Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24

which continents have been touched, and all
the world shall yet be moved. Toward this
hill the prophets pointed forward Toward
this hill the apostles and martyrs pointed
backward. To this all heaven pointed down
ward. To this with foaming execrations
perdition pointed upward. Round it circles
all history, all time, all eternity, and with
this scene painters have covered the might
lest canvas, and sculptors cut the richest
marble, and orchestras rolled their grandest
oratorios and churches lifted their greatest
doxologies and heaven built it's highest
thrones.
Unable longer to endure the pressure Of
this scene we moved on and into garden of
olives. garden which in the right season Is
full OF flowers, and here is the reputed tomb
OF Christ. You know the Book SAYS, 'sIn the
midst OF the garden was q sepulchre"
think this was the garden and this the
-sepulchre. It is shattered, of course About
Tour steps down we went into this, which
for about five bodies. We measured it and
found it about eight feet high and nine feet
wide and fourteen feet long. The crypt
where think our Lord slept was seven feet
long. think that there once lay the King
wrapped in His last slumber. On some Of
these rocks the Roman government set its
SEAL Attic gate Of this mausoleum on the
on the first Easter morning the angels rolled
the stone laundering down the hill. Up these
steps walked the lacerated feet of the Con-
Queror, and from these heights He looked Off
upon the city that had cast Him out and
upon the world He had come to redeem and
at the heavens through which He would soon
ascend.
But we must hasten back to the city
There are stones in the wall which Solomon
had lifted. Stop here and see artling
proof OF the truth of the prophecy In
Jeremiah, thirty-hrst chaper and fortieth
verse, it is said that Jerusalem shall be built
through the ashes. What ashes, people have
been asking. Were those ashes put into the
prophecy to fill up? MOI The meaning has
been recently discovered. Jerusalem is now
being built out in a certain direction where
the ground has been submitted to chemical
analysis, and it has been found to be the ashes
cast out from the sacrifices of the ancient
temple-ashes of wood and ashes of bones OF
animals. There are great mounds of ashes,
accumulation of centuries of sacrifices. Il
has taken all these thousands OF years to dis
cover what jeremiah meant when he said,
Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord,
that the city shall be built to the Lord from
the tower OF Hananeel to the gate of the cor
ner, and the whole valley Of the dead bodies
and of the ashes'' The people Of Jerusalem
are at this very time fulfilling that prophecy.
One handful of that ashes on which they are
building is enough to prove the divinity of
the Scripturesl Pass by the place where the
corner stone of the ancient temple was laid
three thousand years ago by Solomon.
Explorers have been digging, and they
found that corner stone seventy-fve feet be-
meath the surface. it IS fourteen feet long,
and three feet eight inches high, and beauti-
fully cut and shaped, and near it was an
earJhen jar that was supposed to have con-
tanned tho oil OF conservation used at the
ceremony of laying the corner stone. Yon-
der, from depth of forty feet, a signetring
mas Deen brought up inscribed with the
words "Haggai. the Son Of Shebnaiah,"
showing it belonged to the Prophet Haggai,
and to that seal ring he refers in his prop
phecy, saying, II will make thee as signet."
[ walk further on far under ground, and
find myself in Solomon's stables, and see the
places worn in the stone pillars by the hal
ters of some of his twelve thousand horses.
Further on, look at the pillars on which
Mount Moriah was built. You know that
the mountain was too small for the temple,
and SO they built the mountain out on pill
lars and I saw eight of those pillars, each
one strong enough to hold mountain.
Here we enter the mosque of Omar,
throne Of Mohammedanism, where we are
met at the door by officials who bring slip
pers that we must put on before we taxa
step further, lest our feet pollute the sacred
places A man Alternating to go in without
these slippers would h struck dead on the
spoT. Inese awkward sandals adjusted
well as we could, we are led to where we see
rock with an opening in it, through which,
no doubt, the blood Of sacrifice in the ancient
temple rolled down and away. At vast ex-
pense the mosque has been built, but so SOM
Der is the place [ am glad to get through it,
and take off the cuulbrous slippers and step
into the clean air.
Yonder is curve Of stone which is part of
a bridge which once reached from Mount
Moriah to Mount Zion, and over it David
walked or rode to prayers in the temple.
Here is the waiting place of the Jews where
for centuries, almost perpetually, during the
daytime whole generations of the Jews have
stood putting their head or lips against the
wall of what was once SOlOmOn's temple.
Tt was .one of the saddeSt and most solemn
and impressive scenes I ever witnessed to see
scores of these descendants of Abraham, with
tears rolling down their cheeks and lips trem-
bling with emotion, book of psalms open
before them, bewailing the ruin of the an
Gent temple and the captivity OF their race,
and crying to God for the restoration of the
temple in all its original splendor. Most
affecting scene! And such prayer as that,
century after century, am sure God will
answer and in some way the departed gran
deur will return, or SOmeGhlng DetUer. l.
looked over the shoulders Of come OF them
and saw that they were reading from the
mournful psalms OF David while | have been
told that this is the htany which some chant:
For the temple that lies desolate,
We sit in solitude and mourn
For the palace that is destroyed,
We sir in solitude and mourn;
For the walls that arc cVerthroWn,
We sit in solitude and mourn
For our majesty that Is departed,
West in solitude and mourn;
For our great men that lie dead,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For priests who have stumbled,
We sit in solitude and mourn.
think at that prayer Jerusalem will come
again to more than its ancient magnihcence;
it NAV not be precious stones and architec-
tural majesty, but in a moral splendor that