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upon the world He had come to redeem AMI
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 q startling
proof of the truth Of the prophecy. In
Jeremiah, thirty-frst chaper and fortieth
verse, it IS said that Jerusalem shall be built
through the ashes. What ashea naanla have
been asking. Were those ashes put into the
prophecy to FL! up? Mol The meaning has
been recently discovered. Jerusalem is now
being built out in certain direction where
the ground has been. submitted to chemical
analysis, and 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 It
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 Hananesl 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 thu 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. 1t is fourteen feet long,
and three feet eight inches high, and beauti-
fully cut and shaped, and near it was an
earthen jar that was supposed to have con-.
I1a1 "a oil NJ ION, Of fha
ceremony Of laying the corner stone. Yon-
der, from depth Of forty feet, signet ring
has been brought up Inscribed with the
words "Haggai, the Son Of Shebnaiah,"
showing it belonged to the Prophet Eaggai
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 1
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 30 they built the mountain out on pill
lars, and 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 take
places. A man attempting to go in without
these slippers would be struck dead on ths
spor. these awkward sandals adjusted as
we'll as We could we are led to where we see
q rock with an opening in it, through which,
no doubt, the blood of sacrifice in the ancient
temple rolled down and awa:. At vast ex-
pense the mosque has been built but so SOM
ber is the placs am glad to get through 1t,
and take of the cumbrous slippers and step
into the clean air.
Yonder is curve of stone which IS part Of
q 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 oncs Solomons temple.
It was one of the saddest and most solemn
and impressive scenes l ever witnessed to $50
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
cient temple and the captivity of their raca,
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 soms way the departed gran
deur will return, or something better. I
looked over the shoulders Of some Of them
and saw that they were reading from the
mournful psalms of David, while I have been
told that this is the litany which some chant:
For the temple that lies desolate,
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