Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-23

marching on through feYers and plaques
and battle charges and sufferings as in
tense as the world ever saw. Saladin in
Jerusalem, hearing of the sickness of King
P.e-t.ard, his chief enemy, sends him his
own physician. and from the walls OF Je-
rusalem, seeing King Richard afoot, sends
him horse. With all the world looking
on the armies OF Europe come within sight
of Jerusalem.
At the first glimpse OF the city they fall
on their faces in reverence and then lift an
thems of praise. Feuds and hatreds
among themselves were given up, and
Raymond and Tancred, the bitterest rivals,
embraced while the armies looked on.
Then the battering rams rolled, and the
catapults swung, and the swords thrust,
and the carnage ragged. Godfrey of Bouil-
lon is the first to mount the wall, and the
Crusaders, a cross on every shoulder or
breast. having taken the city, march bare
headed and barefooted to what they sup
pose to be the Holy Sepuleher, and kiss
the tomb. Jerusalem the possession Of
Christendom. But Saladin retook the
city, and for the last four hundred years it
has been in possession of cruel and pollut-
ed Mohammedanism!
CRUSADE NEEDED NOW.
Another crusade is needed TO start for
Jerusalem, a crusade in this Nineteenth
Century greater than all those of the past
centuries put together. A crusade in
which you and | will march. A crusade
without weapons of death, but only the
sword Of the Spirit A crusade that will
make not single wound, nor start one
"a ;f,f,s Ifsr
stead. A crusade of Gospel Peacel And
the Cross again be lifted on Calvary, not
as once an instrument Of pain, but signal
OF invitation, and the mosque Of Omar
shall give place to a church of Christ, and
Mount Zion become the dwelling place not
OF David, but Of David's Lord, and Jerusa-
lem, purified Of all its idolatries, and tax
ing back the Christ she once cast out,
shall be made worthy type of that heav-
emily city which Paul styled THE mother OF
US all, /" and which St. John saw, THE holy
Jerusalem descending out OF heaven from
God" Through its gates may we all en-
ter when our work is DONE and in its tenn
pie, greater than all the earthly temples
piled in one, may we worship.
Russian pilgrims lined all the roads
around the Jerusalem we visited last win
ter They had walked hundreds OF miles,
and their feet bled on the way to Jerusa-
lem Many of them had spent their last
farthing to get there, and they had left
some OF those who started with them dy-
ing or dead by the roadside. An aged wo-
man, exhausted with the long way. begged
her fellow pilgrims not to let her die until
she had seen the Holy City. As she came
TO the gate Of the city she could not take
another step, but she was carried in, and
then said, "Now hold my head up till
can look upon Jerusalem" and her head
lifted, she took one look, and said: Now
die content; have seen i'll ! have seen
itr' Some of MS before we reach the heaven
ly Jerusalem may be as tired as that, but
angels Of mercy will help us in, and one
glimpse Of the temple Of God and the
Lamb, and one good look at the liking in
his beauty" will more than compensate
for all the tolls and tears and heartbreaks
of the pilgrimage. Hallelujah! Amenl