The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-23
TALMAGFS SERMON.
Third Discourse of the Series on the
Holy Land.
THE Places OF Interest in and About Se-
rnsaIem-aount Zion. Mount OH
vet, Gethsemane, Calvary, All
in Panoramic View.

VET GethSeusane, tAlN@f9t Al
in Panoramic View.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage delivered
the following discourse, the third OF the
Holy Land series, in brooklyn and New
York City. The text was:
III forget thee. o, Jerusalem. let my right
hand forget her cunning Psalm c1xxv'
g., q
Paralysis OF his best hand, the with
ering Of its muscles and nerves, is here
invoked II the author allows to pass out
OF mind the grandeurs Of the Holy City
where once he dwelt jeremiah, seated
by the River Euphrates, wrote this
psalm and not David. Afraid ] am OF
any thing that approaches impreeation,
and yet / can understand how any one
who has over been at Jerusalem should
in enthusiasm of soul, cry out, whether
he be sitting by the Euphrates, or the
Hudson, or the Thames: IF j forget
thee, o Jerusalem, may my right hand
forget her cunningP' You see it is a
city unlike all others for topography,
for history, for significance, for style OF
population, for water-works, for ruins,
for towers, for .domes, for literature,
for tragedies, for memorable birth
places, for sepulchres, for conflagra-
tions and famines, for victories and de-
feats.
l am here at last in this very Jeru-
salem, and on housetop, just after the
dawn Of the morning Of December 8,
with an old inhabitant to point out the
salient features of the scenery. ''Now, v
j said, where is Mount Zion?
Here at your right" Where is
Mount Olivet?" I'm front of where
you stand" Where is the Garden Of
GethsemaneP" ''In yonder valley.
where is Mount Calvary" Before he
answered. ! saw it. No unprecedented
mind can have moments doubt as tc
where it is. Yonder / see a hill in the
shape of human skull, and the Bible
SAYS that Calvary was the place of a
skull" Not only is it skull-shaped,
but Just beneath the forehead of the
hill is a cavern that looks like eyeless
sockets. Within the grotto under II is
the shape OF the inside of skull. Then
the Bible says that Christ was crucified
outside the gate, and this is outside
thepgate, while the site formerly Sc
lected was inside the gate. Beside
that, this skull hill was for ages the
place where malefactors were put to
death, and Christ was slain as a male
factor,
The Saviour's assassination took place
beside thoroughfare along which peo'
pie went 'wagging their heads, and
there is the ancient thereughfare.
saw at Cairo, Egypt, a clay mold of that
skull hill, made by the late General
Gordon, the arbiter of nations. While
Empress Helena, eighty years of age,
and imposed upon by having three
crosses exhumed before her dim eyes,
as though they were the three crosses
Of Bible story, selected another site as
Calvary, al recent travellers agree thai
the one point out to you was, without
doubt, the scene OF the most terrific and
overwhelming tragedy this planet ever
witnessed sss
There were a thousand things We
wanted to see that third day of Decem
Der, and our dragoman proposed thi;
and that and the other Journey, but
said: First of all show US Calvary
Something might happen il we wen
elsewhere, and sickness or accident
might hinder our seeing the sacred
mount If we see nothing else, we mus
see that. and see it this morning ;
Some OF us in carriages and some OF
muleback, we were soon on the way K
the most sacred spot that the world has
ever seen or ever will see. Coming Il
the base of the hill we first went inside
the skull OF rock. 1t is called Jere
miah's grotto. for there the prophe
wrote his book Of Lamentations. The
grotto is thirty-fve feet high, and it.
top and side are malachite, green
brown, black, white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub
teraneous passages, we begin to eliml
the steep sides Of Calvary. As we gC
up we see cracks and oreyices in the
rocks which | think were made by the
commissions of nature when Jesus died.
On the hill lay limestone rock, white
but tinged with crimson, the white sc
suggestive of purity and the crimson Of
sacrifice, that said: ''Thatstone would
be beautifully appropriate for a me,
mortal wall in my church, now building
in America, and the stone now being
brought on camels back from Sinai
across the desert when put I'M
der it how significant Of the
law and the Gospel And ! these
lips of stone will continue te
speak of Justice and mercy long after
all our living lips have uttered their
last message" So / rolled it down the
hill and transported it When that day
comes for which many of you have
prayed-the dedication OF the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, the third immense struct-
IRE we have reared in this city, and
that makes it somewhat difficult being
the third structure, a work such as no
other church was ever called on to I'M
dertake-we invite you in the main en-
trance OF that building to look upon a
memorial wall containing the most sug-
gestive and solemn and tremendous an
Equities ever brought together; this,
rent with the earthquake at the giving
Of the law at Sinai, the other rentwtth
the crucifxion on Calvary.
1t is impossible for you to realize
what our emotions were as We gathered,
a group OF men and women, all saved
by the blood OF the Lamb, on blua OF
Calvary, just wide enough to contain
three crosses. said to my family and
friends; II think here is where stood
the cross of the impenitent burglar, and
there the cross Of the miscreant and
here between, think, stood the cross
on which all our hopes depend" AS
opened the nineteenth chapter Of John
70 read, chill blast struck the hill and
q cloud lowered, the natural solemnity
impressing tho spiritual solemnity,
read a little, but broke down.
1 defy any emotional Christian
man sitting upon Golgotha TO read
aloud and with unbroken voice. or with
any voice at all, the whole OF that ac-
count in Luke and John, In which these
sentences are a frapment. They took