Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-08-10
From Emersoa's Magaziue.
The City Of the Great Kine.


arts, and the germ of ideas To the Ro-
man Catholic, il is Rome, the home of the
Caesars, the seat OF the Papal Throne. In
our time, consequent upon the spirit of the
Reformation, and the gradual disenllrall-
ment of the minds of men from lie idea
Of Papal Supremacy, Jerusalem grows
once more upon the hearts Of the rate as
the scene in which was enac,ed the SOL
emn drama of the rise of Caristianily,-
the birth, death and resurrection Of It's
great Founder.
We turn to II now, not with that wild
fanaticism which nearly tA6nsand years
ago emptled all Europe into Asia and con-
rerted kings, aud knights, and barons in
10 pilgrims aud crusaders, but with ten
der reverence, as the great Store-house Of
our moral and religious ideas, aad The
tountaIn-head Of a system OF political econ
omy based upon physiological laws, and
spiritual insight so wonderful. that il would
De Well the rest OF the world would learn
to observe them aud we instinctiyely feel
as we read, that Noses was the greatest
/ LawgIver, and the most remarkable nan,
that has ever appeared upon the page of
history. The PersIans, the Greeks. and
the Romans, each and all, owed much L.
the jew; and d. their finest philosophies
We trace, as by q silver thread, underlVing
all their systems, a familiarity with their
modes Of thought, and the divine rspira-
tIon OF their poets. The Achilles Of IIo-
mer IS Iluie more Than prInceIy David,
and the grief of CIeon over his son in the
Antgone of Sophocles, is almost literally
that of the poet king over the recreaut
8bSaIOm.
There must have been much TO gratifv
/ the imagination Of the Greek in the eype-
rlence oI a nation which embodied IDEAS.
at once abstract, spiritual and poetic. No
other nation has so well preserved a rec
ord OF the patrarchial era Abraham and
Lot with their flocls and herds, their ori-
entail luxury, their rivalries and coqrlesies:
Isaac and the handsome Rebecca. the priu-
tive meeting at the we'll and exchange Of
gifts and tokens Jacob, with the tender
Rachael, and the housewifely, ternaganl
Leah, aId he chickering's Of the many
mothered children, all present a perfect
picture of the age, and the state Of society.
which can he found no where but in the
/ records OF the lew.
No where else do we find so much 10
evolve thCugh'. EagaF wandering IN the
(
tress, = fcrey1I the type Of that class. who
incapable Of the dignues Of womanLood,
are lie slaves Of man, The slaves OF his
passions, and finally TO be elected from his
heart, II not from hIs hcnc or, IN The sig
nitlcant language Of the record Cast out
The bond-"oman, Is the instructive act Of
hls seiflshness and bis undersigned cruelty
Later, ChIIst taught from the same spot,
that the Flagar@ or The Macddlens are TO
be forgiven FOR their much love" 1t I'LL
comporIs with an age, which SO little un-
derstauds the great doctrines which ema-
mated from Jerusalem. to treat with indIf-
terence writings which offer the only anti
dole to the materialism and seiGshness of
the unenligEtened heart.
10 the thinning mind, the City Of the
Great King IS lie spot Of all others to
which he ottenest turns, and though, in the
pride Of scholasucism, he may love 10 wan
der IN the groves Of Academus, and inger
by the fountains OF CasialIa, and feel bis
cheek famed by italian airs, still ia bis
more solemn hours, In those in which he
strives most earnestly to penetrate the veil
which euShrouds the unseen. because eter-
nal, he vii fad himself watching the foot
steps OF q Pale, solitary man, who asceuds
the mount ot Olives, and remains all night
IN PRAYER who is SO little mindful Of what
the world will say, how respectable men
aud women wlll regard the appearance,
ihat Ae talks with a CoyHlepan at the old
Vel, and eAFouuds to her the purer doc
ulues oil Letter life than The one she has
hitherto led. He sees him IN the Garden,
nLIlher even the sacredness of friendship
Is forbidden TO come, and the true soul en-
dures his agony alone,--he believes in the
nlnlsteripg gels Of Gethsemaue, for b.
too has bad his garden of woe, known on.y
70 God aud he has felt tbs presence of
consolation; the friendly breaking Of bread,
the drops of the mystic wine, The outer
symto.s OF simple lie and soul and body
are betore hnu, and, finally, that hour Of
gloom ana dlsJnav, more terrible than mar
tyrdom,-more significant than philosoi hy
more sublime than heroisfn. where the
Cross upbolds the meekest sufferer, the d.
vlnesl head that ever wore human shape.
Socrates die6 like philosopher, calm and
Steadfast,-Jesus died like u God, The
child lnluitivelY claiming his divine Son
ship, Il am the Son OF God and all the
old heirarchIes were Up IN arms al the au-
nouncement; yet he did not recaut. nor
did he die ostentalously adhering TO what
ne had before averred. His death was
even more simple than his hfe. He left
TO the ages 10 vlndicate the truth of what
be had said, and thus, after the lapse Of
nearly TWO thousand years, the thinker Of
our times pouders upon The symbol OF the
Cross, and he penetrates It's mystery lust ID
proportion as his intuitions approximate 10
those of the Divine Teacher
The name Of Jerusalem is suggestive Of
ideas at once soothing aud heavenly,-it
speaks Of that for which the human hear,
always longs, and which II 50 rarely a.tains.
Peace.
The opinion IS entertained BY many that
Jerusalem IS merely a corruption of Jebos-
Salenr-a name by which Il Is supposed 10
hn.e hea,n- cal Led knLen he rt.n cal,.s al..s