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

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was Herod's temple. built for the one
purpose of eclipsing all its architecture
predecessors. There it stood, covering
nineteen acres, and 10000 workmen had
been forty-six years in building it. Blaze
y-of magnificence! Bewildering range OF
dporticoes and ten gateways and double
dtrches and Corinthian capitals chiseled
n nto lilies and acanthus.
Y. From this housetop on the December
is fternoon we look out in another direc-
l. IN, and I see the Kings palace, cover
ID 3 hundred and sixty-thousands square
t, three rows of windows illumining
- inside brilliance, the hallway wains-
ed with all styles of colored marbles
Id mounted by arabasque, vermilion and
lr d, looking down on mosaics, music Of
er terfalls in the garden outside answer
=, the music of the harps thrummed by
t fingers inside. Banisters over
y ich princes and princesses leaned,
Oh / talked to kings and queens ascending
III ; stairway. Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
~ 'untain City! City of God! Joy of
l whole earth! Stronger than Gibral-
and Sebastopol! Surely it never
-, lid have been Captured.
~ But while standing there on the
a ad9 usetop that December afternoon l
~, ar the crash OF tie twentv-three
~ ghty sieges which have come against
Fusalem in the ages past. Yonder is
,,,+ pool of Hezekiah and Sloan, but
!, - ain and again were those waters red
ned with human gore. Yonder are
,ote towers, but again and again they
20 4. Yonder are the high walls, but
on ain and again they were leveled. To
le D the treasures from her temple and
Iillace and dethrone this queen city of
yee earth all nations plotted. David
taking the throne at Hebron decides that
he must have Jerusalem for his capital,
and coming up from the south at the
head of two hundred and eighty-thou-
sand troops he captures it. Look, here
comes another siege of Jerusalem!
Another siege of Jerusalem, and Pom
pey, with the battering rams which
hundred men would roll back, and then
at full run forward would bang against
the wall of the city, and catapults hurl-
ing the rocks upon the people, left
twelve thousand dead and the city in the
clutch of the Roman war eagle. Look,
a more desperate siege OF Jerusalem!
Titus with his tenth legion on Mount
OF Olives, and ballista arranged on the
principle of the pendulum to swing great
powders against walls and towers, and
miners digging under the city making
galleries of beams underground, which,
set on fire, tumbled great masses OF
houses and human beings into destruc-
ton and death. All is taken now but
the temple, and Titus, the conqueror,
wants to save that unframed, but sol
der, contrary to orders, hurts torch
into the temple and it is consumed
Many strangers were in the city at the
time, and ninety-seven thousand captives
were taken, and Josephus says one mill
ion one hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from the housetop the
siege that most absorbs us is that OF the
Crusaders. England and France and all
ChristendOm wanted to capture the Holy
Sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in pos
session of the Mohammedans under the
command of one of the loveliest, bravest
and mightiest men that ever lived, for
justice must be done him though he was
Mohammedan - glorious Saladln!
Against him came the armies OF Europe,
under Richard, Ceur de Lion, King OF
England; Philip Augustus, King OF
France; Tancred, Qaymond, Godfrey and
other valiant men, marching on through
fevers and plaques and battle charges
and sutferings as intense as the world
ever saw. Saladin in Jerusalem, hear
ing of the sickness of King Richard, his
chief enemy, sends him his own physl-
clan, and from the walls of Jerusalem,
seeing King Richard afoot, sends him a
horse. With all the world looking on
the armies of Europe come within sight
of Jerusalem.
At the first glimpse of the city they
fall on their faces in reverence, and
then lift anthems of praise. Feuds and
hatred among themselves were given up,
and Raymond and Tancred, the bitterest
rivals, embraced while the armies looked
on. Then the battering rams rolled, and
the catapults swung, and the swords
thrust, and the carnage ragged. Godfrey
of Bouillon is the first to mount the wall,
and the. Crusaders, cross on every
shoulder or breast, having taken the
city, march bareheaded and barefooted
to what they suppose to be the Holy Sc
pulcher and kiss the tomb. Jerusalem
the possession of Christendom! But Sal
adm re-took the city, and for the last
four hundred years it has been in pos
session of cruel and polluted Moham-
mechanism!
announcer crusade is ucoueu W SUdi U III
Jerusalem, crusade in this nineteenth
century greater than all those OF the
past centuries put together. A crusade
in which you and will march. A cru
SADIE without weapons of death, but only
the sword of the Spirit.
Russian pilgrims lined all the roads
around the Jerusalem we visited last
winter. They had walked hundreds OF
miles, and their feet bled on the way to
Jerusalem. Many of them had spent
their last farthing to get there, and
they had left some of those
who started with them dying or dead by