Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-28
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: 1.-THE Wonderful Distance
Traversed by Christ"


through Damascus gate, we are passing out
of Jerusalem for journey nOrthward. Hol
for Bethel, with its stairs, the bottom step OF
which was stone pillow; and Jacobs well.
with its immortal colloQuy; and Nazareth,
with its divine boy in His fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that ever
Eippled OF flashed
Blue Galilee, sweet Galilee,
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
and Damascus, with its crooked street called
Straight and hundred places charged and
gurcharged with apostolic, evangel1stic, pro-
phetic, patriarchal, kingly and Christly rem
tniscenceS
In travelling along the roads of Palestine
am impressed, as | could not otherwise have
been with the fact that Christ for the most
part went afoot. We find Him occasionally
on beat and once riding in a triumphal
procession, as it is sometimes called, although
it seems to me that the hosannas of the crowd
could not have made ride on stubborn,
unimpressive and funny creature like that
which battered with Him into Jerusalem
very much Of a triumph. But we are made
to undertand that generally He walked. How
much that means only those know who have
gone over the distance traVersed by
Christ.
We are accustomed to read that Bethany
is two miles from Jerusalem. Well, any man
in ordinary health can walk two miles with
out fatigue. But not more than one man
out Of a thousand can walk from Bethany to
the Mount Of Olives, and you must climb up
among the rolling stones and descend where
exertiOn is necessary to keep you from fall
ing PROSTATE. /, who am accustomed to
walk fifteen or twenty miles without lassi-
tude tried part of this road over the Mount
Of Olives, and confess that would not want
to try it often, such demand does it make
upon ones physical energies. Yet Christ
walked it twice a day-in the morning from
Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the evening
from Jerusalem to Bethany.
Likewise it seemed a small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Nazareth
But it will take US four days of hard horse
back riding sometimes on a trot and some
times on gallop, to do it this week. The
way is mountainous in the extreme To
those who went up to the Tip Top house on
Mount Washington before the railroad was
laid | will say that this Journey from Jeru-
salem to Nazareth is like seven such Ameri-
can journeys. So, all up and down and
across and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked.
Ahab, rode. David rode. Solomon rode.
Herod rode Antony rode. But Jesus
walked. With swollen ankles and sore
muscles Of the legs and bruised heel and stiff
joints and painting lungs and faint head,
along the roads and where there were no
roads at all Jesus walked.
We tried to get new horse other
than that on which we had ridden on the
journey to the Dead Sea, for he had faults
which our close acquaintanceship had devel-
Op0u buU alter some experimenting With
other quadrupeds Of that species, and finding
that all horses, like their riders have faults,
we concluded to choose a saddle on that
beast whose faults we were most prepared
to pity or resist. We rode down through the
valley and then up On Mount Scopus and,
as our dragoman tells us that this is the last
opportunity we shall have of looking at Je-
rusalen, we turn our horses head toward
the city and take long sad and thrilling
look at the religious capital Of our planet.
IhlSls the most impressive view of the most
tremendous city of all time.
On and around this hill the armies of the
crusaders at the first sight of the CITY
threw themselves on their faces in worship
Here most of the besieging armies en-
camped the night before opening their vol
leys of death against Jerusalem. Our last
look Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount
Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount Calvary!
Win we never see them again? Never.
The world is so large and time is so short,
and there are so many things we have never
seen at al, that we cannot afford to duplicate
visits or see anything more than once. Fare
well, yonder thrones of gray rock, and the
three thousand years of architecture and
battlef1elds. Farewell sacred sanguinary,
triumphant Inundated Jerusaleml Across
this valley of the Kedron with nv right
hand I throw thee kiss of valedictory, Our
last look, like our first look agitation of
body, mind and soul INDISPENSABLE
And now like Ezekiel in nv tent T lift
Near here was one of the worst tragedies of
the ages mentioned in the Bible. A hospitable
old man coming home at eventdo from his
work in the fields finds two Strangers a hus-
band and wife, proposing to lodge in the
street because no shelter is offered them, and
invites them to come and spend the night in
his home. During the night the ruff1ans of
the neighborhood conspired together, and
surrounded the house, and left the woman
dead on the doorstep and the husband, to
rally in revenge the twelve tribes,
cut the corpse of the woman into
twelve parts and sent twelfth of it to each
tribe. and the fury of the nation was reused.
and a peremptOry demand was made for the
surrender Of the assassins, and the demand
refused, in one day twenty thousand people
were left dead on the field and the next day
day plants his foot in those ancient times
corpse lay, and the roads were crossed by red
r1vulets of carnage.
Now we pass on to where seven youths
were put to death and their bodies glib
beted or hung in chains, not for anything
they had themselves DONE but as repair
alton for what their father and grand
these youths from May until November.
RiZpah, the mother of two of these dead
boys, appoints herself as sentinel to guard
the seven cOrpses from beak of raven and
tooth of wolf and paw of lion. She pitches
q black tent tent. on the rock close by the
in front Of her tent, and when vulture be-
gins to lower out of the monday sky seeking
its prey among the gibbets Rizpah rises, her
long hair flying in the wind, and swinging
her arms wildly about Shoes away the
bird of prey until it retreats otis eyrie. At
night she rests under the shadow of her tent,
and sometimes falls into q drowsiness or half
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