Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1894 — MISTAKES OF TALMAGE. [ARTICLE]

MISTAKES OF TALMAGE.

law Tilings in Palestine That Aren*; There, the Rev. Dr. Hall Says. New. York Sttn ~ At the Baptist Ministers’ Conference in the Tabernacle Baptist Church, 166 Second avenue, recently, the Rev. Dr. Robert Bruce Hull, of the Greenwood Baptist Church, Brooklyn, spoke of his recent visit to Palestine. Dr. Hull said that he had always believed the Bible to be true, and now he knows it to be true. To Dr. Talmage the speaker applied the saying: “It is better not to know so many things than to know so many that are not so.” “In one of his sermons,” he said, “occurs the sentence, ‘The ro.id from Joppa to Jerusalem and all the roads leading to Nazareth and Galilee we saw lined with processions of Jews going to the sacred places, either on holy pilgrimages or as settlers.’ The preacher of the sermon must have bad good eyes. Nobody else saw them. I am sure. As a fact, that is not so. Of course it isthereporter who must have made the mistake. There are no crowds of Jews there. It is true they are coming in, but they are few in tHtmbers, and they are the poorer Jews for whom Rothschild and MonteBore have built houses. Another mistake in the sermon is where mention is made that all through the journey in Palestine lirearms are required. He says: ‘While the only weapon I had on my person was a New Testament, we went through a region where I said to the dragoman, ‘David, are you armed?’ and he said -Yes;’ and I said, ‘Are those fifteen or twenty muleteers and baggagemen and attendants armed?" and he said ‘Yes,’ and I felt safer.’ He might have required arms but we did not. Not a muleteer in Palestine carries an arm. There is not one that needs one. The dragoman wears a belt in which he carries a pistol, but it is not for use so much as it is a badge of office, like , a policeman’s club. Not a muleteer is armed on the west side of Jordan. It is different on the east side, but there no traveler goes.”