Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-06-30


the Institution at its opening in the middle
of August next, meet with that patronage
it has so we'll merited MOUNT HOPE.
JERUsALEM-ITs SIGHTS AND INHABI.
TANTs-From the senior editor Of the New
York Express, now travelling abroad.
Nothing is visible, nothing at all of CAL
vary-if this be calvary. Marble covers
all the original rock, save in some very few
places, wherea peep can be had through the
marble crevices created to give the peep.
The whole looks like a series of churches or
chapels-with> the usual Ialtars, and the
candles Of the Catholic churches of Greece
and Rome. The Priests of all the religions
here show up everything spoken of in Scrip
ture-the exact place where Christ appear
ed to Mary Magdalene in the likeness Of q
gardener; then a few feet further on, a stone
like o star, designating the spot where Ma
ry stood; then, where our Lord appeared to
Mary; then fragment of a porphry column,
called the column of Flageliaba, being a
piece of that to which the Saviour was
bound when scourged by order of PLATE
then the exact place where the true cross was
dug up under the inspired and watchful eye
Of St. Helena-a place of especial sanetity,
where the very rocks weep now (he placeis
underground and .damp) in mournful mem
ory; then, the very column of grey marble,
on which the Jews made our Savior sit while
they crowned him with thorns, and mocked
him; then the very place where the cross
was fixed then the spot. where Christ was
nailed to the cross, then where the Virgin
Mary stood during the crucifxion, &C., &c.
Every historical point of the the New Testa-
ment here, in Jerusalem has not only name,
but local habitation; nay, .Monkish inVen-
tion and fancyar not thus content, but they
wander back to the beginning of time, and
show up here on the ground Of the holy Sc
pulchre the centre of the earth, and the spot
even whence was taken the clay from which
Adam was moddledp Fancy and Fiction
and Romance thus revel and so extraordi-
nary is hewhole operate show, that one re-
joices at last this is not Calvary-this is not
Golgotha-that this is not, the place Of the
Holy Sepulchre, and for wise purposes, the
Almighty has yelled secrecy in the spot
where he sacrificed His only Son. , 81.
The HOLY Observation-Disclosures
FARcE.-The dome over the Holy Sepul-
chre is leaky and broken, and rain creeps
through and in upon it; but it cannot be
repaired, for such is the jealousy that Greek
will not let Latin or Armenian do it /: and
sice uersa. Well is it, repect that Infdel,
but impartial, Turk squats and smoke his
pipe by the door as door-keeper, and brings
in his soldiers to keep order But what can
Turks think Of such Christianity, and all this
gewgaw-cool, calm, simple minded, unim-
passioned Turks-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-no image of
him, no painting, no seulptured form, no
Virgin-nothing but the Prophet himself
and through him, to Allah, his God ? What
can Jew think of it-Jew who, here in his
own city, is chased out Of the Sepulchre as
demon or wild beasts would be Hope not
for missionaries then. Talk not Of Christi
anity, and its progress in the city Of the
Great King until all these things can be
mende6 Never will Jew be converted but
by interest here, never will Moslem be turn
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
miraculous fame descends from Heaven
is, only of itself, enough of disgust for the
Jew and the Moslem-if not for the Chris
tian of any other name. Then, on that great
display and farce, the Turks have to come
in, not only with bayonets, but with leather
lashes to lay over the backs, shoulders and
legs of the Pilgrim Christians, to keep them
in order. In the year 1884, fearful tragedy
occurred on the Greek Easter. Four hun
dred persons were trampled to death, many
even upon the Stone of unction.
THE WAr11NG PLACE OF THE jews
The Jews wailing place was to me the most
interesting place in Jerusalem. My drago-
man, an East India Jew, of Moorish skin,
who, by the way, is an English subject, and
speaks English we'll, conducted me thither.
We treaded our way through the usual mar
row and dirty lanes, misnamed streets, of
Eastern cities, aud came to an area in the
form of quadrangle, near the bridge where
the dwellers in Zion we're once to pass over,
to worship God in the Temple, on His Holy
Mount, Moriah. In the ancient foundation
wall of the Temple are several courses of
large, levelled stones, upon which the Jews
lavish their kisses and embraces, and
through the erevices of which they pour up
their prayers to God for the restoration of
His Temple, and early coming triumph in
Jerusalem. Here the Turks have permitted
the Jews to come and wall for 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, (69;
1850 "Oh God, the Heather have come
into thine inheritance, The Holy Temple
have they, defled they have laid Jerusalem
on heaps, We are become reproach to our
neighbors, scorn and derision to them that
are around about US. How long, Lord wilt
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