Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-12-01

h-auttui iha1 toe R81f. u Ties deep ln e cave
nd mus, BE- reached by brnad steps wuich wind
d1wn ia ihr shadow. woman sat to-day 10
the din light Of re0.cirl sJnshiue-va>hing
lin-n ia the pool Here 1t was. IhaI in days of
ud The priest came down With his golden pitch
90. To- draw water E,r the temple service; aud
huber ii va. thai the thought Of Milton came
when he sang Of
H' Siloas brook that flowed
Fas, By the orlceot Col.
WeMsre now in the valley Of Jrhoshaphui;
aud w.. crnSs,d the bottomof il. .whcrcthe bronx
krdron must run when urunsaluH; hmiI seems
To- b.. now merely a winter urrenl, snd never To
huye been constant stream. Nhen we had
n,cendrd m, opposite side uf The valley, we
wnre on the Mount of Olives. The ascent was
sirep-nOw among iombs. and nuw past fields
of waving barley, flecked with the shadcoi olive
trees. As we assembled, the opposite bill seen.
ed TO rise, aud the city 10 spread. Iao horse
men in the valley below, and woman with a
burden on her head, mounting 10 the city by
Iulh Up Moriah. looked so surprisingly small rs
10 prove the grandeur Of the scenery. Here.
abouts il was as il is said. and may reasonably
be believed, that Jesus mournCd over Jerusalem,
and told his followers what would become Of
the noble city which hcro rose upon their view,
crowning the sacred mount, and shining clear
against he cOud,,ss shy. lw,..trs 10 our eli
mate cannot, conceive Of such "A sight as lcru-
salem seen frnai the summit Of the Mount Of
Olives The Moab mountains, over toward the
Dead Sea, arc dressed IN the sohesl hurs of pur-
p!o, lilac, aud gray. The hI.l-couulry TO the
nurh is almost guudy with it; contrasts Of col
or; its white or gray stones, red soil, and crops
~ Il ,.ft, ia 4'Y al
on the slcer--ls long lines OF vail clearly dcil.
ring il 10 The sight, and every minarct and Gu
pnla. and Almost every stone marked out by the
brilliant sunshine against the deep blue sky. Ia
the spaces unbuilI on within tho walls are tufts
of yendure; and Expresses spring here aud there
from some convent garden. The greens lawns
Of the mosque Of Omar, are spread out small
before the eye. with their groups OF uny gay
moving pc, pie. IL ills now SO glorious a place
L, the eve. what must it have been in the days
Of its pride! Yci in that day, when every one
booked for the exutug blessing "Peacs b. with
in thy walls. and prosperity Within thy paJaccs'
there came instead the lamcn'atIon over the Ja.
rusalem that ki,cd the prophets aud stoned the
messengers Of Jehovah, and whose house must
b. therefore lcf, d. soisIe,
The disciples looking harco uToa the strength
Of The walls, the mas3yeness Of the temple
buildings, then sprnging $50 feet from the bed of
the brook below, and the dcp'h AID rlggednesS
0r the ravnes surrounding the c!ly Oh three
sides, might well u=k when these things should
be, and how they should be accomplished. Ca
the fourth side, the north, whore there Is no ra-
vine, the Roman army was encumped. We
could now see that rI,Ing'grOunt, once covered
With the Roman tents, but to-day W!h corn
fields and oliye-eraunds. The Romans cncam.
ped one legion on the Mount Of Olives; but II
could not do any harm 10 the city; 0ud lhconly
available point Of auack--lhG nurh Sldc--was
guarded by n moat and three wu'ls. The siege
was long; So long that mems hears failed them
for fear, and at least one furnished woman ate
her own child: aud at last the cily was taken
and nearly destroyed; aud Of the temple, not
cue stone was lril upon another. How we were
in ,he mids Of these scenes to-day! We stood
where the doom wus pronounced; below US was
the camp OF the single legion W. have montlop-
,t; opposite was the humbIcl cily, with the site
OF the temple courts; and over to the north WIS
ths camp of tho enemy. Here was the whole
scene of that ''grost lrlhua,ion, such rs was not
known from the beginning of the world"
Flom the summit Of Oivct we went down to
u
Of mind which had perhaps never been surpuss.
ed from the beginning Of the world. "Whon
Jesus had spoken these words" This words Of
cheer after last suppcr) she went forth" We are
iold, "with his disciples over the brook Kcdron,
where was u gardon." This garden we entered
to-day, from the OF er direction, aud left il by
crossing thj bed Of the brook. II is droary
place now, very unlike what it must have been
whom "Jesus ofimes rtsored lhlthcr with his
dacipes." II is "A plot of ground or slope
above the brook, enclosed with fences of loose
stones, aud occupied BY cghtcxrcmoIy oldove
lrGes--,he oldest, should think, that we saw in
our travels. ! do not mean thalthcy could have
been growing in tho days Of Christ. That is
supposed to be- impossible; though never could
learn what is the greatest ngc known to be Al.
iaued by the oIlveIree. The roofs of these
were supported by litllc terraces Of stones, that
Donher trqcs nor soil might be washed down the
slope by the winter torrents. But Iule remains
OF those onco fine lroas but hollow trunks aud Il
few slmggiug branches. 1t is with the minds
cyo that we mus, sea tho filing up Of lhis gar.
den enclosure where Jesus "ufllmcs resorled
thilher"--ils orchard Of fig, p0mcgranls, aud
olive,trecs, aud the grass OF young sprngng
corn under foot From every part Of it the ap.
proach Of Judas aud his party must have been
visible. BY ,hor ''lanIcrns aud torches and
weapons cleaning in The light, they must have
bsen seen doscdening he hill from lha city CUTE.
The sIscpng disciples may not have hceled the
lights and footsteps of tho multitude; buI step by
slep il wound down the steep, and then crossed
the brook, and turned up 10 the garden, the vic.
sim knew lha, tho hour Of his fate drew on.
BY tho way the crowd came down, we now as.
sendad toward me city, turning aside, however,
90 skirt the north wall, instead of returning
home through the slro9ls. Not to mention now
other lh1gs lha, We saw, We noted much con.
ncctrd with lheeiog ogs;-lhonalafe OF the ground
--laypaJie lor tho eacamPmanI Of in amy,
and lhG shallow moat under the walls, where
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