Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-10-25

md queens escandiag the stairway. OJeru,
e7leri. Jerusalem. Mountain city tity OF
sod, joy Of the whole earth. Stronger
han Gibraltar ard Seoastopol. sGEeiIe u
never could have hesn captured'
Bot while standing there On tie Eo'5elop
that December afternoon | hear the crash OF
The t,entv-three might, sieges which Eeye
cone against Jerusalem in the ages past
Eopaer IS the pool % sezakleh aCd SLOAN,
~. AN ana araio were those waters red
tened with human gore. iondeT are iI1
lowers. lut again and again they fell. 1oH-
Ter are the high walls. but again. AMI aeall
tbey are level-l. u ROB the treasures ltoi1
her temple and palace and dethroi1e tns
queen city Of tGe earth al nations Fl9't-I.
ilayii taking the throne az EeLron DECIDES
tiat he must have Jerusalem for hs capita,
out coming up from tE- soutA ar me Hea11e
ito hundred and eighty ito .ani II -o.e ne
.a,s.ure II. LOOK, here CONES -G9-4-T >'-1@
y JeIu ale:at
Ipa Ae.vr.ans na!4r : nnasaer.a. 60
.~axeip2cons a. his clarloo wheel, having
lk4ut~o hundred thousand capuveS III il-
ne Ampaiga. Ihnuiciaa cities a~neel!rS e
sis f}et, Egypt trembling al tn hIs1 81 hls
sword. comes upJa Jerusalem Look, an
1tEer siege! The armies OF Babylon under
E-buchainezzar come Gown AAa AK" =
p.nnier from Jerusalem sucl as no0tAaI c.tE
ever had TO yield. ani ten thousand Of her
-3S Il ltiS oA 1AA%1 49,
age. Look, another siege. AL ->eb1cAat-
nezzar and his hosts by night 60 through
4 breach of the Jeru3aIem "aH, ani th9
morning finds some Of them seated ri,
umphant ii the temple, AMI what the couli
1T take away ~4u-a TOO heavy the5 break
4g-the brazen sea. and the two #FeatEed
pillars, joachim ami Boaz.
Another siege of Jerusalem, and Honpay
with the catering rams which a hundEe>I
men would roll back, and then, at 1ull run
forward, would bang against the wall q tne
city. and catapults hurting the rock,
upon the people. left twelve thousand dead
and the city in the clutch Of the Roman war
eagle. Look, a more desperate siege of Je-
rusaiem. Titus with his tenth legion on
Mount Of Olives, and ballista arranged on
the principle Of the pendulum to SWING great
powders against the walls and towers, ana
miners digging under the city making ga
ieri.s OF beams underground which, set on
fire. tumbled great masses OF houses and hui
lnau beings into destruction and death. All
is taken now but the temple, and Titus, the
conqCeror, wants 70 save that unharmed,
but a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls a
torch into the temple and it is consumed.
Many strangers were in the city at the time
and ninety-seven Thousand captlveS We're
taken. and Josephus says one million one
hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this house top, the siege
nat most absorhS Us Is thato the Crusaders.
ENGLAND and France and al thriStnndon,
| wanted 70 capture the Holy SepUlchrc anu
| Jerusalem, then III possession Of the Moham-
,nedans, under the command Of Cao OF the
ioyeliest, bravest-and~ mightiest men that ever
| lived; Tor justice must be done nlIn, though
he was a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Saladin
Against him anne the armies OF Europe. under
Richard Cuur dc Lion, KING OF England
Philip Augustus, KING Of France; Tancred,
RAYMOND, Godfrey and other valiant men
marching on through fevers and plaques and
battle charges and sufferings as intense as
the world ever saw. Saiadiu in Jerusalem,
hearing Of the sickness of King Richard, h.
chief enemy, sends him his own physician.
and from the walls OF Jerusalem, seeing kim
Richard afoot, sends him & horse. With al
the world looking on the armies OF Eurone
come within sight Of Jerusalem.
At the first glimpse Of the city they fall OF
the.r faces IN reverence and then lit anthem;
OF praise. Feuds and hatreds among them.
selves were given up, and Raymond aEt
Tancred, the bitterest rivals, embraced while
the armies looked on. Then the battering
rams rolled, and the catapults swung and The
swords thrust, and the carnage RACED. God
frey, OF Boui!lon, is the first to mount the
wall, and the Crusaders, u cross on every
shoulder Of breas-, having taken the city.
march bareheaded and barefooted to what
they suppose to be the Holy Scpulcher, and
kiss the tomb. Jerusalem tbs possession Of
Christeniom. But Salaiin Ietook the city,
and for the last four tundrel years it ha-
beeil III possession Of cruel and |p9lia.e-
MoAHmmedanis:n,
Another crusade IS needed to start f..
Jerusalem, Il crusade III this Nineteenth
Century greater than all those OF the past
centuries put together. \ crusade il
which you and | will march. A crusade
without weapons OF death, bat only the
sword Of the Spirit. A crusade that vii
make not Il single wound, nor start one
tear OF distress, nor inCenflariz4 Ons home
stead. A crusade OF Gospel Peace! Anc
the Cross again be- lifted on Calvary, no
as once an instrument of pain, but a sigma
or invitation, and the mosque of Omal
shall give place To a caurch OF Christ, anc
Mount Zion become the dwelling place no
Of David, but OF Daytd's Lord. and Jerusa
lem, purified OF all its idolatries, and takin.
back the Christ she once cast out, shall l.
made worthy type of that heaving cit,
which Paul styled tho mother Of us al, am
which st. John sa",."the holy Jerusalem
descending out Of heaven from God
Through its gates may we all enter when on
work Is done, and ii its temple, greater thai
all the earthly temples piled in one, may ",
worship.
Russian pilgrims lined all the ROAD around
the Jerusalem We visited last winter. The
lad walked hundreds Of miles, and their fee
hled on the way to Jerusalem. Many Of
them had spent their last farthins to gel
there, and they had LEFT some Of those VIII
started with them dying or dead by the road
side. An aged woman. exhausted with tn,
long way. begged her :e..ow pilgrims not t
let her die until she kai seen the HOLY CITY
AS she came to til" gate cf the city she coull
not take another step. but she was carried in
and then said, 'sNowhollmv kealnp til | cal
look upon Jerusalem an4 her head lifted
she took one look, anisali; Now | die con
tent; have baen it | have seen it" som.
or Us before we re4"A IA heavenly Jerisaleu
may be as tired u that, bat angels Of mere
WI help usiu, an o. -.i-spse OF the topplt
% 6oa ana the L1nto, aai ono aoot l92a 4
tho king IN H. .usg, Wi mere tea,
compensate f." al. t.s dots al laq.~ an
heartbreaks q - t-r.4 Hat. al
Amen
The Flight of a Cannon Ball.