Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-27

Catholics deny The site, as we'll as Protsstants,
and many Protestants affirm this TO be the real
spot II IS well, ] say, for the Greeks, the
Latins, and the Armenians have made mock.
cry Of the holy site, if site il ever were. The
whole is but an exhibition, and an operatic
exhibition too. My first sight Of the Holy
Sepuchre was on the first Saturday in Lent
"a great day Of exhibition with both Greek
and Latin. The two eontestnr sects we've
striving TO see which procession should make
the grandest display and Thousands Of Chris.
uans were present in the holy precincts The
Latins had one great start IN music, the Greeks
have homeland the Latin organ thuudered in
wild appeals, Of course, in Greek discomfort
The candles were legion, The Holy Sepulchrc
itself was IN one magnificent blaze Of light
from ragged vaultcd dome to It's sepulchral
vuult To keep the two sects from blows, the
Turks assign to each sect different hours for
their professions, and the Turks stand guard TO
keep order aud peace, all The day, within the
church jew is not admitted at any time No
Jew can show his head within the consecrated
chapels, and if jew attempt admission Jew
would be beaten unto death
NOTHING VISIBLE or CALVARY
Nothing is visbie-nothinp at all, of the
original Calvary--if this be Calvary. Marble
few places, where a peep can be bad through
the marble creviocs created to give the peep.
The whole looks like series Of churches or
chapels--with the usual altars and the candles
Of the Catholic Churches of Greece and Rome
The priests of all the religions here show up
everything spoken of in Scrpture-the exact
place where Christ Appeared to Mary Magda-
lene in the likeness of a gardener; then, a few
feet further ON o stone like a star designating
the spot where Mary stood then, where our
Lord appeared to Mary; then, fragment of n
porphyry column, called the column of Flape.
liab3, being a piece of that to which the Sav.
iour was bound when scourged by order of Pi.
late them the prison where Christ was con
fined previous TO the cruchxiCn; then the ex
act place where the true cross was dug up un-
der the inspired and waichful eye of ST IIolo.
ma place OF especial sanctity, where the
very rocks weep now (he place is under ground
and damp in moumiu memory; then, the very
| column oigrey 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 was fixed then, the spot
where Christ was nailed to the cross; then
whore the Virgin Mary stood during the cIuci
! iiXion, &c, &c Every rhetorical point of tht
| New Gestament here, in Jerusalem has no
only name, but local hahitation nay, Monk
ish invention and fancy are not thus content
but thoy wander back to the beginning of time
and show up here on the grounds Of the llo
Sepulchre " the centre of the earth" and th
spot evea whence was taken the clay fror
which Adam was modelled Fancy aud Fic
ton and Romance thus revel, and 50 eXtraordi
nary is the whole operate show that one re
joiccs at last that this is not Cayary--this /
not Golgotha-tlis is not the place ol the lIol
Sepuchre and that for wise purposes the Al
mighty has veiled in secresy the spot whereof
he sacrificed Ills only Son,
TCoHc,uded 10 Moyrotp