Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-11-22
REV. DIR, TALMAGE.
Ia. BR0caLYN DIvINE's SUNDAY
SERMON.

totrdrd the a0rH. Ezekiel viii. 3.
At one O'Clock on a December afternoon.
through Damascus gate, We are passing cut
OF Jerusalem for q journey Isorthvard Ho
for Bethel, with its stairs. the bottom step Of
which was a stone pillow and Jacobs we'll.
with its immortal colloquv: and Nazareth.
with its divine boy in HIS fathers carpenter
shop, aud the most glorious lake thar ever
rlppled or flashed
Blue Gslilee. sweet Gatilee.
The lake where Jesus loved 20 be:
AMI Damascus, with its crooked street called
Straight, and a hundred places charged and
surcharged with apostolic, evangelistic. pro-
phetIc, patriarcLaI, kIngly and Christly rem
IniscenceS.
In travelling along the roads OF Palestine [
am impressed, as could not other " ise have
been, with the fact that Christ for the most
part went afOot. We find Him occasionally
on q boat, and once riding In a triutnphal
procession, az II Is sometimes called although
IT seems To me that the hosannas Of the crowd
could not ha We made Il ride on a stubborn,
unlmpresslve and funny creature like that
which battered with Him into Jerusalem
very much OF a triumph. But We are made
to undertand that generally He walked. How
much that means only those know who have
gone over the distance ira versed by
Christ.
We are accustomed to read that Bethany
Is two miles from Jerusalem Well any man
III ordinary health san walk two miles with
Ohb ioliSb|. bttl IpI llo lDdn DuS IIuu
out Of a thousand can wall: from Bethany u
Jerusalem without exhaustion. IL Is over
the Mount Of Olives, and you must climb up
among the rolling stones aud descend where
~exertion IS necessary 10 keep you from fall
ing PROSTATE. l, who am accustomed TO
walk fifteen or twenty miles without lasal-
tnde, tried part q this road over the Mount
Of Olives, and confess that l would not want
10 try it often, such demand does it make
upon ones physical energies. Yet Christ
xuallal ~ ,yt.n a. INV IL, fho I,,t, prnr,
Bethany 10 Jerusalem, and in the evening
from Jerusalem 10 Bethany.
likewise 1t seemed Il mall thing that
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Nazareth.
But it viii take us four days Of hard horse
back riding, sometimes on a trOt and some
times on a gallop, u do it this week The
: way is mountainous in the extreme. To
those who went up to the Tip Top house on
Mount Washington before the railroad was
laid | will say that this journey from Jeru-
salem TO Nazareth is like seven suoh Ameri-
can journeys. So, all up and down and
across and recrossing Palestine, Jesus walked.
Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon rode.
Herod rode. Antony rode. But Jesus
walked With swollen ankles and sore
muscle, Of the legs aud 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 n new horss other
than that on which we had ridden on the
lOAIA lVf ~ tAo i'p0i b'O " hP AIa hufl
which our close acquaintancesllip had devel-
oped. But after some experimenting with
other quadrupeds 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 thr ough the
valley and then up on Mount Scopus aud.
as our %dragoman tells us that this Is the last
opportunity We shall have of looking at Je-
rusalem, we turn our horses head toward
h .tu md L a lAnr Sn3 and rIIiI
look at the religions capital Of our planet.
This is the most impressive 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 tho besieging armies en-
camped the night before opening their vol
leys of death against Jerusalem. Our last
look, Farewell, Mount Zion, Mount
Moriah, Mount of Olives. Mount Calvary
VIII we never SEQ them again? Never.
The world is SO large and time is so short,
and there are 50 many things we have never
seen at all that wecannot afford to duplicate
visits or see anything more than once. Fare
well, yorder thrones Of gray rock, and the
three thousand years of architecture and
battlefelds. Farewell, sacred, ~sanguinary,
triumphant, Inundated Jerusalem! Across
this valley of the Kedron with my right
hand ! throw thee q kiss Of valedictory. Oni
last look, like our first look. an agitation OF
body, mind and soul indescribable
And now, like Ezekiel i'll my tent, | lift
Ip mine ewes the wav toward the north
Near here was one OF the worst tragedies o
the ages mentioned in the Bible. a hospitabl
old man coming home at eventid" from hi
work in the fields finds two strangers. Il hus
band and wife, proposing TO lodge III tn
street because no shelter is Offered them, AM
invites them to come and spend the night IL
his home. During the night the ~rutiians o
the neishborhood conspired together, an'
surrounded tho house, and left the woman
dead on the doorstep, and the husband, t
rally in revenge the twelve tribes
cut the corpse Of the women int
twelve parts and sent a twelfth of it 10 eac
tribe. aud The fury Of the nation was reused
and a pereulptory demand was made for th
surrender ot the a>sassins, and, the denfan
refused. III ono aay twenty thousand Peep
were left dead on the field and the next da
eighteen thousand. Wherever our horse {
cay pants ms foot III tnu>e ancient times
corpse lay. and the roaiS we're crosse by re
rNuiet> al carnage.
Now We pass ON IL where seven Youth
were put 10 death ANA their bodies gil
bete'! or hung IL chains. not for anythin
they had themselves done, hut as n repair
atipA Tor wi.at thh.g fAaer and grand
father, saul, bad done KtrIal was aeule,
the~e youths from May until November
El7paG, the mother OF two Of the<. laa,
hoNS, appoints herself ms sentinel t. guar.
the seven oTp>sS from hpaA II raven am
toCtE" W"If hhi IA" or lion. She PIT che
II black tent on the rock close by tn
gibh-ts. Eizpal - day 81, on tha grouu,
IN lFoHF q her tenn, and When Il yultire be
gins to lower ouf OF the nconday Sky <eekiu
Us prey among the Gibb,I> Rizpah rises. he
ionE hair fiyInG III the Wind. and SWiugial
her arms wildly about sucos away III,
hlrd OF prey until II retreats u i~tSeyrie. A
nlEht she rests under the shadow Of her tent
anu sometimes fails into 81 drowSinesS or hal
sleep. but the step OF Z iackal among tn
uiy leaves or tht painting OF a hvena arouss
hef, aild with the fury If a maniac she rushe
ont upon the rock srying, Away Away
anu then, examining the gibbets u sac tina
they stu keep then burEien, returns again I
her tent tall some sw coping wing from til
nIisnight sky or some growing monster Q
the rock again wakes her.
A mother watching her dead clildre
through May, June, july. August, septe,l
Der and October What "a vigil Painter
have tried 70 put upon canvas the scene, an
they succeeded N sketthinE the hawks in ii
SKY and the panthers crawling out from Il
jungle, but they fail 10 give the wannes