Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-20
The Eighth of DR.. Talmage's Sc
rieS OH His Recent Journey.
Tented Life Among the BedouinS IN
Palestine-Large Villages With
out House.
Many Instances Verifying the Pib'e Truths
Clsrrya,inrs Mt .yrccb's well-A Ser.
mon Replete VIII Elcqnence'
AMONG THE BEDOUIHs.

Herald service 10 the New AoTh AS"H
tmy OF Gusic, Dr. IalmGge preached
the eighth OF the series Of sermons he 10
e.r.n. 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 vino came later were unable to
get M Dr.. Taimage's subject was
fmoug the BetouiEs, and his text,
Numbers 10: 81: 'Forasmuch rs thou
Euowes, bow We are u encamp in the
Wilderness.
Night after night we have slept in
tents III Palestine There are large viii
ln.r. ut Eednu,us without house, ana
for .a wears !he prop!c OF those places
have i.gad ia black tents, made out of
dged eE.u., ana when the winds and
eforms wore out and tore loose those
COVERINGS, others OF the same KIND took
their places. Noah lived III n tent.
Z brahun IN IL tent. Jacob pitched his
tent on the mouHtAIn. lsnac pitched his
tint IN tho valley. Lot pitched his tent
toward seldom. In Il tent the woman
Jacl nailed SiseTa, the general, to the
ground first having given him sour milk
called "lebeu, as scpo-
rite to nuke him soundly sleep,
thut being lhe effect OF such nutrition,
"a modern travellers cun testify. The
Syrian army in e tent. The ancient bat
tie shout was ITO your tents. O Israel!
Paul was "A te1tmrkrr. InGeed, Isniah,
maguilcenti- poetic, indicates that all
tire human ra"e live under blue tent
Thcn lie says thut God ''stretcheth out
TIE neavcus as e curtain ana spTeadrth
them out Us tent 20 dwell in, - and
I,z-.tigh compares death to the striking
OF g I"ut. Saying, "My age is removed
from ne as Il shepherd s tent.
~ ovE TENT IN PALESTINE
tu-nich, hear something never heard
before nud hope never TO hear again. 1t
l. the vJlcta Of a hTenn amid the rocks
near by. when you may have seen this
monster putting HE mouth between ;he
iron hrCs of menagerie, he is captive
ni.d he gives a Inundated ard suppressed
cry Bur youdcr III the midnight on Il
throne Of rocks he has nothing 10 fear
md he utters himself i'll t loud, resound-
inn, terrific, almost supernatural sound,
sultting up the darkness into deeper
u.iGuirat 1t begins with Il howl and
ems with a sound something ike a
horses whining. In the hycua g voice
p7c defiance md strength and blood
th.rst!ues9 aud crunch OF broken bones
and death.
n:l glad 10 say that for the most pnrt
PnlrsiiEe j. clear Of beusts of prey. The
Irupards. which Jeremiah says cannot
Chpuce their spots, have all Disappeared,
and III. iious that Cpce were common all
Through tits land and used by all tina
prophets for illustrations of cruelty and
wrath, have rrtTca;ed before the dis
char-es OF gUupawdcr, of which they
have uu iudescriUuhle feGr. But for the
most pnrt Palestine IS what it, originally
was. Nith the one exception Of a wire
threat reHrhiug from Joppa to Jerusa-
lem, mad from Jerusulem TO Nazareth,
and from Nazareth 20 Liberals, and
from Tiler'as To Damascus TINT one
nerve of civilization, tie Geographic
wire cor we found ourselves only few
minutes OF from brooklyn and New
YORK while standing by Lake Galiler),
with mat one exception, Palestine Is
just as 1 always wi.s.
Nothing surprised ne so much rs the
persistence OF every thing. \ sheep or
hcrs, fal!s dend and though the sky may
one minute before be clear of AL wings,
In five minutes after
Iuu SHES ARE BLACK WITH EAGLES,
cnw,ng, screaming, plunGInE, fighting
for room, cou,cndins for largest NOR
srls Of the extinct quudTupei. An, now
] understand the force of Christ 5 Illus
,TnIiCn when He said: "WheresOever
thu cGrcuse IS there will the eagles be
gathered together. - The longevity of
those eagles is wonderful. They live
flfty or sixty and sometimes 100 years
All, that explains what David meant
when he saws, 'Thy youth is renewed
like the eagles. - l suw shepherd
wiki the folds Of his coat far bent out
ward and l wondered what WIS contained
in mat amplitude of apparel
and said 10 the GCa=o-
man, "WhaG has that shepherd got
under his coat!'' And the dragoman
said: at is "A very young lamb he is
carry inE. it Is zoo young and too weak
aud ico cold TO keep up with the flock. -
At that momeutI saw the lamb put its
EeuG out from the shepherd s bosom and
said, There ii is now, Isaiah 5 de-
. scription OF the tenderness OF Gud-'He
shall gather ihe lambs with His arm and
carry hem i'll His bosom
Passing 10y a village home, in the Holy
Land Il. cut noon, ! saw great crowd III
md around "a private house, and l said
so the draEowGn: "Dav!d, what is go
inc en- tarrr!'' He said: 'Some body
has recently died there and their neigh
DuTs 20 in tor several DAYS after to sit
down and weep with the be?eaved. -
There It is, l sRir, the old scriptural Gus
tom: land many of the Jews came to
Martha and Mury, 10 comfort them con-
crIair1 their brother. - Early i'll the
morning passing by II cemetery in the
Holy Land, i SEW among the graves
about Nily women dressed in black, and
tLev were crying: "Oh, my chIld,''
''Uh, my huS6nni!'' ION, nv father!''
''Oh. ny mother!" Our Gragoman told
Us That every morning very early, for
three mornings after burial, tho wo-
men 90 10 the sepulchre. and after that
rV-Tv week very early for veSr. As
saw th.s group just after daybreak, !
Said: There it IS again, the same OLD
cHston referred to i'll Luke, the Evan
gci!st, where he says, ''Certain women
which were early AZ the sepulchre.
At JACOB : WELL
But here we found ourselves ut Jacobs
well, the most famous well in historY,
most DISTINGUISHED for two things, be
cause il belonged TO the old patriarch
after whom II was named, and for the.
wonderful things which Christ said
seated on this we'll curb, TO the Samari-
tan woman We q .smouuted from ol,r