Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-11
rAR-OFF PALESTINE.
noN PREACHED BY REV.
DIR, TALMAGE,

WI other Old World Regions.
ro,mage has begun series of SER
his recent journey to the Holy
0I Tbn subject of the first sermon
..,Ir first day in Palestine. The
a. Kings, X. 2: 1.-THE half was
S. told me- =, oo,rso 81
th morning sermons on my Re
P@ Ianrney through the Holy Land
aIeigbboring Countries: What | Saw
What, Learned" Out OF the o.
b"o l, If our present American popula-
A6Po vd the millions of our past only
an. ooo have ever visited the Holy
Of all those who cross to Europe
tban ) per cent. ever get as Tar as
and less than per cent. ever get
hons and less, than a quarter OF J.
an+ ever get to Palestine. OF the
+hor = quarter of l per cent. who
a TO the Holy Land some see nothing
tho noxious insects and the hlJh OF
*' oriental cities, and come back wish
s''s thnv had never gone. OF those who
sI Of interest and come home only
naJ norton can tell what they have
tba tongue unable to report the
.z no chief hindrancc for going to Pal
.Ssi ne with many is the dreadful sea, and
.22ngb have crossed it ten times 1T is
b. dreadful every time, and | fully
81 nathize with what was said one
IT when Mr.. Beecher and l went over
IA monk in New York at the anniversary
Il The Seamen's Friend Society, and the
iarovman making the opening prayer
led from st. John, ''There shall be
Xmore sea-" and Mr.. Beecher, seated
skide me, in memory of a recent ocean
&c said. "Amen; | am glad OF that. y
81 the partial abolition of the Atlantic
Nan and the putting down OF rail
IS cl,s across every country in all the
12rId the most sacred land on earth
IN come under the observation of SO
INV people who will be ready to tell of
Rat they saw that intidelity will be
Rnounced only another form of insan-
u for no honest man can visit the Holy
Ind and remain an intidel.l.
8This Bible from which / preach has
most fallen apart, for I read from it
II most of the events in it recorded on
a very places where they occurred.
.bd some of the leaves got wet as the
'ayes dashed over our boat on Lake
hHee, and the book was jostled in the
/. ddle-bags for many weeks, but it is a
ew book to me, newer than any book
Hat Yesterday came out of any Of OuI
heat printing houses. All my life had
bard of Palestine, and I had read about
and talked about it, and preached
bout it, and sung about it, and prayed
bout it, and dreamed about lit, until
" anticipations were piled up into
Jmething like Himalayan proportions.
hid yet l have to cry out, as did the
lecn of Sheba when she first visited
lie Holy Land, ''The half was not told
e. 4 ;: :. =.
In order to make the more accurate
nd vivid book l have been Writing, a
life of Christ, entitled "From Manager
!. Throne" / left home last, October,
nd on the last night of November we
ere walking the decks of the Senegal,
Mediterranean steamer. 1t was .
Zip of immense proportions.Y There
ere but few passengers, for it is gen.
ally rough at that time of year, and
easurists are not apt to be VQyaginR
lere and then. The stars were all out
lat night. Those armies of light seemed
have had their shields newly burn
he'd. We walked the polished deck.
OF much was said, for in all ouI
'arts was the dominant word.!s ~to-mor-
W." Somehow the Acropolis, which a
W days before had thrilled us at
thenS, now in our minds lessened in the
light of its columns and the glory OF
) temples. And the Egyptian pyfa-
ids in our memory lesssened their
OnderS of obsolete masonry, and the
OltSeum of Rome was not so vast a
in as it a few weeks before had
emed to be.
And all that we had seen and heard
Tindled in Importance, for tomorrow,
we shall see the Holy Land.
'aptain, what time will we come in
ght of Palestine?" "Well," he said,
t the wind and sea remain as they are,
out daybreak." Never was so i'm
tient for a night to pass. l could not
much use for that night, anyhow. /
He'd aside the curtain from the port
lie OF my Stateroom, SO that the hrst
Mt Of dawn would waken me.
But it was useless precaution. Sleep
Is among the impossibilities. Who
uld be so stupid as to slumber when
y moment there might start out
thin sight of the ship the land where
most stupendous scenes of all time
d all eternity were enacted-land OF
IN and redemption, land where was
lght the battle that made our heaven
SSible, land of Godfrey and Saladln,
Joshua and Jesus?
VIII the night ever be gone? Yes, IL
growing lighter, and along the horn.
there Is something like a bank OF
'udS, and as a Waterman PAGES the
elk | say to him, ''What is that out
nder?.,' That is land, SIR" said the
.Ior ''Ihe landr' / cried, and soon all
friends were aroused from sleep ana
shore began more clearly to reveal