The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-05-13
SolOmon's Temple.

The skill, the art, the mighty toli,
that have been devoted to the adorn-
ment, and to the desecration. Of his,
most ancient place OF worship, have
been Of extraordinary magnitude The
grandest legacy Of Egyptian, antiquity
the Pyramid, demanded, indeed, a
larger amount OF naked human labor,
but in Moriah there is compulslcn of
the features OF Nature herself to the
service of the builder. In actual bulk,
the Great Pyramid is TO the Temple
rock as five to nine, If we descend but
as far as the stills OF the five double
gates of the mountain Of the house. If
we carry the comparison down TO level
at which the lowest foundation o. the
walls is iulaid 10 the rock at the angles
of the enclosure, the bulk is three times
that OF the Crest Pyramid. The cuhlc
contents of the mason's work may rot
amount TO a tenth par. OF that piled up
BY Souphis. But the hill has been
honey-combed with numbers and GAL
leries and the declining part TO the
south covered with vaults ard arches,
to which Cheezen can show 10 paral-
, led. No merely artificial structure
could have so successfully resisted the
efforts OF the two greatest military ra-
tons Of the ancient world TO destroy
its existence and obliterate its memory.
No other monument. lorg surviving
the era OF Asiatic and I.aiian pcwer,
can ever, like the noble Sanctuary,
| mark by its very ruins, the successive
periods of its glory and its fall
If we regard not 30 much the eV!>
dence OF the labor devoted to the work
OF the Temple as the effect produced
on the mind By its apparent magnitude,
we may suggest the following compa!i.
sons: The length Of the Eastern wal
of the sanctuary is rather more than
double that of one side Of the Crest
Pyramid. Its height, from the !,V"Ga~
ton on the rock at the souta end near
the northern angles, was nearly q lllri
of that OF the Egyptian structure. l.;
to this great height of one huadc:G ard
fiity.two feet Of solid wall be added
the descent of one Lurdred arl four
teen feet 10 the bed Of the Kear0n, AMI
the further elevation Of one hundrei
AID sixty feet attained by the ii@cac!e
OF the Temple porch, we have . total
height Of four hundred twenty SIX :ce,.
which is only fifty nine feet less ,'"a
that Of the Great Pyramid. The area
OF the face Of the eastern wal! j. M':.
than double tha, OF one side u re
pyramid. Thus the magnitude o &!
noble Sanctuary OF Jc!vsaltrn far *
ceedsd that OF any other temple IL l"r
world Two amphitheatTre II lie ~t%'
OF the Coliseum would have $40! ".:a
in its colossal girdle and leg Too"a I"
spare. The Coliseum is said 70 save
seated eighty seven thousand spectators,
and accommodated twenty two thou
sand more in its arena and passages
| For such number to have teen Gran
med within it's circle, the space Tor eacn
person must have been limited 10 -ev-
enteen by twenty iucles A|'o"i"e
two cubts each Wa, or four '4u"re
cubits for each worshipper in The tom
pie, the Sanctuary would have con-
tair ed thirty thousand; the Cnet. e%-
GLIDING the Priests Court, twenty thou
sand more, and there would yet have
been room in the Great Court ana the
cloisters to make the total reach TO
more than two hundred and ten thou
sand.-Edinb,uSh Rsvie,o.