Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-16

those ashes just put into the prophecy tC
I'LL up? mol the meaning has been re.
Gently discovered. Jerusalem Is now be.
ing built out in certain direction where
the ground has been submitted 20 a
y chemical analysis, and it has been found
I to be the ashes cast out from the sacri.
fees OF the ancient temple, ashes of the
wood and ashes of bones of animals.
There are great mounds OF ashes, ac-
cumulation Of centuries Of sacrifices. II
has taken all these thousands of years to
discover what Jeremiah meant when he
said, 'Behold the days shall come, saith
the Lord, that the city shall be built to
the Lord from the tower of Hananeel
unto the gate OF the corner, and the
whole valley of the dead bodies and of
the ashes.' The people of Jerusalem are
at this very time fulfilling that prophecy.
One handful of that ashes ON which they
are building is enough to prove the di-
vinity Of the Scripturesl Pass by the
place where the corner stone OF the
ancient temple was laid three thousand
years ago by Solomon.
Explorers have been digging, and they
found that corner stone seventy-fve feet
beneath the surface. 1t is fourteen feet
AOhSs hHN lCCb Gikub luCuCS nlkus
and beautifully cut and shaped, and near
1t 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, 81 will make thee as a
! sfgnet." 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 saw eight of those pillars,
each one strong enough to hold a noun
tain.
| Here we entered the mosque of Omar,
ia throne of Mohammedanism, where we
are met at the door by officials who bring
slippers that we must put on before we
take step further, lest our feet pollute
the sacred places A man attempting to
| go in without these slippers would be
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 l 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 Moriah 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. 1t
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,
| 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 its original splendor! Most
affecting scene! And such a prayer as
that, century after century, am sure
God will answer, and in some way the
departed grandeur will return, or some
thing better. looked over the shoul-
ders of some of them, and saw that they
were reading from the mournful psalms
Of nav Hrrht tln hox 41J kLo4
this is the ltany which some chant:
For the temple that lies desoIate
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the palace that is destroyed
We sit in solitude and mourn
For the walls that overthrown
We sit in solitude and mourn
For our majesty that 10 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, and
before the sun sets, that / may catch
wider vision of what the city now is and
once was. Standing here on the house
top see that the city was built for mil
itary safety. Some old warrior, | war;
rant, selected the spot. 1t stands on
hill twenty six hundred feet aboye the
level of the sea, and deep ravines on
three sides do the work of military
trenches-compact as no other city was
compact. Only three miles journey
round, and the three ancient towers,
Hippicus, Phasaelus, Marianne, frown-
ing death upon the approach of all enc
mics.
AS stood there on the housetop, in
the midst of the city, / said, 30 Lord,
reveal to me this metropolis of the
world, that may see it as it once ap-
peared." No one was with me, for
there are some things you can see more
vividly with no one but God and your
self present. Immediately the mosque
of Omar, which has stood for ages on
Mount Moriah, the Site of the ancient
temple, disappeared and the most hon
ored structure of all the ages lifted it
self in the light and ! saw 1.-THE tenn
Pile, the ancient temple! Not Solomon's
temple, but something grander than
that. Not Zerubbabels ltemple, but
something more gorgeous than that. It
was Herod's temple, builtss for the one
purpose of eclipsing all its architectural
predecessors. There it stood, covering
nineteen acres, and 10000 workmen had
been forty-six years in building it. Blaze
of magnifcence! Bewildering range of
porticoes and ten gateways and double
arches and Corinthian capitals chiseled
into lilies and acanthus.
From this housetop on the December
afternoon we look out in another direc-