The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-12-22
posed to refer in his Grafton related in the
Second Acts.

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J melee with crowd of lageard donkeys and
horses and their drivers. He let his stick
have full play on other people. "What
guide. 1T is an expression here. Why
dent you go on like people!" Sure enough,
my young turban. why not?
! knocked. when the little maiden, Rhoda,
came, and, running back, announced to the
friends his enlargement from prison. The
Syrian Christians keep it. 1t has curious
green gates and crosses. We go through
the Jewish quarter, into the old Syrian
church, with it's sounding boards and bells
also, and pass down David's street. am
attracted by sign. photographs by Mic
odemus." What IN anchorism! What gaps
OF centuries between Nicodemus and this
new art, never dreamed of by Hebrew or
Greek. 1t being Sunday, We meet many
Germans coming from the Lutheran church;
| fer lot it be known that there are some Pro-
| testants in Jerusalem. The cherry, cherry
faces and bright blue eyes of this race are
in radiant contrast with the sallow and
| bronze feature one meets here at every step.
How we'll dressed they are-men, women,
and children! They are of the German
colony. The German consul, who lives at
our hotel, tells me that there are over 1900
| Germans in Judea. They worship
| here in the old site of the Tem-
pie of the Knights of st. John.
The grounds and ruins are ada
| cent on the south to the Church of the
Prussia in 1869 by the sultan. The old
| church is being excavated, as for fifty feet
| the rubish covered its arches and walls.
| There has been much work done, bat one
| third only of the excavations are completed.
The walls aro already dressed in vines.
Going up amid the antique cloisters of the
famous knights, We see upon what "heaps"
Jerusalem, as now known, reposes. We
look into hole fifty feet deep. Down in
its darkness We see the cid street ways of
Jerusalem in the crusader days! Enough
! stone has been taken out aud piled up to
build the new church which is being erect
ed. Some of the old arches are elegant in
shape, and keyed with skill that defes de-
struction. In the courts up the stairs
whittier we are guided by tall Nubian in
Whie burnous-there is much taste in the
growth and arrangement of flowers, for the
sun shines in upon the cool balconies. We
enter the vaulted chapel, once occupied by
the Knights. It Las its lace covered alter,
embroidered cbancel, polished wooden
pews, Maltese crosses, baptismal font,
and plain pulpit, recalling the
anomaly Of I.utheranism, in the
grand old Catholic cathedrals of Scandina-
via. We look for the blackboards for chap
ter and verse and number OF the psalm for
Sunday. This is not there, but the Biule,
hymn, and prayer book are. We open the
last. Herr, here meme worte," is the frs:
line of the hymn we see. Were we Teuton-
ic now-but this is no place for singing
psalms, for, as listen, the mnrmur Of loud
voices pierces the wall from the noisy street.
1t is not Sunday for the Arab. We hear
him in the bazaars below measuring grain
and counting its prices. There is not a
corner" in grain even here, judging by the
Sunday racket. Excuse these details as to
this extraordinary illustration of the vicissi-
tudes of time. Here is this fair haired
face, whom we met at Castle Garden to Hol-
land, and from Hamburg to Hammerfast,
under Providence, resuming peacefully the
I'D cloisters Of the crusader. Preparation
is already made Tor their religious devotion,
and Prussian hospital is provided for
all who used its care. Even descendent
Of the Sultan clears the way bya notable
Gift for the Teutonic immigration into the
heart of Jerusalem!
We had already made one hurried visit
to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. As
this is the Sabbath day We keep it holy By
renewing our visit. Here are seen Col
gotha, Calvary, the tomb, and other ur-
mistakabie memorials Of the Sa3ior. Each
spot, however. apocryphal, is Of moment.
Hundreds upon hundreds Of years, good
mep. kings and scholars, soldiers and
priests, have regarded them as authentic
From the street we descend by flight Of
steps into Il paved court. Here are columns
i'll rows, and chapels abound Greek, Lat
III and Armenian. This is the entrance.
A Romanosque facade is upon the north
SIDE Of the court, with sculptured illustra-
tons of our Savior's life. We enter the
south transept, which looks like a vestibu!e.
large, red and yel!owish slabe of marble en-
closed in railing. directly fronting the
entrance. 1t is adorned with suspended
lamps. This is the spot where the body of
Jesus was anointed. We pass into the d.
visions of the church, and enter under the
dome of the sepalchre itself. The dome is
blue and spangled With golden stars. Over
the tomb is canopy Of reddish marble.
1t seems old and worn. The pavement is
glossy and slippery. On either side of the
canopy are two large round holes, fused
for the holy fire miracle by the Greeks who
have its monopoly. The Catholics dis
! countenance it and very properly.
Every volume on Jerusalem has its chap
ters descriptive of this edi6ce. 1t has
played a great part IN history from the tine
| of Constantine, whose mother, Helana, in-
| augurated the investigations for its verifi-
cation and that of Its sacred rocks. Wheth-
| er Golgotha, Calvary and the tombs should
be here located or not, has been theme
! for quarto on folio of controversy. What
| ever may be the merits of the question,
this spot has had, since the early centuries,
! the favorable verdict. All now seem to ac-
! quiesce III the decision. Our cousul, COL
| Wilson, has made an exhaustive study of
the question, and has confirmed the gener-
al sentiment, which is the opinion of Drs.
Robinson and Prince. Let us not quarrel
as to the precise spots for the cruciixion,
| the rent rock, and the amounting of the
body; the apparition to Mary after the res
direction: the seat of St. Helena, and the
place of finding the cross under the super
| intendence; the spot where He was crowned
! with thorns: tae rock Of Golgotha, or
the tombs of the crusading kings of Jerusa-
! lem. Whatever may be thcir
| topography or history, it is known
that He was cruciied near by, and
here he was entombe1. Let others, who
! are critical and cynical, dispute to their
that the powers and learning of the earth
have fixed upon this as the hottest spot OF
places. Here, too, they have fought, and
| are ready to fight again for it's vindication
as the holy of holes!
To avert these contests, of which the
Crusades are sample thousand years
ago, and the Crimean war the more recent
one, and that Christ's dcciples of every rite
should dwell and worship in some uuity
under this dome, there has been much
diplomacy; and to continue it much tact
and some show of Moslem force.
We are allowed to &C up and down tho
! various stairways in the rotunda, notwith
standing the diverse quarters Of various
| cresds. Above are the Armenians, looking
down upon the canopy; in secluded spot
the Copts have their chapel. The Syrians
are allowed place by Armenian grace. The
places are numbered. as pilgrims sleep here
frequently, and this order is Indispensable
for peace and rest. The Greeks and Latins
seem to have the largest space and liberty,
the former making most demonstration in