Connecticut western news., 1890-11-26
.14 14S>2~ CANAAN CONN, WEDNESDAY,
AMONG THE HOLY-HIILS.

AMONG THE HOLNHuIS, SERMON PREACHED BY REV. r. DE
 s5 WITT TAlMAGE.
 Continuation of the Series of Diseourses
 Describing the NSted .Divine's Visit to
 tho Land of Hsly WriA<arsat Interest
 BRooKLYN, N. r., Nov. 23.-The interest in the series of sermons in which Dr. Talmage is describing his recent tour in Palestine, and inculcat- ing ! gospel lessons suggested by his theme, increases from week to week. There was never so large crowd at any one of tho previous eight sermons as there was today around the Brook ilyn. Academy of Maic in the morning a and at The Christian eHeeald servicesi in the evening to hear the ninth sermon. Its subject was stAmong the Holy lHills,'' and the text Luke iv, 16: 'sHe came to ? Nazareth, where he was brought up. 2 Following is the sermon i:
 What splendid deep I had last night in Catholic convent, my first sleep within doors since leaving Jeru- salem, and all of us as kindly treated as though we had been the pope and his college of cardinals passing that way. Last evening the genial sister hood of the convent ordered hundred bright eyed Arab children brought out to sing for me, and it was glorious! This morning Ia-come out on the steps of the convent and look upon the most beautiful village of all Palestine, it's houses of white limestone. Guess it's name. Nazareth, historical Nazareth j; one of the trinity of places that all Christian travellers must see or feel that they have not seen Palestine, namely, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Maya reth.a Babyhood, boyhood, manhood of him for whom I believe there are fifty million people who would now, if it were required, march out and die whether under ax, or down in the floods or straight through the fire.
 .-.1 GRAND OLD NAZARETH.
 Grand old village is Nazareth, even putting aside it's sacred associations. First of all, it is clean and that can be said of few of the oriental villages. Its neighboring town of Nablous is the filthiest town I ever saw, although it's 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 CTS which had put our macintoshes 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 Israelite to Mohammedan and from Mohammedan to Christian, the most wonderful of the battles being that in which twenty-five thousand Turks were beaten by twenty-one hundred French, Napoleon Bonaparte commanding, that greatest of Frenchmen walking these very streets through which Jesus walked for nearly thirty years, the morals of the two, the antipodes, the snows of Russia and the plaques of Egypt ap- propriately following the one, the dox- ologies of earth and the hallelujahs of heaven appropriately following the other, a. i
 And then this town is so beautifully situated in great green bowl, the sides of the bowl the surrounding if teen hills. The God of nature, who is the God of the Bible, evidently scooped out this valley for privacy and separa- tion from all the world during three most important decades, the thirty years of Christ's boyhood and youth, for of the thirty-three years of Christ's stay on earth he spent thirty of them in this town 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. s-sa
 The trouble is with most young men that they want to launch their ship from the drydock before it is ready, and hence so many sink in the first cy- clone. Stay in the store as a subordi- nate until you are thoroughly equipped. Be 8 good employe in your trade until you are qualified to be an employer. Be content with Nazareth until you are ready for the buffetings of Jerusalem. You may get so gloriously equipped in the thirty years that you can do more in three years than most men can accomplished in a prolonged lifetime. These little suggestions am apt to put into my sermon, hoping to help people for this world, while am chiefly anx- ious to have them prepare for the next world. t
 All Christ's boyhood was spent in this village and its surroundings. There is the very we'll called 'The Fountain of the Virgin" to which by his mothers ,ide he trotted along holding her hand. No doubt about it; it is the only well In the village, and it has been the only we'll for three thousand years. This morning we visit it, and the mothers nave their children with them now as shen. The work of drawing water in Ill ages in those countries has been women's work. Scores of them are waiting for their turn at it. three great md everlasting springs rolling out into hat well, their barrels, their hogs heads of water, in floods gloriously abundant. The we'll is surrounded by olive groves and wide spaces in which people talk and children, wearing charms on their heads as protection a1ainst the Wevil eve n are nlayinp and