Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-10-05
The Destruction OF J Jerusniem.

on uellVereO lecLuTo III hlnCOlnb WINCH
,iiy he has for number of years repre-
,cnted in Parliament. He gave All outline
IF the history of the Babylonian. Assyr-
AN, Persian, Egyptian, Greek and jewish
and closed with the following
powerful and dramatic description Of the
destruction of Jerusalem by Titus:
''Sx years after the bi:th of our Lord,
Judea and Samaria became Roman prov
ince, under subordinate governors, the
most famous of whom was Pontius Pi-
late. These governors became so oppres-
siye. that the. Jews broke out into oper re-
bellioT and seventy years after Christ,
Jerusalem was finally besieged by Titus, 7
afterward Emperor of Rome. No tragedy
on the stage has the same scenes Of ap- |
palling terror as are to be found in the
history of this siege. The city itself was
rent by factions at the deadliest war with |
each other; all the elements Of civil ha- |
tired had broke loose; the streets were slip |
perry with the blood of citi ems; brother
slew brother; the granaries were set on
fire; famine wasted those whom the sword
did not slay. In the midst of these civil
massacres, the Roman armies appeared
before the walls of Jerusalem. Then for
short time the rival factions united
against the common foe, they were again
the brave countrymen of David and Joshua
they sailed forth and scattered the
eagles of Rome. But this triumph was
brief; the ferocity Of the ill-fated Jews
soon again wasted itself on each other.
And Titus marched on-encamped-his
armies close by the walls--and from the
nights the Roman general gazed with awe
on the strength and splendor Of the city Of
Jehovah. ., ... l" s..sa ,'l .'.
"Let us here pause-and take, our
selves, mournful glance Of Jerusalem as
it then was. The city was fortified by
triple wall, save on one side, where it was
protected by deep and impossible ravines.
These walls, of the most solid masonry,
were guarded by strong towersj opposite
to the loftiest of these, towers Titus had
encam ped. From the hight of that tower
the sentinel might have seen stretched be-
low all that fair territory of Judea, about
to pass from the countrymen of David
Within these walls WAS the palace Of
the kings-its roofs of cedar, its doors Of
the rarest marbles. its chambers filed
with the costliest tapestries, and vessels of
gold and silver. Groves and gardens
cleaning with fountains, adorned with
statutes of bronze, divided the courts of
the palace itself. But high above all,
upon precipitous rock, rose the temple,
| fortified and adorned by Solomon.
"This temple was as strong without as
as a citadel-within more adorned than a
palace. On entering. you beheld porti-
Goes of numberess columns of porphyry,
marble and alabaster; gates adorned with
gold and silver, among which the won
Jarr,,1 oollaI fho RooIfif,11 EMrthpf
on, through a vast arch, was the sacred
portal which admitted into the interior ot
the temple itself-all sheeted over with
gold, and overhung by vine tree of gold,
the branches Of which were as large as a
man. The roof of the temple, even on
the outside, was set over with golden
spikes, to prevent the bird. settling there
and de6ling the holy dome. AT dis
lance, the whole temple looked like a mount
of snow, fretted with golden pinnacles
But alas the veil of that temple had al
ready been rent asunder by an INCAPABLE
crime, and the Lord of hosts did not fgh
with Israel. But the enemy is thunder
ing at the wall. All around the city rost
, immense machines, from which Titu
poured down mighty fragments of Iock
and showers Of fire. The walls gave way
the city was entered--the temple itsel
was stormed.
"Famine in the meanwhile had made
such sad havoc that the besieged wer
7 more like spectIes than living men /; the
devoured the belts TO their swords, tn
sandals to their feet. Even nature itsel
so perished away that mother devoureC
her own infant; fulfilling the awful word
of the warlike prophet who had first LEI
the Jews toward the land of promise.
THE tender and delicate women amen!
you, who would not adventure to set tn
u sole of her foot upon the ground for deli
= cateness and tendeIness--her eye shall b
:, evil toward her young one and the chill
" dreu that she shall bear, for she shall ca
:, them FOR want of all things secretly, in tn
u siege and straitness wherewith thine en-
y emy shall distress thee in thy gates Still
= as if the foe and the famine was not scourg
9 enough, citizens smote and murdered eac
. other as they met in the way--false pIoph
; cts ran bowling through the streets--ev
= ely image of despair completes the ghastl
y picture of the fall of Jerusalem. ls
J. "And now the temple was set o
n fire, the Jews rushing through the flame
e to perish amid its ruins. 1t was calr
lie summer night-the 10th of August; tn
s. whole hill Oh which stood the temple wa
D. one gigantic blaze of fre-the roofs Of ce
Ii dar clashed--the golden pinnacles Of tn
Il dome were l'ke spikes of crimson fam
At Through the lurid atmosphere all was Cal
a, mage and slaughter; the echoes of SHREK
al and yells rang back from the Hill of Zio
ie and the Mount of Olives. Among tf
3 smoking ruins, and over piles of the deaf
Titus planted the standard of Rome. Thu
H. were fulfilled the last avenging prophecit
ID thus perished Jerusalem-'Verilyl 81
sy unto you all, these things shall come upc
ne this generation. y 4 ~ o, Jerus'
lem, Jerusalem, thou that killest Il
he prophets and stonest them that are sent
in theee. Il Behold your house is le
w. untn yo,, desnlntev Z nd Lhus were u