The Columbian fountain., 1846-05-04

III you enllSMen the people, Lnat
is but half the work. Let thembe made virtuous and
religious, or you leave them exposed to danger
than they were before"
The folwing elegant lines are from the
pen Of Krummacher
Jerusalem is the city of the great King
Where is Jerusalem !? Where tears of
mourning after God start into the eye; where
the knee and the heart are bowed at the
throne of grace where the hands of faith
are lifted to the cross, and lips of sincerity
utter their prayers and praise-there is Je-
rusalem.
This is the lovely city of God, on whose
towering heights the banner of the cross
waves this is the JOY of the whole earth,
and this alone of cities There is nothing
beautiful, nothing noble, nothing worthy
Of regard but Jerusalem. Who would like
to dwell in the wilderness of this world, if
Jerusalem, with it's peaceful tabernacle, did
not stand in the midst ofito What is it
makes this life of banishment tolerable ? 1t
is Jerusalem.
Jerusalem 0, it is good to be within
thy walls, to sit together as fellow-citizens
according to the new birth; to sing together
in the ways of the Lord, that great is the glo-
ry of the Lord in the midst of us to speak
often with one another upon faiths bright
prospects that lie before us, to number up
our Joys with which the stranger inter-
meddleth not,'' or to place ourselves at the
windows toward the East and breath the
morning air Of the everlasting day, and re-
fresh ourselves with thoughts of the bliss
full futurity that awaits us. o Jerusalem,
if forget thee, let my right hand forget her
cunning"
Where are the treasures of God display
ed, and the jewels of Heaven exhibited ;
Where burn the torches of eternal light,
and where springs up the fountain of peace
and JOY which is inexhaustible : Where
does the soul look into the opened books
Of life ? Where does the true Israelte OBJ
tain the oil Of JOY from the finty rocks ?
Where drops the balm which heals every
wound? Where but in Jerusalem "They
shall prosper that love thee, Q Jerusalem
They shall go from strength TO strength
who set their heart upon the ways OF
Zion :"
But if all this is true of the spiritual Je-
rusalem on earth, what shall say of the
Jerusalem which is above, which lies on
the other side Of the river of death, where
the everlasting palm trees grow, and the
still waters flow from eternal hills, and the
angels sing to their golden harps among the
trees of paradise Thither we are journey
ing, we happy pilgrims, from Jerusalem, TO
Jerusalem whilst those who love the
world, and the things that are in the world,
are on their way to Tophet, to the valley
of destruction, we are going to full and
cheerful day, and on our staff is inscribed
I" The citizenship OF Heaven" And if we
sometimes appear to you as those that
dream, and you see our eyes glistening with
tears whilst looking at the far blue distance,
it is because of our longing for home. And
all you can say is, "They are weeping for
Jerusalem
And who has built us the city, and who
has made it so beautiful for US /? "Jerusa-
lem i, the city of the great king" Here
is my rest forever /; here will dwell saith
he. He dwells there, and the city rests peace
fully under the wings of his love. We are
travelling to jerusalem