Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-10-23

while | have been told that this is the
htany which some che1t:
For the temple that lies desolate.
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the palace that is destroyed.
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the walls that overthrown.
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For our majesty that Is departed,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For our great men that lie dead
We sit In solitude and mourn;
Tor priests who have stumbled.
We sit in solitude and mourn.
| think at that prayer Jerusalem will
come again 10 more than its ancient mag
riEcence; it may not be precious stones
and architectural majesty, but in moral
sl.ea1or that shall eclipse forever Hll that
David or Solomon saw.
FROM HOUsEToP.
Eat | must get back TO the housetop
where ! stood carly this moraing. aud be-
fore the san sets, that | may catch u wider
vision of what the city now is and once
was Standing here on the hOusetop
see that the city was built for military
safety Some old warrior, warrant, Sc
ected the spot 1t stands on a hill 1900
feet above the level Of the sea, and deep
rayines on three sides do the work Of mill
tary trenches. Compact rs no other city
was compact Only three miles journey
round, and the three ancient towers, Hip
picus. Phasaelus, Marianne, frowning
death upon the approach Of all enemies,
As stood there on the housetop in the
midst Of the city said, 20 Lord, reveal TO
me this metropolis Of the world that may
see il as il once appeared" No one was
with me, for there are some things you can
see more wildly with no one but God and
yourself present Immediately the mosque
of Omar, which has stood for ages on
Mount Moriah. the site Of the ancient tenn
pie, disappeared, and the most honored
structure Of all the ages lifted itself In the
light. and saw 1.-THE temple, the ancient
templel Not Solomon's temple, but some
thing grander than that. Not Zerubbabel's
temple, but something more gorgeous than
that 1t was Herod's temple, built for the
one purpose Of eclipsing all its architect
ural predecessors
There il stood, covering nineteen acres,
and ten thousand workmen had been forty
six years in building IT, Blaze of magnifi-
cence! Bewildering range OF porticos and
ten gateways and double arches and Cor
inthian capitals chiseled into lilies and
acanthus. Masonry beveled and grooved
into such delicate forms that it seemed to
tremble in the light. Cloisters with two
cows of Corinthian columns. royal arches,
marble steps pure as though made out Of
frozen snow, carving that seemed like
panel of the door of heaven let down and
set in. the facade of the building on shoul.
ders at each end lifting the glory higher
and higher. and walls wherein gold put
1. s.ata F.FFf ont
the gold. aud the jasper put ont the car
buncle. until in the changing light they
would all seem 10 come back again into
chorus Of harmonious color. The templel
The templel DoXology in stonel Anthems
soaring in rafters OF Lebanon cedar! From
side to side and from foundation TO gilded
pinnacle the frozen prayer Of all agesl
THE CITY or GOD.
From this housetop on the December at
ternoon we look out in another direction,
and see the kings palace, covering hun.
dred aud sixty thousand square feet, three
rows Of windows illumining the in.
side brilinuce, the hallway wainscoted
with all styles Of colored marbles sur.
mounted by arabesque, vermilion and
gold. looking down on mos;tics music Of
waterfalls in the garden outside answering
the musia Of the harps thrummed by deft
fingers inside. bauisters over which princes
and printes>es leaned. and talked to kings
and queens ascending the stairway. O
Jerusalem, JerusHleml Mountain city!
City Of Cod JOY of the whole earthl
Stronger than Gibraltar and Sebastopol,
surely il never could have been captured!
But while standing there on the house.
top that December afternoon ] hear the
crash Of the twenty-three mighty slegcs
which have come against Jerusalem in the
ages past. Youder is the pool OF Hezekiah
and Sloan, but again and again were
those waters Redeemed with human gore.
Yonder are the towers, but again andagain
they fell Yonder are the high walls, but
again and again they were leyeled. To rob
the treasures from her temple and palace
and dethrone this queen city of the earth
all nations plotted. David taking the
throne ~ Hebron decides that he must
have Jerusalem for his capital, aud coming
up from the south at the head Of two hun.
dred and eighty thousand troops he capt
urcs it. Look, here comes another siege of
Jerusalem.
The Assyrians under Sennacherib en-.
shaved nations at his chariot wheel, having
taken two hundred thousand captiyes in
his one campaign; Phenieian cities kneel
ing at his feet, Egypt trembling at the
flash Of his sword, comes upon Jerusalem.
Look, another siege, The armies Of Baby
Ion under Nebuchadnezzar come down and
take a plumber from Jerusalem such rs no
other city ever had to yield. and ten thou
sand Of her citizens trudge oil into Baby
lonian bondage Look, another siegel and
Nebuehalnc-zar and his hosts by night go
through "A breach Of the Jerusalem wall
and the morning finds some of them seat
ed triumphant in the temple, and what
they could not take away because too
heavy they break up-the bra2en sea, and
the two wreathed pillars joachim and Boaz
TIE siEGEs or JERUSALEM.
Another siege OF Jerusalem, and Pompey
with the battering rams which hundred
men would roll back, and then at full run
forward, wo@ld bang against the wall of
the city. and catapults hurting the rocks
upon the people, left twelve thousand dead
aud the city in the clutch of the Roman
war eagle. Look, more desperate siege
of Jerusaleml Titus with his tenth legion
on Mount of Olives. and ballista arranged
on the principle of the pendulum to swing