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totally blind, for excessive light
will sometimes extinguish the eyesight.
And what eomca and crystalline lens could
endure a brirbtness greater than the noon­
day Syrian sun? I had read it a hundred
times, but it never so impressed me before, !
and probably will never so impress me
again, as I took my Bible from the saddle
bags and read aloud to mir comrades in
travel, “As he journeyed he came near
Damascus, and snddenly theresbl ned round
about him a light from heaven, and he fell
to the earth and heard a voice saying unto
him. ‘Saul! Sauli Why perseentest thou
me?’ and he said. ‘Who art thou, Lord?' j
And tho Lord said, T am Jeans, whom thou I
persecutest.’ ”
But we cannot stop longer on this road,
for we shall see this unhorsed equestrian
later in Damascus, toward which his horse’s
head is turned and at which we must our­
selves arrive before night. The evening is
near at hand, and as we leave snowy Her- ,
mon behind us and approach the shadow !
of the cupolas of two hundred mosques we :
cut through a circumference of many miles i
of garden which emlwwer the city. So ■
luxuriant are these gardens, so opulent in j
colors, so luscious of fruits, so glittering '
with fountains, so rich with Irowers and
kiosks that the Mohammedan's heaven was
fashioned after what are to be seen here of
bloom and fruitage. Here in Damascus at
the right season are cherries and mulberries
and apricots and almonds and pistachios
and pomegranates and pears and apples
and p’nm» and citrons and all the richness
of the round world's pomology. No won­
der that Julian called this city “the eye of
the east,” and that the poets of Syria have
styled it “the luster on the neck of doves,”
and historians said, “It is the golden clasp
which couples the two sides of the world
together.”
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DISAPrOINTltr.ST AT IIAMASCVS.
Many travelers express disappointment
with Damascus, but the trouble is they
have carried in tbeir minds from boyhood
the book which dazzles so many young
people, “The Arabian Nights,” and they
come into Damascus looking for Aladdin’s
lamp and Aladdin's ring and the genii
All fubecriberf tr/io do not reccire their which appeared by rubbing them. But as
paper regularly will confer a favor by im­ I have never react “The Arabian Nights,”
mediately reporting the fame to this office. such stuff not being allowed around our
house in my boyhood, and nothing lighter
in the way of reading than “Baxter’s
Thursday, December 4, 1890.
Saints' Kverlastjog Rest’’ and D'Aubig-
ny's “History of the Reformation,” Da­
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mascos appeared to me as sacred and secu­
lar histories have presen ted it, and so the
city was not a disappointment, but with
few exceptions n surprise.
I’ndcr my window to-night in the hotel
DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SERIES
at Damascus I hear the perpetual ripple
ON PALESTINE.
and rush of the river Abana. Ah, the se­
cret is cut! Now I know why all this
The Text Acts ix, 3: “As He Journeyed flora and fruit, and why everything is so
green, and the plain one great emerald.
He Camo Near Damascus’’—Full lie­
The river Abana! And not far off the river
port of a Most Admirable Discourse Pharpar. which our horses waded through
Herewith Presented.
today! Thank tho rivers, or rather the
God who made the rivers! Deserts to the
B rooklyn , Dec. 7.—The New York Acad­ north, deserts to the south, deserts to the
emy of Music was filled with an audience east, deserts to the west, but itere a para­
of nearly six thou.sand persons at The Chris­ dise. And as the rivers Gihon and Pison
tian Herald service this evening when Dr. and Hiddekel and Euphrates made the
Talmage deliverer! the eleventh sermon of other paradise, Abana and Pharpar make
his series on Palestine and the adjoining this Damascus a paradise. That is what
countries. The same sermon, as on pre­ made Gen. Nunman of this city of Damas­
vious Sundays, bad been preached in the cus so mtvl when he was told for t he cure
morning to another large audience in the Of his leprosy; to go and wash in the river
Brooklyn Academy of Music. The sub­ Jordan. The river .Tenían is much of the
ject was “Damascus,*’ and the text, “As year a muddy st ream and it is never so
he journeyed he came near Damascns.”— clear as this river Ahaua that I hear rnmls
Acts ix, 3. Dr. Talmage said:
ling under my window to-night nor as the
In Palestine we spent last night, in a river Pharpar that we crossed today. They
mud hovel of one story, but camels and aro as clear as though they had licen
sheep in the basement. Yet never did the sieved through some especial sieve of the
most brilliant hotel on any continent seem monntuins. Gen. Naaman had great and
so attractive to me as that structure. If 1 patriotic pride in these two rivers of his
we had beei^obliged to stay in a tent, as we ! own country, and when Elisha the propbet
expected to do that night, wc must have told him that if he wanted to get rid of his
perished. A violent storm had opened I leprosy Im must go and wash in the Jor-
upon us its volleys of hail and snow and I dan, lie felt as we who live on tho magnifi­
rain and wind as if to let us know whiit cent. Hudson would feel if told that we
the Bible means when prophet and evan­ must go and wash in the muddy Thames,
gelist aud Christ himself spoke of the fury or as if those who live on the transparent
of the elements. The atmospheric wrath Rhine were told that they must go and
broke upon us about 1 o’clock in the after­ wash in tho muddy Tiber.
