Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-30

stood by any butthose to whom the name
Eof the Temple has been sacred from theiI
earliest years. None but Mahommedans
may enter the enclosure now; no Jew
nor Christian. The Jew and Christian
who repel each other in Christian lands,
are under the same ban here. They are
alike excluded from the place where Sol.
ONION built and Christ sanctified the Tenn.
pie of Jehovah; and they are alike mock.
ed and insulted, if they draw near the
gates, OF course, we were not satisfied
without seeing allthat we could see of this
place-now occupied by the mosque OF
Omar-the most sacred spot to the Mo.
hammedans, after Mecca. We could sit
under the Golden Gate, outside the walls:
we could measure with the eye, from the
bed of the brook Hebron, the height ofthe
walls which crowned Moriah, and from
amidst which once arose temple courts.
We could sit where Jesus sat on the slope
of Ohvet, and look over TO the height
whence the glorious Temple once com
manded the valley Of Jehosaphat, which
lay between us and it but this was not
enough. If we could see more. We had
gone to the threshold of one of the gates.
as far as the faithful permit the infidel to
go; and even there we had insulting
warnings not to venture further, and were
Knocked by little boys. From this thresh.
old we had looked in; and from the top
of the city wall we had looked down upon
the enclosure, and seen the external beau
~ ofthe Mohammedan usurpers. But we
could SEE yet more from the roof of the
Governors house and there we went
accordingly.
The enclosure was spread out like a
map below us !; and very beautiful was
the mosque, built Of variagated marbles,
and its vast DOM md its noble marble
platform, with its flights of steps and light
arcades, and the green lawn which sloped
away all round, and the row of cypre IS
trees under which company Of worship.
pers were at their prayers. But how
could we, coming from Christian land,
attend much to present things, when the
sacred past seemed spread out before our
eyes! | was looking, all the while, 10
see where the Sheepgate was, through
which the lambs for sacrifice were bro't !;
and the Watergate, through which the
priest went down to the spring of Sloan,
for water for the ritual publication.
saw where the Temple itself must have
stood, land planned how far the outer courts
extended-the court Of the Gentiles, the
court of the women, the treasury, where
the chest stood on the right of the en-.
trance, and the right hand might give
without the left hand knowing; and the
place where the scribes sat to teach, and
where Christ so taught iii their jealous
presence as to make converts of those who
were sent to apprehend him. l saw
Whereabouts the altar must have stood,
and where arose, night and morning for
long centuries, the smoke ofthe sacrifices
| saw where the golden vine must have
hung its clusters on the front of the Holy
Place, ard where, again. the innermost
chamber must have been, the Holy of
Holes, the dwelling place of Jehovah,
where none but the high priest might en-
ter, and he only once a. year. These
places have been familiar to my minds
eye from my youth up, almost as familiar
as my own house; and now looked at
the very ground they had occupied. and
the very scenery they had commanded,
with an emotion that the ignorant or care
less reader Of the New Testament could
hardly conceive Of And the review of
time was hardly less interesting than that
of place. Here my thoughts were led
back to the early days when David and
Solomon chose the ground, and levelled
the summit Of Mount Moriah, and begin
the Temple of Jehovah. could see the
lavishing of Solomon's wealth upon the
ediice, and the fall of its pomp under its
invaders who worshipped the sun, and the
rebuilding in the days of Nehemiah, when
the citizens worked at the walls with arms
in their girdles; and in the full glory and
security Gas most of the Jews thonght) of
their Temple while they paid tribute to
the Romans. Oh! the proud Mohamme.
dams 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 genera
ton had passed away. no stone was left
upon another, and the plough was brought
to tear up the last remains of the founda-
tons. Having witnessed this heart
1 breaking sight, the Jews were banished
from the city, and were not even permit
ted to see the Zion from afar off. In the
i age of Constantine they were allowed to
approach so as to see the city from the
surrounding hilfs-a mournful liberty,like
| that Of permitting an exile to see his ma
tive shores from the sea, but never to land.
( At lehgth,th Jews were allowed to pur.
4 chase of the Roman soldiers leave to en-.
/ Ter Jerusalem once a year-on the Gay
when the city fell before Titus. a@3ni p
8 And what TODD? How did they spend
4 that one day in the Hear1a will tell: fol