Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-02-12

the principal fertilization of the city, whilel
not an effort of their steady and perseverance
besiegers was in vain; and within few
DAYS. the warlke host Of Titus entered the
HOLY City to the CONSERVATION and dismay
of the naughty Jews. Too late did they
see the cause that enfeebled them, and too
late did they combine in battalia to meet
the deadly strife Of their persevering foes.
Beholding their walls demolished and the
happy habitations of their kindred in flames,
thew cast aside the cause of their "weak-
ness" and hand and heart combined, they
lfuriously rushed upon their heseigers, and
war. with all its most horrid, dire and dis
gushing aspects, was witnessed in the bosom
of this once pacific city. The direful roar
ing of the destroying flames, and the long
echoing clash of arms with arms, the furi-
Gus charge and the terrific retreat of horse
man with horseman, and the british yell of
fierce antagonist, resounded, and reached
along the palm-green hills of Judea, and
burst horrifying upon the ears of the dege-
nerate and confused inhabitants of Jerusa-
lem. They saw their strongest bulwarks,
those they had supposed impregnable to
mortal force, annihilated by the pondrous
engines of their enemy; they beheld the
destruction of some of their most magnif-
cent towers by the determined men of Rome;
and they saw, too, Roman hands streaming
with the bravest Hebrew blood. Yet they
feared not. Sanguine, arrogant, and infexi--
lble, they were filled with the expectation of
success; for even amidst the general clash
and ruin which environed them on every
side, was yet seen the spire of the lofty and
majestic Temple of Jehovah, whose radiance
WED with that of our noon-day sun, rearing
Its golden head to Heaven; and amidst the
scenes of horror and gloom which staIked
lin every corner of this unfortunate city, a
smile of contempt and triumph glistened
their wan countenances, when they beheld,
as yet untouched, Jehovah, their "pride and
Iboast''-an exhibition of the presence of
the Sovereign One.
Lassitude, hunger and thirst, were alike
Iforgotten-the mangled bodies of their dead
and dying friends, buried in the shoulder
ing ruins of their once happy homes, were
also disregarded when they gazed upon
their much-loved temple, sublimely point
ing its bright, FURNISHED spires to him las if
to implore his sovereign add to whose ho-
nor it had been erected. But the spirit of
their forsaken God, that once lowered over
this magnificent city, and frowned defiance
on the the impious host who dared pro-
fame its sacred shrines. tarried no longer
there-the last great sacrifice had been Of
tered-they had obstinately closed their
eyes against the ''unerring light" that ema-
mated from the star of Bethlehem, and now,
in the tormenting furnace of adversely, they
were left and forsaken by him, whom, by
their apostacy and crime, they had enraged
against them They beheld their cherished
homes on fire, without possessing the means
of extinguishing it; and in vain did they
rush to rescue their families and friends
from the sword of their bellicose Roman
foes. They only, in the attempt, sunk in
their own blood. In vain, too, did they yet
contend, with deadly strife, to defend parts
of their beloved city that had not, as yet,
been Redeemed with innocent blood, or
Ueeu udThGIlSu Will IlIc clIluFId vi SAtCliuI-
mating flames; but in vain. The fiat for It's
destruction had gone forth from the AL
mighty. and it was beyond the power of
man, physically or mentally, to digest plan
for its preservation.
They saw their last hope fade-they saw
their beloved Temple totter and fall, and
they heard the shrieks of thousands expir-
ing under its weight; they heard, too, dole
full and supplicating cries, beseeching mercy
from their iron-hearted foes, and saw their
petitions answered only in ignominious
death-and as they sank to the blood-stain
ed earth in despair, thoughts must have
clustered to their view of their own deeds,
their impious deeds, which prepared the
disgraceful end that engulfed them and the
that estranged from them their God,
They saw a million hearts blood poured
upon the desecrated soil of their city, and
thousands led to captivity; and they saw,
too, every dwelling of their happy Jerusa-
lem heaped in ruins, and thought then of
the hated, prosecuted, and crucifed Naza-
rme, who foretold, that not one stone should
remain upon another.
BEANTowN, February Sd, 1916.
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