Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-25

.#Is'' 1t seems to me L remember family
lhlsJacksons, who lived in the village
tsEwhich | was born and in which
cAIchildhood days were spent, and-ah
| Ut think do remember that there wa
I'll boy named Bud"
VI .SThen you're the Bill Watson
i after. Bud amt forgot you If 1t
ell been thirty years sence he seen or he'
| h from you. He wanted me to look We
| al when he heerd I was comm East.
$ ooh, did he?''
| e. eyes; and, beg yer parding, Bill
| e. Bud wanted me ter give you Hckl1
Il "Sir -
u Eyes, he did, an I feel that I've
a ter do it, Bud bein' a pardner O. mi
= He says the last time he ever seen
x him an you played game O. mum
II de-peg, an you cheated like sam
J. an beat him. He was goin' ter lick
pit fer WHERE Ct tie tie corner stone Of the
ancient temple was laid three thousand
| years ago by Solomon.
! Explorers have been digging, and they
Iafound that corner stone seventy-fve feet
beneath the surface. It is fourteen feet
J long, and three feet eight inches high,
| and beautifully cut and shaped, and near
it was an earthern jar that was sup
| posed to have contained the oil of con-
| secration used at the ceremony of laying
| the corner stone. Yonder, from depth
| Of forty feet, signet ring has been
| brought up inscribed with the words
! ''Haggai, the Son of Shebnaiah,'' show
! ing it belonged to the Prophet Haggai,
| and to that seal ring he refers in his
prophecy, saying, Il will make thee as
signet." l walk further ON far under
ground, and | find myself in Solomon's
stables, and see the places worn in the
stone pillars by the halters 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 so they built the mountain out on
pillars and I saw eight of those pillars,
each one strong enough to hold noun
! tain.
| Here we entered the mosque of Omar,
! throne of Mohammedanism where we
are met at the door by officials who bring
| slippers that we must put on before we
take a step further, lest our feet pollute
the sacred places. A man attempting to
go in without these slippers would be
struck dead on the spot. These awk-
ward sandals adjusted as we'll as we
could we are led to where we see rock
with an opening in it through which, no
| doubt the blood of sacrifice in the an
cient temple rolled down and away At
vast expense the mosque has been built,
| but so somber is the place [ am glad to
get through it and take off the cumbrous
slippers and step into the clear air.
| Yonder is curve of stone which is
part of bridge which once reached from
Mount Morah to Mount Zion, and over
it David walked or rode to prayers in the
temple. Here is the wailing place of the
Jews, where for centuries almost per-
petually during the day time whole gen
erations Of the Jews have stood putting
their head or lips against the wall OF
what was once SOlomon's temple. IL
| was one of the saddest and most solemn
| and impressive scenes | ever witnessed
to see scores of these descendants OF
Abraham with tears rolling down their
cheeks, and lips trembling with emotion,
a book of psalms open before them, be-
wailing the ruin of the ancient temple
and the captivity of their race, and cry
ing to God for the restoration of the
temple in all it's original splendor! Most
affecting scene! Ard such a prayer as
that. century after century, | am sure
| God will answer, and in some way the
| denarted grandeur will return, or some
| thing better. | looked over the shout
| ders of some of them, and saw that they
were reading from the mourntul psalms
| of David, while have been told that
| this is the litany which some chant:
| For the temple that lies desolate
! We sit in solitude and mourn;
| For the palace that is destroyed
| We sit in solitude and mourn
| For the walls that are oyerthfoWn
| We sit in solitude and mourn;
| For our majesty that is departed
| We sit in solitude and mourn;
| For our great men that lie dead
| We sit in solitude and mourn;
| For priests who have stumbled
| We sit in solitude and mourn
But must get back to the housetop
where stood early this morning, anu
before the sun sets, that l may ca'on q
| wider vision of what the city now Is anu
once was. Standing here on the house
ton 7 see that the city was built for mill
itarv safety. Some old warrior, war
/ rant selected the spot. 1t stands on d
hill twenty.six hundred feet aboye the
| level of the sea, and deep ravlnes on
three sides do the work OF military
trenches-compact as no other city was
| comnact.. Only three miles journey
| ronnd and the three ancient towers,
/ Hinnicus. Phasaelus, Marianne, 1roWn-
| mo death upon the approach OF all enc
mics. :.
As Istood there on the housetop' IN
tho midst of the city, l said, 70 Loro,
ravaaI to me this metropolis or the
/ world. that | may see it as 1t once ap-
,earad ;, No one was with me, 1or
there are some things you can see more
,r;nidlv with no one but God and your
Golf present. immediately the mosque
of omar. which has stood for ages on
~ oto O, Moriah the site of the ancient