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The following discourse was delivered
BY Rev. I. Dewitt Talmaes ct Brook.
lyn. n. Y. on Sunday. October IA His
text VAS: IF I forget thee, O erusalem.
let my right hand forget her cunning"
Psalm cxxxvii 5. He said:
Paralysis Of his best hand. the with
ering of its muscles and nerves. 10 here
invoked II the author allows to pass
out OF mind the g~rsndeurs Of the Holy
City where once he dwelt jeremiah.
seated by the river EuphrsteA wrote
this psalm and not David. Afraid I am
OF every thing hat approaches impre-
cation, and yet l can understand how
any n who has ever been 1t Jerusalem
should. in enthusiasm Of soul. cry out
whether he be sitting BY the Euphr.tes.
the Hudson or the Thames III I for
get thee. o Jerusalem, may my right
hand forget her cunningy" You sec, 1t
Isl city unlike all others for topography,
for history. for significance. for style Of
population. for waterworks for ruins,
for tox ers, for dOmes, for ramparts, for
literature. for tragedies for memorable
birthplaces. for sepulchers for confla-
grat:Ons and famines, for victories and
defeats.
1 Am here at last in this very Jerusa-
lem and on a housetop just after the
dawn Of tho morning OF December 8.
with an Die inhabitant to point out tho
salient features of the scenery. Now"
] said, where is Mount Zion?" ''Here
at your right" ''Where is Mount OIL
vet?" I'm front of where you stand"
''Where is the garden OF Gethsemane?"
''In yonder valley" ''Where IL Mount
Calvary" Before he answered I saw it
No unprejudiced mind can have . mo-
ment's doubt as to where it is Yonder
] see a hill in the shape OF human
skull and the Bible says that Calvary
was the ''place Of a human 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 it is the shape of the
inside of tho skull. Then the Bible
says hat Christ was crucified outside
the gate. and this is outside the gate.
while the site formerly selected was in
side the gate. Beside that this skull
hill was for ages the place where male
factors were put to death, and Christ
was slain As a malcfactOr.
The SaviOur's assassination took
place beside . thorOughfare along which
people went "waggins their heads" and
there is the ancient thoroughfare. l
saw at Cairo. Egypt. a clay mold of
that skull hill, made by the late Gen
eral 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. all recent travellers agree that
the n l point out to you was, without
doubt, the scene Of the most terrific and
overwhelming tragedy this planet ever
witnessed.
There were a thou sand things we
wanted to sec that third of December.
and u dragoman proposed IN 8 and
that and the other journey. but l Said:
First Of all show US Calvary. Some
thing might happen il We went else
here. and sickness or acciden: might
nder our seeing the sacred mount II
see nothing else We must see that
and see it this morning." Some of us
in carriage and some Of US on mule back,
we were soon on the way to the most
sacred spot that the world has ever seer
or ever will see. Coming to the base Of
the hill We vent inside the skull Of
rocks. 1t is called Jeremiah's grotto.
for there the prophet wrote his book OF
lamentations The grotto is t~hirty-five
feet high. and its top and s des are NAL
achite, green, brown, black, white, red
and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub
terraneous passages We begin to climb
the steep sides Of Calvary. As We 60
up We see cracks and crevices in the
rocks which I think were made by the
convulsions of nature when Jesus died.
On the hill lay 4 limestone rock, white
but tinged with crimson. tho white SO
suggestive of purity and the crimson OF
sacrifice that I said: ''That stone would
be beautifully appropriate for a memo
rial wall in my church, now building in
America, and the stone now being
brought on cancels back from Sinai
across the desert, when put under it,
how significant Of the law and the Cos
PEI! And these lips of stone will con
tinue to speak Of justice and mercy long
after all our living lips have uttered
their last message" So I 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 structure
we have reared in this city, and that
makes il somewhat difficult, being the
third structure. a work such as no other
church was ever called on to undertake
-we invite you in the main entrance OF
that build ing to look pom a memorial
wall containing the most suggestive
and solemn and tremendous antiquities
ever brought together; this, rent with
he earthquake at the giving Of b law
At Sinai, the other rent ut the crucifix-
on at Calvary.
1t is impossible for yOu to realize
what our emotions were as We gathered.
group o; men and women, all saved by
the blood of the Lamb. on . blum OF
Calvary, just wide enough to contain
three crosses ! said to my family and
friends: Il think here is where
stood the cross OF the impenitent
burglar and there the cross Of the mis-
creant and here between. I think, stood
the cross upon which all our hopes de-
pend" As I opened he nineteenth
chapter of John to read. . chill blast
struck the hill and a c oud lowered. the
natural solcmnity impressing the spir-
itual solemnity. I read . little. but
broke down. l defy any emotional
Christian man, slit ng upon Golgotha.
to read aloud and with unbroken voice.
OF with any voice at all. the whole OF
that account in Luke and John. of which
these sentences are . fragment: They
took Jesus and led Him away and. He