Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-13
IN THE HOLY CITY.
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While we sat there. the whole scene
came before Us. All around the top and
the sides, and the foot Of the hill, n mob
RACES. They gnash their teeth, and
shake their clenched fists at him. Here
I the cavalry horses champ their bits. and
paw the earth and snort at the smell of
the carnage. IOnder Il group of gam
blers are pitching up as to who shall
have the cont of the dying Saviour.
There are women almost dead with
grief among the crowd, his mother and
his aunt, and some whose sorrows He
had comforted, and whose guilt He
had pardOned. Here n man dips a
sponge into sour wine, and by a stick
lifts il to the hot, and cracked lips.
The hemorrhage Of the five wounds has
done its work.
The atmospheric conditions are such
rs the world saw never before or since.
IL was not solar eclipse, such as as
tromomers record or we ourselves have
seen. IL was . bereavement OF the
heavens. Darker, Until the towers of
the temple were no longer visible.
Darker, Until the surrounding hills
disappeared. Darkerl Until the in
Scription above the middle cross be-
comes illcgiblc. Darker. Until the
chin OF the dying Lord falls upon the
breast. and he sighed with this last
sigh. the words, 1T is iiniShedw
BACK To JERUsALEM
But we must hasten back TO the city.
There are stones i'm the wall which Sol
onion had lifted. stop here and see =
startling proof of the truth of prophecy.
In Jeremiah. 3lSt chapter and 10th
verse. 10 is said that Jerusalem shall be
built through the ashes. What ashes.
people have been asking? Were those
ashes just put into the prophecy to fiji
up? No, the meaning has been recent
ly discovered. Jerusalem is now being
built out in a certain direction where
the ground has been submitted to chem
zeal analysis and 10 has been found to
be the ashes east out from the sacrifices
OF the ancient temple, ashes OF the
wood and ashes of bones of animals.
There are great mounds as ashes, accU-
mutation OF centuries of sacrifices. IL has
taken all these thousands Of years TO
discover what Jeremiah meaLt 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
the ashes" The people Of Jerusalem
are at this time fulfilling that prophecy.
One handful of that ashes on which
they are building enough 70. prove the
divinity OF tie Scriptures. Pass by the
place where the cornerstone of the an
cient temple was laid three thousand
years ago by solomon. Explorers have
been digging. and they found that cor
ncr-StOuc Seventy-iive feet below the
surface. 10 is fourteen feet long, and
three feet eight inches high, and beau
tilully cut and shaped, and near il was
an oarthen Jar that was supposed To
have contained the oil of conservation
used at the ceremony of laying
the corner stone. Wonder from Il
depth of forty feet. signet ring has
been brought zap Inscribed with the
words "Haggai the Son OF Shebnaiah, "
showing it belonged 10 the prophet llag-
gai. and 10 that seal ring he refers IN
his prophecy, saying, Il will make
thee as a siguct." | walk further on
far under ground. and dnd myself in
Solomon's stables. and see the places
worn i'm the stone pillars by the haltcrS
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 50 they built the mountain
out on pillars, and saw eight of those
pillars. each one strong enough to hold
q mountain.