Telegram-herald., 1890-10-13

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I TaiE&ze delivered AIS thira srrnsoz OF Is
rsoeEg tear la Psaezlins Ia sas AcsdsE2y Il
Mosle Ia this eilF The l~rxs halsii2s y -
{ crowded aDe nambxrs veRt away clsAp-
+ pointed tels w4s tae nioTe signi1xant
because K had beea publicly announced
/ tbss TIE SANE seraaen sFoa.d Be preached
Ia tAs evening az ths New Nork Ac&ae1sy,
uhich TIE ChrisIiaa Herald LA reatud
for that pIrPose. IL sp.ts 0f tAis tact. IN
preceaentsd since The DAYS of Ch2inaers
both balldiaxs were crowded 20 excess.
and many ~ere taraed away from the
doors. both morning and esealng DR.
TGlmage nast have preaehea today 10
l8ooo different persons The doctor spoke
e follows from the text. III forget thee
q Jerusalem, iet iAy right hand forget her
cunning Psalm c1x1yii. 5.
Paralysis of bis best hand. tks ~ithering
I of is muscles aud nerves. Is here invoked
II the anthor allows 10 psss Out OF mind
the grsndeurs Of the Holy CITY where once
he dWelt. JezemiAh. seated by the river
Euphrates, wrote this psalm, and not Da-
{ vid Afraid l am Of anything that ap-
proaches imprsca1ion, aud vet ! can under
stand how any one no has ever been az
I Jerusalem should IL enthusiasm Of soul
cry ont. whether he DO sitting by the
/ EupbrateS. or the Hudson. or the Thames,
IF ! forget thee. o Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget her canning You see
+ it IS city unlike al Others for topography,
I for history, for significance, for style OF
+ population, FOR water works, for rains for
I towers, fos dOmes, for ramparts, for liter
I ature, for tragedies, for memorable birth
I places, for sepuichers, for connazrations
| 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 8. with an old
4 inhabitaEt 10 point out the salient features
/ OF the scenery. "Now." l said, where is
/ Mount Zion'" Here at your right"
'Whore is Mount Olivet?" In front of
/ where you stand" Where is the Garden
Of Getbsemane'" 'In yonder valley"
"Where is Mount Calvary" Before he
/ answered | saw it. No unprejudiced
I mind can have a moments doubt as TO
/ where it is. Yonder | see bill in the
/ shape Of a human skull, and the Bible says
I that Calvary was the place OF a skull"
/ Not only is il skull shaped, but just be-
/ meath the forehead of the hill is cavern
that looks like eyeless sockets Within
| the grotto under il is the shspe Of the in
| side of skull. Then the Bible says that
1 Christ was cTucifed 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 male efactors were put To death h,
and Christ was slain as a malefsctor
The SaYiour's assassination took place
beside thoroughfare along which people
went "wagging their heads" and there is
the ancient thOroughfare. ] saw at Cairo,
Egypt, clay mould Of that skull hin.
made by the late Gen. Gordon, the arbitsr
1 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. ssiect ed another site as Cal
vary, all recen- travellers agree that the
one point out 10 you was without doubt
| the scene OF ths most terrific and over
whelmiug tragedy this planet ever wit
| messed. "A
CALVARY
There were a thousand things we wanted
to see that third day of December, aud our
dragoman proposed this and that and the
other journey. but | said: First Of all
show us Calvary. Something might hap
pen ii we went elsewhere, and sickness or
accident might hinder our seeing the
sacred mount. IL we see nothing else we
must see that, and see il this morning 2
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 tho
hill we first went inside the skull of rocks
1t is called Jeremiah's grotto, for there the
/ prophet wrote his book of Lamentations
The grotto is thirty-five feet high, aud its
top and side are malachite, green, brown,
black, white red and gray
Coming forth from those pictured sub
terraneOus passages we begin 10 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. On the hill lay a
limestone rock, white, but tinged with
crimson, the white so suggestive of purity
and the crimson Of sacrifice that I said,
THAT stone would be beautifully appro-
pirate for a memorial wall in my church,
now building in America; and the stone
now being brought on camel's back from
Sinai acrcss the desert, when put under II,
how significant of the law and the gospel
I 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 il. When that day comes for which
many of you have prayed-tbe dedication
OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the third i'm
mense structure we have reared in this
city. and that makes II somewhatdifieult,
being the third structure, a work such as
no other church YVES ever called on TO uu-
dertake-ws 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 togcther-tbis, rent with tho
earthquake ~ the giving q the law at
Sinai. the other rent at the crucihxion on
Calvary
WHERE THE CROSS or CHRIST STOOD.
II Is impossible for you TO realize what
orr emotions were as we gathered. group
Of men and women. ell saved by the blood
Of the Lamb, on blufT Of Cslvsry. Just
WIDE enough TO contain three crosses
said 20 my family and friends II think
here Is where stood the cross Of the inpeni-
test burglar. and there the cross Of the
miscresnt. and here hetveen. I think, stood
the cross on which sll our hopes depend I"
AS I opened the nineteenth chapter of JOAN
to read chill blast struck the bill and a
cIoud lowered. the natural soieln aity in
pressing the spiritual solemna7 ! read a
+ little. but broke down defy any emo
tional Christian man sitting upon Col
gotha % read aloud and with unbroken
voice. OF With any voics ~ all. tie whole
Of that account ia Luke aud John. Of which
thee sentences srs a fragment They took
Jesus and I'D him away. and he. bearing
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