. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . f Jonah and the whale, is more a mystery than theBible event itself. The same thing has occurred a thousand times. The Lordalways has a whale waiting outside the harbor for a man who starts in thewrong direction. Recreant Jonah! I do not wonder that even the whale wassick of him. Now the sun is sinking behind the hills, and my first day in Palestine isclosing. Never will I forget Joppa, the city by the sea, city of architecturaledhills; city where Dorcas immortalized her needle and conquered death on herown pillow; and city where
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . f Jonah and the whale, is more a mystery than theBible event itself. The same thing has occurred a thousand times. The Lordalways has a whale waiting outside the harbor for a man who starts in thewrong direction. Recreant Jonah! I do not wonder that even the whale wassick of him. Now the sun is sinking behind the hills, and my first day in Palestine isclosing. Never will I forget Joppa, the city by the sea, city of architecturaledhills; city where Dorcas immortalized her needle and conquered death on herown pillow; and city where the two dreams of Peter and Cornelius met; andwhere Napoleon on the retreat had his sick soldiers poisoned, because he couldnot take them down through Egypt; city at whose harbor floated the timber-rafts for two temples, the ox-teams drawing through these streets the cedars forJerusalem. To-day, I have seen floating the American flag, the English flag, the Rus-sian flag, the Turkish flag, and the Mohammedan dropping his forehead to the A SACRED PILGRIMAGE 135. 136 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK earth in devotion, and all nations on the streets of one of the strangest citiesI ever beheld. • This morning, for the first time, I have seen a man take up his bed andwalk. He had slept out of doors, and now he rolls together a blanket and pillowand a mattress, with a cord binds them securely, and then shoulders the bundle,which he easily carries away. I am glad that we came now instead of some years hence, when much of the religious romance will have been banished forever. A banker of Joppa, assisted by others, is about to begin to build a railroad from Joppa to Jerusalem. When this railroad is done, the steam whistle will be heard at Joppa, and the conductors cry, All aboard for Jerusalem! Then branch roads will be built, and the cry will be, Twenty minutes for dinner at Nazareth, Change cars for Damascus, All out for the Grand Trunk to Nineveh, and camel and mule and drago
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