The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-18

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Pacha offered to scnd his band OF fifty pieces and
guard to be IN constant attendance But visiting the
! holy places with band OF music and a military
escort was so appalling an honor that 1t declined
with as much skill as possible to avoid offence Asa
compromise the General accepted tho band for
the hour IN the evening when dined. He could
| not avoid it, and II would be . pleasure TO
tho people. who swarmed his gates and
| lay In wait for him with petitions The
/ Pacha gave a state dinner to which all went--a
dinner marked with the kindest hospitality. Those
ceremonies, or portions OF them, quite used up
little time The General intended TO spend three days
only In Jerusalem, Tor already his eyes turn toward
Rome, where he expects March 10 meet some Of his
family, and We must IN the meantime Damascus,
Beyrout, Smyrna, Constantnople Athens, Cor'nth
and Syracuse. We sat out In the afternoon 10 walk
over the places, and nrst walk WIS along
| the Via Dolorosa.
GIANTS VIA DoLoRosA.
Some OF us had stolen away In the morning before
the ceremonies began 10 walk over the street
Grated to Christianity the which Jesus
| Christ carried His cross. l am living within five
minutes walk OF Calvary. look at 1t IN the morn
| ing from the terrace near my chamber door, fair
| rounded domc, high In the air, covering the spot
upon which Saviour suffered / do not enter into
the question 10 whether not this was the real
Calvary. Somehow thinks II must nave beeu ono
that the cross would have been imposing on the
top OF tho Mount OF Olives, for instance, than
| within the walls near the market places under
| dome. But executions, we must remember, are net
pageants, ana 1t would have been weary road
over the valley ana up the hill for any careful
cent? ron 10 send his soldiera 1t is known that In
the time OF Christ Calvary without the city walls
that u about sixty feet streets
the city, us high as Mount Moriah and Mount Zlon.
SO that any condition OF place and convenience
islcd. We pass from hotel on Mount Zion through
narrow. dingy street paved with Jagged coDbie-
stones. We make our way with some difficulty We
stumble and slide rather than walk. We pass beggars
who cry for aims, workmen at various Industries,
merchants selling their wares, camels and
beasts OF burden. We turn into a covered way and
slide and stumble along and we are on The Via Doo-
rosa The first place pointed out Is the Coptic Mon
astery. Here CHRIST sank under the weight OF the
cross We are going down the bill which He
cended We como to the ruins OF the Hosplcc Of
| tho Knights OF st. John. Hero Is where
Jesus addressed tho women who followed Him. We
wind around the and follow the narrow, slip
perry way-bcggurs crawling abou. W Tor aims, and
| Alexander, oil the Legation, fair young Syrian IN
Oriental costume. bearing sword, leading tho way.
Alexander Is in something OF hurry, the Via
Dolorosa beng Of about as much interest to INN as
| broadway to New York policeman. Hero
at the house where Jesus fell for tho second time
few steps further and ut the house tomb Of
| Veronica, who wiped the blood from His holy brow
ana lett His image on her napkin. We descend
slippery path, and AT the is the house against
| which Christ leaned overcome by agony. You SEQ
| dent In the stone This dent made by the hand
OF our Lord He stretched 1t out TO support HIS
den. II smooth and dark the kisses OF mill
| ions OF believing lips The house Is that of
DIVES the rich man. Al this corner Simon OF Cyrene
took the cross and carried 1t part Of the way, for
| which good deed his name became Immortal In
front Of the house OF Dives Is stonc and over II a
| howell The howell the house OF the Deggar, tho
IL where he sat quest OF aims, aud under THIS
archway where We now stand and look at the rich
mans Jesus stood and pronounced the parable
which you VIII nnd In the sixteenth chapter OF Luke
| Here the road makes another bend, and VIC pass
broken column that must NJ one time have been q
| stately ornament Tho column broke where Jesus
| sank upon It, and tho assure Is clear and deep We
keep on until we come to a church, bright new
church, with an arch overhnnging the street. This 10
the Church OF Ecco Homo. 1t was here or
bereabouts that the road to the cross be-
gan. There Is a barracks on the site Of
Plates judgment ball We go into tho church. sweo.
laced opening the way Behind altar Is an
ARCH and under this arch PLATE stood when he deliv-
cred Jesus the Jews and washed his hands OF
ping, the GROWING with thorns, the decoration with
purple robes and Jesus up the cross
| which He carried TO Calvary. We readily see as
retrace our way up the Via Dolorosa that Il must
have been rough ana weary road 10 rent aud
torn and bleeding and crushed under the cruel burde
| of the cross. Even to us-frce are-way tarers
In full posse faculties IL Is tedious task
10 climb the hill OF Calvary.
THE GARDEN GErHsEMANE.
We descended The hill and assembled 1t again before
we found ourselves IN the company Of the General
| Mrs. Grant was vouchsaied the dispensaton OF a
donkey, and we all followed after loot When We
finished tho Via Dolorosa kept on outside tho
gates the Valley Of Joho. haphaI Tho brook
below is the brook Kedron, Of which II Is written
that Jesus, the night before His betrayal "wcnt
forth with his disciples the brook Kedron, where
| there WINS garden, to the which he entered, and
| his discplcR" This Is written 10 the eighteenth
| chapter OF John, and We tho worry brook nal.
| lowed by His holy and sorrowful footsteps We as
cend the hill short distance and como to walled
garden. monk opens tho gate and we de-
| scend. The garden blooms with flowers. The paths
arc neatly swept Around the walls arc tho pictures
by which the Catholic represents The way the cross
over the flower beds droop cluster OF olive trees an
cicnt and gnared and bonding 1t is not difficult 10
| believe, knowing what do know about trees In
California, that those twenty centuries old. Tho
General says he does not doubt II. from the
| dom evidence of his own eyos Under this tree
Jesus Christ kneit and prayed and mado holy forever
| tho Garden OF Getnsemane. Wo looked at tho
tree called ''rhc Tree OF Agony.n Wo pressed
It's knotted bark with reverence and love,
and, though we were idle, worldly
group fresh out Of busy worldly world, thcro were
| few words Spoken and all thoughts turned 10 the
sacred and sorrowIul scenes which Christian be-
tOok nd chi know no henr
OF those who about tho tree who stood around
silence, have no doubt that he would know Of many
silent prayer preathed TO Heaven that tho hour OF
extremity the grace there impored for SHINING souls
might be our portion as II has boon the portion OF
millions and millions who have COMO before
! BETHANY AND MOUNT oLIvET
The good monk gathered como flowers for Mrs.