The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-24

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, (69: l,
4. 81 90 God, the Heather have come into
thine Inheritance. Thy holy Tempie have they
defled !; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps
We, are become a reproach to our neighbors, a
scorn and derision to them that are round
about US. How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry
forever. Shall thy jealousy burn like FIRE 7"
Their mournful cry, as in plaintive tones they
read their Hebrew Bible--their devout suffer-
| ing, humble look of contrition, their very adj
miration of the rocks of the Temple, are all
painfully suggestive and touching. The proud
Moslem revels in triumph over them. Tie
Meuzzin cries out his hour of prayer just over
them. The lofty Christian, fresh from the
gold, and glitter, and incense and light of the
| Holy Sepulchre, looks down too often with
contempt upon the dirt and dust and misery
that there surround and envelope the Hebrew
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 other Jerusalem shall be theirs again
the whole scene becomes so touching that one
can scarcely refrain himself from wailing. /
must confess I have never been more affected
! by any spectacle. It has disarmed me of a
thousand prejudices against the Jews, and I
am sure now feel for Jew as for man and
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PILGRIMS TO 5ERUsALEM--THE SPIRIT OF THE
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Probably more earnest, more fanatic men as
semble here than In any other city of like pop.
| ulation-for Jerusalem is not only holy to the
Christian, but to the Jew and the Muzzulman
All nations, all religions look up to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, and respect the Prophets and
their outgivings. The Caliph Omar eonsrecra-
ted his Mosque ,ons Mount Morah, as the EN-.
peror Constantine isChurch upon the supposed
Mount Calvary. When in my voyage hither,
I saw Pilgrims even from distant Russia, as
we'll as from all parts of Greece and Turkey,
coming hither, often in blankets, with only rag
covering necessary for decsncy, submitting to
everything, and suffering everything, exposed
to rain, and to the cold air of night upon the
decks of Austrian, French and Russian steam
ers, felt they must be all earnest, inpassion-
ed men and women. I could not have endur-I
ed for single night what saw them suffer
for week in the roadstead of Beirut. Thou
sands upon thousands are now on their way
swarming in like manner to have their Easter
in Jerusalem. The spirit of the Crusaders
| then, see, is not extinct, it is only changed,
and the world is just rs 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 Episcopaiians and
Presbyterlans have described as hopeless, the
Seventh Day Baptist and Campbellites of
America have taken up. Then there is Miss
Livermore, watching, and waiting with the
Jews--come, so she says, for the last time, and
now to die on the spot so holy. s.eer
BITTERNESS AND FANATIcIsM OF THE sEors.
The history ef this city, its religious his
tory, is inspiring, that it attracts here earn
est, enthusiastic minds and men, and unless
the mind is we'll balanced, it too often runs in
to visions and faHaticisms. There is probably
no place on earth where "religion," or rather
sect, is so bitter, so prosecuting, as here. The
sects of Christians here, all more or less, hate
each other. The spirit of Christ, as I have
before illustrated in the matter of the Holy
Sepulchre, but little exists among the popula-
tioa of the city. Even the Turk here is a lit
tie more fanatic than elsewhere. I only peep
ed into an alley leading to the Mosque of Omar,
where none but Moslems now are allowed to
enter, and even children, among them boy
with big stick, especially noted, approached
me to beat off the dog, Christian I was in
company with party of ladies on the Via Dol
orose-now street Of the Turks,-the street
on which, it is said, Christ was taken to be cru
cited, and the ladies were spit upon from the
windows, aud had to shy off into the middle
and on the other side of the street. The only
which one of the ladies poured back upon the
Turkish women peeping through the lattices of
their windows. / would have thrown stones
at them regardless of the consequences, but
was forbidden by my conductress, who told me
that in the same street once, when on a horse,
a whole bucket of water was thrown upon her.
Yet this lady is the daughter of a missionary
here, who is sacrificing life and property to bet
ter the condition of the Mosem.
THE BIBLE THE BEST GUIDE BOOK.
The first of books that one longs to read and
re-read here is the Bible, and the Bible is, or
ought to be, in the house of everybody. Read
if you will learn the wondrous but valuable |
tones of Robertson, now, as I have said, the |
highest Biblical authority in matters of topog-
raphy; read the late valuable work of DR..
Barclay, of Va, now here again with his very
interesting and highly intelligent family
Americans, among them DR.. Olin and Rev. Mr..
Spencer, has written the very best works upon
Palestine and Syria One of the best little |
guide books and maps have found is from The |
Office of the Sunday School Union in Philadel- |
phia. Read, before you come here. and do not
be lied as 1 am to work half the night |
to study up history the next day. The Bible
above all, however, is the best history-the
hand book, the great guide book what MUIR
ray" is elsewhere, and the Bible besides -
Here is the spot to expound,9 to explain, and to
thoroughly comprehend it, its metaphors, its
parallels, its illusions. know and see now
that shall hereafter read the good book with
an understanding and an interest never could
have had before. Palestine, the Holy Land,
its ancient people, are to every body in name
so familiar, that we not only copy its towns
and cities-its Canaan for our Canaan, its Shar-
on for our Sharon, &C., &c its Marys, its
Ruths, its Rachels, its Johns and Jamcscs-
and its Proverbs, too, become proverbs, as
from "Dan to Beersheba," (not so very far by
the way.) am glad to say no country seems
to take so much interest in Biblical Typography
as our country.
The best place to see Jerusalem and the
surrounding country, is from the Turkish min
aret that crowns the Mount of Olives--for now
the Turks own that mount and in the center
of Turkish mosque inclosure, is, by purchase,
the Chapel of the Church of the Ascension,
zrhara Ias,,s, f,ctstaz,s shczu,a in the rcclr.