Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-10-30

the building on shoulders at each end ,ift-
ing the glory higher and higher nnd walls
wherein gold put out the silver, and the
carbuncle put out the gold. and
until in the changing light they
would all to come back again into
a chorus of harmonious color. The temple. |
The temple! DoNoloyy in stone! Anthems
soaring in rafters of Lebanon cedar! From
side to side and from foundation to gilded
pinacle the frozen prayer OF all ages.
From this house-top on the December at
ternoon we look out in another direction
and see the kings palace covering a hum
dred and sixty thousand square feet. three
rows of windows lilumining the inside
brilliancc. the hallway wainscoted with all
styles OF colored marbles surrounded
by arabesquc, vcrmillion and gold,
looking down on mosaics. music OF
waterfalls in the garden outside an
swering the music of the harps thrummed |
by deft fingers inside; banlsters over which |
princes and princcsses leaned, and talked to |
kings and queens ascending the stairway.
o Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Mountain city! |
City Of God? joy OF the whole earth |
Stronger than Gibralter and Sebastopol |
surely it never could have been captured. |
But while standing there on the house, |
top that December afteruoon hear the
crash Of the 23 mighty sicgcs which have
come against Jerusalem in the ages past
Wonder is the pool of HrAekiah and SLOAN,
dencd with human gore. Wonder are tho
towers, but again and again thoy fall.
Yonder are the high walls. but again and
| again they were lcveled. To rob the treas
| urcs from her temple and palace and
| dethronc this queen city OF the earth, all
nations plotted. David taking the throne at
| Hebron decides that he must have Jeru-
| salem for his capital, and, coming up from
| the south at the head of two hundred and
| eighty thousand troops. he captures it.
| Look, here comes another siege OF JcruSa-
! lem. The Assyrians under Sennachcrib.
! euslavcd nations at his chariot wheels
| having taken two hundred thousand cap
| tives in his one campaign, Phnnician cities
| knecing at his fee. Egypt trembling at
| the flash of his sword, comes upon Jerusa-
lem. Look. another siege, The armies OF
| Babylon under Nebucha dnezzar come down
| and take a plumber from Jerusalem, such as
no other city ever had TO yield, and ten
| thousand of her citizens trudge of into
Babylonian bondage. Look, another siege.
| And Observation-Disclosures and his hosts ny
| night go through breach OF the Jerusalem
wall, and the morning finds some OF them
| seated triumphant in the temple, and what
| they could not take away because 100
heavy, they break up-the brazen sea, and
the two wreathed pillars. joachim and Boaz.
Another siege Of Jerusalem: and Pompey
with the battcring-rams which Il hundred
men would roll back. and then ut full run
forward would bang against the wall OF the
city. and catapults hurting the rocks upon
the people left twelve thousand dead and
the city in the clutch OF tho Roman war
eagle. Look q more desperate selge OF
Jerusalem. Titus with bis tenth legion on
Mount OF olives, and ballast arranged on
the principle of the pendulum to swing
great boulders 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 destruction and death.
All is taken now but the temple, and Titus,
the conqucror, wants TO save that unframed
but a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls u
torch into the temple and II is consumed.
Many strangers were in the city AT the time
and ninety-seven thousand captives were
taken and Josephus says one million one
, hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this housetop, tho siege
that most absorbS us IS that OF tho trusad-
, crs. England. aud France, and all Christen-
dom, wanted to capture the Holy Sepulchre
and Jerusalem then i'll possession OF the
MOhammedans under the command or one
. of the loviiest, bravest, and mishticst mer
, that ever lived, for justice must be done
. him thoug h he vas q Mohamnedan glorious
Saladin Against him came tho armies o.
Europe, under Richard Cpur de Lion, King
+ OF England; Phllip Augustus. King OF France
, | Tancred. Raymond. Godfrey, and othel
, | valiant men, marching on through feVcrs
, md plaques. and battle charges, and suffer
|
Saladin in Jerusalem, hearing of the siCkn IS
+ OF King Richard. his chief enemy, sends hin
I his own physician. and from the walls O
+ Jerusalem seeing King Richard afoot send
him horse. With all tn" world locking on tn
armies OF Europe come within sight or Jeru
+ salem. At tho first glimpse OF the city the
+ fall on their faces in reverence, and thel
4 lift anthems OF praise. Fcuds and hatre
among themselves were given up. and Ray
8 lnond and Tancrcd. the bitterest rvh's, Oh"
Jrnr n1 1pb1 &},,. looked n,
. the battering-rams rolled, and the cata
r pulls swung, and the swords thrust and tn
a carnage ragged. Godfrey OF Boullion Is tn
a first to mount the wall and the crusader:
o cross on every shoulder or breast. havln
a taken the city, march bare -headed an
. bare-footed to what they suppose to be tn
u Holy Sepulchre, and kiss the tomb. Jeru
>, salem the possession of Chrlstendoln. Bu
Il Saladin retook the city and for the last fou
d hundred years 1t has been in possession {
y cruel and polluted Mohammedanism!
Another crusade is needed to start Il
~ Jerusalem, crusade in this nineteent
"a century greater than all those OF the pa
- centuries put together. A crusade in whic
70 you and l will march. a crusade witho'
,e | weapons of death. but only the Sword OF tt
-, Shirt. crusade that will make not
7 | single wound. nor start one tear OF distres
h nor incendiarize one homestead. A crusat
OF Gospel Peace. And the Cross again
1 lifted on Calvary, not as once an instr,
ment OF pain, DuJ II Sisnal VI iH'lChtloA' al
the Mosque of Omar shall give place to
Church Of Christ, and Mount Zion bccon
the dwelling place not OF David, but (
David's Lord. and Jerusalem, purified OF 9
its idolatries, and taking back the Chri
she once cast out shall be made wortt
type Of that heavenly city which Pa
styled the ..mother OF us ALL" and Will
St, John saw, 1.-The holy Jerusalem decen
ing out of heaven from God" Through
gates may VIC all enter when our work
ne done. and in its temple, greater than all t
H. earthly temples piled in one, may We VIC
nd ship. Russian pilgrims lined all the roa
n around tho Jerusalem. we visited Ia
no winter. They had walked hundreds
miles. and their feet hled on the way
op Jerusalem. Many OF them had spent TN
,e- last farthing to get there. and they had l.
Ter some Of those who started with them dyi
zee or dead by the roadside. An aged WON
see exhausted with the long wav, begged I
tv fellow-pilgriIns not to let her
he until she had seen the Holy CT