The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-01-17
REErR. IALMAGE.
THE SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subjoof: 1.-The WUMtlerful Distance
Traversed by Christ"

toUdrd the north. Ezekiel viii. s.
At one o'clock on a December afternoon!
through damascus gate, we are passing out
OF Jerusalem for a journey northward. Hol
for Bethel, with its stairs, the bottom step of
which was a stone pillow; and Jacobs we'll
with its immortal colloquy; and Nazareth,
with its divine boy in His fathers carpenter
shop, and the most glorious lake that ever
rippled or flashed
Blue Galilee. sweet Gaiee,
The lake where Jesus loved to be;
and Damascus, with its crooked street called
Straight, and hundred places charged and
surcharged with apostolic, evangellstic, pro-
Phetlc, patriarchal, kingly and Christly rem
iniscences.
In travelling along the roads of Palestine /
am Impressed, as l could not otherwise have
been, with the fact that Christ for the most
part went afoot. We find Him occasionally
on boat, and once riding in a triumphal
procession as it Is sometimes called, although
II seems to me that the hosannas of the crowd
could not have made a ride on a stubborn
unlmpTesslve 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 hav,
Christ.
We are accustomed to read that Bethan,
is two miles from Jerusalem. We'll. any man
IN ordinary health can walk two mile, r-ith
out fatigue. But not more thsS one mar
out OF thousand can walk from Bethany Re
Jerusalem without exhaustion. 1t ia owe,
the Mount OF Olives, and you must climb ur
among the rolling stones and descend wher.
;. Is necessary to keep you from fall
ing PROSTATE. /, who am accustomed r.
walk hfteen or twenty miles without Iassi
tude, tried part OF this road over the Mount
OF Oiives, and confess that would not want
10 try 1t often, such demand does it max,
upon ones physical energies. Yet Chris,
walked II twice a day-in the morning from
Bethany to Jerusalem, and in the eYenino
from Jerusalem to Bethany.
Likewise it seemed a small thine tba,
Christ walked from Jerusalem to Nazaratb
put IL VIII take us four DAYS Of bard horse.
back riding, sometimes on a trot and soma
times on gallop, to 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 oi'1 wan y.
laid will say that this journey from Jeru. |
salem to Nazareth is like seven such Amer;. |
can journeys. 3d. all I'D and down and |
across and recrossing Palestine. Jesus walked
Ahab rode. David rode. Solomon rode
herot rode: Antony rode But Jesus
walked Wrh swollen ankles and sore
JOINTS and painting lungs and faint head,
along the roads and where there were no
roads at all Jesus walked.
we Tried TO get new horse other
than that on which we had ridden on the
journey to the Dead Sea, for he had faults
winch our close acquaintanceship had deveL
oped. But after some experimenting with
other quadrrpeds of that species, and f}ndino
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 through tho
valley ard then up on Mount Scopus and.
as our dragoman tells us that this is the last
opportunity we shall have of looking at Je.
rusaiem, We turn our horses head toward
the city and take long. sad and thrilling
LOOK at the religious capital of our planet.
ms Is the most impressive view of the most |
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 worsb;I
Here most of the besieging armies an.
,amped the night before opening their vol.
eys OF death against Jerusalem. Our last
ooc. Farewell, Mount Zion. Mount
Moriah, Mount of Olives, Mount CalvaryI
VIII we never see them again, Never.
he world is so large and time is so short
lnd there are so many things we have never
zen at all, that we cannot afford to duplicate
'isits or see anything more than once. Fare.
veil, yonder thrones Of gray rock, and the
hree thousand years of architecture and
'attlefields. Farewell, sacred. sangri,arv
Inundated Jerusalem! Across
his valley of the Kedron with nv RIGHT
and throw thee kiss of valedictory Our
asst look. like our first look, an agitation of
'ody, mind and soul indescribable.
And now, like Ezekiel in nv tent I lift
p mine eyes the way toward the north. | I
.ear here was one of the worst tragedies of ,
ne ages mentioned in the Bible A hospitable
10 man coming home at eventido from his s
FORK In the fields finds two strangers, a hus- {
and and wife, proposing to lodge in the
treet because no shelter is offered them and
1vites them to come and spend the night in
1 home During the night the ruffisns of .
ne nelghborhood conspired together and I
lrrounded the house, and left the woman =
cad on the doorstep, and the husband. TO I
ally In revenge the twelve tribes, G
ut the corpse Of the woman into q
we've parts and sent twelfth of it to eacn
'lbe. and the fury of the nation was reused.
nd a peremptOry demand was made for tho {
irrender OF the assassins, and, the demand =
efused, in one day twenty thousand people =
ere left dead on the field and the next day
ghteen thousand. Wherever our horse to-
ny plants his foot in those ancient times a y
'rpse lay, and the roads were crossed byred n
vulets of carnage
Now We pass on to where seven Youths a
ere put TO death and their bodies gib- =
eco or hung IN chains, not for anything =,
icy had themselves done, but as a repar u
i0n for what their father and grand !.
ther, Saul, had done. Burial was denied y
ese youths from May until November. q
i-pah, the mother of two of these dead II
'ys, appoints herself as sentinel to guard Oh
e seven corpses from beak of raven and pl
9th OF wolf and paw of lion. She pitches ii
o'ack tent on the rock close by the &!
lbets. Rizpah by day sits on the ground Sc
front OF her tent, and when vulture be- -
Is TO lower out OF the MONDAY sky seeking m
prey among the gibbets Rizpah rises. her n,
'g hair flying in the wind, and swinging r.
arms wildly about Shoes away the it