News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-09
J0ppa to Jerusalem.
DIR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SERMON
ON THE HOLY LAND.


The Roads Up the Cliff and Over the
Observation-Disclosures on the Way-The
IsraeIites Returning to Their Ancient
Land.
BROOKLYN. Oct. 5.-Dr Talmage is
continuing in the Brooklyn Academy
of Music his series of sermons on his
recent Journey to the Holy Land and
adjoining countries. The subject this
morning was, My Second Day in Pal
estine." After the reading of the Script
ures and two hearty songs of worship
by the congregation the preacher an
nounced as his text: Galatians /, Is,
Il went up to Jerusalem"
NY second day in the Holy Land. we
are in Joppa 1t is 6 o'clock in the
morning, but we must start early, for
bv night we are to be in Jerusalem, and
that city is forty-one miles away. We
NAV take camel or horse or carriage.
as today will be our last opportunity
in Palestine for taking the wheel, we
choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and
with dragoman in coat of many colors
seated in front we start on road
which unveils within twelve hours
enough to think of for all time and all
eternity. Farewell Mediterranean, with
such a blue as no one but the divine
Chemist could mix. and such a fire OF
morning glow as only the divine II
luminator could kindlel HALL noun
tains of Ephraim and Juda, whose ram
parts of rock we shall mount in few
hours: for modern engineers can make
a road anywhere, and without piling
Ossa upon Pelion those giants can
scale the heavens.
We start out of the city amid barri-
cades of cactus on either side. Not
cacti in boxes two or three feet high,
but cactus higher than the top of the
carriage-a plant that has more swords
for defense, considering the amount of
beauty it can exhibit, than anything
created. We passed out amid about
four hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges, lem
ons. figs. olives, citron and pOmegran-
ates. and which hold up their censers
of perfume before the Lord in perpet-
ual praise We meet great professions
of camels loaded with kegs of oil and
with fruits, and some wealthy Moham-
medan with four wives - three too
many The camel is a proud, mystic
rious, solemn, ancient, ungainly, ma
jestic and ridiculous shape, stalking
out of the past. The driver with his
whip taps the camel on the fore leg,
and he kneels to take you as a rider.
But when he rises hold fast or you
viii fall off backward as he puts his
fore feet in standing posture, and then
you will fall off in front as his back
legs take their place. But the inhabit-
ants are used to his ways, although |
find the riders often dismount and
walk, as though to rest themselves
Better stand out of the path of the
camel-he stops for nothing and seems
not to look down; and in the street !
saw child by the stroke of a camel's
front foot hurled seven or eight feet
along the ground.
Here we meet people with faces and
arms and hands tattooed, as in all lands
sailors tattoo their arms with some fa-
vOrite ship or admired face. 1t was to
this habit of tattooing among the orr
entails that God refers in a figure, when
he says of his church, Il have craven
thee on the palms of my hands"
Many of these regions are naturally
sandy, but by irrigation they are made
fruitful, and as in this irrigation the
brooks and rivers are turned this way
and that to water the gardens or farms,
50 the Bible says, THE kings heart is
in the hands of the Lord. and he turn
eth it as the rivers of water are turned
whithersoever he will >
MODERN JEWS IN PALESTINE.
As we pass out and on we find about
eight hundred acres belonging to the
Universal Israelitish alliance Monte
fore the Israelitish centenarian and
philanthropist, and Rothschild, the
banker. and others of the large hearted
have paid the passage to Palestine for
many of the lsraelites. and set apart
lands for their culture, and it is only
beginning of the fultillment of divine
prophecy when these people shall take
possession of the Holy Land. The road
from Joppa to Jerusalem, and all the
roads leading to Nazareth and Galilee,
we saw lined with professions of Jews
going to the sacred places, either on
holy pilgrimage or as settlers All the
fingers of Providence nowadays are
pointing toward that resumption of
Palestine by the Israelites. | do not
take it that the prospered lsraelites of
other lands are to go there.
They would be foolish to leave their
properties in our American cities, where
they are among our best citizens, and
cross two seas to begin life over again
in a strange land. But the outrages
heaped upon them in Russia, and the
insults offered them in Germany, will
soon quadruple and centuple the pro
cessiOn of Israelites from Russia to
Palestine Facilities for getting there
will be multiplied. not only in the rail
road from Joppa to Jerusalem, to which
referred last Sabbath as being built,
but permission for road from Damas-
Gus to the bay of Acre has been OBJ
tanned, and that of course will soon
connect with Joppa, and make one
great ocean shore railroad. So the rail
,oad from Jerusalem to Joppa and
from .Joppa to Damascus will soon
bring all the Holy Land within few
hours of connection. Jewish colonial
ton societies in England and Russia
are gathering money for the transpor
tatiOn of the Israelites to Palestine and
for the purchase for them OF lands and
farming implements, and so many de-
sire to go that it is decided by lot as
to which families shall go first.
They were Gods chosen people at
the first, and he has promised to bring
them back to their home, and there is
no power in one thousand or five thou
sand years to make God forget his
promises. Those who are prosperous in
other lands will do well to stay where
they are. But let the Israelites who
are deprecated and attacked and per
secuted turn their faces toward the
rising sun of their deliverance. God
will gather in that distant land those
of that race who have been maltreat-
ed, and he will blast with the light
nings of his omnipotence those lands
on either side of the Atlantic which
have been the instruments of annoy
ance and harm to that Jewish race to
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