The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-11-14

Or, TALMAGE BIDS JERUSALEM GOOD
BY AND JOURNEYS NORTHWARD.

Or, TALMAGE BIDS JERUSALEM GOOD
BY AND JOURNEYS NoRTHWARD.
sWhere the Blue Waves Roll Nightly
ON Deep Galilee"--.Last Look at Mount
Zion. Mount Calvary and the Mount
Of olives.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 9.-Today DIR. Tai
mage preached the seventh of his
course of sermons on his recent tour in
Palestine. AS on previous Sundays
the sermon was preached before two
large audiences. In the morning 1t
was preached in the Academy of Music
in this city, and at night DIR. Talmage
preached it again in the New York
Academy of Music which The Chris
tian Herald continues to rent for these
services. During the six meetings thus
far held in New York, 10000 people
have endeavored to hear DR.. Talmage
preach. Of these 30, 900 have been ad-
mitted and 10000 have been turned
away for lack of accommodation. Fol
lowing is the sermon from the text, 80
I lifted up mine eyes the way toward
the north" ezekiel viii, 81:
At 1 o'clock on a December after
noon through Damascus gate we are
passing out of Jerusalem for journey
northward. Ho! for Bethel, with its
stairs, the bottom step of which was a
stone pillow; and jacobs we'll, with it's
immortal colloquy; and Nazareth, with
its divine boy in his fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that
ever rippled or flashed
Blue Galilee, sweet Galilee
The lake where Jesus loved to be:
and Damascus, with it's crooked street
called Straight, and hundred places
charged and surcharged with apostolic,
evangelistic, prophetic, patriarchal,
kingly and Christly "reminiscences.
In travelling along the roads of Pal
estine I am impressed, as could not
otherwise have been, with the fact that
Christ for the most part went afoot.
We find him occasionally on a boat,
and once riding in triunphal pro-
cession, as it is sometimes called, al
though it seems to me that the hosan-
mas of the crowd could not have made
ride on a stubborn, unimpressive and
funny creature like that which battered
with him into Jerusalem very much of
triumph. But we are made to I'M
derstand 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 without fatigue. But
not more than one man out of thou
sand can walk from Bethany to Jeru-
salem without exhaustion. 1t is over
the Mount of Olives, and you must
climb up among the rolling stones and
descend where exertion is necessary to
keep you from falling PROSTATE. l, who
am accustomed to walk fifteen or twen-
ty miles without lassitude, tried part of
this road over the Mount of Olives, and
confess 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 even
ing from Jerusalem to Bethany.
CHRIST'S WALK TO NAZARETH.
Likewise it seemed small thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Naza-
reth. But it will take us four days of
hard horseback riding, sometimes on
trot and sometimes on a 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 Wash
ington, before the railroad was laid,
will say that this journey from Jerusa-
lem to Nazareth is like seven such
American journeys. So, all up and
down and across and recrossing Pales-
tine, 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 acquaint-
anceship had developed. But after
some experimenting with other quad
rupeds 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 drago-
man tells us that this is the last oppor-
tunity we shall have of looking at Je-
rusalem, we turn our horses head to-
ward the city and take long, sad and
thrilling look at the religious capital of
our planet. This is the most impress
i've 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