noon and we were until night exposed to 1 So Gen. Naaman cried out with a voice
it. With hands and feet benumbed, and as loud as ever he had used in command­
our bodies chilled to tho bone, we made ing his troops, uttering those memorable
our slow way. While high up on the words which every minister of the gospel
rocks, and the gale blowing the hardest, a sooner or later takes for his text: “Arc not
signal of distress halted the party, for Aban3 and Pharpar, rivera of Damascus,
down in the ravines one of tlie horses hatl better than the waters of Israel? May 1
fallen and bis rider must not be left alone not wash in them ar.d lieclejin?” Thank
amid that wilderness of scenery and horror God, wo lire in » lan 1 with plenty of rivers,
of storm. As the night approached the and that they bless ill our Atlantic coast
tempest thickened and blackened and and all our Pacific coast, and reticulate all
strengthened. Somo of our attendants tho continent between the coasts. Only
going ahead had gained permission for us those who have traveled in the deserts of
to halt for the uight in the mud hovel I Syria, or Egypt. or have in the oriental cit­
spoke of. Our first duty on arrival was ies heard the tinkling of the bell of those
the resuscitation of tho exhausted of our who sell water can realizo what it is to
party. My room was without a window, have this divine beverage in abundance.
and an iron stove without any top in the Water rumbling over the rocks, tnrning
center of the room, the smoke selecting the mill wheel, saturating the roots of the
my eyes in the absence of a chimney. corn, dripping from tho buckets, tilling
Through an opening in the floor Arab the pitchers of the household, rolling
faces were several times thrust up to see through the fonts or baptistries of holy or­
how I was progressing. But the tempest dinance, filling tho reservoirs of cities, in­
ceased during the night, and before it was viting tho cattle to come down and slake
fully day we were feeling for the stirrups their thirst and the birds of heaven to dip
of our saddled horses, this being the day their wing, ascending in robe of mist and
whose long march will bring us to that falling again in benediction of shower­
city whose name cannot bo pronounced in water, living water, God given water!
the hearing of the intelligent or the Chris­
AWAKENING IN THE MORNING.
tian without making the blood tingle and
We are awakened in the morning in Da
the nerves to thrill, and putting the best mascus l>y the song of those who have
emotions of the soul into agitation—Damas­ different styles of food to sell. It is not a
cus!
street cry as in London or New York, but
C.ESAKEA rinLipri.
a weird and long drawn out solo, com­
During tho day wo passed Caesarea pared with which a buzz saw is musical.
Philippi, the northern terminus of Christ’k It make» you inopportunely waken, and
journeying*. North of that he never went. will not let you sleep again. But to those
We lunch at noon, seated on the fallen who understand the exact meaning of the
columns of one of Herod’s palaces.
song it becomes quite tolerable, for they
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, coming to a sing: “God is the nourisher, buy my bread;”
hill top, we saw on the broad plain a city, God is the nourisher, bny my milk;’’
which the most famous camel driver of all “God is the nourisher, buy my fruit.” As
*time, afterwanl called Mohammed, the you look out of tho window you see the
prophet and the founder of the most stu­ Mohammedans, who are in large majority
pendous system of error that has ever in the city, at prayer. And if it were put
cursed the earth, refused to enter because to vote who shonld be king of all the earth,
he said God would allow no man to enter fifteen thousand in that city would say
but one paradise, and he would not enter Christ, but one hundred and thirty thou­
this earthly paradise lest^ie should I m ? de­ sand would say Mohammed. Looking
nied entrance to tho heavenly. But no from t he window, yon see on the house­
city that I over saw so plays hide and seek tops and on the streets Mohammedans at
with the traveler. Tho air is so clear the worship. The muezzin, or the officers of
distant objects seem close by. You come religion who announce the time of wor­
on the top of a hill and Damascus seems ship, appear high tip on the different min­
only a little way off. But down you go arets or tall towers, and walk around the
into a valley and you set: nothing for the minaret, inclosed by a railing and cry in a
next half hour but. barrenness and rocks sad and mumbling way: “God is great. I
regurgitated by tho volcanoes of other bear witness that there is no Go<l but God.
