The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-10-16
ON HOLY GROUND.
Dr.. Talmage's Second Sermon
on Scenes He Saw in
Palestine.
Some Striking Pictures Of
Views Familiar to Bible
Readers.

tne scriptures ana TWO neartT songs OIL WOr-
ship by the congregation. the preacher an
nounced ashistext: Galacians l., is, Il went
up to Jerusalem
My second day in the Holy Land. We
are in Joppa. 1t is 6 o'clock in the morning,
but we must start early, for by night we IRE
to be in Jerusalem, and that city is Al miles
away. We may take camel or horse or car
riage. AS oday will he our last opportuni-
ty in Palestine for taking the wheel, We
choose that. Thehorse with harness tassleo
and jinglng, are hitched. and with drago-
man in coat OF many color5 seated in front,
we start on o road which unveils within II
hours enough to think of for oil time and all
eternity. Farewell Mediterranean with such
blue rs no one but the divine Chemist could
mix; and such a fire o: morning glow, as
only the divine illumination could kindle!
Hail! Mountains OF Ephram and Juda
whose ramparts OF rocks we shall mount in
a few hours, for modern engineers can make
road anywhere, and without piling Ossa
upon Pelion, those giants can scale the heav.
ems. ..5..
We start out of the city amid barrcades of
cactus on either side. Not cacti in boxes
two or three feet high but cactus higher
than the top o. the carriage-a plant that
has more swords for defense, considering the
AmOunG OF beauty III can eNnlDlU, Gnan
anything created. We passed out amid
400 gardens, seven or eight acres to the
garden, from which at the right seasons are
plucked oranges lemons, figs, olives. citron,
and pomegranates, and which hold up their
censers o. perfume before the Lord III perpetu-
al praise. We meet great professions Of cam
els loaded with kegs OF oil and fruits, and
some wealthy Mohammedan with four wives
three too many. The camel is a proud,
mysterious, solemn. ancient, ungainly. ma
jestic, and ridiculous shape. stalking out of
the past. The driver with his whip taps the
camel the foreleg, and he knees to take
you as a rider. But when he rises, hold fast
or you will fall of backward as he puts his
foreteet in standing posture and then you
will fall off in front as his backlegs take their
place. But the inhabitants are used to his
ways and although ! find the riders often
dismount and walk as thoagh to rest them
selves Better stand out OF the path of the
camel; he stops for nothing and seems to
look down. and in the street saw a child by
the stroke OF cameis 'front.' foot, hurled
seven or eight feet along the ground.
Here we meet people with faces, and arms,
and hands tatooed. as in all lands sailors
TAFT 90 their arms with some avorite ship or
admired face. 1t was to this habit of tat
tooing among the Orientals that God refers
in a figure, when He says OF His church, 81
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 the farms, SO the Bible says,
1.-The kings heart is in the hands of the
Lord and He turneth it as the rivers OF
water are turned wthersoever He WILL
The Jews in Palestine. AS we pass out
and on We find about 500 acres belong
ing to the Universal 1sraelitish Alliance.
Monetefore, the lsraelitish Gentleman and
philant hropist, and Rothschild, the bank
er, and Others of the large-hearted have
paid the passage to Palestine, for many
OF the 1sraelites, and set apart lands for their
culture; and it is only a beginning of the full
filment OF divine prophecy, when these peo-
pie shall take possession of the Holy Land
The road from Joppa to Jerusalem and all
the roads leading to Nazareth and Gallee
we saw lined with professions of Jews, going
to the sacred places, either on holy pilgrim
age. or as settlers. All the fingers OF Proyi-
dence now a-days are pointing toward that re-
sumption o Palestine by the lsraelites do
nottakeit that heprospered Israelites of 9TH
erlands are to go there. They would be fool
ish to leave their properties in our Ameri-
can cities where they are among our best
citizens, and cross two seas to begin life over
again in O. strange land. But the outrages
heaped upon them in Russia. and the insults
offered them in Germany, will soon quad
ripple and centuple the procession of Israel
ties from Russia to Palestine.
Facilities for getting there will be multi
pleu, HOT only III Une TulrOaQ from JODDu to
Jerusalem. to which Irefe1red last Sabbath
as being built. but permission for road
from Damascus to the Bay of Acre has been
obtained, and thut Of course will soon con
meet with Joppa, and make one great ocean
shore railroad. So the railroad from Jeru-
salem to Joppa,. and from Joppa to Damas.
Gus, will soon bring all the Holy Land within
q few hours OF connection. Jewish colonial
ton societies in England and Russia, are
gathering money for the transportation of
the Israelites to Palestine, and for the pur-
chase for them CT lands and farming i'm
PIGMENTS, and so many desire 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 1000 or 5,0OOyear
to make God forget His promises. those
who are prospered in other lands, will do
well to stay where they are. But let the
israelites who are deprecated, and attacked
and prosecuted turn their faces towards
the rising sun OF their deliyerance God will
gather in that distant land those Of that
race who have been maltreated and He will
blast with the lightnngs 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 which
belonged Abraham, and David, and Joshua.
and Baron Hirsch and Monte ore, and Paul
the Apostle, and Mary the Virgin, and Jesus
Christ the Lord.
Yelled women. On the way across the
plain of Sharon we meet many yelled
women. 1t is not respectable Tor them
to go unveiled, and it is a veil that is
so hung as TO make them hideous.
A man may not see the face of his
wife until after betrothal, or engagement ol
marriage. Hence the awful mistakes and
the unhappy homes Tor God has made the
face an index of character, and honesty or
dishonesty usually is demonstrated in the
features. l do not see what God made O fair
lace ifit were not to be looked at But here
comes the crowds OF disfgured women down
the road on their way to Joppa, bundles Of
sticks Of frewood on their heads They
started at three O'Clock in the morning to
get the fuel They stagger underline burdens.
Whipped and beaten will some of them be il
their bundle OF sticks is too small All that
is required for enforcement is for man to
say to his wife: . BE off, don't want you
any more" Woman is a slave in all lands,
& except those in which the gospel Of Christ
makes her a queen And yet in Crstian
Z countries there are women, posing as scep.
tics. and men with 'amy derding the only
religion that makes sacred ard honorable
the names Of VIE mother, daughter and
sister.
What is that? Town Of Ramiel, birth
place, residence and tomb OF Samuel, the