Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-17
TALMAGE'S TALK.
TAE REVEREND GENTLEMAN GIVES HIS Ey
PERIENCE
In the Holy Land-He Has Night in Palestine.
he Tarries at Jacobs Well-Paralsl
Cases-Visis Other Scrip
tural Points.
Special TELEGRAM % he Rsaister.

York Academy of Music, DR.. Tai
mage preached the eighth of the
series OF sermons he is giving ON his
tour In Palestine. At both services the
respective buildings were crowded TO
their utmost capacity in five minutes
after the doors were opened, and all
who came later were unable to get in.
DIR. Talmage's subject was Among the
BedouinS, and his text, Numbers 10: 81;
''Forasmuch as thou knowest how we
are 10 encamp in the Wilderness
Night after night we have slept in
tent In Palestine. There are large viii
lagos of BedOuins without house, and
for three thousand years the people Of
those places have lived in black tents,
made out Of dyed skins, and when the
wind and storms wore out and and tore
loose those coverings, others of the same
kind took their places. Noah lived in a
tent, Abraham in tent, Jacob pitched
his tent on the mountain. Isaac pitch
ed his tent in the valley. Lot pitched
his tent toward Sodom. In tent the
woman Jael nailed Sisera, the general,
to the ground, first having given him
sour milk called ''leben" as a Soporlic
to make him Soundly sleep. that being
the effect of such nutrition, as modern
travellers can testify. The Syrian army
in tent. The ancient battle-shout was
ITO your tents, o Israeli" Paul was a
tent-maker. Indeed, Isaiah, magnili-
Gently poetic, indicates that all the hu-
man race live under blue tent when
he says that God ''Stretcheth out the
I L rfain nd LOT
them out rs a tent to dwell in," and
Hezekiah compares death to the strik-
ing of tent, saying my age is remov-
ed from me as shepherds tent"
In our tent in Palestine tonight
hear something | never heard before
and hope never to hear again. 1t is the
voice OF hyena amid the rocks near by.
When you may have seen this monster
putting his mouth between the iron bars
OF menageric, he is captive and he
gives a humiliated and suppressed cry.
But yOnder in the midnight on throne
of rocks he has nothing to fear and he
utters himself in loud, resounding,
terrific, almost supernatural sound,
splitting up the darkness into deeper
midnight. Ii begins with howl and
ENDS with a sound something like i
horses whining. In the hyena'S voice
are defiance and strength and blood
thirstineSS and crunch OF broken bones
and death.
am glad to say that for the most
part Palestine is clear of beasts OF prey
The leopards, which jeremiah says can
not change their spots, have all dis
appeared and the lions that once were
common all through this land and used
bv all the prophets for illustrations o
cruelty and wrath, have retreated be
= fore the discharges OF gunpowder. o.
which they have an indescribablc fear
But for the most part Palestine is wha
il originally was. With the one ex
ception of n wire thread reaching from
Joppa to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem
to Nazareth and from Nazareth Il
Tiberias and from Liberals to Damas
Gus. that one nerve of civilization TIN
= telegraphic wire for we found ourSelve
l only few minutes off from Brooklyl
g and New York while standing by LAX
u Galileel with that one exception, PaleS
+ tine is Just as il always was.
: THE EAGLE OF SCRIPTURE.
:, Nothing surprised me so much as tn
e persistence of everything. a sheep o
= horse falls dead and, though the Sk!
i may one minute before be clear OF al
t wings, in five minutes after the skiei
e are black with eagles cawing, scream
: ing, plunging, fighting for room, con
tending for largest morSels of the eX
tinct quadruped. All, now understand
the force of ChriSt'S illustration wheI
He said: "WhereSocver the carcass i
there will the eagles be gathered to
gether." The longevity of these eagle
is wonderful. They live fifty and sixty
and sometimes hundred years. All
that explains what David meant whel
he says, "Thy youth is renewed like tn
eagles" | saw shepherd with tn
folds OF his coat far bent outward and
! wondered what was contained in tha
amplitude of apparel and said to th
dragoman. "What has that shepherd
got under his coat?" And the drago
man said: 1T is very young lamb h
is carrying: it is too young and to-
, week and too cold TO keep up with th'
flock" At that mOm9nt saw the lamt
put its head out from the shepherd:
bosom. and | said, There it is now
= ISaiah's description of the tenderness o.
: God-'He shall gather the lambs Will
His arm and carry them in His bosom.
Passing by village home, in th'
Holy Land, about noon. saw grea
crowd in and around private house
and said to the dragoman: David
what is going on there?" He said
Somebody has recently died there anc
their neighborS go In for several day,
after to sit down and weep with the be
reaved." There it is, | said, the ole
scriptural custom: "And many OF the
Jews came to Martha and Mary, to com
fort them concerning their brother.
Early in the morning passing by Gem
etery in the Holy Land, ! saw among
the graves about fifty women dressed in
bluck, and they were crying: oh, my
child.'' 'Oh, my husband" "Oh, my
father" ''Oh, my mother" Our dra'
CONAN told us that every morning very
early for three mornings after burial,
the women go to the sepulchre, and
latter that every week very early Tor a
year. As saw this group just after
daybreak. | said: There it is again, the
same old custom referred to In Luxe,
the evangelist, where he says; Ger
tain women which were early at the
sepulchre."
A FAMOUS WELL.
But here we found ourselves at
Jacobs well, the most famous well III
history, most distinguished for two
things, because ii belonged TO the old
patriarch after whom IL was named,
and for the wonderful things which
Christ said, seated on this well curb, TO
the Samaritan woman. We dismount
from our horses in dizzling rain, aud
our dragoman climbing up TO the well
over the slippery stones, stumbleS ana
frighten us all by nearly falling into IL,
I measured the well at the top ana
found il six feet from edge to edge.
Some grass and weeds and thorny
browths over-hangit. In one place the
roof is broken through. Large stones
embank the wall on all sides. Our drago-
man took pebbles and dropped them
in. and from the time they
left his hand to the instant they clicked
on the bottom you could hear it was
deep. though not as deep as once, for
every day travellers are applying the
same test, and though in the time OF
Maundrell. the traveller. the well was a
hundred and sixty-fve feet deep, nowit Is
only seyenty-fve. So great is the curl
ositv of the world to know about that
well. that during the dry season zap
tain Anderson descended into this WELL
:. - ,,Iooa tho sides so close he had to