Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16
THE HOLY CITY.
DR.. Talmage's Third Sermon on
His Recent Tour in Palestine.
In Jerusalem, from HOuse-Top, 10
Him Are Pointed Out the Salient
Features OF the Scenery.
The Most Interesting Of his Observations Min
utely Described, Mount Calvary
Chief Among Them
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Oct. l2.-Tnls
morning DR.. Talmage delivered his thru
sermon on his recent tour in Palestine, In
the academy of music in this city. The
large building was crowded ,and numbers
went away disappointed. This was the
more significant because it had been
publicly announced that the same sermon
would be preached in the evening at the
New York academy which the Christian
Herald had rented for that purpose. In
spite of this fact, unprecedented since
the days of Chalmers, both buildings
were crowded to excess. and many were
turned away from the doors, both morn
ing and evening. DIR. Taimage must
have have preached to-day to 10, OOO
different persons. The doctor spoke as
follows from the text: elf forget thee,
o Jerusalem, let my right hand forget
her cunning Psalm 1877 IS.
PARALYSIS of his best hand, the wlther-
ing of its muscles aud nerves, Is here IN
voked if the author allows to pass out or
mind the grandeurs OF the holy city where
! once he dwelt. jeremiah. seated by the
river Euph-ates, wrote this psalm, and
&pot David. Afraid l am of anything
WHAT approaches imprecation, and yet l
! III understand how any one who has
| eyGS been at Jerusalem should, in entnu-
! siasm of soul, cry out, whether he be SIT
! ting by the Euphrates or the Hudson or the
! Thames: "If forget thee, o, Jerusa-
| lem, may my right hand forget her cum
| = - ritz
others for topography, for history, for
significance, for style of population, for
waterworks, for ruins, for towers, for
domes, for ramparts, for literature. for
| tragedies, for memorable birth places,
for sepulcnres, for contiagrations and
famines, for victories and defeats.
IAN HERE AT LAST
| in this very Jerusalem and on house
| top, Just after the dawn of the morning
| of December S, with an old inhabitant
to point out the salient features of the
scenery. "Now, said, "where is
Mount Zion?'' "'Here at your right. !"
.Where is Mount Olivet2' "In front
of where you stand. - "Where is the
| Garden of Gethsemane?' ''lp yonder
Valley :Where is Mount Cslvary?"
Before he answered 1 saw 1t. No UMPIRE
JUDGED mind can have moment IS doubt
as to where it is. Yonder i see hill in
the shane 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 cavern that looks
like eyeless sockets. Within the grotto
under il is the shape of the inside of q
skull. Then the Bible says that Christ
was crucified outside the gate, and this
is outside the gate, while the site for
merly selected was inside the gate. Be-
side that, this skull hill was for ages the
place where malefactors were put tc
death, and Christ was slain as a male
factor.
The Savior's assassination took place
beside a thoroughfare along which people
went s'wagging their heads, and there
is the ancient thoroughfare. l saw al
Cairo, Egypt, a clay mould OF that SIX ui
hill, made by the late General Gordon, the
arbiter of nations. While Empress He
lena. 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 Sc
lected another sight as Calvary, all re.
cent travellers agree that the one poin
out to you was, without doubt, the scene
of the most terrific and overwhelming
tragedy
THIS PLANET EVER WITNESSED.
There wsre thousand things w
wanted to see that third day of Deem
Der and our dragoman proposed this anc
| that aud the other journey, but l said
"First of all, show US Calvary. Some
thing might happen if we went else
where and sickness or accident might
hinder our seeing the sacred mount. L
we see nothing else. we must see that
aud see it this morning. Some of u
in carriage and some on mule back, VI
were soon on the ay to the most sacred
spot that the world has, ever seen or eve
will see. Coming to the base of the hill
we first went inside the skull OF rocks
1t is called Jeremiah's grotto, for ther'
the prophet wrote his book of Lamenta
tons. The grotto is thirty five feet hig
and its top and eide are malachite
green, brown, black, white, red ant
! gray.
"A Coming forth from those pictured sub
terraneous passages, we begin to elm
the steep sides of Calvary. AS we go u
we see cracks and crevices in the rock
which think were made by the conyul
sious of nature when Jesus died. On tn
hill lay limestone rock, white bu
|
gestive of purity and the crimson o
sacrifice, that said, ''That stone woul
be beautifully appropriate for memoirs
wall in my church, now building i
America; and the stone now bein
brought on camel's back from sins
across the desert, when put under ii
how significant of the Law and the gos
pell And these lips of stone will con
tinue TO speak of justice and mercy Ion
| after all our living lips have uttere
their last message. So 1 rolled it dow
the Mill and transported it. When tbs
day comes for which many of you hav
prayed-the dedication of the
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE,
the third immense structure we hay
reared in this city, and that makes
somewhat difficult being the third strue
ture, q work such as no other ohurc
w&ever called on TO undertake-we in
- you IN the main entrance of the
<b,& Hiding TO look upon a memorial wa
cd tslning the most suggestive, an
sd emu and tremendous antiquities eve
btught together; this, rent with tn
e&rthquake at the giving of the law {
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