Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-23
JERUSALEM TIE GOLDEN
Or. TA-MAGE's THIRD SERMON ON
HIS TOUR IN PALESTINE.


The Famous isrookl;n DIVINE Describes
the scene al Christ, Crueiiixion-over-
rnreri"s Emotion While ON Calvary's
Ss"rcd Mn.
ElnoHLYN. Oct. la-This morning DR..
TalGa@r delivered hi: third sermon on his
recent tour IN Palestine in the Academy of
Mi.sic IN this city The large building was
crowded and numbers went away disap-
pointed This was the more significant
because II had been publicly announced
that the same sermon would be preached
IA the evening at the New York academy,
which The Christian Herald had rented
for that purpose In spite of this fact. un.
Dreceaeated since the days of Chalmers,
both buildings We're crowded 10 excess,
and many were turned away from the
doors. both morning and evening DR.
Falnage must have preached today to
lOC1p diff erent persons. The doctor spoke
u follows from the text "If forget thee.
o Jerusalem. let my right hand forget her
cunning Psalm cXyxvii, 5
Paralysis of his best hand, the whitening
Of lis muscles and nerves. is here invoked
If the author allows 10 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 Da
vid Afraid | am of anything that ap-
proaches imprecation, aud yet ! can under
stand how any one who has ever been at
Jerusalem should in enthusiasm OF soul
cry ont. whether he he sitting by the
Euphrates or the Hudson. or the Thames
IF | forget thee, @ Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget her cunning" You see
il is city unlikeall others for topography,
for history. for significance for style of
population, for water works, for ruins. for
towers. for domes. for ramparts, for liter
ature for tragedies. for memorable birth
places, for sepulchers. for conhagrations
and famines. for victories and defeats
IN JERUSALEM
am here at last in this very Jerusalem,
and on housetop. just after the dawn Of
the morning OF December B. with an old
inhabitant to point out the salient features
OF the scenery Now" | said. where is
Mount ZionY Here at your right"
Where is Mount olivet'" "In front OF
where you stand" Where is the Garden
OF Gethsemane2" Sin yonder valley"
W HtEt - MULTI 1hlN al ibNlblG ut
answered saw il No unpre JUDGED
mind can have moments doubt as TO
where it is Yonder see hill in the
shape of human skull, and the Bible says
that Calvary was the place Of a skull. F"
Not only is il skull shaped, hut just be
meath the forehead of the hill Is a cavern
that looks like eyeless sockets Within
the grotto under it is the shape OF the in
side of skull Then the Bible says that
Christ was cruciied outside the gate and
this is outside the gate while the site for
merly selected was inside the gate. BE
sides that. this skull hill was for ages the
place where malefactors were pnt to death,
and Christ was slain as malefactor
The Saviour's assassination took place
beside thoroughfare along which people
went "wagging their heads, and there Is
the ancient thoroughfare ! saw nj Cairo
Egypt. clay mould Of that skull hill,
made by the late Gen. Gordon. the arbiter
Of nations While Empress Helena, 80
years OF age. and imposed upon 10y having
three crosses eXhnmed before her dim eyes
as though they were the three crosses OF
Bible story. selected another site as Cal
vary, all recent travellers agree that the
one point out 20 you was without doubt
the scene Of the most terrific and over
whelming tragedy this planet ever wit.
messed
CALvAEY
There were thousand things we wanted
20 see that third day Of December, and our
dragomau proposed this and that and the
other Journey. but ! said. First Of all
show uS Calvary Something might hap
men If we went elsewhere. and sickness or
accident might hinder our seeing the
sacred mount If we see nothing else we
must see that, and see 1t this morning"
Some Of Us in carriage and some on mule
back. we were soon on the way to the most
sacred spot that the world has ever seen or
ever will see Coming TO the base Of the
nil we first went inside the skull Of rocks
II is called Jeremiah's grotto, for there the
prophet wrote his book of Lamentations.
The grotto is thirty-fy feet high, and its
top and side are malachite, green, brown.
black. white. red and gray
Coming forth from those pictured sub
terraueous passages we begin to climb the
steep sides of Calvary As we 20 up we
see cracks and crevices in the rocks, which
/ think were made by the commissions OF
nature when Jesus died Gu the hill lay
limestone rock, white. but tinged with
crimson, the white so suggestive OF purity
and the crimson of sacrifice that said.
THAT stone would be beautifully appro
pirate for memorial wall in my church,
now building in America; and the stone
now being brought on camel's back from
Sinai across the desert, when put under il,
how significant of the law and the gospel
Aud these lips of stone will continue to
speak Of justice and mercy long after all
our living lips have uttered their last
message
So rolled it down the hill and trans
ported IT, When that day comes for which
many Of you have prayed-the dedication
Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. the third i'm
mense structure we have reared in this
city, and that makes it somewhat difficult,
being the third structure, work such as
no other church was ever called on to un
dertakt-we invite you in the main en-
trance of that building to look upon me.
mortal wall containing the most suggest
i've and solemn and tremendous antiquities
ever brought together-this, rent with the
earthquake at the giving Of the law at