Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-13
w HERE OUR LORD DIED.
DR.. TALMAGE DESCRIBES HIS VISIT
TO MOUNT CALVARY.

Jerusalem the Holy City-scenes of Past
Splendor The rwenty-Three Mighty
sieges-A Crusade of the Nineteenth
Century.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 12-This morning
DR. Talmage delivered his third sermon
on his recent tour in Palestine in the
Academy of Music in this city. The
large building was crowded and num-
bers went away disappointed. rms
was the more significant because it had
been publicly announced that thesame
sermon would be preached In the even
ing at the New York academy, which
The Christian Herald had rented for
that purpose In spite of this fact,
unprecedented since the days Of Chal-
mers both buildings were crowded to
excess, and many were turned away
from the doors, both morning and
evening. DR.. Talmage must have
preached today to ten thousand differ
ent persons. The doctor spoke as fol
lows from the text: IF 1 forget thee,
o Jerusalem, let my right hand forget
her cunning. Psalm cxxxvii, 8.
PARALYSIS of his best hand, the with
ering of its muscles and nerves, is here
invoked if the author allows to pass
out of mind the grandeurs of the Holy
CITY where once he dwelt. Jeremiah,
seated by the river Euphrates, wrote
this psalm, and not David. Afraid
am of anything that approaches lmpre-
cation, and yet | can understand how
any one who has ever been at Jerusa-
lem should, in enthusiasm of soul, cry
out, whether he be sitting by the Eu-
pirates, or the Hudson, or the Thames,
IF l forget thee, o Jerusalem, let
my right hand forget her cunning!"
You see it is a city unlike all others for
topography, for history, for significance,
for style of population, for water works,
for ruins, for towers, for domes, for
ramparts, for literature, for tragedies,
for memorable birthplaces, for sepul-
chers, for conf1agrations and famines,
for victories and defeats.
ZION, OLIvET AND CALVARY.
am here at last in this very Jerusa-
lem, and on a housetop, just after the
dawn of the morning of December g.
with an old inhabitant to point out the
salient features of the scenery. Now"
[ said. ''where is Mount Ziong' ''Here
at your right ''Where is Mount Oil
vet?'' In front of where you stand"
where is the Garden of Gethsemane"
'In yonder valley" Where is Mount
Calvary?" Before he answered | saw
it. No unprejudiced mind can have a
moments doubt as to where it is. Yon-
der [ see a hill in the shape of a human
skull, and the Bible says that Calvary
was the ''place of a skull" Not only
is it skull shaped, but just beneath the
looks like eyeless sockets. Within the
grotto under it is the shape of the in
side of a skull. Then the Bible says
that Christ was crucifed outside the
gate, and this is outside the gate, while
the site formerly selected was inside
the gate. Besides that, this skull hill
was for ages the place where malefac
tors were put to death, and Christ was
slain as malefactor.
The Saviours assassination took
place beside a thoroughfare along
which people went ''wagging their
heads" and there is the ancient thor
oughfare I saw at Cairo, Egypt, a
clay mold of that skull hill, made by
the late Gen. Gordon, the arbiter of
nations While Empress Helena, so
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 trav-
elers agree that the one point out to
you was, without doubt, the scene of
the most terrific and overwhelming
tragedy this planet ever witnessed.