Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-13


|. these heights He looked off npon 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 a startling proof OF the truth
of Prophecy. In Jeremiah, 3lst chapter and
| 40th verse, it is said that Jerusalem shall pc
built through the ashes. What ashes people
have been asking? Were those ashes Just put
into the prophecy to I'LL up? No! the meaning g
has been recently discovered. Jerusalem is
now being built out in certain direction where
| the ground has been submitted to chemical an
alysis and il has been found TO be the ashes
cast out from the sacrifices of the ancient tenn
pie. ashes of the 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 discover
WHAT JEREMIAH MEANT
when he sald, behold the days shall come,
saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to
the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the
gate Of the corner, 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 enough to prove the divinity
of the Scriptures! Pass by the place where
the cornerstone of the ancient temple was laid
1900 years. ago by Solomon. Explorers have
been digging. and they found that cornerstone
rs feet beneath the surface. tits IA feet long.
and feet inches high. and beautifully cut
and shaped. and near IL was an earthen jar
that was supposed to have contained the oil
of consecration used at the ceremony
of laying the cornerstone Yonder from a
depth of 40 feet a signet ring has been brought
up inscribed with the words. "Haegai. the Son
of Shebnaiah'' showing it belonged to the
prophet Haggal, and to that seal ring he re-
fers in his prophecy, saving, II will make thee
a signet" l walk further on far under ground,
the places worn in the stone pillars by the hal
ters of some of his 1900 horses. Further on
look at the pillars on which Mount Morlah was
built. You know that the mountain was too
small for the temple, and so they built the
mountain out on pillars, and saw eight OF
those pillars, each one strong enough to hold
mountain.
Here we enter the Mosque of Omar a throne
of Mohanmedanism. where we are met at the
door by officials who bring slippers that we
must put on before we take step further, lest
our feet pollute the sacred places A man at.
tempting to go In without these slippers would
be struck dead on the spot. These awkward
sandals adjusted as well as we could, we are
led to where we see rock with an opening In
it, through which, no doubt. the blood Of sac
rifice in the ancient temple rolled down and
away. At vast expense the mosque has been
built: but so somber is the place am glad to
get through it and take off tie cumbrous slip
pers and step into the clear air.
SAD, SOLEMN SCENE.
YoDder is a 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
wailing place of the Jews, where for centuries
almost perpetually during the day time, whole
generations of the Jews have stood putting
their head or lips against the wall Of what was
once Solomon's temple. 1t was one of the sad
dcst and most solemn and impressive scenes l
ever witnessed to see scores of these descend
ants of Abraham, with tears rolling down their
cheeks and lips trembling with emotion. book
of psalms open before them, bewailing the ruin
of the ancient temple and the captivity of their
race. and crying to God for the restoration of
the temple in all its original splendor.
But must get back to the house-top, where
l stood carly this morning. and before the sun
sets, that may catch wider vision Of what the
city now is and once was. Standing here on the
hOuse-top.I see that the city was built for mill
tary safety Only three miles journey round,
and the three ancient towers, Hippicus, Phasa-
leus. Marianne, frowning death upon the ap-
proach of all enemies.
As l stood there on the house-top, IN the
midst of the city. said, 20 Lord, reveal to me
this metropolis of the world, that may see it
as it once appeared" No one was with me, for
there are some things you can see moro vividly
with no one bu: God and yourself present. I'm
mediately the Mosque of Omar, which has
stood for ages on Mount MOriah, the site of the
ancient temple, disappeared and the most
honored structure of all the ages lifted itself
in the light and sawit-the temple, the ancient
tenplei Not Solomon's Temple, but something
grander than that Not Zerubbabels temple,
but something more gorgeous than that 1t
of eclipsing all its architectural predecessors.
There it stood. covering 10 acres, and 10,COO
workmen had been 46 years in building it,
Blaze of magnifcencei Bewildering range of
porticos and ten gateways, and double arches.
and COrnthian capitals chiseled into lilies and
Masonry beyeled and grooved into
such delicate forms that 1t seemed to tremble
in the light Cloisters with two rows OF Cor
inthiau columns, royal arches, marble steps
pure as though made out of frozen snow, csrv-
ing that seemed like panel Of
THE DOOR OF HEAVEN
let down and set in, the facade of the building
on shoulders at each END lifting tho glory
higher and higher, and walls wherein gold put
out the silver, and the carbunce put out the
gold, and the jasper put out the carbuncle, un-
til in the changing light they would all seem to
come back again into chorus of harmonious
color The temple. The temple, Doxoogv
in stone! Anthems soaring IN rafters of Leba-
non cedar! From side to side and from foun-
dation to gilded pinnacle, thu frozen prayer of
all agesi
From this house top on the December after
noon we look out IN another direction and see
the kings palace covering l60 900 square feet
brilliance the hallway wainscoted with all
styles of colOred marbles surmounted by ara
besque. vermillion and gold, looking down on
mosaics, music of waterfalls in the garden out
side answering the music of the harps
thrummed by deft fingers inside; banisters
over which princes and priucesses leaned, and
talked to kings and queens ascending the stair.
city! city of Godi Joy OF the whole earthi
Stronger than Gibraltar and Sebastopol surely
it never could have been captured.
But while standing there on the housetop
that December afternoon, 1 hear the crash of
the % mighty sleges which have come against
Jerusalem in the ages past. Yonder is the pool
of Hezekiah and Sloan, but again and again
were those waters reddened with human gore.
Yonder are the towers but again and again
they fall. Ycnder are the high walls, but again
and again they were leveled. To rob the treas
ures from her temple and palace and dethrone
this queen city of the earth, all nations
plotted. David taking the throne at Hebron
decides that he must have Jerusalem for his
capital, and, coming up from the south at the
head of 2S0.000 troops, he captures it. Look
here comes another siege of Jerusalemi The
Assyrians under Sennachcrib, enslaved nations
at his chariot wheel, having taken zoe, 600 cap
kneeling at his feet Egypt trembling at the
fash of his sword, cones upon Jerusalem.
FIGHTING FOR THE HOLY CITY.
Look, another siegel The armies of Babylon
under Nebuchadnezzar come down and take
plunder from Jerusalem such as no other city
ever had to yield and 10000 of her citizens
trudge of into Babylonian bondage. Look, an
other siege! and Nebuchadnezzsr and his hosts
by night 90 through breach of the Jerusalem
wall, and the morning finds some of them
seated triumphant in the temple, and what
they could not take away, because too heavy,
they break up-the brazen sea, and the two
Treathed pillars Jachin and Boaz.
Another siege of Jerusalem, end Pompey
with the battering rams which 100 nen would
roll back and then at full run forward would
bang against the wall of the city, and catapults
hurling the rocks upon the people, left 1900
lead, and the city in the clutch Of the Roman
war eagle. Look, a more desperate siege of
JerusaIemi Titus with his tenth legion on |
Mount of Olives, and ballist arranged on the |
principle of the pendulum TO swing great |
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digging under the city making galleries of |