Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16

Crusaders. England and France, and
all christendom, wanted 20 capture the
Holy Sepulchre and Jerusalem, then IN
possession OF the Mohammedans under
the command of one of the lovelisst,
bravest and mightIest men that ever
lived, for Justice must be done MIN,
though he was q ohsmmedan-glorious
Saladin. Against him came the armies
of Europe. under Richard Coeur de Lion,
king OF England; Philip Augustus. king
of France; Tancred, Raymond. Cod
frey and other valiant men, marching
on through fevers, and plaques, and
battle charges, aud sufferings as
INTENSE AS THE WORLD EVER SAW.
Saladin in Jerusalem, hearing or tne
sickness of King Richard. his chief en-
envy, sends him his own physician, ana
from the walls of Jerusalem-seeing
King Richard afoot, sends him a horse.
With all the world looking on, the
armies of Europe come within sight OF
Jerusalem. At the first glimpse of the
c,ty they fail on their faces in reverence
and then lift anthems of praise Feuds
and hatred among themselves were gwen
up, aud Raymond and Taucred, the
bitterest, rivals embraced while the
armies looked on. Then the battering-
rams lrolled and the oatapults swung.
and the swords thrust, and the carnage
ragged Godfrey of Bouillon is the first
to mount the wall, and the Crusaders
q cross on every shoulder or breast-haV-
ing taken the city, march bareheaded
and bsrefooted to what they suppose 10
be the holy sepulcher and kiss the tomb.
! Jerusalem the possession of Christendom.
But Saladin retook the city, and for the
| last 400 years il hiss been in possession
| of cruel and polluted Mohammedanism
Another crusade ia needed to start for
| Jerusalem, crusade in this nineteenth
century greater than all those of the past
| centuries put together. A crusade IN
which you and l 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 Que
| tear of distress, nor lncendiarlze one
| homestead. A crusade of Gospel peace
And the cross again be lifted on Calvary
| not as once an instrument OF PAIN, out
signal of invitation. and the Mosque oil
Omar shall give place to church oil
Christ, and Mount Zion become the
dwelling place not of David, but oil
| David g Lord, and Jerusalem, purified OF
all its idolatries. and taking back the
Christ she once east out, shall be made q
| worthy " pc VI tudL Wy "H'>
| Paul styled "the mother OF us all and
which ST. John saw, "the holy Jerusa-
lem descending out of heaven from
God.' Through its gates may we al
| enter
WHEN OUR WORK IS DONE,
and in its temple, greater than all the
earthly temples piled in one, may we
worship. Russian pilgrims lined all the
roads around the Jerusalem we visited
last winter. They had walked hundreds
of miles, and their feet bled on the way
to Jerusalem. Many of them had spent
their last farthing to get there, and they
had left some of those who started witt
them, dying OF dead by the roadside
An aged woman exhausted with the long
way, begged her fellow pilgrims not tc
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, 'No"
hold my head up till l can look upor
Jerusalem, and her head lifted
she took one look and said
"Now l die content, l have seeI
it'll / have seen it,. Some of us before
we reach the heavenly Jerusalem may b.
as tired as that, but angels of mercy viii
help US in, and one glimpse of the tenn
pie of God aud the Lamb, and one goot
look at the liking IN hissbeauty' Will
more than compensat&sfbr all the toll
andstears aud heaa5eaks of the pill
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