The Forrest City times., 1890-10-18

the conqueror. wants to save that unharmed but a soldier contrary to orders. hurls . torch iuto the temple and it Is consumed. Many stranxefs were In tho city at the timo and ninety seven thousand captives were taken. and Joscphus says que million one hundred thousand lay dead.
 Hut looklug from this housetop, the sicge that most absorbs us Is that of the Crusad. CTS. England and France, and Gll Christen. dom. wanted to capture the Holy Sepulchte and Jerusalem then In possession of the Mohnmmcdans under the command or ont of the lovlicst, bravest, and mighticst men that ever lived. for Justice must bc done him though he was Mohammcdan glorious Saladln. Against him came the armies of Europe, under Richard Ceur dc Lion. King p,Englaad: Philip Augustus, King Of Fsnnce; Tancred. Raymond. Godfrey, and other valiant men, marching on through levers, and plagues. and battle charges, and suncr- iugs, as intense as the world ever saw. saiadin in Jerusalem. hearing of the sickn ss of King Richard, his chief enemy, sends him his own physician, and from the walls of Jerusalem seeing King Richard afoot sends him a horse. With all tho world looking on the armies of Europe como within sight Of Jeru- salem. 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 werc given up. and Ray mond and Tancred, tho bitterest rivals. em- braced while the armies looked on. Then tho batterIng rams rolled, and tho cata- pults swung, and the swords thrust and the carnage ragged. Gotfrey of Boullion Is the first to mount the wall and the crusaders, n cross on every shoulder or breast, having taken the city, *march bare headed and bare footed to what they suppose to be the Holy Sepulchre, and kiss the tomb. Jcru- salem the possession of Christendom. But Saladin retoolS the city and for the last four hundred years lt has been In roSscsslon Of cruel and poll Monaumeilanism'
 Another crasate is needed to start for Jerusalem. a crusade in this nineteenth century greater than all those of tho past centuries put together. A crusade in wbich you and l will march. crusade without weapons of death, but only the Sword Of the Spirit. crusade that will make not Il single wound nor start one tear of distress. nor inccndiarize one homestead. A crusade of Gospel Peace! And the Cross again be lifted on Calvary, not as once an instru- ment of pain, but signal of invitation, and the Mosque of Omar shall give place to . Church of Christ. and Mount Zion become the dwelling place not Of David. but of David's Lord, and Jerusaicn. puriied of all It's idolatries, and taking back tho Christ she once cast out. shall be made a worthy type of that heavenly city which Paul styled the ''mother of us all" and which St, John saw. s'thc holy Jerusalem decend- ing out of heaven from God" Through its gates may we all enter when our work is tone. and In its icmple, greater than all the earthly temples piled in one. may we wor- ship. Russian pilgrims lined all the roads around the Jerusalem, we visited last winter. They had walked hundreds Of miles. and their feet hled on the way to Jerusalem Many of them had spent their last far,hing to get there. and they had left some of those who started with them dying r dead by the roadside. An aged woman exhausted with the long way, begged hor fellow-pilgriins not to lot her dio until she had seen the Holy City. As she came to the gate of the ,ity she could not take another step, but she was carried in, and then said. ..Now hold my head up till can look upon Jcru salem" and her head lifted. she took one look. and said: Now die content, have seen it. I have seen iti" Some of us before we reach the heavenly Jerusalem may be as tired as that, but angels of mercy will help us in. and one glimpse of the Temple of God and tho Lamb and one good lool, at Inc "King in his beauty will more than compensate for all the tolls and tears and heartbreaks of the pilgrimage, Haiielujah, Anienl