Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-10-14

security las most OF the jews tnougnt) OIL their
Temple while they paid tribute to the Romans.
o! the proud Mohammedans before my eyes were
very like the proud Jews, who Knocked at the idea
that their Temple should be thrown down.
saw now the area where they stood in their pride,
and where before generation had passed away,
no stone was left upon another and the pillow was
brought to tear up the last remains of the found
atoms Having witnessed this heart-rending sight,
the Jews were banished from the city, and were
not even permitted to see their Zion from afar
off. In the age of Constantine, they were al
lowed to approach so as to see the city from the
surrounding hilis;-a mournful liberty; like that
of permitting an exile to see his native shores
from the sea, but never to land At length, the
Jews were allowed to purchase Of the Roman
soldiers leave to enter Jerusalem once year.
on the day when the city fell before Titus.
And what to do! How did they spend that
one day of the year! l will tell; for saw it.
The mournful custom abides to this day.
have said how proud and prosperous looked
the Mosque of Omar, with its marble buildings,
its green lawns, and gay dressed people, some
at prayer under the expresses, some conversing
under the arcades female devotees in white
sitting on the grass and merry children running
on the slopes:- these ready and eager to stone
to death on the instant, any Christian or Jew who
should dare to set his foot within the walls This
is what we saw within. Next we went round the
outside till we came by narrow, crooked pas
sage to a desolate spot, occupied by desoate
people. Under high, massive, and very an
cient wall was dusty narrow space, inclosed on
the other side by the backs of modern dwellings
if | remember right. This ancient WALL where
the weeds are springing from the crevices of the
stones, is the onl part remaining of the old Tenn
pie wall md here the Jews come every Friday
to their Pic of Wailng, as it is called, to mourn
over the fall Of their Temple, and pray for its re-
storatlon. What a contrast did these humble
people present to the proud Mohammedans with.
in The women were seated in the dust, some
walling aloud, some repeating prayers with NOV
ing lips, and others reading them from books on
their knees. A few children were at play on the
ground; and some aged men sat silent, their
heads dropped on their breasts. Several young
men were leaning against the wall ,-pressnq
their forehead against the stones, and resting
their heads on their clasped hands in the crevces
With some, this waing is no form for saw
tears on their cheeks | longed to know if any
had hoped in their hearts, that they or their chill
dren of any generation should pass that WALL anC
should help to swell The cry Lift up your heads
o We gltes, that the King of Glory may come in ?
If they have any such hope, it may give some
sweetness to this rite of humili2tion. We haC
no such hope for them; and it was with unspeak
able sadness that l, for one, turned away from
the thought of the pride and tyranny within thos
walls, and the desolation without, carrying witt
me deep-fet lesson on the strength of human
filth, and the weakness of the tie of brotherhood
Alls all seem weak alike. Loo1 at the tire
gre 1t pieces Of prayer in the Holy City! Her
are the Mohammedlns eager to kill any Jew o
Christian who may enter the Mosque of Oman
There are the Christians ready to kill any Ne
hlmmedln or Jew who may enter the church {
the Holy Sepulchere And here are the Jew
pie dug ag inst their enemies,- =" Remember
o Lord, the children of E1om in the day of Jt
, rusllem who sud- raze it, raze it, even to tn
fund ton thereof o, dlughter of B lbyIon tn
art to be destroyed, happy shall be he thlt reward
eth thee as thou hast served us Happy shall h
be thlt tlketh and dlsheth thy little ones again.
the stone" SIeh are the things done and sal
in the name Of Religion