The Iola register., 1890-10-24
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shake their clenched fists at Him. Here
the cavalry horses champ their bits and
paw the earth and snort at the smell oi
the carnage. Yonder a group of gam
blers are pitching up as to who shall
have the coat 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 par.
doned Here man dips sponge into
sour wine and by stick lifts It to the
hot and cracked lips. The hemorrhage
OF the five wounds has done its work.
The atmospheric conditions are such
as the world saw never before or since
1t was not solar eclipse, such as astron-
omers record or we ourselves have seen.
1t was bereavement Of the heavensl
Darker! Until the towers of the temple
were no longer visible. Darkerl Until
the surrounding hills disappeared.
Darker! Until the inscription above the
middle cross becomes illegible. Dark
erl Until the chin OF the dying Lord
falls upon the breast. and He sighed
with this last sigh sthe words, 'It is
finishedr' .,.,....,f., f.,.r,.
As we sat there silence took possess
sion OF US and we thought: This is the
center from which continents have been
touched, and all the world shall be
moved. Towards this hill the apostles
and martyrs pointed backward To this
all Heaven pointed downward. To this
with foaming execrations perdition
pointed upward Round 1t circles all
history, all time, all eternity, and with
this scene painters have covered the
mightiest canvas, and sculptors cut the
richest marble, and orchestras rolled
their grandest oratories, and churches
lifted their greatest doxologies, and
Heaven built its highest thrones 80
Unable longer to endure the pressure
of this scene we moved on, and into a
garden of olives garden which in the
right season is full Of flowers. and here
is the reputed tomb of Christ You
know the Book says: SIN the midst of
the garden was sepulcher." / think
this was the garden and this the sepul-
cher. 1t is shattered of course. !iAbout
four steps down we went into this, which
seemed family tomb There is room
in 1t for about five bodies. We measured
1t and found 1t about eight feet high
and nine feet wide and fourteen feet
long. The crypt where think our
Lord slept was seven feet long, think
that there once lay the King wrapped in
His last slumber On some of these
rocks the Roman government set its
seal. At the gate of this mausoleum on
the first Easter morning the angels roll
the stone laundering down the hill. Up
these steps walked the lacerated feetof
the Conqueror, and from these heights
He looked off upon the city that had
cast Him out and upon the world He
had come to redeem and at the heavens
which He would soon ascend.
But we must hasten back to the city.
There are stones in the wall which
Solomon had lifted Stop here and see
a startling proof Of the truth of prophecy.
In Jeremiah XXI 40 it 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 fill up? No! the mean
ing has been recently discovered Jeru-
salem is now being built out in GER
tain direction where the ground has
been submitted to chemical analysis
and it has been found to be the ashes
cast out from the sacrifices of the ancient
temple, ashes OF the wood and ashes of
bones of animals There are great
of ashes, accumulation of CEN
turtles of sacrifices.
Here we enter the mosque Of Omar, a
throne of Mohammedanism. where we
were met at the door by officials, who
bring slippers that we must put on be-
fore we take step further, lest our feet
pollute the sacred places. A man at
to go in without these slippers
would be struck dead on the spot These
awkward sandals adjusted as well as we
could, we are led to where we see rock
with an opening in 1t, through which,
no doubt, the blood of sacrifice in the
ancient temple rolled down and away.
At vast expense the mosque has been
built, but so somber is the place am
glad to get through 1t and take off the
slippers and step into the
,lear air. Yonder is curve of stone,
which is part of bridge which once
reached from Mount Moriah to Mount
Zion, and over it David walked or rode
20 prayers in the temple. 90
Here is the wailing place Of the Jews
where for centuries almost perpetually
Turing the day time, whole generations
Of the Jews have stood putting their
head or lips against the wall Of what
vas once Solomon's temple. 1t was one
,f the saddest and most solemn and i'm
,ressive scenes ever witnessed to see
cores Of these descendants of Abraham
With tears rolling down their cheeks
md lips trembling with emotion, book
II psalms open before them, bewailing
he ruin Of the ancient temple and the
aptivity Of their race, and crying to
rod for the restoration of the temple in
ii its original splendor. Most affecting
Gene! And such prayer as that CEN
ury after century, I am sure God will
and in some way the departed
'randeur will return. or something bet
er. / looked over the shoulders of
ONE of them and saw that they were
eading from the mournful psalms Of
David, while / have been told that this
5 the litany which some chant:
For the temple that lies desolate,
We sit In solitude and mourn; Hr
For the palace that Is des royed,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the walls tn at are overthrow,
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; |
For priests who have stumbled, |
We sit In solitude and mourn" f..I |
l think at that prayer Jerusalem will |
ONE again to more than its ancie mt |