Sharp County record., 1890-10-30

again ana again were thoso waterp red
dencd with human gore. Yonier are
the towers, but again and again they
fall. Yonder are the high walls, but
again and again they were leyeled' 10
rob the treasures from their temple ana
palace and detLiono this queen city OF
tho earth, all nations plotted. DAVID
taking the throne at Hebron decided
that he must have Jerusalem for his
capital and, coming up from tho
south at the head of two hun
dred and eighty thousand troops he
captures it. Look, here comes another
siege of Jerusalem! The Assyrians
under Sennacherib, enslayed nations at
his chariot wheel, having taken Two
hundred thousand captives in his ono
campaign Pbenician cities llnecling
at his feet, Egypt trembling at the
fash Of his sword, comes upon Jerusa-
lem. Look, another siege. The armies
of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar come
down and take a plunder from Jerusa'
lem such as no other city over had to
Weld, and ten thousand of her citizens
trudge off into Babylonian bondage
Look, another siege! and Nebuchad-
nezzar and his hosts by nigh 60 through
breach of the Jerusalem wall, and the
: morning finds some of them seated
triumphant in the temple, and what
they could not take away because too
heavy, they break up--the brazen sea,
and the two wreathed pillars, Jachin
and Boaz.
Another siege of Jerusalem; and
Pompey with the battering rams which
hundred men would roll back, AMI
then at full run forward would bang
against the wall of the city, and cata-
pults hurting the rocks upon the peo-
pie, left twelve thousand dead and the
city in the clutch of the Roman war
eagle. Look, more desperate siege OF
Jerusalem. Titus with his Tenth
Legion on Mount of olives, and ballist
arranged on the principle of the PEN
dulum to swing great powders agains.
walls and towers, and miners digging
under the city, making galleries OF
beams under ground, which, set on fire,
tumbled great masses of houses and
human beings into destruction and
death. All is taken now but the tem-
pie, and Titus, the conqueror, wants to
save that unharmed, but a soldier, con-
trary to orders, hurls torch into the
temple and it is consumed. Many
strangers were in the city at the time
and ninety-seven thousand captives
were taken, and Josephus says one mill
ion one hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this housetop the
siege that most absorbs us is that of tho
Crusaders. England and France and all
Christendom wanted to capture the holy
sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in pos
session of the Mohammedans under the
command of one of the loveliest, BRAY
est and mightiest men that ever lived,
for justice must be done him, though he
was a Observation-Disclosures Saladin
Against him came the armies of Eu-
rope, under Richard, C9ur dc Lion,
King of England; Philip Augusta, King
of France; Tancred, Raymond. GCd-
frey, and other valiant men, marching
on through fevers, and plaques,
apd battle charges, and sulferings as in
Tense as the world ever saw. Saladir
in Jerusalem, hearing of the sickness
of King Richard, his chief enemy, sends
him his own physician, and from the
walls Of Jerusalem, seeing Rcharj
afoot, sends him horse. With all the
world looking on, the armies Of Europe
come within sight of Jerusalem. Al the
first glimpse of the city they fall or
their faces in reverence, and thcr
lift anthems of praise. Feuds and
hatred among themselves were
given up, and Raymond and
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 ragged. Godfrey o
Bouillon is the first to mount the wall
and the Crusaders, cross on every
shoulder or breast, having taken the
city, march bare-Geaded and bare"loote(
to what they suppose to bo the holy
sepulcher, and kiss tho tomb. Jerusa
lem the possession Of Christendom. Blu
Saladin retook the city, and for the las
| 400 years it has been in possession o
cruel and polluted Mohammedanism!
Another crusade Is needed to start 70
Jerusalem, crusade in this nineteenth
century greater than all those Of tht
past centuries put together. A crusade
In which you and will march. A cru
sado without weapons Of death, but onl,
the Sword of the Spirit, A crusade tina
will mako not single wound, nor star
ono tear Of distress, nor incondiariz,
ono homestead. A crusade of Gospe
Poacol And the Cross again be llftcr
on Calvary, not as once an instrumon
of pain, but signal Of invita-
tion, and the Mosque of Omar shal
give place to q Church Of Christ, anC
Mount Zion become tho dwelling place,
not Of David, but OF David's Lord, an(
Jerusalem, purified Of all its idolatrics
and taking back tho Christ she once
cast out, shall be made q worthy type
of that heavenly Deity which Pau
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