The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-23

Bo1u pun Out but sAkfoIs AuA tuI Cat
buncie put out the gold. and tho jasper
put out the carbuncle, until in the
changing light they would all seem to
come back again into q chorus Of har-
monious color. The temple The
templel Doxology in stoned Anthems
soaring in rafters of Lebanon cedar !
From side to side. and from foundation
to gilded pinnacle the frozen prayer Of
all ages
But while standing there on this
house-top that December afternoon, I
hear the crash of the twenty-three
mighty sieges which have come against
Jerusalm in the ages past. Yonder Is
the pool OF Hezekiah and Sloan, but
again and again were those waters red
dened with human gore Yonder arc
the towers, but again and again they
fall. Yonder are the high walls, but
again and again they were leveled. To
rob the treasures from their temple and
palace and dethrone this queen city OF
the earth, all nations plotted. David
taking the throne at Hebron decided
that he must have Jerusalem for his
capital, and, coming up from the
south at the head of two hum
bred and eighty thousand troops, he
captures ii. Look, here comes another
siege OF Jerusalemi The Assyrians
under Sennacherib, enslaved nations at
his chariot Wheel having taken two
hundred thousand eaptives in his one
campaign. Pbmnician cities kneeling
at his feet Egypt trembling at the
flash OF his sword, comes upon Jerusa-
lem. Look, another siege. The armies
of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar come
down and take plumber from Jerusa-
lem such as no other city ever had to
yield, and ten thousand of her citizens
trudge of into Babylonian bondage.
Look, another siege and Nebuchad-
nezzar and his hosts by night go through
a breach of tho 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, joachim
and Boaz.
Another siege or Jerusalem; and
Pompey with the battering rams which
hundred men would roll back, and
then at full run forward would bang
against the wall of the city, and eata-
pules hurting the rocks upon the peo-
Pile, left twelve thousand dead and the
city in the clutch of the Roman war
eagle. Look, more desperate siege of
Jerusalemi Titus with his Tenth
Legion on Mount OF Olives, and ballist
arranged on the principle of the pen
dulum to swing great powders against
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 tenn
pie, and Titus, the conqueror, wants to
save that unframed, but 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 Josephas says one mill
ion one hundred thousand lay dead.
But looking from this housetop the
siege that most absorbs US is that of the
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 ADMINISTRATIONS Saladin.
Against him came the armies of Eu-
rope, under Richard, Coeur do Lion,
King of England; Philip Augusta, King
of France; Tancred, Raymond, God
frey, and other valiant mon, marching
on through feyers, and plaques,
and battle charges, and suiferings as in.
tense as the world ever saw. Saladin
in Jerusalem, hearing Of the sickness
of King Richard, his chief enemy. sends
him his own physician, and from the
walls of Jerusalem, seeing Richard
afoot sends him a horse With all the
world looking on, the armies Of Europe
come within sight of Jerusalem. At the
first glimpse OF the city they fall on
their faces in reverence, and then
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 OF
Bouillon is the first TO mount the wall
and the Crusaders. cross on every
shoulder or breast having taken the
city, march bare-headed and bare-footed
TO what they suppose to be the holy
sepuloher, and kiss the tomb Jerusa-
lem the possession of Christendom. But
Saladin retook the city, and for the last
400 years ii has been in possession OF
cruel and polluted Mohammedanismh
Another crusade is needed to start for
Jerusalem, crusade in this nineteenth
century greater than all those OF the
past centuries put together. A crusade
IN which you and l will march. A cru
SADIE without weapons OF death, but only
the Sword OF the Spirit. A crusade that
will make not single wound, nor start
one tear of distress, nor incendiarize
one homestead. A crusade Of Gospel
Peacel And the Cross again be lifted
on Calvary, not as once an instrument
Of pain, but signal OF invita-
ton, and the Mosque Of Omar shall
give place to Church Of Christ and
Mount Zion become the dwelling place.
not OF David, bat OF David's Lord, and
Jerusalem, purified of all its idolatries,
and taking back the Christ She once
cast out, shall be made worthy type
Of that heavenly Deity which Paul
styled 1.-THE mother Of US ALL" and
which ST. John saw, ''the holy Jeru-
salem descending out Of Heaven from
God" Through its gates may we all
enter when our work is done, and In its
temple, greater than all the earthly tenn
pies piled in one, may we worship Rus
sian pilgrims lined all the roads around
the Jerusalem We visited last winter.
They had walked hundreds Of miles,
and their feet bled on the way to Jeru-