The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-15

won't forth 10 to,a place called th6.place
Of : skull Whers they crucih6a Himand
two Others With Him, cn~ither sideone,
and Jesus ID the midst Behold Thy
mether,p s.I thirst;r This day shalt
thou bs With Mo in Rafadise; Father,
forgive them, they know not what they
do;, fit be possible. let this cup pass
from Me- What sights, what tears,
what tempests OF sorrow, what surging
oceans OF agony In those utterances.
While we sat there the whole scene
came before US. All around the top, and
the sides, and the foot of the hill mob
RACES. They gnash their teeth and
shake their fists at Him. Here the cav
airy horses champ their bits, and paw
the earth and snort at the smell Of the
carnage. Yonder group Of gamblers
are pitching up as to who shall have the
coat Of the dying Saviour. There are
women almost dead with grief among
the crowd, His mother and his aunt, and
some whose sorrow He had comforted,
and whose guilt He had pardoned. Here
Q man dips sponge into sour wine, and
with stick lifts It to the hot and
cracked lips. The hemorrhage Of the
Hve wounds has done Its work.
The atmospheric conditions are such
ss the world never saw before or since.
II was not solar eclipse, such as as
tronomers record or we ourselves have
seen. 1t was bereavement OF the
heavens! Darker! Until the towers Of
the temple were no longer visible.
Darkert Until the surrounding hills
disappeared. Darkerl Until the inscrip-
tion above the middle cross becomes IL
legible, Darkerl Until the chin Of the
dying Lord falls upon the breast, and
He sighed with His last sigh, the words:
"It is hnishedw
As we sat there silence took posses
sion Of us, and we thought: This is the
center from which continents have been
touched, and all the world shall yet be
moved. Toward this hill the prophets
point forward. Toward this hill the
apostles and martyrs pointed backward.
To this all Heaven pointed downward.
To this with foaming execrations per-
dition pointed upward. Round II circles
all history, all time, all eternity and
with this scene painters have covered
the mightiest canvas, and sculptors cut
the richest marble, and orchestras
rolled their grandest oratorios, and
churches lifted their greatest doxologies
and Heaven built its highest thrones.
Unable longer to endure the pressure
Of this scene we moved on and into the
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, "In the midst Of
the garden was a sepulcher." l think
this was the garden and this the sepul-
cher. II is shattered Of course. About
four steps down we went into this,
which seemed family tomb. There Is
room In 1t for about FIVE bodies. We
measured II, and found 1t about eight
feet high and nine feet wide and four
teen feet long. The crypt where I
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 govern
ment set It's seal At the gate OF this
mousoleum m on the first Easter morning,
the angels rolled the stone laundering
down the hill. Up these steps walked
the lacerated feet Of the Conqueror, and
from these heights, he looked of 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 10 the city.
There are stones In the wall which Solo
mon had lifted. Stop here and see a
startling proof OF the truth OF prophecy.
In Jeremiah, 3lst chapter and 40th
verse, IL is said that Jerusalem shall be
built through the ashes. What ashes,
people have been asking? Were those
ashes just put into the prophecy to fill
up2 mol the meaning has been recent
ly discovered. Jerusalem is how being
built out in certain direction where
the ground has been su omitted to chem
ical analysis and IL has been found 10 be
the ashes cast out from the sacrifices OF
the ancient temple, ashes Of the wood
and ashes OF bones Of animals. There
are great mounds Of ashes, accumula-
tion OF centuries Of sacrifices II has
taken all those thousands of years to dis
cover what Jeremiah meant when he
said: Behold the days shall como 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 3thit Ivery time fulnlling that
prophecy. One handful Of that ashes on
which they are building, enough TO
provo the divinity Of the scripturesi
Pass BY the place whore the cornerstone
lI az the ancient tsmple was laid three
thousand yesrs, ago By Solomon. Ex-
plorers have boon digging, and they
found that cornerstone seventynye feet
benesth tho surface. It 10 fourteen feet
long, and three feet eight inches high,
and besutifuiiy cut and shaped, and
near IL was an earthen jar that was
supposed 10 have contained tho oil
OF conservation used at tho cere-
mony OF laying tAe- corner-stone.
Yonder from the depth Of forty feet .
pignet) ring hss been brought up In
scribed with the words "Haeasi, Tho con
Of Shebnaiah," showing IL belonged 70
the prophet Haggai, and 10 that seal
rngIhe refers In his prophecy, saying:
II will make thee as . signet." I walk
further on far under ground, and find
myself In Solomon's stables, and see
the places worn in the pillars, by the
halters Of some Of his $4,000 horses.
Further on, look at the pillars on which