The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-10-18
ON CALvARY'S R O
Dr.. Talmage's Marvellous Dis
course on the Sacred Spot.
The Holy sepulcher-w there Jeremiah
Wrote His Lamentations Tho beautiful
Associations and the Great Events
OF sacred History.

The following discourse was delivered
by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage at Brook
lyn, n. Y, on Sunday, October IL. His
text was: "IfI forget thee, Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget her cunning
Psalm cxxxvii. s. He said:
Paralysis of his best hand, the with
ering OF Its muscles and nerves. is here
invoked II 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 I 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 cunning!' You see. Ii
isa city unlike all others for topography,
Tor history, for Significance, for style OF
population, for w~aterworks, for ruins,
for towers. for domes, for ramparts, for
literature. for tragedies, for memorable
b~irthpfaces, for sepnlchers, for confa-
grations and famines, for victories and
defeats.
lam here at last in this very Jeruss-
lem and on Q housetop, just after the
dawn Of the morning Of December 8.
with an old inhabitant to point out the
saiisntfeatures of the scenery. Now"
! said, where Is Mount Zion?" Here
st your right" .sWhere il Mount OIL
vst1' I'm front of where you stand"
'sWhere Is the garden OF Gethsemane?"
'1n yonder valley" where Is Mount
Calvary" Before he answered I saw It
No unprejndiced mind q have q mo-
ments doubt rs to where IL is. Yonder
! sec q hill In the shape of a human
skull and the Bible says that Calvary
was the '.place of a human skull" Not
only Is It skull shaped. but just beneath
me forehead Of the hill Is q cavern that
looks like eyeless sockets. Within
the grotto under II Is the shape Of the
Inside Of the skull. Then the Bible
says that Christ was crncifed outside
the gate. and this is outside the gate,
while the site formerly selected was In.
side the gate Beside that, this skull
NIL was for ages the place where male
Factors were put TO death, and Christ
WAS slain as q m~alefactor.
IL is impossible for o to realize
what our emotions were as we gathered,
. group OF men and women, ali saved by
D blood Of the Lamb, on q bluff Of
Calvary, Just wide enough to contain
snree crosses. | said TO my family and
friends: II think here is where
$1,000 the cross Of the impenitsnt
burglar and there the cross OF the mis-
creant and here between, / think, stood
me cross upon which all our hopes de-
pend" As l opened the nineteenth
chapter OF John to read. q chill blast
struck the hill ard q cloud lowered, the
natural solemnity impressing the spir-
itual solemnity. / read 0 little. but
broke down. ! defy any emotional
Christian man, slit ng upon Golqotha.
20 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 a fragment: They
took Jesus and led Him away and, He
bearing His cross, went forth into a
place called the place OF q skull. whero
they crueiied Him and two Others with
Him. on either side one.a and .Jesus in
the midst Behold thy motherr" IT
thirst" This day shalt thou be with
me In Paradise" Father. forgive them,
they know not what they do" "If 1t
be possible. let this cup pass from me-"
What signs, what sobs, what tears, what
tempests OF sorrow, what surging oceans
Of agony in those u~tterancesl
While we sat there the whole scone
came before us. All around the top and
the aides and the foot of the hill n mob
RACES. They gnash their teeth and
shake their clenched fists at Him. Here
che cavalry horses champ their bits and
paw the earth and snort at the smell Of
the carnage. Yonder a group OF gam
blers are pitching up as to who shall
have the coat Of the dying Saviour.
There are women almost dead with grief
among the crowd, His mother and His
aunt and some whose sorrows lie had
comforted and whose guilt He had par
doned. Here a man dips a sponge into
sour wine and by q stick Lifts IL To the