Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-10-04
FIRST DAY IN PALESTINE.
SERMON PREACHED BY DIR. TAI
MAGE SUNDAY, SEPT. 20.

MAGE SUNDAY, SEPT. 20.
Tho Celebrated Divine Paints Wonder
fill Word Picture of the beginning of
8, His Memorable Journey to the Holy
y Land and Other Old World Regions.
BROOKLYN, Sept 2s--lu the brook
Ign Academy of Music today Dr.. T:rl-.
image began IL series of sermons on his
recent journey to the Holy Land. The
.subjcct OF today's sermon was, My
First Day in Palestine After appro-
pirate passages OF Scripture were read
the congregation sang with great spirit:
we praise thee, o tiId for tho Son OF thy love,
For Jesus. who'd aad Is now gone above.
The text was ! Kings x.7: THE
half was not told me.
= This is the first sermon in course of
Sabbath morning sermons on My Re-
cent Journey Through the Holy Land
and Neiglboring Countries: What I
Saw and What | u Learned. = Out Of
tile sixfy.folr millions of our present
American pop lation and the millions
sof our past only about Eve thousand
:liave ever visited the Ho 1ia,id IT.
EallF those Ilo Gross stos eaess tllan
/ per cent. ever &c +: as fiir:s,ls Rome,
!; ssand less than per cent. ever get to
sAthers. and less !. than a quarter OF
. per cent. ever get to p ;uestine. of the
less tharaq OF per cent. whodo
go to the Holy Land some see nothing
4 but tle.noxious insects and the filth of
]. the Oriental cities, and come back
wishing they had never gone. Of those
who see much of interest and come
.Ehome only u small portion can tell what
they have seen. the tongue unable to
report the eye.
The rarity of successful, intelligent
and happy journey through the Holy
gLand is very marked. But the time
.approaches wllcna journey to Palestine
will be common. Thousands will 90
where now there are scores Two loco
motives were recently sent up from
Joppa to Jerusalem, and railroads are
about to begin in Palestine, and the
day will come when the cry will be,
ss,Ail. out for .Jerusaloml" Twenty
minutes for breakfast Mt Tiberiasl"
|:saCllange ours for Tyre" Grand Trunk
Function for Ninevell" 'All out for
:sI)annrscusl Meanwhile the wet locks
Fol the Atlantic ocean and Adriatic and
Mediterranean seas are being shorn,
and not only is the voyage shortened.
/ sbut after IL while. without crossing the
ocean, you or your children will visit
1.-the GIoly Land a company OF CAPT
,talists have gone up 10 Behriny straits,
/ where the American and Asiatic con-
:tinents come within thirty-sjx miles Of
Injecting.
These capitalists or Others will build
la bridge across these straits, for mid
way are three islands called The
;{l)imnedes. and thu water is not deep
and is never disturbed with iccbergs.
IsTr.,ins of cars will run from America
across that bridge and on down through
5.ssSiberia. bringing under more lnncdi-
Fate observation the Russian oItraScs
against exilesa;id consequently abolish
ing them; and there are persons here
today WHO. without one qualln of sea-
sickness, will visit that wonderful land
where the ChristlilSo. Abrahanlic, Mo-
safe. Davdic. Solomonic and Herodic
Histories overlap eacil other with such
power that by the time took my feet
out of the stirrllp, ut the close of the
Journey felt so wrung ont with emo
ton that it seemed nothing else could
ever absorb my feelings again.
THE SEA Is on THE WAY.
The chief hndrance for going to Pal
estine with many is tho dreadful sea,
and though have crossed it ten times
it is more dreadful every time and
fully sympatllize with what was said
one night when Mr. Beecher and went
over to speak in New York at the ami
verslry OF the Sealnans Friend society,
and the Clergyman making the opening
prayer quoted from st. John, ''There
shall be no more sea. and Mr.. Beech
er, seated beside me, in memory of q
recent ocean voyage said. "Amen;
am glad of that" By tho partial aoo-
lition OF the Atlantic ocean and the
putting down of rail tracks across
every country in all the world, the most
sacred lund on earth will come under
the observation of so many people who
will be ready to tell Of what they saw
that infidelity will be pronounced only
another form of insanity. for no honest
man can visit the Holy Land and re-
main an infldel
This Bible from which preach has
almost fallen apart. for | read from it
tile most Of tlle events in it recorded
on the very places where they occurred.
And some Of the leaves got wet as the
waves dashed over our boat on Lake
Cialilee, and the book was jostled in the
saddle bags for many weeks, but it is
a new book to. me- newer than any
book that yesterday came out of any
of our great printing houses. All my
life | had heard OF Palestine, and had
read about it, and talked about it, and
preached about it, and sung about it,
and prayed about it, and dreamed
about it. until my anticipations were
piled up into something like Ililnalayan
proportions. an:l yet have to cry out,
as did the queen Of Sheba when she
first visited the Holy Land The half
was not told he.
FROM MANGEK TO THRONE.
In order to make the more accurate
! and vivid "a book lave been writing.
life of Christ. entitled From Man
ger to Throne, left home last Octo-