The Brookhaven leader., 1890-10-23
sorrow, what surging oceans Of agony

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RACES. They gnash their teeth and
shake their clenched fists at Him. Here
the 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
pardoned. Here a man dips a sponge
into sour wine, and by stick lifts IL to
the hot and cracked lips. The hemor-
rhage Of the Eve wounds has doneits
work.
The atmospheric conditions arc such
as the world saw never before or since.
1t was not solar eclipse, such as as
tronomers record or we ourselves have
seen. 1t was a bereavement Of tho
heavens! Darker! Until the towers of
the tomple we're no longer visible.
Darkerl Until the surrounding hills dis
appeared. Darkerl Until the inscrip-
ton above the middle cross becomes IL
legible. Darkerl Until tho chin of the
dying Lard falls upon the breast and
He sighed with His last sigh the words:
at Is finishedr'
Unable longer to endure the pressure
of this scene, we moved on, and into a
garden of olives, garden which in the
right season is full of flowers, and here
is the reputed tomb Of Christ You
know the Book says: 'In the midst
of the garden was a sepulchre." think
this was the garden, and this the
sepulchre. 1t is shattered, of course.
About four steps down we went into
this, which seemed family tomb
There is room in 1t for five bodies. We
measured it, and found it about
eight feet high, and nine feet
wide, and fourteen feet long. The
crypt where l think our Lord slept was
seven feet long. 1 think that there
once lay the King, wrapped in His last
slumber. On some of these rocks the
Roman Government set its seal At
the gate of this mausoleum, on the first
Easter morning, the angels rolled the
stone laundering down the hill.
Up these steps walked the lacerated
feet of the Conqueror, and from these
heights He looked off upon the city that
had cast Him out, and upon the world
He had come to redeem, and at the
heavens through which He would soon
ascend.
But we must hasten back to the ity
There are stones in the wall which
Solomon had lifted. Stop here and see
startling proof of the truth of proph-
ecy. In Jeremiah, thirty-frst chapter
and fortieth verse, it is said that Jeru-
salem shall be built through the
ashes. What ashes? people have been
asking. Were those ashes just put into
the prophecy to fill up? No, the
meaning has been recently dis
covered. Jerusalem is now being built
out in certain direction where
the ground has been submitted
to chemical analysis, and it has
been found to be the ashes cast out
from the sacrifices of the ancient tom
pie, ashes of the wood and ashes of
bones of animals. There are great
mounds of ashes, accumulation of cent
uries of sacrifices. 1t has taken all
these thousands of years to discover
what jeremiah meant when he said:
Behold, the days shall come, saith the
Lord, that the city shall be built to the
Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto
the gate of the corner, and the whole
valley of the dead bodies and of
tho ashes" The people of Je-
rusalem are at this very time
fulfilling the prophecy. One handful
of that ashes on which they are build
the Scriptures! Pass by the place where
the cornerstone of the ancient temple
was laid three thousand years ago by
Solomon. Explorers have been digging
and they found that cornerstone seven
ty-fve feet beneath the surface. 1t is
fourteen feet long and three feet eight
inches high, and beautifully cut and
| shaped, and near it was an earthen jar
that was supposed to have contained
the oil of conservation used at the cere-
mony Of laying the cornerstone Yon-
der, from depth OF forty feet signet
ring has been brought up, inscribed
with the wards "Haggai, the Son of
Shebaniah," showing it belonged to the
prophet Haggai, and to that seal ring he
refers in his prophecy, saying: 81 will
make thee signet." l walk further
on, far underground, and find myself
in Solomon's stables, and see the places
worn in the stone pillars by the halters
of some of his twelve thousand horses.
Further on, look at the pillars on which
Mount Moriah was built. You know
that the mountain was too small for the
| temple, and so they built the mountain
out on pillars, and saw eight of those
pillars, each ono strong enough to hold
| a mountain.
Here we enter the mosque of Omar. a
throne of Mohammedanism, where we
are met at the door by officials who
bring slippers that We must put on be-
fore we take a step further, lest our
feet pollute the sacred places. A man
| attempting to go in without these slip
pers would be struck dead on the spot
These awkward sandals adjusted as
we'll as we could, we are led to whore
We SEQ a rock with an opening in it
through which, no doubt, the blood of
sacrifice in the ancient temple rolled
down and away. At vast expense tho
mosque had been built, but so sober is
the place l am glad to get through it
and take off the cumbrous slippers, and
step into the clear air.
Yonder is curve of stone which is
part Of a bridge which once reached
from Mount Moriah to Mount Zion, and
over it David walked or rode to prayers
in the temple. Here is the wailing-