The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-17
ON CALvARY's BROW.
DR.. Talmage's Marvellous Dis
course on the Sacred Spot
ths Aesy sePuicher-Whe-e Jeremiah
Wrete His Lsmentations-TheB beautiful
Associations and the Great Events
of Sacred History.

by Rev. T.. Dewitt Txfmage at Brook
Ign, N. Y. on Sunday, October H. His
text was: IF forget thee, o Jerusalem.
let my right hand forget her cunning"
Psalm cxxxvii- >. He said:
Paralysis of his best hand, the with
erIng of its muscles and nerves. is here
INVOKED IL the author allows to 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 David Afraid am
Of every thing that approaches impre-
cation, and yet 1 can understand how
any one who has ever been at Jerusalem
should. in enthusiasm OF soul, cry out
whether he be sitting by the Euphrates
the Hudson or the Thames. "If 1 for
get thee, o Jerusalem, may my right
hand forget her cunningi" You see, it
is city unlike all others for Topography,
for history, for significance, for style OF
population, for waterworks, for ruins
for tox ers, for domes. for ramparts, for
literature. for tragedies. for memorable
birthplaces, for sepuichers. for confa-
grations and famines, for Victories and
defeats.
am here ut last in this very Jcrusa-
lem and on housetop Just after the
dawn of the morning of December 3.
with an old jnhabitant to point out tho
salieptfeatures of the scenery. Now"
said, where is Mount Zione" Here
at your right" Where is Mount Oil
VOTE" ''In front of where you stand :"
q "Where ia the garden OF Gethsemane?"
I'm yonder valley" "Where is Mount
Calvary" Before he answered saw t.
No unparalleled mind can have q mo-
c ment's doubt as to where it is. Yonder
see hill in the shape of a human
skull and the Bible says that Calvary
was the ''place of 4 human skull" Not
. only is 1t skull shaped, but-1ust beneath
the forehead of the hill is a cavern that
looks like eyelcss sockets Within
the grotto under it is the shape of the
1nside of tho skull Then the Bible
says that Christ was crucificd outside
the.gate. and this is outside the gate,
while the site formerly selected was in
side tho cato. Beside that this skull
Mill was for ages tho place where male
factors were put to death, and Christ
was slain as mafefactor
The Sayiour's assassination took
place beside thorough fare along which
people went ''wagging their heads" and
there is the ancient thoroughfare. 1
saw at Cairo. Egypt clay mold of
that skull hill, made by the late GEN
eral Gordon, tho arbitcr of nations.
While Empress Helena, eighty years of
eage and imposed upon, by having three
crosses exhumed before her dim eyes,
as Though they were the three crosses
OF Bible story, selected another site as
Calvary, all recent travellers agree that
the one point out to you was, without
doubt the scene of the most terrific and
overwhe aiming tragedy this planet ever
witnessed.
There were q thousand things we
wanted to see that third of December
and our dragoman proposed this and
that and the other journey. but said:
First OF all show us Calvary. Some
thing might happen If we went else
where, and sickness or accident might
hinder our seeing tho sacred mount If
we see nothing else we must see that,
and see it this morning." Some of us
in carriage and some of US on m ule back,
we were soon on the way to the most
sacred spot that the world has over seen
or ever will see. Coming to the base of
the hill we went inside the skull of
rocks. 1t is called Jeremiah's grotto,
for there the prophet wrote his book of
lamentations. Tho grotto is thirty-five
feet high, and its top and S des are mall
achite, green, brown, black, white, red
q and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub
terraneous passages we begin to climb
the steep sides of Calvary. AS we go
up we cracks and crevices in the
> rocks which I think were made by the
convuls: ons of nature when Jesus died.
On the hill lay limestone rock, white
Q but tinged with crimson. the white so
suggestive OF ana Jne CRIMSON OF
sacrifice that L said: THAT stone would
be beautifully appropriate for a memo
rial wall. in my church, now building in
America, and the stone now being
brought on cancels back from Sinai
across the desert when put under it,
how significant of the law and the Cos
pei! And these lips of stone will con-
tinue to speak of Justice and mercy long
after all our living lips have uttered
their last - So rolled OyUu
the hill and transported it When that
day comes for which many of you have
prayed-the dedication of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, the third immense structure
we have reared in this city, and tn at
makes it somewhat difficult, being the
third structure. a work such as no other
church was ever called on to undertake
we invite you in the main entrance of
that building to look upon a memorial
wall containing the most suggestive
and solemn and tremendous antiquitie
ever brought together; this, rent with
the earthquake at the giving of the law
at Sinai, the other rent at the crucifix-
ion at Calvary
1t is impossible for you to realize
what our emotions were as we gathered,
group of mon and women. all saved by
the blood of the Lamb. on a bluff OF
Calvary, just wide enough to contain
three crosses 1 said to my family and
stood the cross of the impenitent
burglar and there the cross of she mis-
creant and here between. think, stood
the cross upon which ALI our hopes de-
pend" As L opened the nineteenth
schapter of john to read. n chill blast
struck the hill and cloud lowered, the
natural solemnity impressing the spir-
itual solemRity. read = little but
broke down. 1 defy any emotional
Christian man, slit ng upon Go1gotha;
to read aloud and with unbroken voice.
or with any voice at all, the whole of
that account in Luke and John. of which
these sentences are q fragment: They
took Jesus aad led Him away and. He
bearing His cross. wont forth into q
place called the place CT a skull. where
they crucified Him and two others with
Him, on either side one. and Jesus in
the midst Behold thy motherr Il
thirst" This day shalt thou be with
me in Paradise" Father, forgive them.
they know not what they do" eff it
be possible. let this cup pass from me. %
What signs. what scbs vi