Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1859-05-20
sKETcuEs on THE HOLY LAND.
JerusaEem-Ets Sights and EnEAabi
fanss.

(Fron the senior editor of the New York Ex-
press, how travelling abroad.
Nothing IS visible, nothing at all, Of the ORR
ginal Calgsry--if this be Calvary. Marble
covers al the original rock, save iu some very
few places, where peep can be bad through
the marble erevices created 10 give the peep
The whole looks ike a series Of churches or
chapels-- with the usual alars, and the can
dies of the Catholic churches Of Greece and
Rome. Fhe Priests 0. all the religions here
show up everything spoken Of in Scripture =
the exact place where Christ appeared 10 Mary
Magdalene "a the likcness OF 4 gardener; then
few feet further on, stone like star desig-
mating the spot where Mary STOOD then, where
our Lord appeared to Mary; then a fragment
of pofyhyry column, called the column Of
Flageliaba, being piece Of that TO which the
Saviour was bouad when scourgcd by order of
Plate; tl.eD the prison where Christ was con-
fined previous to The cruci6xion, then the ez-
act place where the true cross vas dug up un-
der tie inspired aud watchfu eye Of 81. Hele-
ma place of especial sanclity, ghera tie
very rocks weep nov (the place IS underground
/ aud damp) in moufnfu! memory then the very
column of grey marble, on which The Jews
made our Saviour sit while they crowned him
With thorns, and Knocked him; then the very
place where the cross vas fixed; then the spot
where Christ was nailed to the cross: then
where tie Virgin Mary stood during tho cru
eidzioB, sc. Every historical poiut o. the new
Testament here, in Jerusalem, has not only
name, but local habitltion; nay, monkish IL
yeDtion and fancy are uot taus coutent, but
they wander back to the beginning Of tne,
an3 show up here on the grounds OF The holy
sepQlchre s'the centre of tie earth" snd the
spot even whence was taken the clay from
which Adam was modeledl Fancy ana fiction
aud romance thus revei, aud 50 extraordinary
is the whole operate shaw, that one reloicss 1t
last that this Is hot CalFary--this is not Goi-
gotha-t that this is not the place of the Holy
Sepulehre, and that for wise purposes, the Al
mighty has yeiiea in seoresy tue spot wherean
he sacrificed lis only Son.
TIE Eo7sY sEpIE E-J "a eIEsV. AND El4asa.s
TIE deme over Tie Holy Sepulehre Is leaky
aud broken, ard rain creeps through and in
upon IT. but it cannot oe repaired. for such is
the jealousy that Greek will not .st Latin or
Armenian do il, aud Ujes Uersa. Well is it,
repeat then, that Inldel, but impartial Turk
squats ana smokes his pipe by the door as
doorkeeper, and brings III his soldiers TO keep
order But What can Turk think of such
Christianity, and all this gewgaw-cool, calm,
sinple>nIndod, unimpassioued Turk who, 10
plain simplicity. spreads his mantle upon the
bare earth, aud with bis face to Mecca, offers
up, humbly on his knees, with forehead bent
to the earth, lis prayers to the Prophet alone
no image OF him, 10 painting, no soulptured
fotu, no Virgin nothing but tie Prophet him
self-aul, through aim, to Allah, his God?-
What eau Jew think OF itJew who, here in
his own city, is chased out Of the Sspulehre as
demon or wild beast would bel Hope not for
missionaries then. Talk not of Christianity,
aud It's progress in the city Of the Grea. King,
until all these things can be mended. Never
will Jew DO converted but by interest here;
never will Moslem be turned from Mecca. The
flrce Of fhe Holy Fire alane--tEat grand Greek
imposition on the Easter Ege of every year.
when tha Greek Patriarch alone enters the
TouIb, and 'sth9 miraculous flame desceud5
from Hsagen"-i3 only Of Itself, enough of
disgust for the Jew aud the Mosem--if not
FOR the Christian of any other name. Then on
that great display and farce, the Turks have to
come in, rot oDly VITA bayonets, but with
leather Iashes, to lay over the backs, shou!-
ders and legs Of he Pilgrim Christians, to keep
them ii order In the year 1884 fearful tra-
gedy occurred on the Greek Easter. Four
hundred persons were tralnpled to death, many
even upon the Stone Of Unction.
THE wAIIING PLACE OF The JEWS.
The Jews waing place was to me the most
interesting place in Jerusalem. My dragomap
an East India jew, OF Moorish skin, who by
the way, is an English subject, and speaks En-
glish well conducted me thither We thread
ed our way through the usual narrow and dirty
la,,1, ,,,;srt. utraats E,ssferp cifiau
came to an area in the form Of quadrangle,
near the bridge where the dwellers 10 Zion
we're once wont to pass over, to worship God in
the Temple, on his Holy Mount Moriah. Ia
the ancient foundation wall of the Temnle are
several courses OF large, leveled stones, upon
which tho Jews lavish their kisses aud en-
braces, and through the ersvicss of which they
pour up their prayers to God for the restora-
tion of Ills Temple, and the early coming tri-
umph in Jerusalem Here the Turks have per-
mGted the Jews te come and wall for years aud
years, aud for years and years they have come
the scattered tribes from all parts OF the
world, 10 cry out 10 the words of the PsaDist,
100; 3, 81 20 God, the Heatben have come
into thine inheritance. The holy Temple have
they dc6led; they have laid Jerusalem on
heaps. We are become a reprcach 10 our
negbbo a scorn and derisiou to them that
are around about us. How long Lord, wilt
thou be angry forever2 Shall thy jealousy
burn like tre7' Their mournful cry, as in
plaiutlve tones they read their Hebrew Bible
their devout suffering, their humble look of
eonuition, their very admiration of the rocks
of the Temple, are all painfully suggestive aud
touching. The proud Moslem revels IN tri-
umph over them. The Muezzin cries out the
hour of prayer jpst over them. Tue loiiy
Christian, fresh from the gold and glitt4f' aud