Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-13

From this houSc-tOp on the December
afternoon we look out in another direc-
ton and see the kings palace cover
Ing hundred and sixty thousand square
feet. three rows OF windows illumining
the inside brilliance. the hallway wains-
cotcd with all styles OF colored marbles
surmouuted by orabesquc, Vcrmillion
and gold. looking down ON mOSaicS, mu-
sic of waterfalls in the garden outside
answering the music of the harpS
thrummcd by dcft fingers inside; baniS-
t,rs over which princes and princeSScS
leaned. and talked TO kings and queens
descending the stairway. O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem. Mountain city. city OF
Gud? JOY OF the whole earth. Strong
er than Gibraltar and ScbaStOpQl surely
| it never could have been captured.
But while standing there on the
housc-top that December afternoon, /
hear the crash of the twcnty-threc
mighty sicges which have come against
Jerusalem i'm the ages past. Nondcr is
the pool of HcZckiah aud Sloan, but
again and again were those waters red
dencd with human gore. Nonder are
the towers, but again and again they
fall. Nonder are the high walls, but
again and again they were levclcd. To
rob the treasures from her temple and
palace and dcthrone this queen city Of
the earth. all nations plotted, David
taking the throne at Hebron decides
that ne must have Jerusalem for his
capital and. coming up from the south
at the head of two hundred and eighty
| thousand troops. he captures it. Look,
here comes another siege of Jeru-
salem. The AsSyrianS under SIENNA
chorib, onslaved nations at his chariot
wheel, having taken two hun
drcd thousand captiveS in his
one campaign, Phpnician cities
/ kneci,uc at his feet, Egypt trembling
at the flash of his sword, comes upon
Jerusalem. Look, another siege. The
armies OF Babylon under Nebuchad-
nezzlr come down and take plumber
/ FROM Jerusalem such a. no other city
ever had % yield. and ten thousand Of
her citizens trudgc of into BabylOnian
bondage. Look. another siege. and
NcbuchadueZzar and his hosts by night
20 through q breach of the Jerusalem
wall. and the morning finds some OF
them seated triumphant I'm the temple,
and what they could not take away be-
cause too heavy, they break up-the
hrazcn sea. and the two wreathed pillars
joachim and BOaz.
Another siege Of Jerusalem; and Pom
pcy with tho batterlng-rams which Il
hundred men would roll back, and then
at full run forward would bang against
the wall Of the city, and catapults hurl-
ing the rocks upon the people, lett
twelve thousand dead, and the city IN
the clutch of the ROmSn war-eagle.
Look. more desperate siege OF Joru-
salem, Titus with his tenth legion on
Mount of Olives, and halliSt arranged
on the principle Of the pendulum to
swing great bouldcrs against walls and
towers, and miners digging under the
city making galleries of beams under
ground. which. set on fire, tumbled
great masses or houses and human be-
ings into destruction and death. All is
taken now but the temple and Titus,
the conquoror, wants to save that I'M
harmed. bat n soldier contrary TO or
ders. hurlS torch into the temple and
it is consumed. Many strangers were
I'm the city at the time, and ninety-Seven
thousand captives were taken, and Jo-
sephus says one hundred Thousand lay
dca&.
ANOTHER CRUSADE NEEDED.
Another crusade IS needed to start
for Jerusalem. crusade in this nine
,.o,,tb century greater than all those of