ages. Up another hill and down again. I hear witness that Mohammed is the
Up again/md down again. But after your apostlo of God. Come to prayers! Come
patience is almost exhausted you reach the to salvation! God is great. There is no
last hill top, and the city of Damascus, the other but God. Prayers are better than
oldest city under the whole heavens and sleep. ' Five times a day must, the Mo­
built by Noah's graadson, grows upon hammedan engage in worship. As he
your vision. Every mile of the journey begins ho turns his face toward the city
now becomes more solemn and suggestive of Mecca, aud unrolls upon the ground a
and tremendous.
rug which lie almost always carries. With
w This is the very road, for it has been the his thumbs touching the lobes of his ears,
only road for thousands of years, the road and holding his face lietjveeu his hands, be
from Jerusalem to Damascus, along which cries: “God is great.” Then folding his
a cavalcade of mounted officers went, about hands across liis girdle, ha looks down and
1,854 years ago, in the midst of them a tierce says: “Holiness to thee, O God, and praise
little man who made up by magnitude of be to thee. Great is thy name. Great is
hatred for Christianity for his dimi unlive thy greatness. There Lsnodcitybut thee.”
stature, and was the leading spirit, and, Then the worshiper sits upon his heels,
though suffering from chronic inflamma­ then he touches his nose to the rug, and
tion of the eyes, from those eyes flashed then his forehead, t hese genuflections ac­
more indignat ion against Christ’s followers companied with the cry, “Great is God.”
than any one of t he horsed procession. This Then, robing the forefinger of his right
little uiau, before his name was changed to hand toward heaven, he says: “I testify
Paul, was called Saul. So many of the there is no deity but God, and I testify
mightiest natures of all «ages are condensed that Mohammed is the servant of God, and
into smallness of stature. The Frenchman the messenger of God. " The prayers close
who was sometimes called by his troops by the worshiper holding his hands opened
“Old One Hundred Thousand” was often, upward as if to tako the divine blessing,
because of his abbreviated personal pres­ and then lib hands are rubbed over his
ence. styled “Littlo Nap.” Lord Nelson, face as if to convey the blessing to his en­
with insignificant stature to start withand tire body.
one eye put out. at Calvi an I his right arm RKASOXS rot: PRAISING .MOHAM.MEr>ANtSM.
taken off at Teneriffe, proves himself at.
There are two or three commendable
Trafalgar tho mightiest hero of tho En­ things about Mohammedanism. One is
glish navy. The greatest of American theo­ that its disciples wash before every act of
logians, Archibald Alexa der, could stand prayer, and that is five t i mes a day, and
under the elbow* of many of his contempo­ there is a gospel in cleanliness. Another
raries. Ix>ok out for little men when they commendable thing is they don’t care who
start out for some especial mission of good is looking and nothing can stop them in
or evil. The thunderbolt is only a conden­ their prayer. Another thing is that by
sation of electricity.
the order of Mohammed, and an order
SYRIA’S NOONDAY SUN.
obeyed for thirteen hundred years, no Mo­
Well, that galloping group of horsemen hammedan touches strong drink. But the
on the rz>ad to Damascus were halted polygamy, the many wifehood of Mobam-
quicker than bombshell or cavalry charge medanbm, has made that religion the un­
ever halted a regiment. The Syrian noon utterable and everlasting curse of woman,
day. because of the clarity of the atmos­ and when woman sinks the race sinks.
phere, is the brightest of all noondays, and The projiosition recently made in high ec­
the noonday sun in Syria is positively ter­ clesiastical places for the reformation of
rific for brilliance. But suddenly that noon Mohammedanism, instead of its oblitera­
there flashed from the heavens a light tion, b like an attempt to improve a plague
which m.-ule that Syrian sun seem tame as or educate a leprosy. There is only one
a star in comparison. It was the face of the thing that will ever reform Mohammedan
slain and ascended Christ looking from ism, and that is its extirpation from the
tho heavens, and under the dash of that face of the earth by the power of the goapel
overpowering light all the horses dropped of the Son of God. which makes not only
with their riders. Human face «and horse’s man, but woman, free for thb life anfl free
mane together in the dust. And thcu two for the life to come.
The spirit of the horrible religion which
claps of thunder followed uttering the two
words, the second word like the first: “Saul.’
Continued < n third page.
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