News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-16
Where our Lord Died.
DIR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES HIS
VISIT TO MT. CAVALRY.

Jerusalem the Holy City-Seenes of Past
splendor The Twenty-Three Mighty
Sieges-A Crusade of the Nineteenth
Century.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 12-This morning
DR.. Talmage delivered his third sermon
on his recent tour in Palestine in the
Academy of Music in this city. The
large building was crowded and num-
bers went away disappointed. This
was the more significant because it had
been publicly announced that the same
sermon would be preached in the even
ing at the New York academy, which
The Christian Herald had rented for
that purpose. In spite of this fact,
unprecedented since the days of Chal-
ners. both buildings were crowded to
excess, and many were turned away
from the doors, both morning and
evening. DR.. Talmage must have
preached today to ten thousand differ
ent persons. The doctor spoke as fol
lows from the text: IF l forget thee,
o Jerusalem, let my right hand forget
her cunning. Psalm cxxxvii, 5.
Paralysis of his best hand, the with
ering of its muscles and nerves, is here
invoked if 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 anything that approaches impre-
cation, and yet can understand how
any one who has ever been at Jerusa-
lem should, in enthusiasm of soul, cry
out, whether he be sitting by the Eu-
pirates, or the Hudson, or the Thames,
If | forget thee, o Jerusalem, let
my right hand forget her cunningp
You see it is city unlike all Others for
topography, for history, for significance,
for style of population, for water works,
for ruins. for towers, for domes, for
ramparts, for literature, for tragedies,
for memorable birthplaces, for sepul-
chers, for confiagrations and famines,
fer victories and defeats.
ZION, oLIvET AND CALVARY.
am here at last in this very Jerusa-
dawn of the morning of December 3,
with an old inhabitant to point out the
salient features of the scenery. Now,
said, ''where is Mount Zionf Here
at your right. where is Mount Oil
vetT' In front of where you stand.
''Where is the Garden of Gethsemanef
In yonder valley" Where is Mount
CaIvaryg" Before he answered l saw
it. No unprejudiced mind can have
moments doubt as TO where it is. Yon-
der l see a hill in the shape of a human
skull. and the Bible says that Calvary
was the place of a skull" Not only
is it skull shaped, but just beneath the
forehead of the hill is cavern that
looks like eyeless sockets. Within the
grotto under it is the shape of the in
side of a skull Then the Bible says
that Christ was crucified outside the
gate. and this is outside the gate, while
the site formerly selected was inside
the gate. Besides that, this skull hill
was for ages the place where malefac-
tors were put to death, and Christ was
slain as a malefactor.
The Saviour's assassination took
place beside a thoroughfare along
which people went ''wagging their
heads" and there is the ancient thor
oughfare. / saw at Cairo, Egypt, a
clay mold of that skull hill, made by
the late Gen. Gordon, the arbiter of
nations While Empress Helena, so
Of nv
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 tray
elers agree that the one 1 point out to
you was, without doubt, the scene of
the most terrific and overwhelming
tragedy this planet ever witnessed.
A VISIT TO CALVARY.
There were a thousand things we
wanted to see that third day of Decem-
Der, and our dragoman proposed this
and that and the other journey, but l
said: First of all show us Calvary.
Something might happen if we went
elsewhere. and sickness or accident
might hinder us seeing the sacred
mount If we see nothing else, we
must see that and see it this morning.
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 the 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-f five feet high, and its
top and sides ara malachite, green,
brown. black. white, red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured
subterraneous passages we begin to
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 | said: That stone would
be beautifully appropriate for u memo
rial wall in my church, now building in
America; and the stone now being
brought ON camels back from Sinai
across the desert, when put under it,
how significant of the law and the
gospel And these lips of stone will
continue to speak of justice and mercy
long after all our living lips have ut
tered their last message" So rolled
it down the hill and transported it.
When that day comes for which
many OF you have prayed-the dedica-
ton of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the
third immense structure we have reared
IN this city, and that makes it some
what difficult, being the third struct-
ure, a work such as no other church
invite you in the main entrance of that
building to look upon a memorial wall
containing the most suggestive and sol
emn and tremendous antiquities ever
brought together-this, rent with the
earthquake at the giving of the law al
Sinai, the other rent at the crucifixion
on Calvary.
OVERCOME BY CHRIST'S SACRIFICE.
Ii is impossible for you to realize
what our emotions were as we gath
cred, group of men and women, all
saved by the blood of the Lamb, on a
bluff of Calvary, just wide enough to
contain three crosses. | said to my
family and friends, Il think here is
burglar, and there the cross of the mis-