Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-11-21
THROUGH PALESTINE.
DIR. rALMAGE's TARlLLlNc Ac-
COUNT OF BIBLE SCENES,

COUNT OF BIBLE SCENES.
Ebal and Gerizisn and the Mighty Opcra
of Blessing and Curses Once Recitcd
There-The Valley of Wars-Thp Great
Battle to be Fought There.
In the New York Academy OH Music,
DIR. Talmage preached the eighth of the
series of sermons on his tour ID Pacs-
tine. His subject was ''Amohg the
Bedouins," and his text Numbers \. 81:
"Forasmuch as thou knowest;how we
are to encamp in the wiiderness.1
Night after night we have slept in tent
in Palestine. There are large villages
of Bedouins without house lind for
three thousand years the people Of those
places have lived in black tent$, made
out of dyed skins, and when ths winds
and stormes wore out and tire loose
those coverings others of the sale kind
took their places. Noah lived ID q tent:
Abraham in tent. Jacob pi4hcd his
tent on the mountain. Isaac 3pitchcd
his tent in the valley. Lot pitched his
tent toward Sodom. In a tent thu woman
Jael nailed Sisera, the genera, to the
ground, first having given him 81 lr milk,
called ''leben,'' as a soporitic to ID bike him
sleep soundly, that being heeffcct of
such nutrition, as modern travelAr can
testify. The Syrian army in a 4 mt. The
ancient battle shout was, ''To yl3lr tents,
o, Israeli Paul was q tentmal4r. In
deed, Isaiah, magniiicently poeac, indi-
Gates that all the human race Lib under
blue tent when he says hat God
''strctcheth out the Heavens ash curtin,
and spreadeth them out as 4 tent to
dwell in;" and Hezekiah compares death
to the striking of tent, sayi4g, MY
age is removed from me as a Shepherds
tent"
In our tent in Palestine tonight hear
something I never heard beforehand hope
never to hear again. 1t is the toiG of a
hyena amid the rocks near byI When
you may have seen this monste1 putting
his mouth between the irontbas of a
menagcrie he is captive and he gives
humilitated and suppressed city. But
yonder in the midnight on a thpne of
rocks he has nothing to fear, and le ut
tiers himself in loud, resoundinS ter
rifle, almost supernatural sound, split
ting up the darkness into deepe mid
night. 1t begins with a howl Eand ends
with sound something like a lorse's
whining. In the hyena's voice arc def
ance and strength and blood-thiHtine
and crunch of broken bones and death.
I am glad to say that for the most
part Palestine is clear of beasts o prey.
The leopards which jeremiah say can
not change their spots, have alldisap-
peared, and the lions that once were
common all through this land, a1l used
by all the prophets for illustratiHs of
cruelty and wrath, have retreatedbefore
the discharges of gun-powder, of which
they have an Undesirable fear. Tut for
the most part Palestine is what origi-
nally was. With the one eXceptid of a
wire thread reaching from JoIpa to
Jerusalem and from Jerusalem Naza-
reth and from Nazareth to Tiber1s and
from Tiberias to Damascus, tat one
nerve of civilization, the teldraphic
wire (for we found ourselves ont few
minutes off from Brooklyn to Mel York
while standing by Lake Galilel, with
\ that one exception Palestine is jul as it
| always was. ,,zyS,e "
Nothing surprised me so much the
persistence of everything. 4 Rep or
| morse IalIs ucau, atiu tIs-..s:s. RISKY
may one minute before besclef of all
wings in five minutes after the 81 les are
black with eagles cawin1, scrhming,
plunging, fighting for room, conending
for largest morsels of the extinct quad
ruped. All, now understand tf force
of Chrst's illustration when ! said,
'sWheresOever the carcass is tire the
eagles be gathered together. The
longevity of those eagles is wdderful.
They live fifty or sixty and somfmes a
hundred years. All, that eXpla's what
David meant when he said eth youth
is renewed like the eagles"
saw shepherd with the fold of his
coat far bent outward, and Wndered
what was contained in that amplitude of
apparel, and l said to the drsoman,
s'What has that shepherd got Ider his
coat?" And the dragOman said, Fit is q
very young lamb he is carryingt is too
young and too weak and too coldo keep
up with the flock.'' At that Yment
saw the lamb put it's head out finn I'M
der the shepherds bosom, an said,
''There it is now, Isaiah's descrition of
the tenderness OF God-'He shal gather
the lambs with His arm and caE them
in His BOSOM
Passing by village home in tt Holy
Land about noon l saw great ovid in
and around private house, am l said
to the dragoman: sDavid, wilt is 60
ing on there?" He said: s'Snebody
has recently died there, and the neigh
bors go in for several days afr to sit
down and weep with the bd .aved.' -
There it is, 1 said, the old scriptEal Gus
tom: ''And lLany of the jews me to
Martha and Mary to comfort Il IN con-
corning their brother" Earlyin the
morning, passing by cemctd in the
Holy Land, l saw among thu graves
about fifty women dressed in blk. and
they were crying sob, my child ''Oh,
my husband!' sob, my fathei sob,
my mother" Our dragoman old us
that every morning very earlybr three
mornings after burial the WON go to
: the sepulcher, and after that eHy week
very, early for a year. AS 1 W this
| group just after daybreak i S. q, there
it is again, the same old custonfcferred
to in Luke, the evangelist, we're he
{ says, Certain women which re early
7 at the sepulcher."
J But here we found ourselves Jacobs
: well, the most famous we'll illlistory:
most distinguished for two thgS, be-