Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-28
Interesting Sketches of the Holy Land.


Jorusalem-Its sights and Inhabitants
lCOAoNdedl
THE HOLY sEPULcHRE--JEALousY AND FARCE.
The dome over the Holy Sepulchre is leaky
and broken and rain ereeps through aud 10 upon
it, but it cannot be repaired for such is the ieal
ousy that Greek will not let Eatin or Armenian
do it, and Uice DerSd Well isit, repeat, then,
that lnfdel, but impartial, Turk squats and
smokes his pipe by the door as doorkeepor, and
brings in his soldiers TO keep order But what
can Turk think of such Chntianity, and all
this gewgaw--eoo calm, simple minded, un.
impassiohed TuTk-who, in plain simplicity,
spreads his mantle upon the bare earth and,
with his face to Mecca, offers up, humbly on
his knees, with forehead bent to the earth, his
prayers to the Prophet alone lilo image Of him,
no painting, no sculptured form, no Virgin
nothing but the Prophet himself--and, through
him, to Allah, his Godl What can jew think
OF it--Jew who. here ia his own city, is chased
out of the Sepulchre as demon or wild beast
would bp' Hope not for missionaries, then
Talk not of Christianity, AMI its progress in
the city of the Great King, until all these things
eau be amended. Never will Jewbe converted
but by interest here; never will Moslem be
turned from Mecca The farce of the Holy
Fire alone--that grand Greek imposition on the
Easter Eve Of every year, when the Greek
Patriarch alone enters the Tomb, and ''the mi
racuous fame decends from Heaven" ,"--is, only
of itself enough OF disgust for the Jew aud the
Moslem-- if not for the Christian of any other
name. Then, on that great display and farce,
the Turks have to come in, not only with bay
onets, but with leather ashes to lay over the
backs, shoulders, and legs of the Pilgrim Chris
tians, to keep them in order. In the year 1884
a fearful tragedy occurred on the Greek Easter,
-Four hundred persons were trampled to death,
many even upon the Stone of Unction.
THE wAILINa PLACE or THE JEWS
The Jews wniling place was to me the
most interesting place in Jerusalem, My drago-
man, am East Indian Jew, of Moorish skin, who,
who, by the way, is an English subject, and
speaks English well, conducted me thither -
We threaded our way through the usual narrow
and dirty lanes, misnamed streets, of Eastern
cities, and came to an area in the form of
quadrangle, near the bridge where the dwellors
IN AOn were once went to pass over, TO wor-
ship God in the Temple, on His holy mount
Moriah In the ancient foundation wall Of the
! Temple are seversl courses of large, lcyelCd
stones, upon which the Jews lavish their kisseB
and embraces and through the oreyiCes OF
which pour up their prayers to God for the re-
storatiOn Of His Temple, and their early com
ing triumph in Jerusalem Here the Turks
have permitted the Jews to come and wall for
years, and years, and years and for years they
have come the scattered tribes from all parts
of the world, to cry out in the words Of the
Psalmist, 900 /, 4 o. 30 Cod the Heather
have come into thine inheritance The holy
Temple have they dcfled; they have laid Ieru.
salem ON heaps. We are become n repToach to
our neighbOrs sCorn and dersion to them that
are round about us. How long. Lord, wilt
thou be angry forever. Shall thy jealousy burn
like hre!" Their mouniul CRY, rs in plaintVe
tones they read their Hebrew Bible e-their de
vout suffering, humble look of contrition, their
very admiration of the rocks of the Temple, are
all painfully suggestive and touching, The
proud Moslem reyels in triumph over them. -
The Meuzzin cries out his hour of prayer Just
over them. The lofty Christian, fresh from the
gold, and glitter, and incense, and light Of tile
Holy Scpulchre, looks down too often with con
tempt upon the dirt and dust, and misery that
there surround and envelope the Hebrew r.
Now, when one thinks Of the days of David
and Solomon, and knows these are Gods cho
sen people, and that prophecy tells US some day
or other Jerusalem shall be theirs aghiIi, the
whole scone becomes so touching that one can
scarcely refrain himself from wailing. must
confess have never been more affected by any
spectacle IL has dsarmed me OF thousand
| preudices against the Jews, and am sure
now feel for Jew as for man and brother,
PILGRIMS TO JERUsALEW~-FHE SPIRIT OF THE
CRUSADERS. t"
! Probably moro earnest more fanatic men as.
senble here than in any other city of like pop,
uaton-for Jerusalem is not only holy to
the Christian, but TO the Jow and the Mussul-
man All nations, all religions look up to
! Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and respect the Pro,
/ phols and their outgivings. The Ualiph Omar
consecrated his Mosque on Mount Morlah, as
the Emperor Constantine did his Church upon
| the supposed Mount Calvary. When in my
voyage hither, l saw Pilgrims even from dis
tant Russia, as well as from oil parts Of Greece
and Turky, coming hither, often in blankets,
with only rag coverings necessary for decency,
submitting to everything and suffering every
thing exposed to rain, and to the cold air Of
| night upon the decks Of Austrian, French and
Russian steamers, l felt they must be all ear
nest impassioned men and women. could
not have endured for a single night what saw
them suffer for week in the roadstead Of Beirut.
Thousands upon thousands ave now ON their
way swaming ia like manner TO have their
Easter in Jerusalem TIE spirit of tho Crusa-
derg then, 1 see is not extinct, it is only chang
ed, and the world is Just as full Of earnest men
as ever The United States, too, distant as
we are have their earnest men here also. The
missionary ground that the Epscopalians and
presbyterians have described as hopeless, the
Seventh Day Baptist and Campbellites Of Amer
lea have taken up Then there is Mss Liver
more, watching, and Whiting with the Jews
come, so sne says, for the last time, and now
to die on tho spot so holy.
BITTERNESS AND FANATrcisM OF THE sEcTs
The history of this city, its religious history
is 80 inspiring that It attracts here earnest
enthusiastic minds and men, and uness the
mind is we'll balanced, it too often runs int
visions and fanaticislns. There isprobably No
place on earth where religion or rather sect