The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-20
BISHOP KAlN's LECTURE.

Nearly n Thousand People Hear Ills Des.
crip,ion OF HOLY Week In Jerusalem.
The weather last night was not the
sort that temrts people to leave home
unless there is come strong incentive.
rhe Cathedral, however, contained more
than nine hundred people who had
brayed the weather 10 hear Bishop
kain's description OF "IIoly Week In
jerusalem
Commencing nj Jala, tho sen port Of
Jerusalem, the Bishop gave al account
Of his ride through the plains Of Sharon
and Ajalou, over an elegant macadam.
lied road. 10 the Holy City, n distance
Of SO miles. That Ramleh, where he
spent tho night, was the residence OF
the Prophet Samuel, is by no means as
certain rs Rev. DR.. Talmuge asserts, as
there arc seveh other places Claiming
that honor. But all along this road are
many interesting Scripture sites; among
them, the spot where David slew
Goliath, and tho village WHERE for
twenty years, The Ark OF the Covenant
was kept In the house OF Abinadab. In
a few touching phrases, tho Bishop por.
traycd his own feelings, when at 2:45 p.
IT,, April !, he entered Jerusalem. In
spite Of q drenching rain, which drove a
large party OF American tourists from
their tents, he ut once made his way to
tho Church Of the Holy Sepuichre,
within which are located the most sacred
Of all holy shrines, Calvary aud the
Savior's Tomb.
lie dwell for some time on these holy
places, drawing a picture Of their rela.
tive positions, aud giving TO his hearers
n panoramic WOW OF the whole. Turning
from his notes, he said he had not in.
tended to furnish any arguments In sup.
port OF tho identity Of this spot with
the Calvary Of the Bible, but that he
could not sulfer to pass unnoticed DR..
Taimage's sweeping assertion that oil
modern travellers deny this identity and
locate Calvary outside the present walls
OF Jerusalem. Tho place ofthe Saviour's
C%ruciixion, he said, was well known 10
the christians Of Palestine before the
visit Of the Empress, st. Helena, in the
year 32G; and it would have been
strange indeed, il this were not the case.
He then quoted Dean Stanley to show
that the spot recognized and veneratcd
from time immemorial must have been
outside the city walls in former times.
Kcsuming the thread OF his lecture,
the Bishop gave a most interesting &c.
count OF the many other sacred places in
and around Jerusalem, Just as he visited
them day alter day during his weeks
stay in that city. In the city, he dc.
scribed more or less at length, the upper
chamber where Christ instituted the
Eucharist; the home OF Caiphas; the
pretorium and place Of scourging; the
house Of Plate; the Via Dolorosa over
which Christ carried His cross to Cal.
vary, and the SCENE which occurred on
that sorrowfut journey. Outside the
city, he located and described the valley
OF kedron, the garden Of Gethsemene,
the spot Of Christ's bitter agony, the
Mount OF Olives, and thu various Bible
sites down kedron and up the valley Of
Hinnom, abiding also to the crowds oil
unfortunate lepers who line all the roads
leading into Jerusalem. He also gave
an account Of his visit to Bethlehem and
Of the several interesting localities lying
between Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
The close attention given throughout
by the large and appreciative audience
evidenced the pleasure they enjoyed in
listening to the Bishops description Of
Jerusalem during Holy Week. No
doubt many OF those who heard him
last evening will be all the more anxious
to listen to his "Glimpses OF Egypt ct
the same hour next Sunday in the
church Of the ImmalCulate Conception,
In the Eighth ward.