The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-01
THE 3 HOLY LAND. AN
Landing In the psriious Harbor of Jopps,
and Looking at7the Town from
Housstop AAotosalt the Desert to
Ninevsh@4Ths Road to
Jerusalem.
Rev. DR. TalrnaHe Gives HIS First
1nprssstons 81 aiestine.

tine"Lbeing the ffat lot a sories OF SCR
mons on his recen jpufneyt 70 the Holy
Land. The text was /, Kings, 1917,
"The half IS not told me. ? Following
is the sermon: M \ N N19
This Is the first sermon In a course OF
Sabbath morning sermons ON my Re-
cent Journey Through the Holy Land
and Neighboring ountries-What I
Saw and What Learned" Out OF the
64,000,000 Of our present American
population and the millions OF our past,
only about 5000 have ever visited the
Holy Land. OF all those who cross to
Europe less than FIVE per cent. ever get
as far as Rome, and less than two per
cent ever get to Athens, and less than
aquarter OF one per cent ever get to
Palestine. OF the less than a quarter Of
one per cent who do go to the Holy Land,
some see nothing but the noxious in
sects and the filth OF the Oriental cities
and come back wishing they had never
gone. 0fthose who see much OF interest
and come home, only small portion
can tell what they have seen, the tongue
unable to report the eye The rarity OF
q successful, Intelligent and happy
journey through the Holy Land is very
marked. But the time approaches whom
q journey TO Palestine will be common.
Thousands will go where now there are
scores. Two locomotives we're recently
sent up from Joppa TO Jerusalem and
de ahont 10 hao,iu i,,D d. Ioattna
and the day will come when the cry will
be: "All out for Jerusalemr' Twenty
minutes for breakfast at Tiberias!"
"Change cars for Tyrel" "Grand Trunk
Junction for Nineyehw "All out for
Damascus" Meanwhile the wotlocks OF
the Atlantic Ocean and Adriatic and
Mediterranean seas are being shorn,
and not only is the voyage shortened,
but after while, without crossing the
ocean, you or your children will visit
the Holy Land A company OF capital
lists have gone up to Dehring Straits
where the American and Asiatic conti-
nents come within thirty-six miles OF
meeting. These capitalists or others
will build bridge across those straits,
for midway are three islands called
''The Diomedes" and the water is not
deep and Is never disturbed with Ice
bergs. Trains Of cars viii run from
America across that bridge and on down
through Siberia, bringing under more
immediate observation tho Russian out
RACES against exiles and consequently
abolishing them, and there are persons
here to-day, who, without one qualm OF
sea sickness, will visit that wonderful
land where the Christliko Abrahamic,
Mosaic, Dayidic, Solomonic, and Herodio
histories overlap each other with such
power that by the time took my feet
out OF the stlrrups at tho close OF the
journey, l felt SO wrung out with emo
ton that II seemed nothing else could
ever absorb my feelings again.
The chief hindrance for going to Pal
estine with many is the dreadful sea,
and though havo crossed It ten times
1t is more dreadful every time, and I
fully sympathize with what was said
one night whom Mr.. Beecher and went
over 10 speak in New York at the anni-
versary OF the Seamen's Friend Society
and the clergyman making the opening
prayer quoted from St John: There
shall be no more sea- and Mr.. Beecher,
seated beside mo, In memory OF recent
ocean voyage said "Amon, am glad OF
that" BY 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 on earth
will come under the observation OF so
many people, who will be ready 10 tell
OF what theysaw, that infdelity will be
pronounced only another form OF insan.
ity, for no honest man can visit the Holy
Land and remain an infdel This Bible
from which preach has almost fallen
apart, for read from 1t the most OF the
events in 1t recorded on the very places
where they occurred. And some OF the
leaves got wet as the waves dashed over
our boat on Lake Galilee. and the booA
was jostled In the saddle-bags for many
weeks, but 1t is a new book to me, newer
than any book that yestcSday came out
of any OF our great printing houses
ALI my lifo had heard OF Palestine,
And i had read about IL, and talked
about 1t, and preached about it. and sung
about it. and prayed about IL, and
dreamed about It until my anticipation
were piled up into something like HI
malayan proportions, and yet have 10
cry out, as did the Queen Of Sheba wheI
she first visited the Holy Land, f'Th'
half was not told me,Y i,, 3ysug i1 lisn
In prder 10 make. the more accurate
aat yivid. n book / have been writing,
life OF Christ entitled "From Manger "
THRONE I left home last October, and
on the last night OF November we were
walking the decks OF the Senegal, .
Mediterranean steamer, II was q shir
Of Immense proportions. There wert
but few passengers, for u is generally
rough at that time Of year, and pleasur
lists arc not apt 10 be voyaging there and
then. The stars were all out that night.
Those armiesof light seemed TO have
had their shields newly Furnished. w
walked the polished deck. Not mech
was said, for In all our hearts was the
dominant word tomorrow" Somehow
the Acropolis, which few days before
had thrilled us at Athens, now in our
minds iessened In the height Of It's col.
umns and the glory Of its temples And
tho Egyptian pyramids In our memory
lessened their wonders Of obsolete ma
sonry, and the Coliseum Of Rome was
not so vast ruin as ita few weeks be-
fore bad seemed 70 be. And all that We
mad seen and heard dwindled in impof-
tance, for tomorrow. tomorrow we shsll
sec the Holy Land. Captain, what
tine will we come In sight Of Pales-