News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-09

SPSSuell, anu lie ground SHOOK as IIllS
great oak of a military chieftain struck
it. Huzza for David
FIRST SIGHT OF JERUSALEM.
But we must hasten on, for the dam
ger now is that night will be upon us
before we reach Jerusalem. OH we
must see it before shutdown. We are
climbing the hills which are terraced
with olive groves, uplands rising above
uplands until we come to an immensely
of barrenness, gray rocks above gray
rocks, where neither tree nor leaf nor
bush nor grass blade can grow. The
horses stumble and slip and pull till
it seems the harness must break. So
lemnity and awe take possession of US.
Though a vivacious party, and during
part of the day jocularity had reigned,
now no one spoke a word, except to say
to the dragoman, Tell us VIXEN you
get the first Gin pse of the city"
never had such high expectation of see
ing any place as of seeing Jerusalem.
I think my feelings may have been
slightly akin to those of the Christian
just about to enter the heavenly Jeru-
salem. My ideas of the earthly Jerusa-
lem were bewildering. Had l not seen
pictures of it? Oh, yes; but they only
increased the bewilderment. They were
taken from variety of standpoints If
twenty artists attempt to sketch Brook
Ign or New York or sondon or Jerusalem
they will plant their cameras at different
places, and take as many different pict-
ures, but in q few minutes | shall see
the sacred city with my own eyes.
Over another shoulder of the hill we
go, and nothing in sight but rocks and
mountains, and awful gulches between
them, which make the head swim if
YOU look down. On and up, on and
I'D, until the lathered and smoking
horses are reined in, and the dragoman
rises in front and points eastward, cry
ing "Jerusalemw 1t was mightier than
an electric shock. We all rose. There
it lay, the prize of nations, the terlni-
nus of famous pilgrimages, the object
of Roman and crusading wars, and for
it Assyrians had fought, and Egyptians
had fought, and the world had fought
the place which the queen of Sheba
visited, and Richard Ceur de Lion had
conquered. Home of Solomon; home
of Ezekiel; home of jeremiah; home
of Isaiah; home of Saladin. Mount
Zion of David's heartbreak, and Mount
Moriah, where the sacrifices smoked
Mount of Olives, where Jesus preached
and Gethsemane, where he agonized,
and Golgotha, where he died, and the
holy sepulcher where he was buried.
Oh, Jerusalem! Jerusalem Greatest
city on earth and type of the city ce,
lestial
IN THE HOLY CITY.
After l have been ten thousand years
in heaven the memory of that first
view from the rocks on the afternoon
of December 2 will be as vivid as
now. An Arab on a horse that was
like a whirlwind, bitted and saddled
and spurred, its name and TANKS jet as
the highland there are no such horse
men as Arab horsemen-had come far
out to meet us, and invite us to his
hotel inside the gates. But arrange
ments had been made for us to stay at
hotel outside the gates. In the dusk
of evening we halted in front of the
place and entered, but I said No,
thank you for your courteous recep-
ton, but l must sleep tonight inside
the gates of Jerusalem. l would rather
have the poorest place inside the gates
than the best place outside" So we
remounted our coach and moved on
amid a clamor of voices, and between
camels granting with great beams and
timbers on their backs, brought in for
building purposes-for it is amazing
how much camel can carry-until we
came to what is called the Joppa Gate
of Jerusalem. 1t is about forty feet
wide, twenty feet deep and sixty feet
high. There is a sharp turn just after
you have entered, SO planned as to
make the entrance of armed enemies
the more difficult.
On the structure of these gates the
safety of Jerusalem depended, and ali
the Bible writer's used them for illustra-
tons. Within five minutes walk of the
gate we entered David wrote: ENTER
into thy gates with thanksgiving u
Lift up your heads, o, ye gates!
''The Lord loveth the gates of Zion. u
"Open to me the gates of righteous
ness" And Isaiah wrote, go through,
go through the gates" And the captive
of Patmos wrote, 1.-The city had twelve
gates" Having passed the gate we
went on through the narrow streets,
dimly lighted, and passed to our halt
ing place, and sat down by the window
from which we could see Mount Zion,
and said, Here we are at last, in the
capital of the whole earth" And
thoughts of the past and future rushed
through my soul in quick succession,
and thought of that old hymn, sung
by so many ascending spirits:
Jerusalem, my happy home.
Name ever dear to me!
When shall my labors have end,
In Joy and peace and thee?
When shall these eyes thy hea7'n built walls
And pearly gates behold?
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
And so with our hearts full of graft
tude to God for journeying mercies all
the way from Joppa to Jerusalem, and
with bright anticipation of our en-
trance into the shining gate of the
heavenly city when earthly Journeys
are over, my second day in Palestine il
ended