The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-19

| David resounding through all succeeding
ages This was the city that heard the woe.
% Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
am also thrilled and overpowered with
the remembrance that yonder, where now
stands Mohantmedn mosque, stood the
| temple, the very one that Christ visited
Solomon's temple had stood there, but Neb-
uchadnezzar Numbered it down. Zerubba.
| bells temple had stood there, but that had
been Frustrated. Then Herod built temple
because he was fond Of great architecture,
and he wanted the preceding temples 10 seem
Insignificant, Put eight or ten modern ca
thedrals together and they would not equal
that structure. it covered nineteen
acres There were marble pillars sup
porting root of cedar, and silver ia.
bles on which stood golden cups, and there
were carvings exquisite and Inscriptions re-
splendent glittering balustrades and orna-
mented ga.eways, The building of this tenn.
pie kept ten thousand workmen busy forty
SIX years. Stupendous pile of pomp and
magnificencel But the material and archi-
tectural grandeur Of the building were very
tame compared with the spiritual meaning of
It's affairs and holy of holies, and the over.
whelming significance of its ceremonies 0
Jerusalem, Jerusaleml
But standing in this old city all other facts
are eclipsed when we think that near here
our blessed Lord was born that I'D and
down the streets of this city He walked, and
that in the outskirts of it He died. Here was
His only day of triumph and His assassina-
ton, One day this old Jerusalem is at the
tptop of excitement Christ has been doing
some remarkable works and asserting very
high authority. The police court has issued
papers for His arrest for this thing must be
stopped, as the very government is
imperiled. News comes that last
night this stranger arrived at suburban
village and that He is stopping at the house
OF man whom He had resuscitated after
four days sepulture. Well, the people rush
out into the streets, some with the idea of
helping in the arrest of this stranger when
morrow He will come into the town and BY
some supernatural force DUST the mu.
nicipal and royal authorities and take
everything in His own hands. They
procession reaches to the village. They
come all around about the house
where the stranger is stopping, and
peer into the doors and windows that they
may get one glimpse of Him or hear the hum
of His voice, The police dare not make the
arrest, because He has somehow won the at
fections of all the people. Oh, it is lively
night in yonder Bethany The heretofore
quiet village is filed with uproar and outcry,
and loud discussion about the strange acting
countryman. ] do not think there was any
sleep in that house that night where the
stranger was stopping Although He came
in weary He finds no rest. though for
once IN his lifetime He had a pillow
But the morning dawns, tue olive gar.
dens wave in the light and all
along yonder road, reaching over the top of
Olivet toward this city, there is a vast sway
ing crowd of wondering people. The excite
ment around the door of the cottage is wild
as the stranger steps out beside an unbrokeu
colt that had never been mounted, and after
l.
beast fer saddle the Savior mounts it, and
the populace, excited and shouting and fever.
jsh, push on back toward this city of Jerusa
lem. Let none jeer now or scoff at this rider
or the populace will trample him un
der foot in an instant There is one
long shout Of two miles, and as far as
the eye can reach you see wavings of demon
strations and approval. There was some
thing in the riders visage, something IN his
majestic brow, something in His prlnceiy be
hayior that stirs up the enthusiasm of tho
people. They run up against the beast and
try to pull the rider off into their arms aud
carry on their shoulders the illustrious
stranger. The populace are so excited that
they hardly know what to do with them
selves, and some rush up to the roadside trees
and wrench off branches and throw them in
His way and others doff their gar
ments what though they be new
and costly, ana spread them for car
pet for the conquerer TO ride over. 'Hosan-
mar cry the people at the foot of the hill.
"HosannaH cry the people all up and down
the mountain. The procession has now come
to the brow of yonder Olivet Magnificent
prospect reaching out in every direction
vineyards, olive groves jutting rock, silvery
Sloan, and above all, rising on its throne of
hills, this most highly honored city of all the
earth, Jerusalem. Christ there, in the midst
of the procession, looks off and sees here for
J0,. noir4 lty,e- tx-u1l
and here the towers blazing in the sun, Phas-
aelus and Marianne. Yonder is Hippicus, the
Kings castle Looking along in the range
! of the larger branch of that olive tree, you
see the mansions of the merchant princes.
| Through this cleft In the limestone rock you
ssSe the ma lace of tho riahest traficker in all
| DE EARTH. He has made his money by sell
iItg Tyrian purple. Behold now the temple!
| Clouds of smoke lifting from the simmer
ing roof, while the building rises up beautiful,
| grand, majestic, the architectural skill and
| glory of the earth lifting themselves there in
one triumphant doxo!ogy, the frozen prayer
| of all nations.
The crowd looked around to see exhilara-
ton and transport in the face of Christ. Oh,
mol Out from amid the gates and the
| domes, and the palaces, there arose a vision
of this city's sin, and of this city's doom,
| which obliterated the landscape from horizon
to horizon, and He burst into tears crying;
/
the only day of pomp that Jesus saw in and
| around this city Yet He walked the streets
of this city the ioveliest and most majestic
being that tile world ever saw or ever Will
see Publius Lentilus in a letter to the
Roman Senate, describes Him as "a
| man of stature somewhat tall his hair the
color of a chestnut fully ripe, plain to the
ears whence downward it is more orient,
curling and waving about the shoulders; in
the midst of His forehead is a stream, or par
tition of His hair forehead plain, and very
| delicate, His face without spot or wrinkle,
lovely red; His nose and mouth so forked as
nothing can be represented; His beard thick,
in color like His hair-not very long: His eyes
gray, quick and clear He must die. The
| French army in Italy found a brass plate on
which was copy of His death warrant,
signed by John Zerubbabel, Raphael Robani,
| Daniel Robsni and Capet
Sometimes men on the way to the scatfoid
have been rescued by the MOB. No such at
tempt was made N this case, for the mob
were against Him. From nine il the morn
! ing till three in the afternoon, Jesus hung
a-dying in the outskirts of this city. II was
a scene of blood We are so constituted that
nothing is so exciting as blood. Its not the
child's cry in the street that SO arouses you
as the crimson dripping from its lip, In the
dark hail. seeing the finger marks of
I blood on the plastering, you cry:
! wv nat GeTFlDlS tteeu ndS Dtcu upuc HciC'
Looking upon this suspended victim of the
cross, we thrill with the sight of blood
blood dripping from thorn and nail, blood
rushing upon His cheek, blood saturating His
garments, blood gathered in pool beneath.
1t is called an honor to have in ones veins
the blood of the house of Stuart, OF of the
house of Hapsburg. Is it nothing when
point you to the outpouring blood of the
King of the universe?
In England the name of Henry was so great
that its honors were divided among different
reigns. 1t was Henry the First, and Henry
the Second and Henry the Third, and Henry
the Fourth, and Henry the Fifth. In France
| the name of Louis was so favorably regarded
that it was Louis the First, Louis the Second,
Louis the Third, and so on. But the King who
walked these streets was Cnrlst tne
First. Christ the Last and Christ tns
| Only He reigned before the Gar mounted
the throne of Russia, or the throne OF AUS
tria was lifted, liking eternal, immortal.
Through the indulgences of the royal family:
the physical life degenerates, and some .,
the KINGS have been almost imbecile, and
their bodies weak, and their blood thin and
| yv,terv. Int the crimson life that flowed upon