The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-03-24

The 8ull4tin:
GRANT IN JERUSALEM.

ed-Reiics Of the Cruel axiom.
~. Russell Young's Letter 10 the New
York Herald.
The valley passes away. We ride
about q mile through a suburb, the high
way lined with people. The general pass
es on, with barred head, for on both sides
the assembled multitude do him honor.
We see through the mist mass Of domes
and towers, and the heart beat quickly, for
we know they are the domes and towers
OF Jerusalem. There are ranks Of soldiers
drawn 10 line, the soldiers presenting
arms, the band playing, the color falling.
We passed through narrow gate, the
gate that Tancred forced with his crass.
ders. We passed under the walls OF the
tower of David, aud the flag that floats
from the pole on the consulate tells us that
our journey is at an end and that We are
within the walls OF Jerusalem.
We set out in the afternoon TO walk over
the sacred places, and our first walk was
along the Via Doloross. Some Of us had
stolen away In the morning before the
ceremonies began to walk over the street
consecr,ted to christianity as the street
over which Jesus Christ carried the cross.
am living within five minutes walk Of
Calvary. look at 1t in the morning from
the terrace near my chamber door-a fair
rounded dome, high In the sir, covering
the spot which our Saviour suffered.
We pass from our hotel on Mount Zion
through narrow, dingy street paved with
jagged cobb!estone. We make our way
with some difficulty. We stumble and
slide, rather than walk. We pass beggars
who cry for aims, workman ut various in.
dustries, merchants selling their wares,
csmels and asses and beasts OF burden.
We turn into covered way and slide and
stumble along, and We are on the Via Do.
lorosa. The first place pointed out is the
Coptic Monastery. Here Christ sank un-
del the weight of the cross. We are 60
ing down the hill which he assc ended.
We come 10 the ruins OF the Hospice Of the
knights Of 81. John. Here Is where Jesus
addressed the women who follows him.
We wind around the corner aud follow
tue narrow, slippery way. Here we see at
the house where Jesus fell for the second
time. A few steps further, and we are at
the house and tomb OF Veronica, who
wiped the blood from His holy brow anu
left HIS image on her napkin. We decend
q slippery path, and at the corner is the
house against which Christ leaned, over.
come by agony. You see dent in the
stone. The dent was made by the hand OF
our Lord as He stretched it out to support
his burden. II is smooth and dark with
the kisses Of millions OF believing lips.
The next house is that Of Dives, the rich
took the cross and carried 1t part OF the
way, for which good deed his name be-
came immortal. In front o. the house Of
Dives Is stone, ana over II is howell The
howell was the house Of the beggar, the
stope Is where he sat in quest Of aims,
and under this arehway where we now
stand and look at the rich mans house Je.
sus stood and pronounced the parable
which you will And in the sixteenth chap
ter OF Luke.
Here the road makes another bend aud
We pass 8 broken column that must at one
time have been q stately ornament. The
column broke where Jesue sank upon it,
and the assure Is clear and deep. We
keep on until we come to church, q
bright new church, with an arch overhar K
ing the street. This is the church Of Ecce
Homo.
IL was here or hereabOuts that the road
to the cross began. There is barracks
on the, site Of Pilates judgment hall. We
go into the church, a sweet-faced sister
opening the way. Behind the alter is an
arch, and under this arch Plate stood
when be delivered over Jesus to the Jews
and washed his hands OF innocent blood.
Here, in an enclosure, was the whipping,
the browning with thorns, the decoration
with the purple iobts, and here, also, Je-
sus took up the cross which He carried to
Calvary.
We eau readily see, as We retrace our
way up the Via Dolorosa, that 1t must have
been rough snd weary road to one rent
and torn and bleeding and cruhsed under
the cruel burden of the cross. Even 10 us
free as we are-wayfarers, in tull posses
sion of our faculties, it Is TEDIOUS task to
climb the hill of Calvary.