e.. Journey through the Holy Land
N''' yaichbor;ng Countries: What Saw
W, W}at / LearEcd.h Out of the Oh
a a'a' ANN Of our present American popula-
v "' ,,d tht. millions of our past only
7'' COO have over visited the Holy
ss.aI OF all those who cross TO Europe
t,,sn :, per cent. ever get as far as
n,,,,, and less than . per cent. ever get
,t,pus, and less than quarter Of J.
ar.cut. ever get to Palestine. OF the
t,.s. than Il quarter OF | per cent. who
~, re IL the Holy Land some see nothing
",,. ,le noyious insects and the filth of
.i,. oriental cities, and come back wish
,, thev had never gone. Of those who
.n, uturh of interest and come home only
s,u,ll portion can tell what they have
.n the tongue unable to report the
The chief hindrance for going to Pal
..ii,c with many is the dreadful sea, and
,soish have crossed it ten times it is
more dreadful every time, and | fully
sy,rDathizc with what was said one
uig,t when Mr.. Bcechcr and l went over
10 sneak in New York at the anniversary
If The Sramcn's Friend Society, and the
clergyman making the opening prayer
,noird from st. John, ''There shall be
ao more sea- and Mr.. Beechcr, seated
beside me. in memory of a recent ocean
voyage said, ''Amen; / am glad of that. :"
N 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 Oh earth
will come under the observation of so
MANY people who will be ready to tell of
what they saw that iniidclity will be
pronounced only another form of insan-
y for no honest man can visit the Holy
Land and remain an iniidel.
This Bible from which l preach has
almost fallen apart. for I read from it
the most of the events in 1t recorded on
The very places where they occurred.
Aud some of the leaves got wet as the
waves dashed over our boat on Lake
GaliIee. and the book was iostled in the
saddlc-bags for many weeks, but it is a
new book To me, newer than any book
that yesterday came out Of any of our
great printing houses. All my life had
heard of Palestine, and had read about
it. 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 proportions,
aud yet have To cry out, as did the
Queen OF Sheba when she first visited
the HOLY Land. 1.-The half was not told
me-"
In order to make the more accurate
=, -,.~@ Aisid a book j have been writing, 81
a life of Christ, entitled ':From Manager
to Throne,'' left home last October,
and on the last night of November we
were walking the decks Of the Senegal.
Mediterranean steamer. 1t was IL
ship of immense proportions. There
were but few passengers, for it is gem
orally rough at that time OF year, and
pleasurists are not apt to be voyaging
there and then. The stars We're all out
,hac night. Those armies OF light seemed
to have had their shields newly. burn
ishcd. We walked tho polished deck.
Not much was said, for IN all our
hearts was the dominant word ''to-mor-
row. Somehow the Acropolis, which q
few days before had thrilled US at
Athens. now in our minds lcssened in the
height of it's columns and the glory of
it's temples. And the Egyptian pyra-
mids in our memory lesssened their
wonders of obsolete masonry, and the
Coliseum OF Rome was not SO vast a
ruin as it Il few weeks before had
seemed to be.
And all that we had seen and heard
dwindled in Importance, for tomorrow,
tomorrow we shall see the Holy Land.
Captain, what time will we come in
sight of Palcstine?'' '.Well,' he said,
If the wind and sea remain as they are,
about daybrcak. Never was so i'm
patient for night to pass. l could not
see much use for that night, anyhow.
pulled aside the curtain from the port
hole OF my stateroom, so that the first
hint of dawn would waken me.
But it was q useless prccantion. Sleep
was among the impossibilities. Who
could be so stupid Us to slumhar when
any moment there might start out
within sight of the ship the land where
the most stupendOus scenes OF oil time
and all eternity were enacted-land OF
ruin and redemption, land where was
fought the battle that made our heaven
possible, land of Godfrey and Saladin.
of Joshua and Jesus?
Will the night ever be gone: Yes, it
is growing lighter, and along the horrl-
ION there is something like bank OF
clouds, and us u Waterman PAGES the
deck say to him, ''What is that out
yonder?'' ':That is land, SIR said the
sailor. s:The land!'' cried, and soon all
our friends were aroused from sleep and
the shore began more clearly to reveal
itself. With roar and rattle and bang
the anchor dropped in the roadstead a
half mile from land. for though Joppa is
the only harbor of Palestine it is the
worst harbor OH all the coasts. Some
times for weeks no ship stops there. Be
tween rocks about seventy-five feet apart