The Opelousas courier., 1891-02-21
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.

ra SPPa, = ~ O'CLOCK In the morning. but
be In oerasaleni, a1ua that eity is fortq.on e
miles away, We may take camel or horse
ercarfiage. As to-day will be our last op-
pcrtunity In Palestine for taking the w.eeI
We choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseied and jingling, are hitehed, and, with
ofagonlah In coat OF many eolors seated in
'front.'. We start On a road which Unveils in
WE'VE hours enough b think of for all time
and all eternity. Farewell. Mediterranean
with such a blue as no one but the Divina
chemist could mix, and such a fire of morning
gov as only the Divine illumination could
Kindle. Hail. mountains of Ephraim and
oudeas whose rampafts of rock Ys shall
mount In . few honfsi fol- modern engineers
can make a road anywhere, and, without
pilng ossa upon Pelion, those giants can
scale the heavens.
We start out of the city amid barricades
or cactus on either side. Not cacti In boxes
TWO or three feet high, but cactus higher
tnan the top of the carriages plant that
mas more swords for defense. considering
the amount of beauty ii can exhibit, than
anything created. We passed out amid
about four hundred gardens, seven OF eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges, lemons,
figs, olives, citron and po~megranates, and
which hold up their censers of perfume be-
fore the Lord In perpetual praise. meet
great professions of camels loaded with kegs
OF oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mohamnnedan with four wives-three too
many.
The camel is a proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape, stalking out of the past. The driver
with his whip taps the CAMEL ON the fore
leg, and he ki1eels to take you as a rider.
But when he rises hold fast Or YOU will
1all or backward as he puts his fore feet
In standing posture, and then you will fall
on III front as his back legs take their
place. But the inhabitants are use to his
ways. although I find the riders often dis
mount and walk as though to rest them
selves. Better stand out of the path of the
camel-he stops for nothing and seems not
to~fook down; and in the street I saw a
child by the stroke of q camel's front foot
hurled sever or eight feet along the
ground.
Here we meet people with faces and arms
and hands tattooed, as in all lands sailors
tattoo their arms with some favortte ship
or admired face. 1t was TO this habit Of
tattooing among the orientals that God
refers in a figure when he says Of his church,
~ 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
Eli A1t6AS dIS buKEGA Ul4b N6y dnA u10u "
water the gardens OF farms, SO the Bible
says, 1.-THE kings heart is In the hands OF the
Lord, and he turneth it as theriversof water
are turned whithersoever he wnl.n
As we pass out and on we find about eight
hundred acres belonging to the Universal
Israelitish alliance MSntefore, theIsraelit-
ish c~entenarian Iland philanthropist. and
large hearted have paid the passage to Rales-
tine for many of the Israelites, and set apart
lands for their culture; and it Is only a be-
ginning of the fulfillment of divine prophecy,
when these people shall take possession of
the Holy Land. The road from Joppa to
Jerusalem, and all the roads leading to
Nazareth and Galilee, we saw lined with pro-
cessions of Jews going to the sacred places,
either on holy pilgrimage or as settlers. All
the fingers OF Providence nowadays are
pointing toward that resumption OF Pales-
time by the IsraeIites. ] do not take it that
the prospered Israelites Of other lands are TO
20 there. They would be foolish to leave
their properties in our American cities,
where they are among our best citizens, and
cross two seas to begin life over again In a
strange land.
But the outrages heaped upon them In
Russia, and the insults offered them in Ger
many, will soon q~uadruple and centuple the
procession of Israelites from Russia to Pal.
estine. Facilities for getting there will be
multiplied, not only in the railroad from
Joppa to Jerusalem, to which [ referred last
Sabbath as being built, but permission TOT q
road from Damascus to the Bay of Acre has
been obtained, and that Of course will soon
connect with, Joppa and make one great
ocean shCa9 railroad. So the railroad from
Jerusalem to Joppa, and from Joppa to Da-
mascus, will soon bring all the holy Land
within a few hours Of connection. Jewish
colonization societies in England and Russia
are gathering money for the transportation
of the ~Israelites to Palestine, and tor the
~purchasefor them Of lands n farming inn
Elements. 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 one
thousand or Ave thousand years to make
God forget His promises. Those who are
prosparedin other lands will do well TO stay
where they are. But let the Israelites who
are depreciats and attacked and prosecuted
turn their faces towards the rising sun OF
their deliyerance. God viii gather in that
distant land those of that race who nave
been maitreated, and He win blast with the
lightnings of Ills o~mnipotence those lands or
either side of the Atlantic which nave been
the instruments Of annoyance and harm to
that Jewish race, to which belonged Abra-
IAN anu OAVlu anu Joshua alu BdTOu
Hirsch and Montefore and Paul the Apostle
end Mary the Virgin and Jesus Christ the
Lord.
IN the way across the plain of Sharon we
meet many yelled women. 1t is not respect
able for them to go unveiled, and it is a veil
that is SO hung as to make them hideous. A
man may not even see the face of his wife
until after betrothaI or engagement Of mar
riage. Hence the awful mistakes and the
unhappy homes, for God has made the face
an index OF character, u honesty or dlshon-
esty usually is demonstrated in the features.
I do not see what God made fair face for if
It were not to be looked at. But here come
the crowds OF disfgufL women down the
road on their way to Joppa, bundles of sticks
for fire-wood on their heads. They started
at three o'clock in the morning to get the
fuel. They stagger under the burdens.
Whipped and beaten will some of them be II
their bundle of sticks is too small. All that
is required for enforcement is for a man to
saw to his wife, stBe of, I don't wantyou any
more.s Woman a slave in all lands, except
those in which the Gospel of Christ makes
her d queen. Aud yet in Christian countries
there are women posing as skeptics, and men
with family deriding the only religion that
makes sacred and honorable the names of
wife. mother. daughter and sister.
What is thats Town of Ran1leh, BIRTH
nlaee residence and tomb OF Samuel. the
glorious prophet Near by, Tower Of Forty
Martyrs so called because that number of
disciples persisted there for Christs sake,
but if towers had been built for all those
who In the time OF war as in time OF peace
have fallen on this. road during the ages
past You might almost walk on turFets from
Joppa 30 Jerusalem.
Now we passed the guard houses, which
are castles Of chopped straw and mud where
at night and partly through the day armed
men dwell and keep the bandits of travellers.
In the caves of these mountains dwell men
90 whom massacre would be high play and
q Nurse with q few pennies would be COM